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| Sony to recall Vaio Laptop |
7/10/2003 |
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Sony announced it is recalling 18,000 Vaio laptop computers for faulty assembly of the modem, which could cause a minor electric shock to users
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| VIA launch mobile CPU |
7/8/2003 |
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Via Technologies today launched its mobile processor , a low-power 1GHz targeting the slim and light notebooks.
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| Philips unveil new I2C chip |
7/8/2003 |
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Philips Electronics launched its parallel to serial interface I2C bus controller to operate at 400kHz and at low voltages of 3.3V to 2.5V.
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| 64bit CPU to replace 32bit systems? |
7/4/2003 |
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Processors using 64-bit architecture will become the wave of the future in the server market, said Intel Asia Pacific’s director of marketing Stanley Huang, but it may take until 2005 for Itanium 2 servers to become mainstream in the market.
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| ST Assembly to expand into China |
7/4/2003 |
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Initial cash investment will be about $10 million, of which a major part is expected to be invested in 2004. In addition, STATS will transfer some of its existing production equipment from its Singapore facility to China.
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| Infineon announce process to run at 110GHz |
7/4/2003 |
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Infineon designed several key functional building blocks for high-speed communications, based on its SiGe:C bipolar technology. The process enables a device with cut-off frequencies of more than 200-GHz and ring-oscillator gate delay times of 3.7-ps.
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| Intel vowed to catch up on WLAN |
7/4/2003 |
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An Intel spokesman said the company still expects to introduce its dual-mode 802.11b/g chipset in the fourth quarter, with Centrino-brand notebook PCs adopting the protocol in the first quarter of 2004.
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| European Commission: Hynix tariff will hold |
7/4/2003 |
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The European Commission has notified member countries that it has made a final determination that Hynix Semiconductor Inc. should be assessed a duty of about 35% on imported DRAMs.
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| DRAM price pressure up in slow sales |
7/3/2003 |
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In the absence of confirmed deals, the new levels were considered notional, however, market participants remain optimistic that price levels will hold.
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| ChipMos to restructure: moved CEO to ProMos |
7/3/2003 |
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The ChipMOS board still hasn't voted on the new chairman to replace Hu, Cheng said. Mosel vice president Thomas Chang said the company held a board meeting on Friday and decided to cut some jobs and transfer employees to ProMOS.
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| VIA denies rumor to sell CPU division |
7/3/2003 |
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“We think it should breakeven this year so it's still a sustainable business,” said Richard Brown, Via's head of marketing. “It would be insane to get out now just when business is improving.”
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| Industry to feel semi shortage by 2004 |
7/3/2003 |
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There's more good and bad news for an industry that expects the worst. "We're entering into a huge upgrade cycle," he said. "What we're seeing are huge shortages coming. I think we could see shortages in early 2004".
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| Intel extends 800FSB license to ATI |
7/3/2003 |
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Dave Orton, president and chief operating officer of ATI, said the agreement would allow ATI to integrate a version of its Radeon graphics processor architecture with its peripheral logic chipsets for Pentium4 based systems that use the FSB-800 interface.
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