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 April 19, 2002 (TOKYO) -- Intel Corp. demonstrated a personal computer equipped with a Pentium 4 microprocessor running at 3GHz on April 17 at the Intel Developer Forum 2002 Spring Japan held in Chiba. From Japan  April 19, 2001 (TOKYO) -- NTT DoCoMo Inc. came to an agreement on April 17 with French communications operator Bouygues Telecom SA under which DoCoMo will license and transfer i-mode-based browser phone service technology to the French operator, it was announced during a news conference in Tokyo. From Japan April 19, 2002 (TAIPEI) -- United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) is deepening its cooperation with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), after they decided to jointly build a 12-inch wafer plant. From Taiwan April 19, 2002 (TOKYO) -- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. announced that it will launch its first Hi-Fi VHS video deck called NV-HVH1 with a built-in HDD on June 1. From Japan April 19, 2002 (SEOUL) -- SK Telecom Co., Ltd. Korea's largest mobile operator, announced plans to establish a Chinese branch called SK Telecom China by June. From Korea April 19, 2002 (TOKYO) -- Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. announced a new 1/9-inch (2mm of diagonal) CCD camera chip unit developed for use in a camera attached to a mobile phone. From Japan  April 18, 2002 (TOKYO) -- Exodus Communications KK, a leading data center providing Net hosting services, is a Japanese subsidiary of U.S.-based Exodus Communications Inc. The new president was nominated in March as a result of UK-based Cable and Wireless Pls.' acquisition of Exodus in the United States in February 2002. From Japan    April 15, 2002 (TOKYO) -- Despite the slumping business in the consumer electronics sector caused by the recession in IT-related industries, Japanese makers have begun marketing home electric appliances with links to the Internet. From Japan April 15, 2002 (TOKYO) -- At the end of October 2001, the stock market was bracing for Sharp Corp.'s midterm results for September 2001. The average price of liquid-crystal displays, Sharp's mainstay product, had plunged by more than 30 percent in the past year, and most of its rival firms had turned into the red. From Japan  April 17, 2002 (TOKYO) -- The spot prices of double data rate (DDR) DRAM microchips have overtaken those of single data rate (SDR) DRAMs. From Japan  |
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