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| Maxim buys Philips 's US Fab |
10/28/2003 |
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Maxim Inc ,announced that it has purchased Royal Philips Electronics' 8-inch wafer fabrication facility in San Antonio, Texas.
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| Intel and AMD slashed price |
10/28/2003 |
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Intel and Advanced Micro Devices cut the price on several chips ahead of the holiday shopping season.
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| AMD Aims at VARs |
10/27/2003 |
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AMD took aim at the value added reseller (VAR) community today, introducing a new partner program to push its 64-bit line
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| Motorola samples 4Mbit MRAM |
10/27/2003 |
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Motorola announced its 4Mbit MRAM chips based on a 0.18-micron five-level metal CMOS process technology with what it described as "fast access times
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| Hynix returns to profitability |
10/27/2003 |
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Hynix Semiconductor succeeded in returning to the black during the third quarter after five continuous quarters in the red.
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| Sandisk heading towards China market |
10/24/2003 |
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SanDisk plans to enter the China market next year, with Taiwan-based Princeton Technology as its agent, according to sources familier with the matter.
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| Flash memory lifts Toshiba |
10/24/2003 |
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Toshiba Corp. said Friday that it swung to a profit in its second quarter on booming demand for memory chips used in digital cameras.
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| ST Mic ro posts increase Q3 revenues, and a loss |
10/24/2003 |
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STMicroelectronics Inc. posted sales of $1.8 billion in the third quarter of 2003, a 6 percent sequential increase over second quarter 2003 revenues of $1.7 billion and 9.6 percent above the $1.6 billion of last year's third quarter.
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| Micron samples 1G DDR2 SDRAM |
10/23/2003 |
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Micron Technology Inc. has shipped what it claims is the industry's first 1Gbit DDR2 SDRAM components.
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| Celestica net loss larger than estimates |
10/23/2003 |
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Celestica Inc. reported Q3 results with revenue slightly exceeding estimate while net loss were double the average forecast provided by analysts although less than the same quarter last year.
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| Global PC sales beat estimates |
10/22/2003 |
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Worldwide PC shipments were up 15.7% from last year to 38.4 million, outpacing the previous IDC own forecast by 5 percentage points, the research firm said.
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| PSC may build new 8-inch fab in China |
10/22/2003 |
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Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) will not rule out a possibility of building a new fab in China to solve 8-inch wafers supply shortage, according to PSC chairman Frank Huang.
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| Lexmark's Q3 earnings up 16% |
10/22/2003 |
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Lexmark reported net income of $104.1 million compared to $89.8 million in the same quarter last year, an increase of 16%.
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| Hynix posts Q3 net income |
10/22/2003 |
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Hynix Semiconductor Inc. reported a Q3 net income of 134 billion won (about US$113 million) on sales of 991 billion won (about US$840 million) that ended September 30, the company said.
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| Sony to cut 20k jobs in restructuring |
10/21/2003 |
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Sony Corp. plans to eliminate up to 20,000 jobs, or more than 12 percent of its work force, by March 2006 in a major restructuring, a Japanese newspaper reported Monday.
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| China's fab growth slowing by 2006 |
10/21/2003 |
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China's booming fab construction industry will begin to level off in 2006 at which point the chip makers and design houses will enter a period of consolidation
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| TI posted $447 million in quarterly profit |
10/21/2003 |
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Texas Instruments Inc. posted sales of $2.533 billion in the third quarter, up 8 percent sequentially and up 13 percent from the same period last year amid strong growth in semiconductor, the company reported.
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| Strong demand, good profit for LCD suppliers |
10/21/2003 |
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Flat-panel industry is set for a smoother ride during the next few years, with no annual revenue declines until at least 2007, according to market watcher DisplaySearch.
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