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Interview with CEO Richard Templeton via ClipSyndicate

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“The growth of GPUs continues to outpace the PC market. We shipped 42 percent more GPUs this quarter compared to the same period a year ago, resulting in our best first quarter ever”

NVIDIA is living high on the hog and has been for the last several years thanks to ATI/AMD's combined woes and seeming inability to turn out video cards capable of competing with NVIDIA's offerings across the ... via I4U Future Technology News

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Intel is diving deeper into the cellular business by becoming one of the winners in Sweden's auction of licenses for nationwide wireless broadband. via KCBS

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Josephine Lien, Taipei; Rodney Chan, DIGITIMES [Friday 9 May 2008] ProMOS Technologies has chosen Hynix Semiconductor over Elpida Memory for collaboration in sub-70nm processes because extending the existing ... via DigiTimes

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“Sonnet is committed to delivering storage solutions with uncompromising performance and reliability. We are excited to offer a product that gives our customers the capability to add additional storage capacity and performance as their business grows”

Sonnet Technologies on Thursday debuted the Fusion RAID Expander , which provides a simple solution for connecting up to seven Sonnet Fusion SATA RAID desktop or rackmount storage systems to a single computer ... via MacNN

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“Marvell's long-running backdating scheme involved a senior executive who regularly signed minutes of meetings that never occurred”

Semiconductor maker Marvell Technology Group Ltd. on Thursday agreed to pay a $10 million civil fine to settle regulators' allegations of improper backdating of stock options. via BusinessWeek

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“And I hope to communicate additional details of this complex undertaking in the very near future.”

Grappling with major layoffs and a stock price that's been chopped nearly in half since last year, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. kept new details about its turnaround plans close to the vest Thursday in a very brief annual meeting with shareholders.

The Sunnyvale-based company's chief executive, Hector Ruiz, notably did not discuss AMD's long-awaited plans to cut its heavy manufacturing costs. His 20-minute speech was punctuated with just one question from a shareholder&#0x2014;about why AMD doesn't sponsor professional golf tournaments to increase its visibility. Read more

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A high-tech chip maker in Greensboro is cutting jobs for the second time in a month. via Manufacturing.net

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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. increased its foundry sales fivefold in 2007 to achieve $385 million in revenue and grab tenth spot in IC Insights' ranking of the leading IC foundries for 2007. via EETimes.com

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SAN DIEGO & TAIPEI, TAIWAN: Qualcomm MEMS Technologies Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Inc. via CIOL

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