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| China defy global standards, forms own |
8/11/2004 |
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The moves, if successful, could have a dramatic impact on the global electronics industry. While the standards initially are aimed at the indigenous Chinese market, the long-term goal is to export these products -- and thus the standards -- outside of China.
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| ISSI ventures into non-memory products |
8/11/2004 |
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Already, just over half of his engineers are working on non-memory projects, such as smart cards, wireless chip sets and application specific controllers.
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| China's silicon pioneer died at 70 |
8/11/2004 |
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In 1980, Chen walked away from a coveted position at the national Chinese Academy of Sciences to launch a high-tech development company in the Zhongguancun area of Beijing.
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| PCI Express chipsets to gain position |
8/10/2004 |
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VIA Technologies and Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) are expecting higher chipset shipments in third quarter as the level of non-Intel chipsets inventories going to increase reported by Taiwan motherboard makers.
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| Embedded 64bits to grow on handsets |
8/10/2004 |
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Customer-specific, cell-based 64-bit embedded processor market will thrive, with forecasted growth over that timeframe of 82.7%, according to In-Stat/MDR.
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| Cambridge Display filed S-1 registration for IPO |
8/10/2004 |
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The number of shares and the timing of the IPO has not been finalized, but the offering is expected to raise no more than $40.25 million, according to the S-1 registration. The filing is dated July 30, 2004.
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| VIA settles dispute with MediaTek |
8/9/2004 |
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VOS agreed to pay MediaTek a royalty of US$25 million upon execution and US$5 million per year in each of the following five years. In return, MediaTek agreed to grant VIA a perpetual license to any of its copyrights and trade secrets as well as a five-year license to any of its existing intellectual property
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| Infineon to do 300mm and 90nm DRAM at Winbond |
8/9/2004 |
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Under the terms of the additional agreement, Munich-based Infineon will transfer its 0.09-micron DRAM trench technology and 300mm production know-how to Winbond, based in Taipei.
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| Worldwide chips sales for June reach $20 Billion |
8/6/2004 |
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With the Asia-Pacific region approaching half the world's chip market in June (43.8 percent) the 'actual' worldwide sales were $20.70 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).
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| SiS launced new DDR2 chipset |
8/6/2004 |
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Chipset vendor SiS launched a new 'northbridge' chip as companion for the Intel Pentium 4 CPU, with the part number SiS649
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| Hynix Creditors to Approve China Plant Project |
8/4/2004 |
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Hynix Creditor officials said they will meet to approve the plant project, which will be promoted with investment from STMicro and Chinese banks to minimize the risk in building the plant
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| Hannover Fairs cancels CeBit America 2005 show |
8/4/2004 |
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CeBit America 2005 has been cancelled, because the organizer has been unable to raise enough money from technology companies to hold the New York tradeshow, a spokesman said Tuesday
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