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The once-mighty Comdex show has fallen a long way in only a few years. Jack Schofield reports from this year's event in Las Vegas.

ST sampling camphone chipset, claims CCD-like quality (Nov 26)

Cadence to help train 3000 Chinese chip designers per year (Nov 26)

Fujitsu outsources 8-bit microcontrollers to Chinese foundry (Nov 26)

Korea plans to spend US$800 million on chip R&D, says report (Nov 26)

Epson develops specialized display controller for camera-equipped GSM mobile phones (Nov 26)

Samsung: LCD shortage to continue in first half 2004 (Nov 26)

South Korea expects wireless exports to reach US$16 billion in 2003 (Nov 27)

Samsung Electronics sets record with announcement of 57-inch TFT LCD panel for HDTVs (Nov 27)

SMIC may list in New York, Hong Kong early next year - FT (Nov 26)

Industry leaders identify key trends at 15th annual Phoenix Strategy 2004 Conference (Nov 25)

Rising business optimism, value-based differentiation and trust are high on executive agendas.

Phoenix launches cME Trusted Core NB, the first of its new Core System Software category products (Nov 24)

Advanced technology builds improved connectivity, trust, manageability and usability into notebooks and tablet PCs.

Phoenix gives Arima notebooks rapid-on PDA functionality (Nov 19)

Arima has adopted Phoenix FirstWare Assistant in its notebooks and tablet PCs. FirstWare Assistant allows mobile devices to compete against PDAs with rapid-on access to Microsoft Outlook data, such as calendars, contacts and tasks.

Promise leads in ATA RAID for IA servers for 3rd consecutive year with 83% unit market share (Nov 21)

Toshiba favors flash as it raises chip spending for 2003 (Nov 25)

FPGAs will stifle EDA, analyst says (Nov 25)

Fujitsu integrates IT business operations in China under new company (Nov 26)

Epson to transfer Epson Industrial (Taiwan) assets to Vbest Electronics (Nov 26)

Holiday spending to disappoint - survey

US holiday shopping may not live up to robust expectations

Expansion soars, corporate profits fatten

GDP shot up at 8.2% annual rate, strongest in 19.5 years

Lead times extend for NAND, NOR flash memory

US duties on China TVs to aid other foreign makers (Nov 25)

Taiwan government scraps sale of 180m CHT shares (Nov 26)

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