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| ProMos report 2nd Quarter smaller losses |
8/21/2008 |
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ProMOS Technologies announced that its losses in the second quarter have shrunk by about 30%, making it the most improved company among Taiwan's DRAM players in the quarter.
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| Intel unveils its own SSD Drive |
8/20/2008 |
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Intel have launched a family of solid-state drives claiming significant performance advances over its many competitors.
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| Hynix unveiled 16GB DDR3 DIMM at IDF |
8/20/2008 |
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Hynix announced that it is using MetaRAM's new DDR3 technology in its next generation R-DIMMs, including the world's first 16GB 2-rank DIMM Memory.
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| SIS to postpone spin-off till next year |
8/19/2008 |
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Silicon Integrated System (SiS) has announced it will postpone the planned spin-off of three subsidiaries from the original schedule of September 1 this year to January 1 next year.
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| IBM unveils 22-nm SRAM Memory |
8/19/2008 |
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IBM and its development partners have claimed their first working SRAM cell implemented in a 22-nm manufacturing process. The SRAM cell was built at its 300-mm fab in Albany, New York.
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| Toshiba unveils 32GB embedded NAND flash |
8/18/2008 |
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Toshiba announced the launch of the 32GB embedded NAND flash memory modules that are thelargest density yet announced, with the modules also having full compliance with the e-MMC and eSD standards.
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| Intel unveils smaller version of SSD |
8/15/2008 |
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Intel has introduced a smaller version of its solid-state drive for mini-notebooks, an emerging PC category that's showing strong market growth worldwide.
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| Intel help push CPU unit shipment growth |
8/15/2008 |
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The PC processor business grow 3.1 percent in unit shipments in the June quarter with Intel drove most of the growth, but intense price competition drove revenues down 4.5 percent, according to International Data Corp. said.
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| Rambus to cut headcount on cost saving |
8/15/2008 |
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Rambus Inc. said it will reduce its workforce by approximately 90 positions or about 21 percent of its headcount and will take a restructuring charge of about $4.0 million in the next two quarters.
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| Philips unload all TSMC shares |
8/14/2008 |
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Royal Philips Electronics has sold approximately 383 million shares of common stock in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC).
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| Sub-notebook - a huge market for SSD |
8/13/2008 |
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SSD vendors may have finally found a ''killer application'' for SSDs, which are based on NAND flash memories. The ultra mobile PC, netbook and related sub-notebook segments could become a big driver for SSDs, said Doreet Oren, director of product marketing for SSDs at SanDisk Corp.
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| AMD Dresden production manager left |
8/13/2008 |
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After less than two years at AMD's Dresden site, the company's manufacturing vice president Elke Eckstein has moved on. One of Germany's very few female semiconductor managers now is Chief Operating Officer for Osram Opto Semiconductor in Regensburg
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| Global wafer shipments increase 6%, SEMI said |
8/12/2008 |
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Reflecting macroeconomic concerns and following the slightly weaker Q1, silicon wafer area shipments on a worldwide basis grew more than 6% sequentially during Q2 over Q1 area shipments
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