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| Xilinx cuts June quarter revenue estimate |
7/3/2009 |
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Xilinx Inc. has reduced its June quarter revenue estimate, citing a shortfall in sales due to inability to meet strong demand for its Virtex-5 devices, according to a statement from the company.
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| European semi sales in May up 0.4% |
7/3/2009 |
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Sales of semiconductors in Europe in May again underperformed other regions according to an analysis of the figures by the Semiconductor Industry Association provided by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization.
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| Leoni buys US-based robotics company |
7/2/2009 |
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Wiring system manufacturer Leoni AG has acquired Valentine Robotics, based in Sterling Heights near the US automotive center Detroit. The move aims at extending Leoni's portfolio for integrated system solutions with high engineering and service participation, the company said.
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| news came Teradyne enter DRAM test market |
7/2/2009 |
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Raj Seth, an analyst with Cowen and Co. LLC, has indicated that Teradyne is readying a tester for ''DDR3'' applications. ''New DDRIII tester opens new market'' for Teradyne, Seth said in a recent report.
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| International Rectifier cost $30M to settle dispute |
7/2/2009 |
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International Rectifier Corp. said it has refunded $30 million to Vishay Intertechnology Inc. in settlement of a dispute over the sale of a business division to the discrete and passive semiconductor vendor in 2007.
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| Rambus demonstrated 7.2Gbps XDR memory |
7/1/2009 |
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“This technology demonstration highlights the outstanding power efficiency of the XDR and XDR2 memory architectures at performance levels from 3.2 to 7.2 Gbps with scalability to well over 10 Gbps.”
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| Taiwan Memory will invest in Elpida to secure technology |
7/1/2009 |
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While TMC hopes to acquire a 10-percent stake in Elpida, TMC will not become a major shareholder of the company, Sakamoto said. The partnership with TMC is already under way, but the two sides are still in talks on details of the investment.
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| Elpida will make LCD chips for NEC |
6/30/2009 |
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Elpida Memory Inc will start making
semiconductors for use in liquid crystal display televisions for NEC Electronics Corp in October, the Nikkei business daily reported on Tuesday.
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| DRAM contract prices to rise in July |
6/26/2009 |
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Contract prices for DRAM chips have started showing signs of a rebound contrary to weak spot trading, the sources said. The price gap between branded finished memory chips and eTT (effective tested) chips is expected to widen significantly in the second half of 2009.
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| SSD not mainstream until later |
6/26/2009 |
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With hard disks now priced at about $.07/GB, SSDs are positioned as a premium upgrade for notebooks, and a minimal baseline for netbooks. With prices on the rise, though, the attractiveness of this sell is diminished.
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| Memory industry continue to slide |
6/26/2009 |
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What's next? Observers wonder if Taiwan's DRAM makers will go under. Even the bigger players--Elpida, Hynix and Micron--are on the ropes.
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| Micron continues in operational lost |
6/26/2009 |
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The Boise, Idaho-based company's net loss widened to $290 million, or 36 cents per share, in the fiscal third quarter ended June 4, from $236 million, or 30 cents per share, in the year-ago quarter. Net sales for the latest quarter dropped to $1.1 billion
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| Inotera joins Nanya in predicting chip prices to rise |
6/25/2009 |
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Makers of memory chips, which temporarily hold data and help computer processors run multiple programs simultaneously, lost a combined $12.5 billion in the past two years, the most ever, according to Gartner Inc. analyst Andrew Norwood in London.
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| Electronics memory was invented |
6/25/2009 |
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The 1967 invention was patented in 1968 and began to appear in products in the 1970s. Cheaper, faster and less power hungry than the earlier magnetic memory, DRAM became the standard.
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| Intel switch China fab to 65nm |
6/25/2009 |
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''We originally announced it at 90-nm, but said there was a chance that we'd go to 65-nm. We have the U.S. government license, so that when we start we'll be on 65-nm,'' according to a spokesman at Intel.
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