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Article | 14/02/2002 Japanese PDA makers line up behind Intel's XScale
Just two days after the launch of its XScale processor, Intel has already picked up endorsements for its new mobile chip from three Japanese manufactu...
Article | 7/02/2002 Mitsubishi Electric unveils a display to be ignored
Try on a wearable display -- those in-front-of-the-eyes video displays that some futurists believe we will all be using in a few years -- and you'll s...
Article | 5/02/2002 Hitachi eyes investing in more biotech startups
Japan's Hitachi Ltd. is plans to increase the amount of money it invests in start-up companies involved in bioinformatics and biotechnology as it atte...
Article | 4/02/2002 Toshiba pushes hard disk density higher
Engineers at Toshiba Corp. have demonstrated a working prototype of a hard disk drive that crams in 50 percent more data than previous models and open...
Article | 31/01/2002 AMD pushes Mobile Duron to 1.2GHz
AMD is rolling out new versions of its Mobile Duron processor, the company announced Wednesday.
Article | 30/01/2002 Matsushita sues Samsung over DRAM patents
Matsushita Electrical Industrial, which is better known by its Panasonic brand name, filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics o...
Article | 30/01/2002 France Télécom sees double-digit revenue growth in 2002
Matsushita Electrical Industrial, which is better known by its Panasonic brand name, filed a patent-infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics o...
Article | 29/01/2002 Sony sees a record quarter
Sony Corp. seemingly flew in the face of its own market observations Friday when, announcing its third-quarter financial results, said general weaknes...
Article | 29/01/2002 TSMC sees 2001 income sink, brighter times ahead
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC), the world's largest contract semiconductor maker, saw a sharp fall in revenues and profits in 2001...
Article | 25/01/2002 Sony issues security alert for some Vaio computers
Sony Corp. is urging customers who have bought Vaio computers since November to upgrade their software after the discovery of a potentially serious so...
Article | 16/01/2002 DRAM prices triple within two months
Anyone considering adding extra memory to a personal computer to facilitate the upgrade to Windows XP will be wishing they'd done so earlier. Computer...
Article | 11/01/2002 Sony gives the Vaio a cool new look
Unveiling its first new personal computer of 2002, Sony has taken the wraps off a cool new design for its Vaio desktop computer.
Article | 11/01/2002 IDT to close California chip plant
Communications chip maker Integrated Device Technology (IDT) has announced plans to close down its chip fabrication plant in California, one of two th...
Article | 10/01/2002 Sony, Candescent end joint development of displays
For the second time in as many years, Sony Corp. has seen a joint development project on next-generation display technology end with no commercial pro...
Article | 21/12/2001 Toshiba to provide SRAM knowledge to China's SMIC
Toshiba Corp. has signed its first semiconductor production technology transfer deal with a Chinese chip-maker, the company announced Thursday.

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