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In a move that could bring production of memory chips to a halt at one of Taiwan's largest memory makers and bring about a shortage of PC memory chips, German chip maker Infineon Technologies AG announced Monday it was immediately terminating a technology licensing deal with Promos Technologies Inc.

The global semiconductor industry may continue to languish in the doldrums of a slowdown in demand but chip makers continue to press ahead with new and more advanced manufacturing facilities.

Worldwide PC sales may have resumed growth in 2002, according to figures from Gartner Inc.'s Dataquest unit, but it's still too early to predict that PC demand among corporate customers will see an upturn in 2003, an executive for Via Technologies Inc. said here Tuesday.

Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV and Taiwanese networking equipment maker Accton Technology Corp. have signed a letter of intent to create a joint-venture company.

The next update to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows CE .Net OS, which has been given the code name McKendric, will ship before the middle of 2003 and include several new features, a company executive said at the Microsoft Embedded DevCon 2003 conference in Taipei.

U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) officials will lead two delegations of executives from U.S. telecommunications and microelectronics companies to China in the coming months.

Chinese telecommunication equipment maker ZTE Corp. has signed deals to provide high-end optical networking gear to China

Contract chip maker Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. on Wednesday announced a three-year 300-millimeter manufacturing and technology development agreement with IBM Corp.