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IEEE Spectrum July 2010 Neil Savage	Hynix Makes No-Capacitor DRAM Z-RAM memory design might find a spot in the competitive DRAM market
InternetNews January 9, 2008	Hynix Sees DRAM Rebound Hynix Semiconductor, the world's second-largest memory maker, predicts a comeback for the computer-chip market as demand remains strong.
BusinessWeek September 20, 2004 Moon Ihlwan	How Hynix Got Out Of Its Fix A state bailout, tech smarts -- and luck -- have recharged the Korean chipmaker.
The Motley Fool October 7, 2004 Rich Duprey	Citigroup Takes On Intel The financial services giant takes over non-memory semiconductor chip production.
InternetNews November 28, 2007	Samsung Predicts End of DRAM Oversupply Samsung Electronics said the oversupply of memory chips used in personal computers was expected to ease in 2008 as growing demand for portable gadgets prompts a shift in production to Flash chips.
PC World March 12, 2002 James Niccolai	Intel Shrinks Chip, Hits Milestone Prototypes of high-density chips support nearly eight times as many transistors as today's Pentium 4...
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BusinessWeek November 10, 2003 Jack Ewing	Infineon Keeps Chipping Away It stuck with memory chips and is in the black. Still, it faces brutal competition.
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InternetNews December 7, 2004 Michael Singer	IBM Perks Up Memory, Transistors The company shrinks its SRAM and adds a dash of germanium fuel to its chips.
InternetNews February 25, 2008 Andy Patrizio	MetaRAM Bets on High-Capacity Memory Breakthrough MetaRAM debuts with high-capacity DRAM using cheaper, low-capacity chips.
InternetNews March 20, 2007 Clint Boulton	Toshiba, Hynix Settle NAND Flash Beef Computer-chip memory makers Toshiba and Hynix Semiconductor have settled all pending patent litigation between them in the U.S. and Japan and have agreed to work together.
IEEE Spectrum November 2007 Sarah Adee	Transistors Go Vertical The semiconductor industry fights silicon sprawl by building up, not out. Today's CMOS transistor is planar, but chip makers are exploring more power-efficient three-dimensional structures as well as a planar structure with two gates.
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The Motley Fool June 15, 2006 Rich Duprey	Chipping Away at Chip Industry Turmoil A sea change in semiconductor industry technology can create opportunities for some investors.
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The Motley Fool October 13, 2004 Rich Duprey	Elpida Memory IPO a Risk The DRAM chip maker is set to go public next month. Though Elpida Memory is Japan's sole dedicated manufacturer of the chips and it seeks to gain enough market share to take over the No. 3 position, U.S. investors should not get too excited about the spinoff just yet.
PC World December 3, 2001 Martyn Williams	AMD Announces Another Chip Advance Company's new transistor is five times smaller than current models, leading to faster and more complex chips...
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IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Bohr et al.	The High-k Solution Microprocessors coming out this fall are the result of the first big redesign in CMOS transistors since the late 1960s.
The Motley Fool October 17, 2005 Dan Bloom	NAND Flash Dazzles Investors More devices are using NAND flash -- but manufacturers' profits aren't guaranteed. Investors, take note.
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Singh & Thakur	Chip Making's Singular Future Beleaguered chip makers are counting on single-wafer manufacturing, which makes ICs on one wafer at a time, to cut costs and get chips to market faster.
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The Motley Fool October 31, 2007 Anders Bylund	Silicon Motion Sidesteps Memory Shortages Investing in memory chip demand with companies such as Silicon Motion, without investing in memory makers, can be a wise way to play this segment. Investors, take note.
InternetNews July 5, 2006 David Needle	Chip Sales Up Almost 10% The Semiconductor Industry Association reported chip sales of $19.7 billion for May, a 9.4 percent hike from the $18.1 billion tallied for the same month a year ago.
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InternetNews December 18, 2003 Michael Singer	DRAM a Short-Term Winner, IDC Says Anticipation surrounding an expected mass PC upgrade in 2004 is giving the memory business something to crow about.
InternetNews August 3, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Power Loss At Samsung Plant Halts Production For now, no one is panicking, but there could be a slight pinch in the availability of DRAM and flash memory.
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Brian R. Santo	Acronym Addiction When you live on the cutting edge of technology, there are, literally, no words to describe it. Instead we have acronyms. Lots and lots of acronyms. ABT... BEOL... CSP... etc.
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PC Magazine August 30, 2006 John C. Dvorak	Inside Track v25n16 There needs to be something besides high-end games that can suck up all the power of Intel's dual-core chips. This desperation will only get worse when Intel rolls out the four-core chip.
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InternetNews March 26, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Will Rambus' Big Win Hold Up? Court rules Rambus did not hide patent applications from a standards body. Now the appeals begin.
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The Motley Fool December 6, 2004 Rich Duprey	Infineon Executives Pay High Price Four officers from the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) maker go to prison for their role in a price-fixing scheme. The company and its stock have been in the doldrums, though the stock price has rebounded some 20% from its summer lows.
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