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7 Feb 20066 Feb 2006
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International Herald Tribune
The companies announced that the collaboration aims to find new applications and markets for IBM's Power microchips.
Reuters
Company release
The China-based pure-play foundry said on Monday that said its fourth-quarter loss narrowed from the previous quarter, as it followed its peers in riding a sector rebound.
Reuters
LG Electronics has designed Genesis Microchip's recently launched Cortez Advanced video controller into its new 32-inch, 37-inch, and 42-inch LCD TVs, models 32/37/42LC2R, 32/37/42LB1R.
Business Wire
A revolutionary long-life ultra-high-efficiency full-colour OLED module is available now from Fiducia.
Electronicstalk
With sales of flat panel TVs surging as prices drop, furniture makers are hustling to sell couples like the Kimelman's revamped home entertainment units and consoles to accommodate thinner, wider TVs
CNET
In an effort to cut costs, Local TFT-LCD giants such as Samsung Electronics and LG.Philips LCD are gearing up to reduce the number of Mask (The 'mask' means a quartz that contains images of electronic circuits) processes.
Displaybank
LG Chem, Dongwoo Fine-Chem and Korea Nitto Optical have been aggressively stretching capacity at their polarizing film facilities to prepare for the seventh-generation LCD line launch.
Displaybank
Company release
Copper pillar bumping is an improvement over lead-tin solder balls due to better electrical and thermal performance.
Semiconductor International
Hynix increased prices for the chips between 5-10% and Samsung is said to raise price "significantly"
Bloomberg
Corporate strategy director Jean-Paul Eekhout agreed that sticking to Blu-ray would limit TDK's market initially; but he believed it would win the battle with HD-DVD because it offers more capacity..
Computer active
Electronic News
The company.. expects the LCD glass market, measured in square feet of glass, to grow more than 40% this year, with its glass volume expected to grow at a faster pace given the higher growth rates of larger-sized glass substrates.
Electronic News
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India Infoline
Digital Media Europe
... in December, Hemlock finally decided that the industry is real, but only after solar companies agreed to share the risk by signing contracts to buy the future output. So in December the company began an expansion worth more than $400 million...
Business Week
For some neighboring businesses, television repair is a thriving industry...and that's a reversal from recent years
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