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| Sematech gets new director from Infineon |
9/29/2004 |
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Arkalgud, who will serve a three-year assignment at Sematech, has more than 14 years of experience in logic and memory areas within the chip industry, according to Sematech. He is the author of 22 publications and holds ten U.S. patents.
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| Motorola to re-align personnel after spin off |
9/29/2004 |
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"We're eliminating 1,000 positions around the world to better align our workforce to support seamless mobility and in anticipation of the Freescale Semiconductor separation,"
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| Micromem to develope MRAM on RFID |
9/29/2004 |
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"The MMT research team is able to fabricate components of the memory cell and is awaiting its next milestone, which is to assemble the components of the memory cell into a working device,"
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| Infineon opens Suzhou memory backend |
9/28/2004 |
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Infineon, is the second-largest chip maker in Europe has scheduled investment totaling US$1 billion in the new test-and-assembly plant, and volume production will start in the first quarter of 2005, with a maximum capacity of one billion chips per year and employ more than 1,000 people.
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| Micro Tune developes HDTV tuner for Toshiba |
9/28/2004 |
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Based on Microtune's MicroTuner MT2111 single-chip tuner, Toshiba's module is a ready-to-manufacture RF-to-video subsystem that complies with U.S. digital TV standards, including the DCR regulations of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for digital cable-ready TVs.
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| SMIC opens Beijing 300mm plant |
9/28/2004 |
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SMIC said pilot production began in July. The fab will initially produce high-density DRAMs using 0.11- and 0.10-micron process technology, according to an SMIC statement.
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| Power PC goes dual-core |
9/28/2004 |
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Freescale said. The MPC8641D device integrates two e600 PowerPC cores with each processor able to operate at a clock frequency of 1.5-GHz. There are two 1-Mbyte level-two caches and dual AltiVec(TM) vector processing engines.
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| Industrial sales show mixed picture |
9/28/2004 |
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But August sales results were mixed last month for electronics. Computer and semiconductor shipments were still restrained by sluggish Asian export sales while telecom equipment shipments soared.
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| Philips put 300mm fab on hold |
9/27/2004 |
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CEO of Philips Semiconductors, told investors and financial analysts today it would delay building a new 300mm fab until market conditions improve and its business could sustain it.
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| Innovative Silicon hires executive from MoSys |
9/27/2004 |
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The company is developing a dense semiconductor memory based on work carried out at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL) by Fazan and Serguei Okhonin.
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| IDC see continue PC growth |
9/27/2004 |
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Commercial growth has led IDC to increase projections for total 2004 shipment growth from a June estimate of 13.5 percent to a current projection of 14.2 percent.
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| ProMos to use Hynix stack-cap technology |
9/27/2004 |
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Under the proposed agreement, ProMOS would license Hynix's stacked capacitor DRAM technology to enter that market. In turn, Hynix would utilize the foundry services of ProMOS.
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| Intel CEO to retire |
9/27/2004 |
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Paul Otellini, Intel's president and chief operating officer, is expected to replace Barrett.
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| Philips cut Q3 outlook |
9/24/2004 |
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Philips Electronics lowered its Q3 semiconductor division outlook during a meeting with investors and financial analysts.
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| BMW unveiled faster hydrogen car |
9/24/2004 |
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BMW unveiled the world's fastest hydrogen-powered car at the Paris auto show on Wednesdaye. H2R, the name of the car, is capable of exceeding 300 kilometers (185 miles) per hour.
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| Cirrus Logic cut sales outlook |
9/24/2004 |
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Cirrus Logic cut its revenue outlook for the quarter to $51 - $52 million, down from previous forecast of $61-to-$68 million.
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| Intel enhances Celeron chipset |
9/23/2004 |
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Intel announced that its Celeron D processor 340 and 910GL Express chip set will support advanced features like PCI Express, Intel High Definition Audio and the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900.
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| Cisco to setup research center in China |
9/23/2004 |
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Cisco Systems will set up its first research center in the China. "China will become the IT center of the world," Chambers told a Beijing news conference Thursday.
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| Infineon licensed Axon's memory technology |
9/22/2004 |
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Infineon Technologies has licensed Axon Technologies Corp.'s Programmable Metallization Cell (PMC) nonvolatile memory technology, said Axon in a statement. Micron Technology is the other licensee.
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| Sun to win back financial industry firms |
9/22/2004 |
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Sun is laying out work to win back some of its former financial-industry customers with its a new line of servers with cutting-edge technology that are as cheap and powerful as the Linux-based servers.
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