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| SMIC to equip its new Beijing fab soon |
9/1/2003 |
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SMIC "may generate tool orders in excess of $1 billion for its Fab 4 facility being build in Beijing," Vassily added. In March, SMIC said it may move in manufacturing equipment for its previously announced 300-mm wafer pilot line at its Beijing plant by the end of this year or early 2004.
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| Flat panel gets attention at Berlin show |
9/1/2003 |
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"The transition most obvious to consumers today is not digital TV but flat-screen TVs," said Peter Rost, marketing director of digital TV at Micronas GmbH
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| VIA Technologies posts NT$1.1 billion Q2 loss |
8/29/2003 |
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VIA Technologies the world's second-largest maker of chipsets for personal computers, had a third straight quarterly loss after costs rose and competition with Intel and other rivals eroded its market share
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| Intel's mobile technology flourishes |
8/29/2003 |
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Intel Centrino mobile technology is becoming a fundamental platform in the new generation of notebook computers, and is helping notebooks to overtake the popularity of desktop computers.
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| Intel to open R & D center in Korea |
8/29/2003 |
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Intel said it plans to open an R&D center in South Korea by the end of 2003 to focus on technologies and standards for the digital home and wireless communications
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| SGI cut 600 jobs |
8/28/2003 |
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Silicon Graphics announce further cut of 600 jobs in an attempt to reduce expenses
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| Infineon ship 1Gbit DDR chip |
8/27/2003 |
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Infineon said that it has shipped first samples of its 1-Gbit Double Data Rate (DDR) Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) using the industry's smallest die area.
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| U.S investment firm to buy stake in Hynix |
8/27/2003 |
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Korea Exchange Bank the main bank involved in Hynix Semiconductor's investment tangle, is about to see its majority stake sold to U.S. investment fund Lone Star before the end of this week
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| Intel to build US$200m facility in China |
8/27/2003 |
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In a boost to China's economy Intel will begin construction next year on a US$200 million chip testing-and-assembly facility in the western Sichuan province
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| Korean filed compliant against EU |
8/26/2003 |
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South Korea, today filed a complaint against the European Union at the World Trade Organization alleging that European governments unfairly imposed import duties on South Korean computer memory chips
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| DRAM prices drop amid report of Hynix sales |
8/25/2003 |
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Prices of computer-memory chips fell from six-month highs on concern that Hynix Semiconductor is selling more chip stocks in the spot market ahead of tariffs on its exports
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| Elpida Agrees to Supply DRAM Chips to Kingston |
8/25/2003 |
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Elpida Memory has agreed to supply Kingston Technology the world's largest producer of memory modules, with cutting-edge semiconductor memory technology as soon as this year
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| Hynix samples 1GB DDR2 chip |
8/25/2003 |
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Hynix Semiconductor Inc said it has developed a new DDR2 DRAM that implements 0.11-micron process technology
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