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| Intel to include Wi-Fi in next notebook platform |
11/7/2002 |
"There is a convergence around 802.11 and . . . it's going to be even more rapid" than that experienced by Ethernet. Intel believes that 90 percent of mobile PCs will have wireless functionality by 2004.
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| Nanya having a ball on DDR chip sales |
11/6/2002 |
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Nanya Technologies, Taiwan's largest memory-chip maker, reported its October sale's reached NT$3.3 billion, up by 400 percent compared to same period of last year at NT$ 661.6 million.
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| Lexar brings Toshiba to court on Flash technologies |
11/6/2002 |
Since its inception in 1996, when Toshiba was represented on Lexar’s board of directors, Toshiba had access to and was presented with details of Lexar’s methods of achieving high performance flash devices that Toshiba has now incorporated into its flash chips and flash systems.
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| IBM to push new interface technologies for PC |
11/6/2002 |
"Our entire ThinkVantage strategy is to provide the experience for users to use the technology in a transparent matter," Morris said. "The underlying technology base will be there, but it should be transparent to the average user."
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| DataQuest predicts slow recovery in 2003 |
11/6/2002 |
"2003 is forecast to be a transition year, as a phased recovery in end markets gradually works its way back to fuel incremental semiconductor sales growth."
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| Labor agreement reached at longshore |
11/6/2002 |
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union and Pacific Maritime Association reached a tentative agreement Friday on technology issues. How technology will be rolled out at the docks to automate tasks has put the two sides at loggerheads for months.
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| VIA reports increase revenue |
11/5/2002 |
VIA Technologies, today announced net sales for October 2002 of NT$ 2.53 billion. On a sequential basis, this monthly sales revenue represents a 19.90% increase over September's figure of NT$ 2.11 billion.
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| Semiconductor Industry blue not over yet |
11/5/2002 |
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After several weeks of speculation among the investment and financial analyst community, Applied Materials Inc. today said it is cutting about 1,750 jobs, or about 11 percent of its workforce.
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| First DSL Set-Top-Box to deploy in Japan |
11/5/2002 |
Samsung received an initial $30 million contract for its SMT-F240 set-top boxes from Softbank Broadmedia, which is launching the service first in Tokyo and later will expand it throughout the country.
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| Anti-dumping allegation goes on |
11/5/2002 |
Hynix counter-charged in a company statement that Micron itself "has received substantial subsidies from the Italian government and the Singapore government to upgrade Micron facilities in these countries."
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| SST to use NEC China Fab for Flash |
11/4/2002 |
Flash memory technology developer Silicon Storage Technology Inc. has inked its second foundry supplier deal in China, saying Monday that it would use Shanghai Hua Hong NEC Electronics Co. Ltd. to manufacture chips with embedded flash memory.
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| Budget cut comes down on development |
11/4/2002 |
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Now, as the industry bumps along the bottom of the worst downturn on record, research and development budgets -- a sacred cow of the balance sheet --are coming under scrutiny at many electronics companies.
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| Market rumors further DRAM price hike |
11/4/2002 |
Suppliers are not only seeing a slight PC uptick, but they are also reportedly struggling to make parts at leading-edge geometries, due in part to process development problems, according to analysts.
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| Micron filed ITC complain on Korean DRAM companies |
11/4/2002 |
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The U.S. could impose stiff penalty duties on imported Korean DRAMs under the countervailing duty laws. The legal procedure is to file against all DRAM products made in Korea, which includes both Hynix and Samsung memory chips.
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| China to support third 3G standard |
11/1/2002 |
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The Chinese government is about to announce its support on the domestically developed 3G standard TD-SCDMA (time division synchronous code division multiple access), according to the TD-SCDMA Forum.
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| Judge to deliver rulings on Microsoft case |
11/1/2002 |
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U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly will announce later today whether she accepts or rejects a landmark antitrust settlement reached by Microsoft, the federal government and nine states, according to the judge herself.
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| Gateway sells plasma TV |
11/1/2002 |
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Gateway will come out with its first television in years - a branded 42-inch screen plasma TV for just under $3,000, according to sources close to the company.
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| Sony new desktop PC uses Nvidia chipset |
10/30/2002 |
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Sony has turned to Nvidia for chipset to boost the graphics performance in its new desktop PC line based on the Athlon XP chip. The new Vaio PCV-RXA842 comes with Athlon XP 2400+ processor and Nvidia's nForce chipset.
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| Sony's profit increases |
10/28/2002 |
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Sony Corp. posted a net profit of 4.1 billion yen (US$360 million as of Sept. 30) for its fiscal second quarter, compared to a net loss of 3.2 billion yen in the same quarter last year, the company announced Monday.
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| Athlon stalled by quake, Rambus may rise |
9/28/1999 |
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Last week's Taiwan earthquake could shape the next round in the battle of microprocessors between Advanced Micro Devices and Intel and may speed the rollout of Rambus memories in some quarters, according to PC makers still groping with the disruption .
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