January 7, 2009 - Industry News
Fading economy may take spark out of CES
As the high-tech industry prepares to kick off a new year, the turnout at the industry's largest trade gathering this week may shed light on ...
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January 5, 2009 - Industry News
Is Apple gearing up for the iPhone nano?
Apple Inc. may be gearing up to introduce cheaper iPhone and MacBook models in 2009, possibly including a device dubbed the iPhone nano, an ...
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January 5, 2009 - Industry News
Semiconductor sales fall 9.8% in November
Worldwide sales of semiconductors fell 9.8% to $20.8 billion in November, compared with $23.1 billion in the year-earlier period, the Semiconductor ...
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December 31, 2008 - Industry News
Dow Chemical may haggle on Rohm & Haas price
Dow Chemical Co. may try to renegotiate its pending acquisition of Rohm & Haas Co. at a lower price after a recent financing setback that ...
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December 22, 2008 - Industry News
Infineon shares soar after Qimonda gets bailed out
Shares of Infineon Technologies AG, Europe's second-largest maker of semiconductors, rose as much as 21% on Monday after spun-off ...
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December 19, 2008 - Industry News
Air Products Signs Two Contracts with Nokia in China to Supply Nitrogen
Air Products has signed two contracts with Nokia to supply nitrogen to its Beijing and Dongguan plants in China for use in the company's ...
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December 19, 2008 - Industry News
Semiconductor Execs Offer Volatile Outlook on 2009 Revenue Growth, Expect Sharp Decline in Profitability, KPMG Study Finds
R&D and CapEx spending seen tumbling, and significant workforce contraction is expected. As economic conditions and consumer spending ...
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December 18, 2008 - Industry News
ASML cuts guidance, plans layoffs
Shares of Dutch chip equipment maker ASML Holdings fell sharply after the company said the global economic crisis has resulted in an unprecedented ...
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December 17, 2008 - Top Story News
Chips to suffer second year of lower sales: Gartner
The chip industry will suffer back-to-back years of lower revenue for the first time in its history in 2009, a technology research group said ...
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December 17, 2008 - Industry News
Apple may expand iPhone sales in Wal-Mart deal
Remember all those people who camped out and waited on line at Apple stores to be among the first to snag an iPhone? Well, that novelty and ...
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December 15, 2008 - Industry News
Going small: Netbooks aim for new PC sales
Call it going small to get big, but a weak economy and expected declines in personal computer sales have nearly all the major PC makers looking ...
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December 15, 2008 - Top Story News
Semiconductor sales to fall in 2008: Gartner
The semiconductor industry will post a decline in annual sales this year, only the fifth time that has happened in the past quarter-century, an ...
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December 12, 2008 - Industry News
Analyst upgrades Intel, but notes challenging times
Intel Corp. shares were upgraded by a ThinkEquity analyst who said that, though the chip giant still faces a rough road ahead, "sentiment and ...
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December 10, 2008 - Industry News
South Korea set to open up handset market
South Korea will open its home market in April to advanced cellular phones using foreign platforms, allowing the entry of handsets such as ...
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December 9, 2008 - Top Story News
Texas Instruments makes drastic cuts to outlook
Texas Instruments Inc. drastically slashed its earnings and revenue outlook for the fourth quarter, yet another sign of a slowing market ...
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December 9, 2008 - Technology News
New Lattice Small Form-Factor CPLDs Are Ideal for High Volume Handheld Devices
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation announced two new, small footprint packages for its widely popular ispMACH(R) 4000ZE CPLDs making them ....
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December 9, 2008 - Technology News
Research and Markets: Rapid Thermal Processing and Beyond: Applications in Semiconductor Processing
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Rapid Thermal Processing and beyond: Applications in Semiconductor Processing" ...
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December 9, 2008 - Industry News
Akustica Expands CMOS MEMS Supply Chain
Akustica, Inc, maker of the world's smallest and only single-chip MEMS microphones, announced that it has qualified Seiko Epson and Lingsen ...
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December 8, 2008 - Industry News
Is the computer revolution dead?
The long-held dream of many technophobes that the computer will eventually become nothing more than a utilitarian device -- an ...
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December 5, 2008 - Industry News
Applied Materials shares rise on upgrade
Shares of Applied Materials Inc. rose after Citigroup upgraded the world's largest maker of semiconductor-manufacturing equipment maker ...
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December 4, 2008 - Industry News
Nokia cuts fourth-quarter mobile-industry forecast
Nokia Corp. lowered its fourth-quarter mobile-industry outlook for the second time in less than a month and warned it may lose market share ...
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December 4, 2008 - Industry News
Fitch: Consumer Weakness Drives Negative Outlook for Semiconductors in 2009
Fitch's 2009 Rating Outlook for the semiconductor industry is negative due to a meaningfully weaker macroeconomic environment, resulting in ...
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December 3, 2008 - Industry News
Intel, Hitachi unveil solid-state drive venture
Shares of Intel Corp. rose more than 5% after the chip giant unveiled a joint venture with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies to make solid ...
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December 3, 2008 - Technology News
eSilicon Achieves First-Pass Silicon Success On World's Fastest FPGA
Magma(r) Design Automation Inc. announced that eSilicon Corporation used Magma's IC implementation software to design the world's fastest field ...
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December 2, 2008 - Industry News
Chip sales dip in October as 'turmoil' hits sector
Semiconductor sales declined in October, highlighting the serious impact of the "worldwide financial turmoil" on the sector, an industry group ...
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