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Dell Inc has informed its Taiwan contract makers of plans to develop devices based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc's microprocessors, and these suppliers are awaiting orders for global shipment, the Economic Daily News reported, citing industry sources.
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After approaching to within metres of the 500-metre-wide asteroid, the spacecraft suffered a malfunction and temporarily lost contact with Earth. When the communication link was re-established, several hours later, the probe had drifted 100 kilometres away from its target.
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Samsung, which competes with Hynix Semiconductor, Micron Technology and Infineon Technologies in the chip market, aims to boost its chip sales by more than three-fold to $61 billion by 2012 from $17 billion last year. In the flash chip market, Samsung competes with Toshiba. In a separate statement, Samsung said it planned to triple its chip sales in China to $5.5 billion by 2010 to meet demand from China's IT sector, which it said was expected to grow at an annual rate of 11 percent for the next five years.