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| Sony, Toshiba attempt to unify DVD format |
5/16/2005 |
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The presidents of Sony Corp., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and Toshiba Corp. will meet as early as this week to try come out with an agreement on a unified format for next-generation DVD technology, a source close to the matter said.
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| Sony introduces PS3 |
5/16/2005 |
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Sony unveiled new PlayStation 3 video game console. PS3's new processor technology, called Cell, will offer high performance for movie-like realism in games, high-definition movies and other features.
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| IBM staff in China leaving Lenovo |
5/16/2005 |
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Lenovo has recently faced challenge in a surge of employee leaving from the former IBM unit in China, according to sources at IT companies.
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| Infineon opens Asia Pacific headquarters building in Singapore |
5/13/2005 |
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Infineon's presence in Singapore started in 1970 and has grown to a total staff of approximately 2,350. The Munich, Germany-based company has invested a total of $603 million (1 billion Singapore dollars) since its establishment in the region.
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| Transmeta shows result of restructuring |
5/13/2005 |
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"Our first quarter results reflect some of the modifications that we made to our product business model, and we would expect to realize the full financial benefits of our previously announced restructuring over the coming quarters,"
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| Xbox to go Triple-Core Power PC |
5/13/2005 |
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A three-core IBM PowerPC-based CPU delivers more than one teraflop of system floating-point performance for artificial intelligence and physics processing, while a custom ATI graphics processor and more than 512MBytes of memory provide visual fidelity.
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| Injunction issued on Renesas Microprocessors |
5/13/2005 |
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The order, issued by U.S. District Court Judge Owen Panner, prohibits Hitachi Ltd. and Renesas from selling or importing into the U.S. 18 different microprocessors found in Renesas' SH-3 and SH-4 product families.
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| War of the standards with China |
5/13/2005 |
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China attempted last year to establish a wireless standard known as the Wireless Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure. The WAPI security scheme would have required U.S. companies to manufacture two sets of chips, one for the Chinese market and another for the rest of the world.
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| China is catching up in IC deisgn |
5/12/2005 |
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The survey shows that Taiwan IC design houses lead in design capacity while Korean IC design houses lead in design complexity, Global Sources said. It also shows that China is not far behind either of those regions in design activities.
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| SIS invest in Vxis for video chip technology |
5/12/2005 |
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SiS (Taipei, Taiwan) and Vxis (Hsinchu, Taiwan) will work together to develop and market a wide range of chips for video home appliances and consumer products. The two companies will share intellectual-property (IP) to develop new devices.
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| National Semiconductor promotes COO to president |
5/12/2005 |
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A spokesperson for National characterized the promotion as recognition of Macleod's years of service to National and his role in helping to refocus National as an analog products company over the past three years.
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| Renesas forecast bad year |
5/12/2005 |
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"The market will grow on a volume basis, but quite severe on a value basis," said Satoru Ito, president and CEO of Renesas.
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| Acer gains ground on PC and Notebook shipment |
5/11/2005 |
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Acer, ranking among the world's top five branded PC vendors, enjoyed record growth in operating income in the first quarter of 2005 with NT$1.94 billion, representing a 117% on-year rise and 27.5% on-quarter increase.
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| Micron: #2 DRAM Producer |
5/11/2005 |
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Micron Technology Inc. reclaimed the number two ranking from longtime rival, Hynix Semiconductor Inc., iSuppli Corp. reported today.
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| EU to spend $86 billion on job creation |
5/11/2005 |
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The proposed doubling will create an estimated 925,000 extra jobs in Europe by 2030, of which up to 215,000 will be research positions, the report said
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| Morris Chang stepped down |
5/11/2005 |
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Rick Tsai, TSMC's president and chief operating officer, will assume the dual role of president and CEO, effective July 1. Tsai, who joined TSMC in 1989, is now widely considered the heir apparent to Chang.
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| Lenovo outsources Thinkpad manufacturing |
5/10/2005 |
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Sources reported that Yang Yuanqing, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Lenovo planning to attend Computex Taipei exhibition, schedule to start end of May. Local industry watchers said Yang's visit will bring US$5 billion worth of business opportunities to Taiwan's industry.
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| Notebook volume increase as price pressure intensify |
5/10/2005 |
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A report from industry researcher IDC showed that worldwide shipments of personal computers rose 11 percent in the first quarter to 46.2 million units, from 41.6 million a year earlier, which was 1 percent better than expected.
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