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| Acer to ship Blue-ray Notebook |
2/26/2008 |
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Acer predicts that the sales boost of Blu-ray drives will first be seen in notebooks rather than stand-alone players and is planning to launch BD supporting notebooks in the second quarter.
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| Qimonda unveil 30nm DDR2 DRAM roadmap |
2/26/2008 |
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Qimonda announced its 30nm technology roadmap featuring cell sizes of 4F², with production of 1Gb DDR2 slated for the second half of 2008.
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| KLA-Tencor offers to buy Belgium ICOS |
2/22/2008 |
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KLA-Tencor Corp has made a $465.8 million (316.9 million Euros) offer for ICOS Vision Systems Corp NV, a Belgium-based maker of inspection equipment for semiconductor packaging and interconnect applications.
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| Worldwide server shipment grows |
2/22/2008 |
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Worldwide server shipments climbed 11% in the fourth quarter of last year and revenue was up nearly 3%, a market research firm said Thursday.
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| Toshiba, Sandisk build new NAND flash fab |
2/21/2008 |
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Toshiba and SanDisk have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to form a new production joint venture and construct a new 300-mm wafer fab in Japan to meet the anticipated future demand for NAND flash memory.
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| NAND flash pricing remains weak |
2/19/2008 |
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NAND flash prices will remain weak through the end of the first quarter as supply continues to outstrip demand, according to industry sources.
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| Gate said Microsoft Yahoo's deal a fair offer |
2/19/2008 |
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Implying that Microsoft isn't about to raise its bid to buy Yahoo any time soon, Bill Gates told news agencies that he thinks his company's current proposal, now valued at about $42 billion, is "a fair offer."
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| Toshiba confirms to end HD DVD production |
2/19/2008 |
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Toshiba has confirmed that it would stop promoting its HD DVD format for the next-generation DVD after losing the support of key studios and retailers to the Blu-ray technology backed by Sony Corp.
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| Toshiba may exit high def. DVD market |
2/18/2008 |
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Toshiba is expected to announce soon a retreat in the high definition DVD battle, with analysts suggesting the Japanese group and its backers would abandon its HD-DVD effort, leaving the stage clear for the Sony backed Blu-ray format.
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| Goldman downgrades DRAM supply industry |
2/15/2008 |
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Goldman Sachs chip analyst James Covello today downgraded both Micron (MU) and Novellus (NVLS) to Sell from Neutral, citing expectations that DRAMs will be in excess supply throughout 2008,
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| Hynix to sell spot market again |
2/15/2008 |
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In September last year, Hynix stopped providing DRAM chips to the spot market after its second-quarter profits dropped 35 percent due to the supply glut in the chip industry. Hynix had previously sold about 16 percent of its total DRAM production on the spot market.
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