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| Nanochip funded on terabyte silicon memory |
1/22/2008 |
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"As flash process technology scaling begins to approach its limits, Nanochips technology is well positioned to provide memory capacity with exponentially higher storage densities at a cost per gigabyte significantly below that of flash technology."
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| DRAM packaging price squeezed |
1/21/2008 |
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DRAM makers have asked the suppliers for a 20% break in their quotation prices. And most have accepted -- under the threat that contract buyers would ship gross dies instead of packaged and tested chips to customers if the requests were turned down, the paper notes.
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| Analyst predicts DRAM prices to stay at bottom |
1/21/2008 |
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Converge believes that current spot-market pricing is where the market will remain during the next 3 months, plus or minus a percentage point. There is not much room for further decline,
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| Patent reform heats up on Capital Hill |
1/21/2008 |
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Calls for patent reform will heat up next month when the US Senate is expected to take up a broad and controversial patent reform bill that aims to raise the quality of patents and reduce patent litigation and abuse.
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| PC market continue to expand |
1/21/2008 |
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"We're still talking about significantly strong and healthy growth" even if it slows to about 8 percent from 10 percent or more in emerging markets, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz said on a Thursday conference call, referring to markets such as Eastern Europe, China, the Middle East and Africa.
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| Sprint to cut 4000 jobs |
1/18/2008 |
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Sprint Nextel said today it plans to cut 4,000 jobs and close 125 retail locations in an expected slowdown in subscriber growth and revenue.
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| Intel to delay shipping Core 2 Extreme CPU |
1/16/2008 |
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Intel will push back volume shipment date of its Core 2 Extreme QX9770 processors for the high-end desktop segment to February-March 2008 , according to sources at motherboard makers.
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| Promos to shutdown fab longer for the Holidays |
1/15/2008 |
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ProMOS Technologies has scheduled a long annual maintenance period of 10 days for its 12-inch fabs at the Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP), during which production will completely stop.
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| Intel to launch new Montevina CPU |
1/15/2008 |
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Intel is planning to launch its Montevina mobile CPUs for its upcoming Centrino platform, which is currently scheduled to launch in May 2008.
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| Foxconn revenue up in 2007 |
1/14/2008 |
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Foxconn Electronics said its revenues grew 42.5% on year to reach a new high of US$38 billion in 2007
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| Microsoft's head of business unit to leave |
1/11/2008 |
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Microsoft said Jeff Raikes, who heads the software maker's largest business unit, will leave in September and be replaced by Juniper Networks Chief Operating Officer Stephen Elop.
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