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Philippine govt anxious over Intel's potential exit
News Local Cavite government wants to hold talks with the chipmaker regarding the possibility that Intel may shut its test and assembly facility in the Philippine province.
Tags: Processors, Investments, Local Government, Intel Corp., Philippines, Chip Company, Government, microprocessor, Worker, Corporate Social Responsibility
Japanese vendors wage war against slump
News Threats loom from economic pressures and Korean rivals, but Japanese PC and semiconductor players still hang on via job cuts, market exits and consolidation.
Tags: Consumer Technology, Personal Computers, Sales, Mergers, NEC Corp., Supplier, Semiconductor, Asia-Pacific, Spokesperson, Singapore
Chipmaker sets up S$50m R&D center in S'pore
News Taiwan's MediaTek sets up an R&D center in Singapore, hoping to attract international talent in its expansion drive.
Tags: Components
NXP to open up Mifare APIs for mobile software
News The chip company will offer royalty-free APIs to developers to write software for mobile devices that have embedded NXP Mifare RFID chips.
Tags: Cellular phones, Mobile processors, Software engineering/development, Security, Mobile, mobile software, Bot, Chip, API, RFID chip
Atom-based iPhone reportedly confirmed
News An Intel executive from its German operation has confirmed that Apple plans to introduce an iPhone featuring the Atom processor, a ZDNet Asia sister site reports.
Tags: Development/design, Mobile processors, Intel Corp., Mobile, Smart Phone, Intel Atom, processor, Munich, career, managing director
Texas Instruments sheds 3,400 jobs
News The job cuts follow a 95 percent year-on-year drop in quarterly profits, largely attributable to declining sales of chips for mobile phones.
Tags: Layoffs, 802.11/Wi-Fi, Handhelds, Texas Instruments Inc., Semiconductor, Wireless, digital signal processor, processor, job, revenue
Cease-fire in the China-Taiwan chip war?
News After years of legal feuding between Taiwan's TSMC and China's SMIC, the chipmakers' latest round of fighting may be coming to an end.
Tags: Processors, Multiprocessor servers, Global strategic management, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co., Taiwanese chipmaker, California, Chip, Chip Company, Hong Kong, Shanghai
Flash to be optimized for Intel, Nvidia netbooks
News Adobe has announced collaborations with Broadcom and Nvidia that will see high-definition Flash video technology tweaked for portable Web-surfing devices.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Graphics, Mobile processors, Media players, Adobe Systems Inc., Intel Corp., NVidia Corp., Broadcom Corp., Mobile Internet Device, Video
Intel Chairman Craig Barrett to retire in May
News Chairman and former CEO, who joined the chipmaker 35 years ago, plans to retire from the board at annual shareholders meeting in May.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Processors, Mobile processors, Intel Corp., Craig Barrett, Semiconductor, Chip, Chip Company, Gordon Moore, chairman
Infineon, China's SMIC join hands
News German chipmaker Infineon Technologies has inked a deal with China’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) to make standard memory chips.
Infineon eyes spot on NYSE
News Infineon Technologies, formerly known as Siemens Semiconductors, announced its plans to seek a dual listing on the New York Stock Exchange and Frankfurt Stock Exchange this March.
Mitsubishi signs license agreement with Rambus
News Mitsubishi Electric has agreed to pay royalties to Rambus, becoming the seventh semiconductor company to sign a patent license agreement with the chip designer.
The car as an IT product
Blogs As much as I'm tempted to write about the never-ending saga on the controversial national broadband network project (the...
France and China form Linux alliance
News Plans call for a Linux-based platform that will be usable in multiple environments, including on PCs, servers and PDAs.
Tags: Linux, Open source, International governments
Intergraph: Intel Itanium violates patent
News The workstation manufacturer files a new lawsuit, claiming that the semiconductor company used patented Intergraph technology in its new line of Itanium high-end server processors.
