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| Taiwan government to approve TSMC China plan |
2/11/2003 |
TSMC vows to comply with the government's regulations on the movement of individuals talented in the fields of high tech in the country while recruiting staff for its China plant.
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| New low cost Altera chip hits market |
2/11/2003 |
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Cyclone devices are Altera's low-cost FPGAs with densities ranging from 2,910 to 20,060 logic elements, and up to 288Kbits of embedded memory. They are based on a 1.5V, all-copper SRAM process.
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| UMC increased revenue |
2/11/2003 |
Revenues of $156 million (5.4 billion Taiwanese dollars) outshined January 2002's $115 million (4 billion TWD).
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| VLSI Research looks at semi manufacturing equipment trend |
2/11/2003 |
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The market will grow even more in Q2, despite a weak market for equipment, according to the San Jose based market research company. Critical subsystems will grow 26 percent next quarter over the current one, VLSI said.
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| Intel goes for dual-core processor |
2/11/2003 |
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The microprocessor giant disclosed the development of a new "arbiter" bus technology designed to manage two or more processor cores in the same IC package.
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| Rat race between Rambus and DDR memory |
2/11/2003 |
The ongoing contest between DDR and RDRAM will result in a horse race in which each architecture is expected at various points to claim the title of the industry's highest-performing memory.
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| AMD introduces new Barton processor |
2/11/2003 |
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AMD claimed that the new MPU is the highest-performance desktop PC processor in the industry, a point Intel Corp. immediately disputed. The top Intel desktop Pentium 4 runs at 3.06GHz with 512Mbye on-die L2 cache.
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| Court battle goes on between Promos and Infineon |
2/11/2003 |
Promos Technologies Inc. said Tuesday (February 11, 2003) that a Taiwan court has granted it the right to use process technology from Infineon Technologies AG for making DRAM chips.
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| U.K. feeling pinch on electronic manufacturing |
2/10/2003 |
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U.K. manufacturers are facing their worst recession since the early 1990s, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. The government figures indicate that factory output fell by 4 percent last year, representing the largest annual slump since 1991.
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| IEEE requests INS to retract H-1B quota |
2/10/2003 |
IEEE-USA President Jim Leonard said he believes "It's time for Congress to lower the H-1B visa quota back to 65,000 from its current level of 195,000," said IEEE-USA president Jim Leonard.
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| Corning projects return to profit |
2/10/2003 |
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Corning Inc. expects to return to profitability by the third quarter of this year, the company told investors today at its annual investor conference in New York City.
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| DDR prices dropped rapidly |
2/10/2003 |
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Spot traders are expected to delay any purchases or inventory-building efforts until they have determined with certainty that the bottom price point has been reached. Unfortunately, iSuppli believes that DDR prices haven't reached that point yet.
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| Dell to eliminate Floppy Disk from PC |
2/7/2003 |
Dell Computer said floppy drives had been overtaken by technologies offering greater storage capacity and would become an option on its Dimension 8250 models.
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| DDR chip prices at all time low |
2/7/2003 |
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The value of 256Mb DDR DRAMs plunged to record lows on Feb. 6, according to DRAMeXchange.COM, an online semiconductor brokerage
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| Legend's PC shipment outpace HP |
2/6/2003 |
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China's Legend shored up its lead in the Asia-Pacific's personal computer market during 2002, growing at twice the pace of No-1 PC leader Hewlett-Packard according to Dataquest
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| HP halt TV ads after shuttle disaster |
2/6/2003 |
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Hewlett-Packard has announced it had pulled a television advertisement featuring an astronaut's safe homecoming in response to the shuttle disaster.
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| Walmart selling Lindow's OS PC |
2/5/2003 |
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Walmart.com has begun selling Lindows 's Linux-based operating system, the first stand-alone operating system and alternative to Microsoft Operating system.
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| Apple revamp iMac line |
2/5/2003 |
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Apple Computer continued tuning up its current Mac lines with new features and pricing for its consumer desktops
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