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15th December 2004 Archive

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  • Q3 chip stockpile bigger than thought - researcher

    Excess inventory topped $1.6bn

    The value of all the unsold semiconductors sitting in the electronics supply chain during Q3 proved higher than expected, market watcher iSuppli said yesterday. The result: chip makers are cutting the number of wafers they put on their production lines and are reviewing capital expenditure plans going forward, the researcher …

    IT Channel 15 Dec 2004, 12:04

  • NEC licenses Honeywell LCD tech

    Legal action yields first public result

    Honeywell's legal action against 34 electronics and computing companies for allegedly infringing one of its LCD patents has yielded its first public licensing agreement. NEC's LCD division this week said it had acquired the right to use technology outlined in US patent number 5,280,371, which Honeywell filed in 1992. The …

    IT Channel 15 Dec 2004, 14:41