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Intel's mystery mark, VIIV, sparks intrigue (Jan 26)

Applied Micro Circuits' loss widens (Jan 26)

Results excluding charges in line with estimates

SanDisk faces margins squeeze (Jan 26)

CIBC downgrades the flash storage-card maker

LSI Logic posts 4Q loss on revenue decline (Jan 26)

Results slightly top raised forecast; Q1 targets lifted

Kyoto University and three Japanese firms create a bendable organic display panel (Jan 26)

STMicroelectronics net higher but lower margin seen ahead (Jan 26)

'We believe it is prudent to anticipate a decline in both revenues and gross margin,' STMicro said in a statement.

TSMC, UMC set for first profit drop in 7 quarters (Jan 26)

Fuji Photo to spend 27 billion yen on 3 LCD film plants (Jan 26)

HP, Intel, IBM and Sun form Globus Consortium to promote commercialization of grid computing with Linux toolkit (Jan 23)

Taiwan's first 6G technology on-track for mass production in March (Jan 26)

Sony PSP outships Nintendo DS in Japan (Jan 26)

64,600 PSPs and 53,500 DS consoles were sold by Japanese retailers in the week Jan 16-22. About 800,000 PSPs have been shipped since its December 2004 launch; 2.84m DS units have been sold since its November launch.

Antitrust task force to examine Microsoft's Longhorn next (Jan 26)

Privacy activists demand boycott of UK supermarket Tesco over RFID plans (Jan 26)

Maxtor cancels plans for 2.5-inch disk drive (Jan 24)

TI reports 4Q04 and 2004 financial results (Jan 25)

Did Microsoft block free software from licensing scheme? (Jan 25)

ON Semiconductor to establish solutions engineering center in Seoul (Jan 26)

Samsung obsessed with World-First title (Jan 21)

Infineon to sell part of optics unit, close factories (Jan 25)

Microsoft to begin blocking fake Windows users from downloads (Jan 26)

Merrill to set up venture with China's Huaan 'soon' (Jan 26)

Is BlackBerry ripe for picking? (Jan 26)

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Carly Fiorina fails at Hewlett-Packard after betting badly (Jan 26)

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NEC Electronics cuts annual profit outlook as chip sales slide (Jan 26)

Xerox's net income climbs 8% amid rising color-printer sales (Jan 26)

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Texas Instruments 4Q sales reach nine-year high (Jan 25)

Taiwan chip maker's net soars amid lower production costs (Jan 26)

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Asian stocks gain, led by Toyota, Samsung and Hyundai (Jan 26)

SAP forecasts 2005 license revenue to rise up to 12% (Jan 26)

VoIP passes Nissan road test (Jan 24)

HPC veteran and former Hewlett Packard exec Mamoru Nakano joins Cray as president of Cray Japan (Jan 25)

Taiwan TFT-LCD panel makers actively recruiting talents (Jan 21)

Flat panel TV drives Japan (Jan 10)

Nortel, LG to establish network equipment venture (Jan 24)

Broadcom gives VoIP chip a speed boost (Jan 24)

Broadcom announces StrataXGS III - The world's first integrated Ethernet switch solutions featuring embedded security (Jan 25)

Startup launches new DRAM technology (Jan 24)

Cymer partners with IMEC on immersion lithography (Jan 24)

Samsung begins mass-producing 256Mbit XDR DRAM (Jan 25)

Fab activity ends year on high note due to construction spending (Jan 24)

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