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| SIS to restructure company |
3/17/2008 |
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Silicon Integrated System (SiS) has signed off on plans to reorganize the company and will spin-off its investment management, digital TV, and mobile device businesses to form three wholly-owned subsidiaries.
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| AMD to launch new desktop CPU |
3/17/2008 |
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AMD is planning to launch B3 stepping quad-core Phenom 9050 series CPUs including 9850, 9750, 9650, 9550 and 9150 shortly
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| Lenovo launches "Idea Brand" PC in India |
3/14/2008 |
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“India is an important market to us... besides launching new products, we will enhance our retail presence and after sales service to become the No. 1 PC maker in the country,” Lenovo Senior Vice-President and President (Consumer Business Group) Liu Jun said.
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| Converge reports on the state of PC related component market |
3/14/2008 |
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So far the first week , DRAM market has shown no signs of any positive activity. 512 MB chips have dropped back down into the $0.85 to $0.90 range after hitting a high of $1.15. 1 GB chips have dropped to under $2 after reaching a high of $2.20 to $2.30.
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| Combination of NXP, ST and Infineon suggested |
3/14/2008 |
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NXP Semiconductors (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), ST (Geneva, Switzerland) and Infineon Technologies AG (Munich, Germany) have to stop operating individually, and join to achieve critical mass at a scale close to that of semiconductor market leader Intel and to be larger than number two Samsung.
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| iPod battery incident reported in Japan |
3/13/2008 |
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Japan is investigating a possible defect in Apple Inc's iPod Nano after one of the players shot out sparks while recharging, according to reports out of Tokyo today.
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| Tranmeta rejects RIM offer |
3/13/2008 |
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After receiving an unsolicited acquisition offer from investment banking firm Riley Investment Management LLC (RIM) for $15.50 per share in cash on January 30, Transmeta Corp chairman Hugh Barnes has rejected the firm’s offer.
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| Small IP firm holds big company hostage |
3/13/2008 |
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DTL owns U.S. Patent No. 5,051,799 which describes a so-called digital output transducer. The patent covers the adaptive multi-rate codec and other cellular communication standards used in GSM and UMTS cellular networks, technology that assures backward compatibility of cellphone handsets and base stations.
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| Hackers decrypted iPhone codes |
3/13/2008 |
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In essence, the hackers had found a way to run applications on the firmware without a development certificate from Apple.
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| 3G market affected by state of economy |
3/12/2008 |
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"In our view the replacement cycle will slow due to the economy and consumers will increasingly go for cheaper phones over more pricier models," said Carnegie analyst Janne Rantanen.
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| H1-B issue heating up on Capitol Hill |
3/12/2008 |
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Last April, the U.S government received about 133,000 H-1B visa petitions in two days, about double the 65,000 H-1B visas that can be issued.
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| Semi fab sales show weakness |
3/11/2008 |
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Late last month, TSMC’s financial results bested its competition, and predicted the impacts of seasonality to impact Q1 revenues, which it is showing to be true.
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| Gartner/Dataquest uncomfortable with semi inventory level |
3/11/2008 |
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In the last two inventory updates Gartner released, we said that companies would be wise to reduce inventory as a cautionary measure against the potential of a weak fourth quarter and the traditionally weak first quarter. This was compounded by wariness in the financial sector with regards to the macroeconomic conditions and warnings.
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| See-thru camera for security check? |
3/11/2008 |
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ThruVision Ltd., insists it can detect both metallic and nonmetallic objects under clothing without revealing details of the subject's body. The camera works at a range of up to 25 meters, making it potentially useful for both single-person screening and crowd scenarios.
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| German government reclaims subsidies from Nokia |
3/11/2008 |
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The subsidies have been granted under the condition the company would create 2800 jobs which it failed to achieve — the company created only about 2300 jobs. Now the state government does not only claim back the subsidies paid, but also €18 million interest.
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| Apple to encourage development on iPhone software |
3/10/2008 |
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Apple has previewed its iPhone 2.0 software, opening its software development kit (SDK) to third-party developers and adding business-application-oriented support via Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync.
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| Hynix to invest more into China JV fab |
3/10/2008 |
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This is the second time Hynix has upped its stake in the Wuxi, China-based fab, which was built with an initial investment of $2 billion. In May 2007, as the result of a separate increase in investment by Hynix, ST’s equity investment dropped to 16.6%, from 33%.
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| Cebit stands raided for infringement |
3/10/2008 |
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Most of the patents concerned were related to devices with MP3, MP4 and DVB standard functions for digital audio and video, blank CDs and DVD copiers, police said.
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