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| Samsung announced 1Gb OneNAND |
11/11/2004 |
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Samsung¡¯s device uses a unified storage concept, which combines the high-speed data read function of NOR flash and the advanced data storage of NAND flash, but the single chip is based on NAND architecture integrating buffer memory and logic interface.
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| Intel to pay cash dividends |
11/11/2004 |
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The company's board of directors announced Wednesday (Nov. 10) that the quarterly cash dividend to shareholders was doubled to 8 cents per share.
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| iSupply forecast continue growth on cell |
11/11/2004 |
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Worldwide cellular phone shipment forecast is 675 million units in 2004, up from 670 million previously. This represents 18 percent growth compared to 2003.
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| Infineon profit up but see slowdown ahead |
11/10/2004 |
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Looking ahead to fiscal Q1 2005, Infineon said it sees signs of a slowdown in several of its application segments. In these markets, inventory levels have gone up as compared to the previous quarters.
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| Chartered to fab AMD 64 |
11/10/2004 |
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The two companies have entered into sourcing and manufacturing technology agreements whereby Chartered become an additional manufacturing source of AMD64 microprocessors.
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| VOIP industry overjoy with FCC ruling |
11/10/2004 |
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"Our biggest fear was being regulated by the states," said Louis Holder, executive vice president of product development at Vonage. "If that had happened, it would have put us out of business."
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| Energy consumption is important to processor spec. |
11/10/2004 |
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Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) plans to add an energy consumption metric to the performance scores it provides for embedded processors tested against its application-focused benchmarks.
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| Dell to build manufacturing in North Carolina |
11/10/2004 |
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The North Carolina facility, to be built at a yet-to-be determined site in Triad, will produce desktop computers for Dell's U.S. East Coast business and consumer customers. The plant is slated to open in late 2005 and initially employ 700, expanding to 1,500 within five years.
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| PMOS settles dispute with Infineon |
11/10/2004 |
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That will allow ProMOS to make chips using Infineon technology at the 0.17-, 0.14- and 0.11-micron nodes. After that, it will turn to Korean DRAM maker Hynix Semiconductor Inc., with whom it has forged a partnership that covers technology licensing.
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| FCC: VOIP phone stay under federal juridiction |
11/9/2004 |
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"this Commission, not the state commissions, has the responsibility and obligation to decide whether certain regulations apply to IP-enabled services. The Commission has the power to preempt state regulations that thwart or impede federal authority over interstate commissions."
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| Taiwan foundry see slow down |
11/9/2004 |
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Showing signs of the pending IC industry slowdown, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. and United Microelectronics Corp. both reported that October sales dipped below those in September.
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| TI to move 90nm 1GHz DSP to 300mm |
11/9/2004 |
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These 1GHz DSPs are manufactured on 200mm, copper wafers but will soon also be available on its 90nm DMOS6 300mm process, the Dallas-based chip giant added.
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| Intel ships Itanium 2 processor |
11/9/2004 |
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The new processors offer multi, dual and low voltage versions of the processors, the company said, and are part of Intel's strategy to grab more market share from the $20 billion proprietary RISC market.
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| Toshiba sue Hynix for NAND infringement |
11/9/2004 |
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This legal action stems from a patent cross-licensing agreement made between the companies in August 1996, which expired Dec. 31, 2002. Prior to expiration, the companies began negotiating an extension of the agreement, in which Toshiba sought to secure a reasonable fee for access to its patents. Since a satisfactory conclusion was not reached, Toshiba felt it had no alternative other than to pursue legal recourse.
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| Infineon to sample epassport chip to US government |
11/8/2004 |
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It remains unknown which contactless chips or which specific implementations will be eventually deployed in "tens of millions" of e-passports the U.S. government will begin issuing next year.
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| Renesas braces for down turn |
11/8/2004 |
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Renesas' forecast coincides with the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics group's fall forecast, which predicted a faster decline for the IC market than expected in its spring forecast. The Renesas internal outlook is more severe.
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| Nanotech to revolutionize memory industry |
11/8/2004 |
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LSI believes it could use nanotech technology to embed more than 30-Mbits fast memory on an integrated cellphone processor, the current embedded memory limit due to power leakage and yield problems with conventional memories.
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| Nvidia income skyrocketd |
11/8/2004 |
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"Our improving financial performance reflects the success of the GeForce 6 architecture and our strategy to re-capture the technology leadership position. We are ramping the GeForce 6 family aggressively and intend to quickly drive our award-winning architecture into every segment and market we serve.”
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| iSupply predicts semi growth for 2005 |
11/8/2004 |
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iSuppli said that next year will see 9.6 percent global semiconductor sales growth. The strong increase contradicts other forecasts this week that call for an essentially flat 2005.
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| Dell to sell blade servers |
11/5/2004 |
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Dell will roll out its first Xeon-based system, a year and a half after competitors debuted blades using Intel's best-selling server CPU, analysts said.
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| Nvidia improves earnings |
11/5/2004 |
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Nvidia posted 3rd quarter net income of $25.9 million, or 15 cents a share, on sales of $515.6 million compare to earning of $6.4 million, or 4 cents a share, on sales of $486.1 million last year.
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