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...These are the big factories, and they produce the wafers, large discs of silicon, on which chips are printed and then cut....
...The displays and their poetic legends are exquisitely evocative of an era before cassettes and mini-discs faded into obsolescence....
...The resulting wafers — discs from which the chips are cut — are shipped for finishing and testing to plants that include one in Chengdu, China....
...Flash memory is beginning to displace hard disc drives in computers as well....
...The others include US hard disc drive maker Western Digital, Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry, better known as Foxconn, and South Korea’s SK Hynix, according to people involved in the talks....
...For Foxconn, the deals are about moving up the value chain from manufacturing, says one person familiar with the company’s thinking, as software is increasingly embedded in hardware....
...The company had been producing transistor-based (rather than switch- or vacuum-tube based) computers for a few years, and had already invented disc-based random-access memory....
...Disc-shaped, the Dyson 360 Eye scuttles around the home, cleaning from corner to corner and navigating around any clutter through a 360-degree vision system....
...Sony said that the charges, which also include a Y25bn impairment from its overseas CD and DVD manufacturing business, would widen the company’s full-year net loss to Y130bn for the 12 months to March 31...
...Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s biggest contract chip maker by revenue, said it expects a strong recovery in demand for PC-related chips in the first quarter, as the industry’s global...
...However, the benchmark US index remains 6 points off its post-financial crisis closing high, despite a soft turn in global manufacturing data....
...Elsewhere, Wall Street was back in tune with global markets, as US stocks climbed higher after a rash of positive global manufacturing survey data....
...Analysts and executives say that the full impact of the Thai floods on manufacturing will depend on how soon flood-hit areas can resume production....
...Indeed, even the master – Steve Jobs of Apple – regularly visited Sony in the early 2000s to learn about its manufacturing and technology....
...calipers, discs and drums and had about €850m in sales in 2010....
...Japanese carmakers, many of which have set up regional manufacturing bases in Thailand, have been badly hit as well as hard-disc drive producers, leading to a global shortage of a key component in computers...
...Microsoft has confirmed that “Mango” phone operating system is being passed on to its manufacturing partners to build into new handsets, BGR reports....
...Selling an electronic format is even more profitable because there are no manufacturing costs and minimal distribution costs....
...It was under Mr Ohga that the name Sony came to symbolise Japanese manufacturing excellence and to define what was “cool” in the world of electronics – an image encapsulated in the catchphrase, “It’s a Sony...
...Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s biggest contract chipmaker, has for the first time laid out its roadmap for moving to bigger silicon discs to drive down chip manufacturing costs....
...The high-strength material is used in a range of goods, including compact discs. Forecasts suggest that China is likely to become the world’s biggest manufacturing country in 2011, overtaking the US. ...
...The first floor of the factory, which makes magnetic tape and Blu-ray discs, was inundated with flood water. Staff took refuge upstairs....
...Nidec, the world’s biggest manufacturer of computer hard disc motors, said on Wednesday it would acquire a unit of Emerson Electric of the US in the latest example of a Japanese company exploiting the yen...
...More manufacturing capacity was being added to support customers, including the industry’s first analog facility on 300-millimetre diameter discs....
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