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Transmeta stock jumps after HP tie-up (Dec 4)

"Transmeta said its microprocessor, named Efficeon, will be used in the new HP Blade PC."

Qualcomm ups target on strong chip demand (Dec 4)

Hartcourt and subsidiary Huaqing acquire major notebook retailer in Shanghai (Dec 4)

Corning to close two US plants due to chip weakness; stands by 4Q outlook (Dec 4)

FIC plans to cut 400 jobs (Dec 4)

LG Electronics loses on displays (Dec 4)

NTT DoCoMo sees 25 million 3G users in 2006 (Dec 4)

Samsung Electronics sees multi-chip package sales US$1 billion by end '03

Nikon vows to take lead role in immersion lithography (Dec 3)

TSMC is first to commit to 193nm immersion litho (Dec 3)

ASML favors 'shower' immersion as 'bath' hits throughput (Dec 3)

Nanotech R&D act becomes law (Dec 3)

Chipworks confirms ATI chip uses true low-k dielectric (Dec 3)

After examining samples of ATI's RADEON 9600 XT visual processor, fabricated by TSMC, Chipworks confirms that the chip uses 'Black Diamond' low-k dielectric from Applied Materials.

ON Semiconductor to phase out manufacturing in East Greenwich, but continue design and marketing in Rhode Island (Dec 3)

Toshiba and Canon set up team to commercialize new technology for large-size displays (Dec 3)

Clarifies and expands on our Oct 3 article.

Intel 4Q estimates raised (Dec 3)

Lucent seeks ok for reverse stock split (Dec 3)

AT&T and Cisco expand sales alliance (Dec 2)

UMC: UMCi 12-inch equipment cost NT$7.7 billion (Dec 3)

Sun announces new servers, services (Dec 3)

HP to launch music store, digital music player (Dec 2)

Nano-imprint lithography added to ITRS roadmap (Dec 2)

China implements new Wi-Fi security standard (Dec 2)

Kyonggi Province plans world's largest LCD complex (Dec 1)

Toshiba says to work with SanDisk on wafer plant (Dec 3)

LG.Philips LCD Paju plant construction to start March 2004 - operational by 2H 2006 (Dec 3)

KDDI suspends 3G handsets (Dec 2)

TI delivers 14-bit, 125-MSPS analog-to-digital converter (Dec 1)

eMagin granted patent for new class of OLED materials (Dec 1)

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LG.Philips LCD makes one millionth LCD in China (Dec 2)

LG.Philips Displays to close Aachen CRT and Simonstone glass factories (Dec 2)

Limited workforce reductions may take place at the company's CRT plants in Dreux and Durham.

Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) completes HD capacity expansion in Singapore (Dec 1)

Semi industry to reach US$360 billiion by 2010, says report (Dec 2)

IC equipment market to grow 39% in '04, says SEMI (Dec 2)

SIA's October 'actual' numbers reflect strong growth (Dec 2)

SEMI announces year-end consensus forecast for global semiconductor equipment industry (Dec 2)

FPGA board offers low-cost prototyping (Dec 2)

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