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(paid membership required) Hynix Semiconductor Inc. of South Korea is in talks with authorities in Wuxi city in China to set up a chip-manufacturing plant, in a bid to lower labor costs and avoid chip duties, people familiar with the deal said.

In IBM's birthplace, fears over vapors (Mar 16)

Sony 'confirms' 2004 PSX European launch (Mar 15)

For US tech firms, China is both partner and threat (Mar 15)

EU to approve state aid to Infineon, Altis, says report (Mar 15)

Mobile phone for the deaf from Vodafone (Mar 15)

Doreen's dances with wolves (Mar 16)

Cisco buying security start-up Twingo Systems (Mar 15)

ATK release PECVD system for 7G TFT LCDs (Mar 12)

Cable TV industry and Samsung unite to promote HDTV and digital transition (Mar 15)

Haier poised for listing in Hong Kong (Mar 15)

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Wal-Mart makes room for thin TVs (Mar 17)

Virus Advisory: Network Associates McAfee AVERT raises risk assessment to medium on new W32/Bagle.p@MM virus (Mar 15)

Study: Pretty picture for camera phone sales (Mar 11)

Nortel Networks places CFO and controller on paid leave, announces interim appointments (Mar 15)

EZchip introduces first members of its NP-2 network processor family (Mar 15)

Canon says expects record Q1, to beat forecasts (Mar 15)

HP to open over 1,000 retail stores in China (Mar 15)

CeBIT welcomes record number of Asian exhibitors (Mar 11)

CeBIT 2004 will take place March 18-24 in Hannover, Germany. This year there will be 6,411 vendors from 64 countries, down slightly on 2003's 6,526 and a further drop from 2002's 7,264 exhibitors.

AMD renovates Athlon 64 (Mar 15)

China becomes Number 1 in DSL (Mar 16)

Linksys boosts 802.11g Wi-Fi speeds (Mar 15)

Computer worms, viruses on rise in Canada (Mar 15)

Bell Microproducts to distribute Broadcom RAID (Mar 15)

LCD monitors and RISC OS (Mar 14)

Taiwan TFT LCD makers lead Asian borrowers (Mar 15)

SSMC earmarks US$250M to expand capacity in 2004 (Mar 13)

SMIC refutes CFO's capex claims (Mar 14)

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