WTO upholds US tariffs in Hynix DRAM case
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has reversed an earlier ruling and upheld US duties on DRAM (dynamic RAM) chips made in South Korea by Hynix Semiconductor.
Stories by Dan Nystedt
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Group creates fuel-cell guidelines for mobile PCs
An industry standards group that includes chip makers, Intel and STMicroelectronics, has published a document detailing the requirements a fuel cell technology would need to power a mobile PC.
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Microsoft's Peabody smart phone nearing completion
A low-cost smart phone from Microsoft code-named Peabody is nearing completion and will run on the recently released Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system, an executive from the software giant said Tuesday.
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Intel samples latest flash chips for handsets
As the battle raged between the two main kinds of flash memory, NAND and NOR, Intel said it has already sent samples of its latest NOR flash chip to mobile phone makers.
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Ericsson, Napster team up for mobile phone music
The world's biggest telecommunications equipment provider has teamed up with popular Internet music service Napster to make it simpler for mobile phone operators to open up online music stores for their customers. The two companies have developed a music downloading system that operators can use to deliver full songs to their customers' mobile phones, Ericsson and Napster said Wednesday.
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Latest Intel price list shows business strength
Intel has published its latest chip price list, without lowering the cost of a single chip, indicating the personal computer industry is humming along this year.
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Taiwan research center developing wearable gadget
A government-funded Taiwanese research group plans to show off its prowess in flexible display technology by developing a wearable and flexible electronic device by the end of October, an official said Thursday.
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Gartner: Chips are up for 2005
Gartner raised its forecast for global semiconductor industry revenue growth. The analyst group gave several reasons for the revision including signs of stronger than expected sales of personal computers and mobile phones.
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MSI offers graphics card for AGP, PCI Express
Taiwan's Micro-Star International showed off a PC graphics card at Computex capable of being used with two popular interfaces, PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) and AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port), in order to help users save money.
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Latest Nvidia GPUs likely out in July
The latest upgrade to Nvidia's popular Geforce 6800 line of GPUs (graphics processing units) for PCs should be out by July, according to Taiwanese motherboard and graphics card makers at Computex.
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Infineon and Nanya start 90nm DRAM production
Infineon Technologies of Germany and Taiwan's Nanya Technology have started making DRAM (dynamic RAM) computer memory chips using 90 nanometer production technology, enabling the companies to produce smaller chips at lower costs, they said Thursday.
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Micro-Star shows off Tai Chi robot
Micro-Star International, one of Taiwan's big four motherboard makers, is displaying a two-legged robot that can perform, albeit slowly, certain Tai Chi and Kung Fu moves at Computex in Taipei. It can also walk, stand on one leg, and kick a soccer ball.
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Acer unwraps Ferrari 4000 notebook PC
Acer announced its Ferrari 4000 notebook computer last week, with a sleek black and red casing made from what it says is the same carbon fiber technology used on the body of Formula One race cars.
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Intel disagrees with AMD suit, says it won't change
Intel, the world's largest chip maker, said it disagrees with antitrust allegations made by rival Advanced Micro Devices and said it will continue to operate as it has in the past.
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Gartner raises 2005 chip industry growth forecast
Gartner raised its forecast for global semiconductor industry revenue growth for several reasons, including signs of stronger than expected sales of personal computers and mobile phones, a researcher at the company said Monday.
