Taiwanese Chipmaker
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IDC: Asian tech firms need to look beyond the East
News Asia's success as a low-manufacturing base is causing a reluctance among its best-performing firms to look outside the region for profits, at a cost to long-term health, says a senior tech analyst.
VIA, Indian school work on low-cost PCs
News Taiwanese chipmaker VIA has partnered with an Indian institute to develop low-cost computers for villages and other rural areas.
Via debuts 'green' chip
News Taiwanese chipmaker introduces a "carbon-free" processor, by which it pledges to contribute to environmental projects in conservation, reforestation and alternative energy.
Tags: Processors
Ceasefire in the China-Taiwan chip war?
News After years of legal feuding between Taiwan's TSMC and China's SMIC, 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
Intel adds patent infringement to suit against Via
News Intel yesterday updated its legal action against Taiwanese chipmaker Via Technologies to include new claims of patent infringement.
Singapore: America's next college town
News For some American universities, the new frontier lies over the ocean, as other nations looks to gain U.S. expertise.
Tags: Investments, Market research, Investor relations
Intel concedes memory issue, as expected
News Bowing to pressure from computer makers and memory manufacturers, Intel formally committed to producing more chipsets that will work with standard computer memory, a move that could further stem the rush toward Rambus.
Chip report is good news for PC industry
News In a positive signal for the computer industry, a Taiwanese chipmaker that has become an increasingly important bellwether reported that net income more than doubled in the past quarter and will continue to rise.
Sun finds new source for chips
News Server giant Sun Microsystems has tapped Taiwanese chipmaker United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) to build some of its low-end CPUs currently made by Texas Instruments, but products from the new alliance won't emerge for months.
Sun, HP compete for start-ups
News Sun Microsystems will strengthen its efforts to lure Internet start-up customers to its way of thinking, but rival Hewlett-Packard is breathing down the Java giant's neck.
Microsoft tries again with ultramobile PCs
News While Microsoft's mini-tablet effort may not be quite where the software maker had hoped, the project is ready for another cameo.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets
Japan chip company triples profits
News Tokyo Electron, Japan's biggest maker of semiconductor equipment, on Friday posted record profits for the last business year but said its gains would turn to pain this year because of a chip market slump.
Via to throw hat in 64-bit x86 chip ring
News Taiwanese firm makes mulitmedia performance a key measure of its upcoming processor.
Tags: Processors
Chipmakers release source code for drivers
News Via and XGI say they hope to increase the number of Linux platforms that are compatible with their hardware.
Applied powers up chip energy efforts
News Applied Materials will put a tremendous amount of energy this year into taking power out of semiconductors.
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