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| Northrop Grumman selected for war-net service |
11/30/2004 |
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Northrop Grumman's Information Technology unit (Herndon, Va.) said Monday (Nov. 29) that the Air Force issued the first "task order" under its Network Centric Solutions program for hardware and software support.
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| Electronic seen as strong gift this year |
11/29/2004 |
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According to the results from CEA's 11th Annual Holiday Sales and Forecast survey found that 76 percent of U.S. consumers plan to buy at least one consumer electronics (CE) product as a gift during the holiday shopping season.
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| TI bets heavy on handphone video conference |
11/29/2004 |
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TI's expectations for the market are high. The company predicts 3G-handset shipment growth from about 240 million in 2004 to 440 million in 2008, 415 million of which will be W-CDMA handsets.
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| Gartner prdicts robust smartphone sale 2005 |
11/29/2004 |
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PDAs will continue to play a role in the enterprise for use with mobilized applications, according to Gartner, but smartphones will be the device that most mobile users will use from day to day.
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| Intel negotiating JV cell phone manufacturing in India |
11/29/2004 |
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According to BPL, Intel is keen on using BPL's existing mobile handset facility in Palakkad, Kerala, where BPL can now produce 150,000 sets each month. Details, such as the ownership structure of the proposed joint venture, have not yet been finalized.
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| New 64bit game processor to be unvailed at ISSCC |
11/29/2004 |
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The highly integrated Cell device has been billed as a beefy engine for Sony's Playstation 3, due to be demonstrated in May. But the architecture also addresses many other applications, including set-top boxes and mobile communications.
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| Server sales continue to grow |
11/24/2004 |
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Worldwide server market grew 5.5 percent to $11.5 billion in Q3 over the last quarter, marking it the sixth consecutive quarter of positive overall revenue growth, according IDC.
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| Firefox browser making inroads |
11/24/2004 |
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Firefox is making inroads while Microsoft's Internet Explorer market share continues to slide, a Dutch Web monitoring company said.
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| TSMC set 40-volt, 0.18 micron process in volume production |
11/24/2004 |
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TSMC claims the industry first 40-volt, 0.18-micron manufacturing process are volume production now. The process would allow the making of of single-chip TFT LCD drivers by combining LCD source driver and gate driver chips with a power management IC, the company said.
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| AMD delivers new mobile processor for light laptop |
11/24/2004 |
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Advanced Micro Devices releases a new Mobile Sempron 3000+ processor designed for thin-and-light notebooks. Two European PC manufacturers, Gericom and Packard Bell NEC, plan to release new notebooks based on the chip before the end of the year, AMD says in a statement Tuesday.
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| ST Micro delivers 256MBit BGA NAND Flash |
11/23/2004 |
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ST Micro said the VFBGA55 version of its 256-Mbit 'Small Page' NAND Flash memory chip is now in volume production. This tiny 8x10mm ball grid array package will allow manufacturers to use it in portable gadgets where board space is limited.
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| US broadband internet users double |
11/23/2004 |
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Household in America using fast Internet connections doubled from 2001 through late 2003, according to a report. The report cited the growth is still below some expectations and especially low among minority groups and people in rural areas.
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| Wireless email becoming crucial for enterprises |
11/22/2004 |
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Wireless e-mail is driving the adoption of wireless wide-area networking and the potential market for that application is about 35 million users in the U.S., according to a study by Yankee Group.
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| Grace gets $90 from Hong Kong investors |
11/22/2004 |
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Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. has secured an additional $90 million in funding from Cheung Kong Holdings Ltd. and Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. in Hong Kong.
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| iPod makes Apple shines |
11/22/2004 |
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Apple shares traded as high as $64, besting the 52-week high of $56.91 set Friday. This is the highest the stock has been since September 2000.
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| Taiwan mobo makers caught in Intel chipset shortage |
11/19/2004 |
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Fourth-quarter motherboard shipments from Taiwan motherboard makers might be affected by a shortage of Intel 865- and 845-series core-logic chipsets, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers
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| Taiwan startup SIPS to offer memory MCP lineup |
11/18/2004 |
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A Taiwan-based fabless IC-design startup, will start shipping memory multi-chip packages (MCPs) for use in xDSL routers and digital cameras featuring 4- or above megapixel sensors.
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