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| Agilent layoffs 4,000 workers |
2/21/2003 |
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Agilent Technologies reported a widened first-quarter loss amid the slowdown in tech spending. To cut cost and return to profitability, it plans to cut 4,000 of its 35,000 employees in the coming months.
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| Matsushita posts 3Q profits |
2/20/2003 |
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Matsushita Electric posted a third quarter profit of 20.9 billion yen ($176 million) compared to a loss a year ago citing strong sales of DVD recorders and plasma display TV sets.
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| Intel to embrace DDR400 |
2/20/2003 |
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Intel's move to release the 800MHz front side bus chip will lift the demand for DDR400 even for a short cycle.
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| National Semi cut 5% jobs |
2/20/2003 |
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National Semiconductor Corp. said it will reduce 500 jobs or 5% of its work force and take a charges of $35 million to $45 million as part of a restructuring.
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| Intel expects 4-7% growth in IT spendings |
2/19/2003 |
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Intel's CEO said at Intel Developer Forum that worldwide information technology market is expected to grow by 4%-7% to $3 trillion in 2003 in anticipation of the PC upgrade and broadband push.
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| SGI signs $26 million deal with Army |
2/19/2003 |
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SGI has won a $26 million contract to supply the U.S. Defense Department with high-end technical computing machines, software and services over the next 42 months, the company said.
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| Micron to cut workforce |
2/19/2003 |
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Micron Technology announced plans to cut approximately 10 percent of its staff to battle the prolong sluggish of the technology market.
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| AMD, ASE joint developed Flip-Chip Packaging |
2/18/2003 |
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (ASE) have signed a deal to jointly develop technologies for flip-chip assembly on organic packages for microprocessor chipsets, the companied announced today.
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| Manufacturing index in NY drops |
2/18/2003 |
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The manufacturing index in New York State fell in February to the lowest level in four months, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Tuesday.
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| Chips sales expected to rise |
2/18/2003 |
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Demand for PCs, cell phones,digital cameras and wireless systems could boost industry revenue 20% in 2003, amid the continued economic recovery and a possible war, reported by a research firm.
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| Cisco launches new ad |
2/18/2003 |
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Cisco is launching a $150 million global marketing campaign to raise awareness of the company and boost sales. The ad campaign will appear in print, on television and, and on the Internet.
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| PC shipments may rise in 2003 |
2/18/2003 |
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PC shipments will post a modest increase for 2003 despite the continuous slow economy, according to a new report by Gartner Dataquest.
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| Rambus speed up its memory interconnection technology |
2/17/2003 |
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Rambus Inc. disclosed its new Redwood high-speed logic bus interface. It claims data rates of up to 6.4GHz or 10 times faster than the current highest speed 667MHz processor front side buses, the company reported.
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| Toshiba makes flash memory deals |
2/17/2003 |
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Toshiba reportedly said it is making deals to sell flash memory chips based on M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd.'s flash memory capacity-doubling technology as well as to work with Infineon Technologies AG on a new flash technology.
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| Wafers shipment on the rise |
2/17/2003 |
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Silicon wafer shipment worldwide rose sharply in 2002, while revenue grew at a modest rate, according to a new report from a semiconductor industry group.
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| Legend to expand utilizing Taiwan IT technology |
2/14/2003 |
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IDC recently released the list of top-selling personal computer (PC) brands in the non-Japan Asia in the fourth quarter of last year. Legend of mainland China remained at the top of the list, followed by three U.S. brands: HP, IBM, and Dell.
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| Unemployed engineers protested H-1B visa |
2/14/2003 |
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A group of unemployed high-tech workers demonstrated against the U.S. government's H-1B visa program on Wednesday (Feb. 12) outside a Dallas hotel where the IEEE-USA's board was holding its quarterly meeting.
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