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...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...Two years ago, Taiwan tried to hammer together a single state-led mega-corporation from six domestic players: Nanya plus Inotera, Powerchip, Rexchip, PROMOS and Winbond....
...The South Korean company is now the dominant group, commanding about half the global market and a clear lead in technology....
...It may be a sign of things to come as China Inc goes global. Related reading China and the US: access denied, FT Chinese companies look west to eastern Europe, beyondbrics...
...Cypress Semiconductor , a semiconductor design and manufacturing company rose 8 per cent to $22.04 after agreeing to sell its image sensor business unit to ON Semiconductor in an all-cash transaction....
...Toyota is launching its Entune infotainment system with the new Prius V hybrid car this year....
...Technology stocks came under selling pressure ahead of earnings reports....
...The company has launched My Very First Hyper-V, a package of Fujitsu system and storage hardware, Microsoft server software and the latter’s Hyper-V virtualisation technology....
...ProMOS and Winbond would provide manufacturing capacity to Elpida, and in return Elpida would provide the technology to produce future generations of the two companies’ memory chips....
...Iomega recreates user’s primary PC Storage specialist Iomega has announced Iomega v.Clone, an easy-to-use virtualisation application that will soon start shipping on Iomega USB disk drives....
...There has been talk that Taiwan’s Powerchip, Promos and Japan’s Elpida could tie up....
...Mashing six companies together is proving tricky, complicated by overlapping technology alliances and the near-bankruptcy of the weakest player, ProMOS....
...Hynix Semiconductor rallied 8.6 per cent to Won4,500. Taiwanese chipmakers also gained, with Promos rising 6.5 per cent to T$1.31. The weighted index gained 1.2 per cent to 6,655.59....
...Japan’s Elpida Memory is discussing a possible merger with Powerchip, ProMOS Technologies and Rexchip. Moody’s cut Toshiba’s credit rating by one notch to Baa1 and placed it on review....
...Powerchip Semiconductor gained its daily limit of 6.8 per cent to T$4.71, while Promos Technologies gained its 6.8 per cent daily limit to T$1.41....
...Promos gained its daily limit of 6.5 per cent to T$1.32, Powerchip gained 6.9 per cent to T$3.42 and Nanya Technology rose 7 per cent to T$5.05....
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...Hynix Semiconductor, one of the world’s biggest makers of memory chips, rose by 2.8 per cent to Won29,100 on reports that it might buy a stake in rival ProMOS Technologies of Taiwan....
...To complicate things, Elpida is also in talks to license its technology to ProMOS of Taiwan, and has a joint venture with Powerchip, Taiwan’s memory industry leader, under which the two are building the...
...The chipmaker Elpida Memory dropped 4.7 per cent to Y3,870 after its South Korean rival, Hynix Semiconductor, beat it to a tie-up with ProMOS Technologies of Taiwan....
...To complicate things, Elpida is also in talks to license its technology to Promos of Taiwan, and has a joint venture with Powerchip, Taiwan’s memory industry leader, under which the two are building the...
...The case before the court, Quanta Computer v LG Electronics, involves Intel semiconductor chips....
...Mr Rivet said AMD’s return to profitability would be driven by new products, gross margins rising to 46-50 per cent from 41 per cent in the third quarter, and the cutting of research and develo...
...Before that, he held CFO positions at Excite@Home, Sybase, Cypress Semiconductor and VLSI Technology....
...One possibility is that other data networks will come along to rival cellular technology and beat mobile operators on both price and performance....
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