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| Universities in China licensed ARM core for research |
12/23/2003 |
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"By licensing the ARM922T core, the postgraduates and local IC engineers registered at the School of Microelectronics have access to a core with high-performance, memory management unit which is ideal for HDTV, DTV and consumer electronics SOC research and development,"
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| Cray receives order for X1 Supercomputer |
12/23/2003 |
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"The Cray X1 product is gaining strong momentum internationally as our initial customers continue to report the unprecedented results and new scientific breakthroughs they have been able to achieve cost-effectively on this powerful system."
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| PCTEL strikes agreement with Intel |
12/23/2003 |
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Under terms of the agreement, Intel will receive a license to all of PCTEL's patents. PCTEL will in turn receive a cross-license to Intel-owned patents that relate to PCTEL's business and a one time $14.5 million payment.
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| New Mobile opportunities in Middle East |
12/22/2003 |
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Those opportunities are setting off a land grab, creating new powerhouses that never existed before and ultimately opening new markets and potential partnerships for the electronics industry.
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| Taiwan TSMC sue China SMIC for technology espionage |
12/22/2003 |
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The lawsuit, which was filed in the US District Court of Northern California on Dec. 19, claims that SMIC persuaded engineers that it had hired away from TSMC to reveal trade secrets, which led to patent infringement.
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| Fed reported increase in manufacturer output |
12/19/2003 |
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Forget all of the economic and market outlooks you saw in the last few months. They have been outdated by the flurry of astonishingly strong economic reports over the last month.
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| Cypress increased revenue guidance |
12/19/2003 |
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Initially told investors to expect fourth quarter revenue of $224 million. Last month, the company increased its guidance to revenue of $230 million. The company now expects revenue of about $235 million for the quarter.
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| Promos switch negotiation from Elpida to Hynix |
12/19/2003 |
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ProMOS and Infineon ended their relationship earlier this year over differences on pricing, capacity allocation and future capital investment. That falling out forced ProMOS to look elsewhere for process technology and a potential partner for future fabs.
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| Semi equipment book to bill up to 1.04 |
12/19/2003 |
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The SEMI book-to-bill is a ratio of three-month moving average bookings to three-month moving average billings for the North American semiconductor equipment industry.
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| Intel's LCOS technology might drop HDTV price by 1/3 |
12/18/2003 |
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LCOS is not a new technology, said Doherty. It initially made its foray into the labs about 10 years ago, and some other companies, including Philips, have dabbled in commercializing it. Since its introduction, some of the original patents have expired.
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| Demand from 300-mm fab outstrips supply |
12/18/2003 |
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"Supply is very tight for 300-mm silicon wafers," said G. Dan Hutcheson, president of VLSI Research. "There's going to be supply constraints," he said during a presentation at the firm's headquarters in Santa Clara on Tuesday (Dec. 16). VLSI Research also increased its IC and fab-tool forecasts as well.
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| SMIC perfected LCOS process for HDTV displays |
12/18/2003 |
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Brillian's first HDTV production light engine will debut at next month's 2004 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Brillian (Tempe, Ariz.) said its HDTV products will ship in mid-2004.
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| Motorola filed S-1 to spin off semiconductors |
12/18/2003 |
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The filing was made by a temporary entity called SPS Spinco, Inc., which will operate Motorola's semiconductor operations following the initial public offering. The new name for Motorola's SPS will be selected prior to the offering.
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| Companies joining the Flash Gold Rush |
12/18/2003 |
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The rush of newcomers is being fueled by the booming market for NAND, and prospects that the constantly increasing storage needs of digital still cameras, cell phone cameras, Internet wireless handsets, and flash cards will continue unchecked.
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| IDC: IT to grow 11% in Asia |
12/17/2003 |
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IT begins a new growth cycle after strong demand from the consumer segment, aggressive pricing and rapid portable adoption, worldwide PC growth will continue in Q4 and into 2004.
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| Competition for Mobile design engineers heating up |
12/17/2003 |
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According to the news report, several local mobile phone manufacturers have targeted Quanta as their primary target for headhunting since Quanta successfully designed and manufactured the popular cell phone line GD55 for Panasonic earlier this year.
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| SST paid Atmel for infringement |
12/17/2003 |
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Atmel Corp. today announced that it has collected more than $37.8 million from Silicon Storage Technologies Inc. (SST), regarding a May 7, 2002 judgment.
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| Risk of over-ordering in time of economic recovery |
12/17/2003 |
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Buyers are now purchasing larger volumes and are scheduling their orders with us further in advance in anticipation that availability might become limited at some point in the future,” said Darren Poulton, marketing director at Avnet
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| Sun, IBM, and Cray looking for new language for future computer |
12/17/2003 |
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Sun's goal is to apply its expertise in Java to defining an architecture-independent, low-level software standard — like Java bytecodes — that a language could present to any computer's run-time environment. Sun wants the so-called Portable Intermediate Language and Run-Time Environment to become an open industry standard.
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| Bluetooth continue to evolve |
12/17/2003 |
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"We may see multiple standards," said J. Eric Janson. "I would sooner everyone go in one direction so we can optimize around that and take the cost out of it, but I'm not sure that's realistic at this point."
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| Toshiba to offer 65nm embedded DRAM core |
12/16/2003 |
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Their 32-Mbit memory device is fabricated on a 65-nm process called CMOS5 using six-layer copper wiring with low-k materials. "We are confident that our embedded-DRAM technology takes the lead by about two years among competitors,"
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| Ex-Intel capitol executive joins molecular memory startup |
12/16/2003 |
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ZettaCore claims that within the decade "almost every electronic device will contain memory based on a new generation of technology," namely its molecular memories capable of storing gigabytes on chips that are less power hungry and nonvolatile.
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