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| Oracle seals PeopleSoft deal with control share |
12/30/2004 |
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Oracle has designated four representatives to serve on PeopleSoft's board, replacing PeopleSoft board members who have resigned and giving Oracle majority board representation.
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| Appeals court ruled VOIP as data service |
12/30/2004 |
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Because Internet telephoning is not considered to be a telephone service, according to the court decisions, states and municipalities will likely be blocked from regulating--and taxing--the service.
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| China boosted tax rebate to help trade |
12/30/2004 |
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The product areas affected include ICs, discrete components, LCD and CRT monitors as well as hard disk drives, mobile phones and mobile phone base stations as well as a range of other IT products.
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| Samsung set aside $100m for price fixing |
12/30/2004 |
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The DRAM price fixing case has the makings of the biggest scandal in the history of the semiconductor industry Back in 2002, Hynix, Infineon, Micron, Samsung and other memory makers confirmed that the U.S. Justice Department undertook an industry-wide investigation into alleged price fixing practices.
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| FIC to make notebooks in Suzhou |
12/29/2004 |
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Capable of producing 200,000 ~ 250,000 units of notebook PCs per month. The amount of orders from Fujitsu-Siemens is not disclosed. The company would be able to reduce production costs by 2% after relocating production to China.
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| Taiwan fabs lower price to compete |
12/29/2004 |
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TSMC and UMC predict their fourth-quarter average selling prices (ASPs) fall below expectations. Foreign foundries such as SMIC and Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing have already issued guidance updates warning of lower ASPs for the fourth quarter.
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| AMD 2005 roadmap update |
12/29/2004 |
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The mobile platform will see Roma and Albany, for the Mobile Sempron product line. AMD also plans to introduce Lancaster, a 25W Mobile Athlon 64 in 1Q05, and sub-7W mobile processors in 2006.
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| Electronic shipment seen stable in Q4 |
12/29/2004 |
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Orders for computer and electronics equipment expanded at a 12 percent annual pace over the last three months, and declines in October and November were more than offset by a huge rise in September.
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| Conexant allegedly distribution pipeline stuffing |
12/29/2004 |
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The complaint alleges that representations during that time about the company’s operations made in Conexant press releases were false and misleading because they failed to disclose certain facts.
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| Hitachi sue Chinese company for micro drive infringement |
12/29/2004 |
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Filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Hitachi GST seeks monetary damages and a permanent injunction that bars the GS Magic entities from making, using, importing, offering to sell, or selling the allegedly infringing products in the United States.
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| AMD vs Intel; reversing role as technology leader? |
12/28/2004 |
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AMD actually started putting Intel on the defensive in 2003 when it announced that it would offer 64-bit processors and released products for both the server and desktop that same year. AMD also trumped Intel on dual core technologies this year. The smaller company announced plans for dual core and offered product timetable before Intel did.
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| Airborne Internet router station tested |
12/28/2004 |
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Under a program called "Interim Capability for Airborne Networking," the Joint Stars, or Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, aircraft used its dedicated radios to link to the Pentagon's Secret IP Router Network, or Siprnet.
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| Powerchip to build DRAM fab in China |
12/28/2004 |
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The Taiwan government restricts investment in wafer manufacturing facilities in China, its political rival, fearful that a mass migration of investment dollars would weaken Taiwan's position as a major global silicon wafer producer.
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| Chinese foundry to tap Hong Kong stock market |
12/28/2004 |
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Chinese silicon foundry provider Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (ASMC) is moving ahead with its initial public offering (IPO) despite unfavorable market conditions, according to a report from the South China Morning Post.
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| The Emerging-Nation PC Market |
12/23/2004 |
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US, Europe and Asia-Pacific would add 150 million new PCs to the world market by 2010, but in the Asia region will see 1.3 billion by 2010 from 575 million this year.
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| Low-k hitting limits of physic and cost |
12/23/2004 |
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Presenters at the conference appeared to sustain the organization’s position that interconnect materials below 2.5 k-effective may be too expensive to develop and too difficult to work with to be economically practical for all design schemes.
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| Chinese fab affected by slow down |
12/23/2004 |
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Based on the latest assessment, gross margin for the fourth quarter is now expected to be approximately 6 percent lower than the previous quarter, rather than flat with it, mainly due to lower DRAM ASP and an inventory charge.
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| Micron sales and profit up |
12/23/2004 |
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In preparation for the unfolding market transition to DDR2 DRAM, Micron dedicated additional wafer production to this higher performance architecture.
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| Pentagon tested airborne packet relay system |
12/23/2004 |
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Under a program called "Interim Capability for Airborne Networking," the Joint Stars, or Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, aircraft used its dedicated radios to link to the Pentagon's Secret IP Router Network, or Siprnet.
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| Electronic to play bigger part in our life |
12/22/2004 |
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“We’re going to see more electronics in everyday tasks like RFID for bus journeys, and for transport in general," said Mukerjee, “using a mobile handset to pay for goods, or for loading a chip card with credit.”
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| ChipMos directors arrested related to embezzlement case |
12/22/2004 |
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Taiwan-based ChipMos Technologies Ltd. today reported that two of its directors have been indicted by the Taipei District Prosecutor’s Office in connection with alleged embezzlement during the late 1990s at Pacific Electric Wire & Cable Co. Ltd.
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