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| China to be key player in Semi Industry |
2/12/2003 |
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"No other country has such gigantic unused potential in terms of both demand and engineering capacity, executives said. "China is developing into a key player," Dunn, Doug Dunn, president and chief executive of the Dutch equipment producer ASML
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| Designers combine 802.11 and Bluetooth |
2/12/2003 |
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Both designs included RF transmit and receive sections, clock generation and filtering. Both require an external power amplifier for 802.11b, and both require an external digital baseband chip with A/D converters. Both chips also exploit the convenient fact that the center frequency for 802.11b is 2.4 GHz, the same as that for Bluetooth.
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| Samsung breaks through on Magnetoresistance RAM |
2/12/2003 |
“The most serious problem is the resistance variations but this can be handled with a self-reference sensing scheme, said Gitae Jeong, Samsung's lead researcher on the approach.
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| Low capex on passive may cause future shortage |
2/12/2003 |
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"A lot of these companies will continue to pull in expenses and manage with what they have," said Herve Francois, an analyst at CS First Boston, New York. "I don't see any of these companies rushing to expand capital expenditures to facilitate meaningful revenue growth."
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| Taiwan government to approve TSMC China plan |
2/11/2003 |
TSMC vows to comply with the government's regulations on the movement of individuals talented in the fields of high tech in the country while recruiting staff for its China plant.
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| New low cost Altera chip hits market |
2/11/2003 |
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Cyclone devices are Altera's low-cost FPGAs with densities ranging from 2,910 to 20,060 logic elements, and up to 288Kbits of embedded memory. They are based on a 1.5V, all-copper SRAM process.
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| UMC increased revenue |
2/11/2003 |
Revenues of $156 million (5.4 billion Taiwanese dollars) outshined January 2002's $115 million (4 billion TWD).
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| VLSI Research looks at semi manufacturing equipment trend |
2/11/2003 |
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The market will grow even more in Q2, despite a weak market for equipment, according to the San Jose based market research company. Critical subsystems will grow 26 percent next quarter over the current one, VLSI said.
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| Intel goes for dual-core processor |
2/11/2003 |
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The microprocessor giant disclosed the development of a new "arbiter" bus technology designed to manage two or more processor cores in the same IC package.
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| Rat race between Rambus and DDR memory |
2/11/2003 |
The ongoing contest between DDR and RDRAM will result in a horse race in which each architecture is expected at various points to claim the title of the industry's highest-performing memory.
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| AMD introduces new Barton processor |
2/11/2003 |
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AMD claimed that the new MPU is the highest-performance desktop PC processor in the industry, a point Intel Corp. immediately disputed. The top Intel desktop Pentium 4 runs at 3.06GHz with 512Mbye on-die L2 cache.
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| Court battle goes on between Promos and Infineon |
2/11/2003 |
Promos Technologies Inc. said Tuesday (February 11, 2003) that a Taiwan court has granted it the right to use process technology from Infineon Technologies AG for making DRAM chips.
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| U.K. feeling pinch on electronic manufacturing |
2/10/2003 |
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U.K. manufacturers are facing their worst recession since the early 1990s, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. The government figures indicate that factory output fell by 4 percent last year, representing the largest annual slump since 1991.
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| IEEE requests INS to retract H-1B quota |
2/10/2003 |
IEEE-USA President Jim Leonard said he believes "It's time for Congress to lower the H-1B visa quota back to 65,000 from its current level of 195,000," said IEEE-USA president Jim Leonard.
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| Corning projects return to profit |
2/10/2003 |
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Corning Inc. expects to return to profitability by the third quarter of this year, the company told investors today at its annual investor conference in New York City.
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| DDR prices dropped rapidly |
2/10/2003 |
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Spot traders are expected to delay any purchases or inventory-building efforts until they have determined with certainty that the bottom price point has been reached. Unfortunately, iSuppli believes that DDR prices haven't reached that point yet.
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| Dell to eliminate Floppy Disk from PC |
2/7/2003 |
Dell Computer said floppy drives had been overtaken by technologies offering greater storage capacity and would become an option on its Dimension 8250 models.
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| DDR chip prices at all time low |
2/7/2003 |
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The value of 256Mb DDR DRAMs plunged to record lows on Feb. 6, according to DRAMeXchange.COM, an online semiconductor brokerage
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