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| Burner prices on the way south |
10/21/2004 |
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At the introduction of 16x speed DVD DL at the local market a month ago, have saw the price dropped to 10~15 percent. Now, it is also mounting pressure on 12x speed and 8x speed DVD burner.
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| Taiwan IC designers expect recovery |
10/21/2004 |
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Majority of the Taiwan's integrated chip (IC) designers are expecting their gross profit to pick up in the fourth quarter, after struggled in the second and third quarters.
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| Transmeta re-states financial |
10/21/2004 |
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The company also announced that it expects to amend its financial statements for the second fiscal quarter of 2004 to reflect a $1.3 million adjustment relating to excess package substrate materials on hand and on order within that period and a related inventory adjustment.
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| AMD caught up with FX-55 and 4000+ processor |
10/20/2004 |
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“With the AMD Athlon FX-55 processor, performance-hungry gamers and enthusiasts will be able to experience intense graphics, virtual worlds, high-resolution video and sophisticated artificial intelligence, providing a computing experience that looks and feels like an extension of reality,”
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| Teradyne see heavy drop in sales |
10/20/2004 |
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"Our customers sharply lowered their capital spending in the third quarter, resulting in a significant reduction in our orders compared with the second quarter,"
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| PC sales failed target |
10/20/2004 |
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PC shipments for the September 2004 fiscal quarter grew by 9.7 percent over a year ago, below market guidance for 12 percent growth and
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| Agilent cut jobs at Fort Collins |
10/20/2004 |
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According to the report, Agilent's Fort Collins facility would continue to be used for new and emerging technologies. However, the facility will now employ only 800 people as opposed to nearly 1,400 at one time.
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| Freescale to layoff in restructuring |
10/20/2004 |
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Freescale made the cuts despite a profitable third quarter ended Oct. 2, where the company earned $57 million on sales of $1.43 billion. By contrast, Freescale earned $43 million on sales of $1.46 billion the previous quarter.
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| Semi equipment book to bill slips |
10/19/2004 |
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It's no surprise given the Q3 preannouncements in the capital equipment sector recently: the three-month rolling average of bookings for North American vendors fell 10 percent in September, as the book-to-bill ratio slipped below 1.
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| CMOS sensor technology to lower camera costs |
10/19/2004 |
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Compared to CCDs, CMOS sensors offer a lower price, less power consumption, and the ability to integrate other functions on chip. These advantages are significant in the camera phone market.
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| Microsoft to work on network security with Cisco |
10/19/2004 |
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Microsoft will match its in-development Network Access Protection software with Cisco's Network Admissions Control technology, introduced in July. Both are intended to tighten security at network end points by checking the status of PCs and laptops to ensure they're virus free, up to date on patches, and compliant with company software policies.
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| Xilinx marches onto automobile market |
10/19/2004 |
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"Many consumer technologies are being integrated on a platform that has a disparate lifecycle and development cycle than other consumer electronics," said Robert Bielby, senior director of strategic marketing. "The cycle for a car is 1-6 years. Consumer is literally a year at best."
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| SBC sells Wi-Fi subscription at $2/month |
10/18/2004 |
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The $2-per-month SBC offer requires a one-year subscription to FreedomLink. SBC charges non-DSL subscribers $20 a month for the service and sells day passes on its network for $8 in most locations.
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| Fairchild to use Jilin foundry |
10/18/2004 |
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"Asia Pacific is the fastest growing region globally and this agreement with Jilin Sino-Microelectronics enhances our ability to deliver products locally, quickly and cost effectively,"
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| National opens backend in Suzhou |
10/18/2004 |
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The plant is a half-million square feet and was built to allow National to expand its capacity for assembling and testing semiconductors, complementing its existing assembly and test plants in Malaysia and Singapore.
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| Intel kills 4Ghz Pentium4 |
10/15/2004 |
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Intel announced to cancel plans for a 4-gigahertz chip release, saying it would improve CPUs performance other than faster clock speed.
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| Samsung profits up but see pressure on flash, LCD |
10/15/2004 |
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Samsung Electronics posted a 46.2 percent year-over-year increase in Q3 net profit to $2.34 billion (2.69 trillion Korean won), but a sequential drop of 14.1 percent due to competition and lower prices of LCD screens and flash memory.
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| Sun's sales improve |
10/15/2004 |
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Sun Microsystems posted a narrower quarterly loss as revenue rose year-over-year for the second consecutive quarter after three years of declines.
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| Toshiba to make FPGA for Xilinx |
10/14/2004 |
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Toshiba said it will start manufacture high-performance field programmable gate array (FPGA) products for Xilinx with volume production starts in Q1, 2005.
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