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| Output for 300mm fab to double by 2008 |
8/9/2007 |
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Worldwide 300-mm capacity will double from the beginning of 2007 to the end of 2008, as 25 new 300-mm high-volume fabs come online, according to SEMI. By the end of 2008, some 73 300-mm fabs will provide over 6.2 million wafers per month.
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| Hynix, Sandisk co-develop new fab |
8/9/2007 |
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SanDisk and Hynix plan to build a joint fab for NAND flash, according to a report quote an article from Wall Street Journal as source.
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| Cisco earnings beat estimates |
8/8/2007 |
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Cisco Systems Inc. posted a higher-than-expected 25 percent rise in quarterly profit and raised its long-term revenue target as more companies bought equipment to handle Web traffic.
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| STMicro to build Nokia 3G chip |
8/8/2007 |
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Nokia, the world's top cellphone maker, said it would outsource the last of its chip business to STMicroelectronics to free up resources for other areas, lifting shares in both companies.
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| DDR3 sets to overtake DDR2 by 2009 |
8/7/2007 |
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Memory vendors have started sampling DDR3 SDRAM chips this summer, but significant volume production aren't expected until mid-2009.
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| Microsoft cut Xbox price |
8/7/2007 |
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Microsoft cut price for its Xbox 360 video game consoles by up to $50 in an effort to keep pace with similar moves by rival Sony.
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| Xilinx CEO to retire |
8/7/2007 |
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Xilinx Inc. said that its current president and CEO Willem Roelandts intends to retire.
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| Chips sales in 1st half 2007 up modestly |
8/6/2007 |
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Semiconductor sales showed modest growth year-over-year during the first six months of 2007, according to a report issued by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).
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| Nokia, Microsoft to sign licensing deal |
8/6/2007 |
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Nokia will start to use Microsoft's copy protection software to boost the use of wireless entertainment, like music and videos, the two companies said on Monday.
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| UTAC reports poor 2Q revenue |
8/3/2007 |
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Free-falling DRAM prices affected United Test and Assembly Center 's performance in the second quarter.
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| Hynix runs into 60nm production issues |
8/3/2007 |
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Apple has turned to Samsung to fill NAND flash orders as Hynix has run into problems with its 60nm multi-level cell (MLC) process, according to memory module makers.
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| Macronix offers KGD chips |
8/2/2007 |
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Macronix has started shipping Know-good-dies to a couple of Taiwan-based and foreign clients for WLAN, handset, and flash driver applications.
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| Sun post profit by lowering operating cost |
8/1/2007 |
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Sun Microsystems posted a net income of $329 million for its fiscal fourth quarter, reversing its year-ago loss on a sharp hike in gross profit margin and lower operating expenses.
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| Toshiba Q1 profit up |
8/1/2007 |
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Toshiba reported an operating profit of 21.18 billion yen ($178 million) for the April-June.
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