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22 Dec 200819 Dec 2008
CCTV.com
Business Week
MEMS solution provider MEMSIC has announced a new line of magnetic sensors with enhanced digital compass functionality, which will enable a host of new location-based services (LBS) in GPS (global positioning systems) enabled mobile phones and PNDs (personal navigation devices).
Company release
Computer World HK
When China offered 30 years ago to set up transport links with Taiwan, the island's government said no. As China's economy grew, Taiwan wavered. On December 15 ships, aircraft and mail at last began routine daily crossings directly across the Taiwan Strait. A jubilant Chinese official declared it "the final part of our economic circle with Taiwan."
Economist
The Netherlands-based provider of lithography systems will trim 10% of its workforce, comprising approximately 1,000 employees who are mainly on temporary contracts, as it looks to cut costs in 2009.
Semiconductor International
TrustedReviews
STMicroelectronics NV, Europe's largest semiconductor maker, plans to shut its plants in Italy over the Christmas period, affecting about 8,000 workers, as demand slides amid a deteriorating economy and an industry glut.
Bloomberg
XFN-Asia (via Interactive Investor)
Chinese telecom operators will spend about $41 billion on next generation (3G) mobile networks over the next two years, the government said on Friday.
Reuters
AP (via Google)
New York Times
Reuters India
Toshiba has announced a cost-effective 32nm CMOS platform technology, which allows to halve the cost per function from 45nm technology. The platform was achieved by application of advanced single exposure lithography and gate-first metal gate/high-K process technology. This technology enables a 0.124m(2) SRAM cell and a gate density of 3,650 gate/mm(2). The platform technology is based on a 32nm process technology developed jointly with NEC Electronics.
Company release
Microsoft and Primax Electronics has announced that the patent infringement case brought by Microsoft against Primax in the US District Court in Northern California and before the International Trade Commission (ITC) has been settled, and that Primax has entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement covering Microsoft's patents for U2 and Tilt Wheel technology. The agreement covers both past and future sales of the relevant products in the US. Terms of the agreement are confidential.
Company release
Toshiba says it will debut a 512GB solid state hard drive during the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show.
Washington Post
The Wall Street Journal
"This incentive package developed by New York is a clear differentiator in keeping this region competitive in the global technology marketplace. The support from the State of New York at all levels has been critical to the creation of The Foundry Company,” said Hector Ruiz chairman of AMD, who will become chairman of The Foundry Company.
Fabtech
Shares of Micron Technology are on the move today, rising 25%, on word rival Hynix Semiconductor will cut memory chip production by 20%-30% at the end of this month due to weak prices and demand.
Streetinsider
A total of 29 countries, mostly developed markets, will experience economic contractions in 2009, according to the latest report by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The worst hit economy in Asia will be Taiwan, which will show a 2.9% contraction in real GDP growth next year.
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