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Electronics rivals Samsung and LG are increasing marketing of large-screen TVs ahead of the World Cup finals, splitting the national football team's coaching staff when they are off the pitch.

Nation expected to keep flat panel lead (May 15)

Tvia begins shipping LCD & Plasma TV powered by the TrueView 5600 digital display processor (May 15)

China says its scientist faked chip research (May 15)

Spansion licenses Discretix CryptoFlash to expand secure memory solutions (May 11)

Tsann Kuen down, but not headed out (May 15)

Pure-play foundry industry returns to growth in 2006 (May 12)

Matsushita to develop technology to record HD video onto SD memory cards (May 15)

Philips announces Fast-mode Plus devices (May 15)

Worldwide PDA industry to 7% growth in 1Q 2006, Gartner says (May 15)

Varian Semiconductor and Nissin Ion settle patent case (May 12)

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TEL says orders for chip-making equipment rose strongly in March quarter (May 12)

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Mitsui Chimicals to build PDP optical filter mass production Facility (May 15)

Samsung succeeds in 3-mask LCD production (May 15)

Toshiba Matsushita has brigher display for mobile TV (May 12)

BenQ shifts focus to gaming (May 12)

BenQ confident of hitting LCD sales target of 50,000 this year in Malaysia (May 15)

Intel calls for reductions across the board (May 12)

Intel CEO to visit India this month (May 15)

Softbank denies Apple iTunes phone rumor (May 15)

China Resources to purchase 100% of CSMC (May 8)

PC market to grow 11.7% annually in next 5 years (May 13)

Notebooks to account for 33% of global PC shipments in 2006 (May 11)

Toshiba may build two flash memory chip factories (May 15)

DSC market consolidates, more vendors set to exit (May 5)

Palm OS version of Treo 700 is coming (May 15)

Intel CEO to visit India (May 15)

China's Jiaotong University claims re-marked Freescale chips as its own (May 15)

ADI's sales, profits up (May 11)

Nvidia stock drops on valuation concerns (May 12)

Time Warner takes full control over Court TV (May 13)

China's SMIC to start initial production at new Shanghai 12-inch fab in 2007 (May 11)

Blu-ray claims it's poised to win DVD format battle (May 11)

Nokia creating mobile TV network (May 11)

NTT DoCoMo's 3G nandsets WMA compatible (May 11)

China rises in global competitiveness league (May 12)

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