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| AMD sales surge 73% |
4/15/2004 |
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AMD said it had reached record revenues for its Q1 buoyed by flash memory sales.
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| Intel to cut Itanium price |
4/14/2004 |
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Intel has begun shipping a new 1.4GHz version of the processor that will significantly cut down the cost of dual-processor systems.
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| Toshiba offers 4GB Nand Flash |
4/12/2004 |
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Toshiba introduced what it claims is the semiconductor industry's first 4Gb single-die, multi-level cell (MLC), NAND flash memory
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| Gartner reports semi equipment up 10% |
4/9/2004 |
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Broken down, wafer fab equipment sales, the largest sector, grew 3.6 percent in 2003. In the back-end, packaging and assembly equipment increased 30.5 percent and automated test equipment grew 39.4 percent, the firm reported.
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| Manufacturing index up |
4/9/2004 |
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The survey of semiconductor purchasing managers showed that expectations for Q1 sales have ticked up slightly since last month, and expectations for Q2 sales growth ticked up more meaningfully.
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| Cypress posted data sheets for MRAM product |
4/9/2004 |
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Cypress claims that MRAM technology is superior to other types of nonvolatile memories. "An MRAM is nonvolatile memory that operates as a fast read and write RAM,"
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| Ramtron and National settles |
4/8/2004 |
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As consideration for the assigned patent applications and cross license provisions, Ramtron will pay National 10 annual payments of $250,000. Ramtron and National have agreed to cross license any and all future patents that may mature from the four FRAM applications
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| UMC revenue reported up |
4/8/2004 |
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United Microelectronic Corp. saw March sales cap off a 41.5 percent year-over-year revenue jump for the first three months of 2004.
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| Software outsourcing grows |
4/8/2004 |
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There are enough satisfied IT customers of offshore services to keep the outsourcing phenomenon growing, according to a new report examining the offshoring and exporting of U. S. jobs.
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| Fujitsu and Samsung in plasma display dispute |
4/8/2004 |
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Fujitsu brought an action against Samsung in a district court here and in Los Angeles for infringing its Japanese and U.S. patents. Fujitsu is seeking a court order against future importation and sales of infringing PDP products and compensation.
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| Microsoft conceded by moving audio codec to digital radio |
4/8/2004 |
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Eager to move its proprietary audio/video codec into Europe's steadily growing digital radio market, Microsoft Corp. has gained membership in the World DAB Forum, an industry group developing digital audio broadcasting.
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| Motorola to get chip supply from spin-off |
4/7/2004 |
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The agreement also sees Motorola treat Freescale as a preferred supplier for other components required by its cellular subscriber businesses for handset manufacturing.
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| Intel announce new power saving mobile processors |
4/7/2004 |
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The new processors include the low voltage Intel Pentium M processor at 1.30GHz, the ultra-low voltage Intel Pentium M processor at 1.10GHz, the Intel Celeron M processor at 1.4 GHz and the ultra-low voltage Intel Celeron M Processor at 900 MHz.
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| Broadcom acquired video compression company |
4/7/2004 |
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The companies say the combination of technologies and products will accelerate the time taken for Broadcom to bring to market next-generation video solutions for applications such as enhanced cable and satellite TV and IP set-top boxes and video conferencing.
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