SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced it has agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of Rapid Bridge LLC, a San Diego-based inventor of advanced techniques for the design and development of semiconductor products. The company's technology reduces complexity in integrated circuit (IC) development at advanced technology nodes to enable…
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2011 is expected to be a record year for fab equipment spending
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Maybe it’s good that spring is almost over. If you had to name the big stories in Asian manufacturing over the past few months, it would mostly be bad news. The manufacturing crisis that followed Japan’s tsunami and the growing insecurity over labor — both its cost, and the treatment of workers — in China…
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I wouldn't want to be in {complink 3847|Nokia Corp.} CEO Stephen Elop's shoes right now. Investors are hopping mad, Nokia's corporate bonds have been downgraded — close to junk, in one instance — and suppliers are hurting terribly due to lost sales. {complink 5703|Texas Instruments Inc.} is one of the victims of Nokia's reorganization. That…
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Internet access is part of our daily life. We need it for business, education, research, healthcare, news, entertainment, keeping in touch with friends and family. We need it available for everything everywhere. Life in the 21st century without Internet service cannot be imagined; there is a need for an available, accessible, and affordable Internet in…
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Capacitor manufacturers affected by the devastating March earthquake and tsunami in Japan were able to quickly bring their leadtimes down and their inventories up between the months of April and May, according to a recent report by Dennis M. Zogbi, the founder and chief executive officer of Paumanok Publications Inc. and Passive Component Industry Magazine.…
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Vendors will ship a total of 472 million smartphones in 2011, according to IDC
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The new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) launched on Wednesday replaces the older version iPv4, which is running out of 32-bit addresses and has limitations that are about to be corrected by a new technology loaded with potentials for consumers and controversies for businesses, service providers, and governments. I am currently in the Netherlands marking…
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BEIJING — Zoom Technologies Inc., (Nasdaq:ZOOM), a leading China-based manufacturer of mobile phones and related products, announces the launch of its mobile phone products into India under the brand name of “LONGTEL.” Started recently on March 1, 2011, Zoom has sold 50,000 units of LONGTEL handsets to the Indian market as of May 31, 2011…
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HSINCHU, TAIWAN, R.O.C. — TSMC (NYSE: TSM) today held a shareholders’ meeting, which passed the following major resolutions: 1. Approved the 2010 Business Report and Financial Statements. Consolidated revenue for 2010 totaled NT$419.54 billion and net income was NT$161.61 billion, with earnings per share of NT$6.23. 2. Approved the distribution of a NT$3.0 cash dividend…
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