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| Intel to build Vietnam chip plant |
2/24/2006 |
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Intel reportedly applied for permission to build a plant in Vietnam early last month to produce both microchips and computer parts. At the time, it was unclear whether the plant would be a wafer fab or assembly plant.
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| Lenovo launched own brand PC |
2/23/2006 |
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Lenovo Group Ltd. introduced the first computers under its own brand name outside China on as part of a worldwide launch.
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| NEC to close Irish Plant |
2/23/2006 |
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NEC Semiconductors Ireland plans to cease production at its IC assembly and test plant in Ballivor, Ireland, at the end of September, citing high operating costs.
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| Vietnam approve Intel Fab plans |
2/23/2006 |
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Vietnam's Ministry of Investment and Planning has approved an investment license for based Intel, which plans to build a $605 million plant in Ho Chi Minh City.
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| Agilent announced High Speed Memory tester |
2/22/2006 |
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Agilent Technologies announced it has entered the high-speed memory test market with the Agilent 93000 High-Speed Memory (HSM) Series, the fastest and most accurate memory final-test solution on the market
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| Seagate debut 1-inch 12GB MicroDrive |
2/21/2006 |
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Seagate Technology unveiled 1-inch microdrive that has a 12GB storage capacity with availability slated for the third quarter of this year.
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| Samsung, Hynix Hit by Falling Flash Chip Price |
2/20/2006 |
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Shares of South Korea’s two semiconductor makers Samsung Electronics and Hynix have fluctuated this week amid the plummeting flash memory price, raising concerns about the companies’ weak product portfolio.
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| Hitachi opens Shenzhen Disk Drive Plant |
2/20/2006 |
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has opened a massive disk drive plant in Shenzhen the company expects will eventually produce half of its annual drive output.
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| ST to hire 300 engineers in India |
2/20/2006 |
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STMicroelectronics said it plans to invest $30 million in Indian operations over the next two years and recruit 300 engineers by the end of 2006
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| Nvidia net profit double |
2/17/2006 |
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Nvidia Corp. said Thursday its quarterly profit more than doubled from a year earlier, as the maker of graphics cards saw sales rise nearly 12 percent.
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| Dell earnings meet expectation |
2/17/2006 |
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Dell Inc. reported a net income of $1 billion for the fourth quarter of 2005, up 52 percent from the same period of 2004.
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| Grace to delay IPO the third time |
2/17/2006 |
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Chinese foundry Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. has decided to delay a planned initial public offering until 2007, according to a report.
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| PSC sampling 1Gb NAND |
2/17/2006 |
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Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) has begun sampling a 1Gb NAND-flash chip, with mass production expected to start in mid-2006, according to the Apple Daily News.
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| AMAT quarterly orders up |
2/16/2006 |
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Applied Materials Inc. reported net sales and orders grew sequentially and year over year. The company posted net sales of $1.86 billion for its fiscal Q1, up 8 percent sequentially and up 4 percent year over year.
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| IBM invests $1 billion in "information-on-demand" |
2/16/2006 |
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IBM will invest $1 billion to develop software and recruit thousands of consultants over the next three years to expand its business of making corporate information more accessible to office workers, the company said Thursday.
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| Gartner revised chip growth in 2006 |
2/16/2006 |
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Market forecaster Gartner has revised its forecast for chip market growth in 2006 upwards to 9.5 percent as a result of news of increased capital spending budgets for 2006.
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| Microsoft to release Office 2007 |
2/16/2006 |
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Microsoft Corp. unveiled multiple versions of its upcoming Office business software suite with features that aim to simplify worker collaboration and improve efficiency.
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