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| Infineon hot and cold with ProMos |
2/27/2003 |
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In a surprise move, Infineon Chairman Ulrich Schumacher met ProMos Chairman Hu Hung-chiu in Taipei today, exchanging views on "the future relationship between Infineon and ProMos," according to a statement from ProMos. "The atmosphere was pleasant," the statement added.
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| Hynix co-president resigned |
2/27/2003 |
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Park, who headed operations for the Korean chipmaker, shared the chief executive duties with Eui-je Woo, who is responsible for financial affairs.
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| Microsoft to work on final settlement with FTC |
2/26/2003 |
"During negotiations with Microsoft, both sides had showed a sincere desire to resolve the dispute," Chen said. "But, whether the case will be settled depends on the results of Thursday's meeting."
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| PDA market focused to increase |
2/26/2003 |
The PDA market is poised for growth as the devices sport lower prices, increased functionality, and wireless and multimedia capability, according to a report from InStat/MDR.
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| Sun sets new multithread processor strategy |
2/26/2003 |
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The H series processors, designed for use in Infiniband-based server blade systems will provide as much as 15 times the performance of today's Sparc processors at much lower cost and power consumption.
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| Sanmina-SCI to enter InfiniBand ODM services |
2/26/2003 |
Many EMS providers like Sanmina-SCI have been pursuing ways to enhance design services to bring products to market faster. Sanmina-SCI's InfiniBand-based solutions will be targeted at data center and high- performance technical computing applications.
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| Semico follows Dataquest to reduce semi outlook |
2/26/2003 |
"With the specter of war in Iraq looming on the horizon, corporate leaders continue to delay spending decisions and investments, adversely affecting a recovery in the semiconductor sector," Semico said.
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| US appeals court rule in favor of VIA over Intel |
2/25/2003 |
The spokesman pointed out that the court ruling indicated that fair competition remained the rule of the market despite attempts by some companies to obstruct fair trade via litigation.
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| Xilinx to provide super fast FPGA |
2/25/2003 |
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The ability to implement 10G on CMOS is a difficult one. According to Per Holmberg, Xilinx’s director of programmable systems marketing, it requires dealing with complex analog and mixed-signal design techniques, plus an understanding of and ability to manage noise and jitter problems.
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| 90nm destinated for 2004 |
2/25/2003 |
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“There are a great deal of concern (on 90nm) over variables,” said Tim Burks, vice president of product development at Magma Design. “People are definitely concerned about low yields.”
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| Economists predict job recovery in 2004 |
2/25/2003 |
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Economists believe the overall job market is going to remain flat until the end of this year. As hiring picks up, there will be an up tick in high-tech hiring.
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| Dataquest revised chip market estimate |
2/25/2003 |
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Worldwide chip market to hit $167 billion in value in 2003, up from $153.4 billion in 2002, according to the latest quarterly forecast estimates from Dataquest, the market research firm.
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| Counterfeit memory surface in Asia |
2/25/2003 |
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The counterfeit parts, specifically nonvolatile SRAM (NVSRAM) modules, have package dimensions, markings, and trademarked Maxim/Dallas logos copied from the Maxim/Dallas products.
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| Sun's blade server to use AMD processor |
2/25/2003 |
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Sun Microsystems on Monday confirmed reports that its upcoming blade server in the x86 architecture will use an Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Athlon XP-M mobile processor chip.
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| Price cut kicks in on CPU |
2/25/2003 |
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Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices on Sunday cut prices on selected desktop processors, with AMD making some of the steepest reductions.
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| Intel communications is serious about wireless space |
2/24/2003 |
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"We formed a [wireless LAN] RF group a couple years ago and began hiring a significant number of cellular and military and other wireless specialists. We have a lab outside Moscow with some of the brightest RF algorithm developers on the planet, as well as a separate group in San Diego,"
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| Elpida negotiaing to get investment from Intel |
2/24/2003 |
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"Elpida's business has some bright spots; for example, low power consumption synchronous DRAMs, for which demand is growing as buffer memories of digital cameras. Elpida may have successfully gathered possible investments of nearly 70 billion yen (about $593 million) [including Intel]."
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| DRAM vendore rush to support Intel chipset |
2/24/2003 |
The chipsets, set to launch in the second quarter, will be shielded against possible shortages or pricing issues that might arise with the volume ramp of DDR400 memory by affording buyers the option of using either of the other two DDR memory speeds.
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| Wafer fabs saw business decline |
2/24/2003 |
The average for all MOS fabs went from 87.3% in the second quarter of 2002, through 86.5% in the third quarter and down to 81.9% utilization in the fourth quarter.
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| Rambus identified chipset partners |
2/24/2003 |
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The R659 chipset drives four channels of 1200MHz RDRAM memory resulting in 9.6GByte/sec of memory bandwidth. This represents a 50% higher performance gain than competing dual-channel DDR chipsets.
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| Micron to offer DDR400 |
2/21/2003 |
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Micron Technology Inc. announced the availability of its validated DDR400 products following the earlier news of the same validation from other DRAM makers.
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