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    Toshiba eyes doubled operating profit in 3 years (Reuters)

    A man looks at a computer made by Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp at a store in Tokyo April 25, 2008. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)Reuters - Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp (6502.T) said it expects its operating profit to more than double over the next three years as it cuts costs, ramps up capacity for its semiconductors and seeks nuclear plant orders.


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    Thu, 08 May 2008 11:58:17 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
    Intel, Samsung, TSMC Plan Shift to 450-mm Wafers (PC Magazine)
    PC Magazine - Intel, Samsung and TSMC agreed Tuesday to develop 450-mm wafers for semiconductor manufacturing, timing the transition away from the current 300-mm technology in about 2012. The result should be a dramatic increase in chip output. -- read full article
    Tue, 06 May 2008 11:26:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
    Mac Clone Offered On eBay (TechWeb)
    TechWeb - InformationWeek - The unauthorized Apple desktop was flaunted with an Intel Core 2 Duo chip, 2 GB of memory, a 250-GB 7200 RPM serial ATA hard drive, and an Intel 3-D graphics chip. -- read full article
    Wed, 07 May 2008 10:41:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
    South Korea's Hynix hopeful after WTO ruling on Japan tariff (AP)
    AP - Hynix Semiconductor Inc. of South Korea said Wednesday it expects to sell more dynamic random access memory chips in Japan after a World Trade Organization ruling. -- read full article
    Wed, 07 May 2008 18:54:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
    AMD Plans 12-Core Server Chip In 2010 (TechWeb)
    TechWeb - InformationWeek - The chipmaker introduced its two-year product roadmap for servers and workstations on Wednesday. -- read full article
    Wed, 07 May 2008 20:07:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
    AMD Jumps to 12-core Chip, Skips 8-core Chip Plans (PC World)
    PC World - Advanced Micro Devices plans to release processors with 12 cores, which changes its product road map and kills earlier plans... -- read full article
    Wed, 07 May 2008 20:40:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
    Sprint-Clearwire WiMax Effort Gets $3.2 Bil, Big Partners (Investor's Business Daily)
    Investor's Business Daily - Sprint Nextel and Clearwire breathed new life into their wireless broadband alliance Wednesday, securing $3.2 billion in much-needed financing from three cable TV companies, Web search firm Google and chipmaker Intel. -- read full article
    Wed, 07 May 2008 22:59:43 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
    AMD Revamps Server Roadmap, Adds Cores (PC Magazine)
    PC Magazine - AMD said Wednesday that it has revamped its server and workstation processor roadmap, but has also committed to supporting the current architecture through several years. -- read full article
    Thu, 08 May 2008 00:27:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
    HSBC admits to losing data of 159,000 account holders (Reuters)

    A man walks past a bronze lion statue and a HSBC advertisement outside the HSBC headquarters in Hong Kong March 5, 2007. (Bobby Yip/Reuters)Reuters - Global banking group HSBC (0005.HK) has admitted to losing a computer server holding transaction data of 159,000 account holders in a Hong Kong branch office. The bank said in a statement issued late on Wednesday that it lost track of the server during renovation work at a Kwun Tong district branch on April 26.


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    Thu, 08 May 2008 02:37:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
    AMD Must Rebuild Momentum, Despite Customer Loyalty (PC World)
    PC World - Advanced Micro Devices must work hard to rebuild its momentum in the Asian server market, even though the chip maker managed... -- read full article
    Thu, 08 May 2008 06:40:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
    Infineon up on talk of interest from Samsung, Intel (Reuters)
    Reuters - Shares in Infineon (IFXGn.DE) rose more than 7 percent on Tuesday as traders cited market talk that Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) and Intel could be interested in the German chipmaker. -- read full article
    Tue, 06 May 2008 12:53:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
    AMD shares jump on restructuring optimism (Reuters)

    An AMD 790FX chip is seen in an undated handout photo. (Advanced Micro Devices/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Advanced Micro Devices Inc shares jumped more than 12 percent on Tuesday on investor optimism that the beleaguered chipmaker could soon announce its long-awaited strategy to revamp manufacturing to cut costs.


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    Tue, 06 May 2008 18:12:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
    Hynix raised DRAM prices about 15 pct in April (Reuters)

    An employee of Hynix Semiconductor Inc. walks behind a company logo at its headquarters in Seoul, July 20, 2006. (You Sung-Ho/Reuters)Reuters - Hynix Semiconductor Inc (000660.KS), the world's No. 2 memory chip maker, said on Monday it raised contract prices for computer memory chips by about 15 percent last month and expected further increases in May.


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    Mon, 05 May 2008 12:32:41 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
    Japan must drop tariffs on Hynix semiconductors by Sept: WTO (AFP)

    A South Korean employee of the Hynix Semiconductor walks past a logo of the company at a branch in Seoul. Japan must drop punitive tariffs on imports of semiconductors made by South Korean firm Hynix by September 1, a World Trade Organisation arbitrator ruled Monday.(AFP/File/Jung Yeon-Je)AFP - Japan must drop punitive tariffs on imports of semiconductors made by South Korean firm Hynix by September 1, a World Trade Organisation arbitrator ruled Monday.


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    Mon, 05 May 2008 16:34:48 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
    Chip Makers Plot Shift to Larger Silicon Wafers (PC World)
    PC World - Chip makers Intel, Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. announced Monday that they will collaborate... -- read full article
    Tue, 06 May 2008 00:30:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Semiconductor Industry & Servers
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