Chip Makers Post Weak Results

Asian chip makers Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and Elpida Memory Inc. posted weak results on Thursday for the quarter ended Sept. 30 and some flagged that demand for chips will remain soft in coming months, highlighting how major component makers are suffering from slowing economies in Europe and the U.S.

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Days After Its Release, the IPad 2 Gets the Teardown Treatment

Like night follows day, an Apple product release is always followed by a bunch of reports by people who live to tear the latest gadgets apart to see what’s inside, and more importantly to investors, to estimate what everything inside them costs. The release of the iPad 2 has been no different.

TSMC Bullish on Outlook

Does Morris Chang have a crystal ball? The chairman and chief executive of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, the world’s biggest contract chip maker, seems to be quite confident about the chip industry’s outlook.

What Are Intel and TSMC Cooking Up?

Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. are scheduled to announce a strategic partnership later today, one that could see Intel outsourcing some chip production to TSMC, the world’s biggest chip foundry. Details on the alliance are slim, but reports in Chinese media and elsewhere suggest it will involve Intel’s popular Atom microprocessor.
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