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| Sun released new servers |
7/26/2004 |
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The new Sun Fire V40z server uses four Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Opteron microprocessors per box, twice the number of its previous Sun Fire servers.
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| DDR3 development gains momemtum |
7/23/2004 |
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Intel has sought DRAM makers Elpida, Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology to co-develop DDRIII format and related products. Intel is promoting 800MHz and 1.2GHz as the two major two formats of DDRIII.
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| Chip equipment sales jumped |
7/23/2004 |
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Billings, or shipments, totaled $4.4 billion last month, while orders reached $4.9 billion for suppliers around the globe. That would give the entire industry a book-to-bill ratio of 1.11 for June.
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| Qualcomm see gains in sales |
7/23/2004 |
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The company reported revenues of $1.3 billion, a 50 percent increase over the same quarter a year ago and a 10 percent increase over the previous quarter, according to the company.
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| Transmeta missed revenue on Efficeon |
7/23/2004 |
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"We expect some additional Efficeon systems to ship in 2004; however, due to market dynamics and customer resource constraints, the majority of the Efficeon designs are expected to ship in 2005."
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| DRAM market conditions weak |
7/22/2004 |
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Tier-1 DDR2 533 MHZ have been traded at USD 73/module for 256MB and USD 147-148/module for 512MB. Players anticipate increased business for DDR2 from September.
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| Tower Semiconductor seeing turn-around |
7/22/2004 |
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Tower said the Q2 and first half losses reflect the high investment made in its Fab 2 and its resulting depreciation, and that it is on course toward a more positive position by the end of the year.
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| Over produced motherboards will erode ASP |
7/22/2004 |
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The reality is that most, if not all, top-tier motherboard makers simply won’t achieve their growth targets for this year, and those that do will grow mainly at the expense of other tier-one players.
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| US see growth in electronic manufacturing |
7/21/2004 |
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Overall, the three-month average of U.S. factory production continues to expand at a 6 percent annual pace, consistent with the expected 4 percent growth in GDP over the next year.
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| Infineon 's bottom line hurt by legal spending |
7/21/2004 |
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During the quarter Infineon increased an accrual charge related to ongoing U.S. and European DRAM antitrust investigations by $227.8 million to $262.5 million. This resulted in a fiscal quarter loss of $69.3 million.
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| Intel announced new M processor one day after AMD |
7/21/2004 |
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The new Pentium M processors feature a 2MB Level 2 cache, a power-optimized 400 MHz system bus, and enhanced data pre-fetcher and enhanced register access manager for fast execution of instructions at low power.
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| Freescale delivers good quarterly gain |
7/21/2004 |
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"The Freescale team delivered solid results in the quarter with good momentum across all of our businesses," said Michel Mayer, chairman and CEO of Freescale Semiconductor, in a statement
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| TI cheers gain on market |
7/21/2004 |
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The Dallas semiconductor supplier reported strong demand for digital signal processors, wireless parts, high-performance analog parts, and Digital Light Processing parts, which are used in display applications.
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| Intel to delay Alviso mobile chipset |
7/20/2004 |
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Intel has received a pre-production test chip that it said did not meet the company's standard for quality. The spokeswoman did not provide further details.
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| Matsushita obtained Rambus license for memory interface |
7/20/2004 |
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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., Japan, has signed an agreement with Rambus Inc., Los Altos, Calif., to integrate that company's DDR2 interface cell into its next-generation digital television (DTV) chipsets.
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| M-Systems triples revenue |
7/20/2004 |
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We are extremely pleased with our results for the second quarter of 2004, which exceeded our expectations and represent the twelfth consecutive quarter of sequential growth.
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| AMD added mobile 64 to line up |
7/20/2004 |
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AMD has bolstered its mobile processor line with the Athlon 64 processor 3400+, aimed at high-performance 32-bit applications and compatible with future 64-bit applications.
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| EDA Consortium to lobby for less export restricitons |
7/20/2004 |
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The consortium's export committee met with the U.S. Department of Commerce and other government agencies this month to seek changes in export regulation language that would loosen such restrictions.
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| Walmart to sell notebook computers |
7/19/2004 |
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Taiwan's industry watchers analyzed that the Wal-Mart contract gives new entrants of notebook computers a big boost at a time when established players already dominate the world market.
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