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Artile Microsystems, the chip company that promised to bring Playstation-level processing to the embedded world, has shut down and its assets reclaimed by parent Toshiba America Electronic Components

Samsung joins in licensing of ASML's scattering bar technology (Mar 27)

CEO doubles pay for leading Motorola back to profits (Mar 27)

NTT DoCoMo to introduce global positioning handset (Mar 27)

Lucent reaches US$568 million settlement of investor suits (Mar 27)

ASML discloses results of annual shareholder meeting (Mar 26)

Mattson Technology wins RTP and CVD system orders from Samsung (Mar 26)

SDI's China Dongguan unit to make UFB-LCDs

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OFC exposition off to great start

AU Optronics intellectual property rights reaching historical highs (Mar 26)

Notebooks eke out more market share (Mar 26)

NEC to move mainstream LCD business to China JV (Mar 26)

Conexant plans $573m charge for Mindspeed (Mar 26)

China packaged software market to grow at CAGR of 25.8% in next five years (Mar 26)

UMC forms strategic partnership with Silicon7 (Mar 26)

Sharp Microelectronics transflective display designed into Dell's Axim X5 PDAs

Local players gaining share in growing China IT services market (Mar 26)

Chartered expands design services alliance (Mar 26)

Japan electronics chief: War may dim bright spots (Mar 26)

Anam: In talks with Xilinx for wafer pact (Mar 26)

China Mobile unlikely to choose TD-SCDMA for 3G standard (Mar 25)

Gartner Dataquest: Frequent users of WLANs will total 4.2 million in 2003 (Mar 26)

NTT DoCoMo to market "WRISTOMO," wristwatch-style PHS mobile phone (Mar 26)

Itanium 2 test center opens in China (Mar 26)

War offers brief glimmer of hope for high-speed mobile services (Mar 27)

Cisco still to seek injunction against Huawei (Mar 25)

IBM wins order to build Nvidia's latest computer-graphics chip

LG.Philips LCD continues record-breaking performance with second 5G fab

Pioneer to reorganize PDP production in Japan

ATI's digital TV solutions selected by Xoceco for DH-78 HDTV cable set-top box

ATI's Xilleon 220 chosen by Changhong

ATI's NXT2004 and NXT6000 receiver technologies selected by Comtech

Cambridge Display Technology receives first order for light-emitting polymer display products

Photronics to cut workforce by 10-12% (Mar 25)

Photronics is a US-based photomask manufacturer.

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