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• TSMC's chip sales in April hit all-time high

  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC), the world's largest contract chip maker, on Monday reported record high chip sales for the month of April.

• Chip industry to see 'remarkable' growth this year

  After several years of suffering through a deep economic slump, the worldwide semiconductor industry is about to hit a high-water mark, signaling a rejuvenation of the industry.

• Intel to produce new Sandy Bridge chips by year-end

  The latest family of Intel microprocessors, code-named Sandy Bridge, will be in production by the end of this year, while desktops and laptops with the chips will likely be on world markets in early 2011.

• HP chip discovery could be a tech 'game changer'

  Hewlett-Packard is taking the wraps off a new technology that analysts say could be "a major game changer" for computers and personal devices.

• Gartner predicts 20 percent growth for chip industry in 2010

  The global chip industry will rebound sharply from the global recession and post 20 percent year-on-year growth in 2010, market researcher Gartner said Thursday.

• Intel introduces next-generation laptop, desktop chips

  Intel on Thursday introduced its next-generation of PC chips that could make laptops and desktops faster and more power efficient.

• AMD hopes to end GPU shortage by late November

  Executives at Advanced Micro Devices this week said they are hoping that the company's new 40-nanometer graphics processing units will be in full by the end of the month.

• AMD narrows loss as it inches to profitability

  Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday narrowed its net loss during the third quarter of 2009 as the company inches closer to profitability.

• NEC will absorb Renesas to become third-biggest chip maker

  Japanese chip makers NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology plan to merge by the end of April 2010 to create the world's third-largest chip maker by revenue, with leading market share in microcontrollers and system-on-chip (SoC) products for cars and mobile devices.