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    <pubDate>Mon, 7 Dec 2009 17:42:42 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Renesas Technology to Release DrMOS-Compliant R2J20653ANP for Notebook PC CPU Power Supplies with Industry’s Top Power Supply Efficiency of 91%</title>
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      <description>SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Renesas Technology America, Inc., today announced the R2J20653ANP, an Integrated Driver-MOSFET for use in voltage regulators (VR) for the CPU, memory, etc., of notebook PCs. It complies with the integrated Driver-MOSFET (DrMOS) specification and combines a high-voltage tolerance supporting input voltages up to 27 V and the industry&amp;#8217;s top power supply efficiency of 91% (when operating with an input voltage of 20 V and an output voltage of 1.1 V). Mass prod</description>
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      <title>Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Appoints New Senior Vice President of Operations</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 08:01:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <description>SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced the appointment of Don Blake as senior vice president of Operations. Mr. Blake will lead a team focused on making operational improvements that strengthen Hitachi GST&amp;#8217;s competitive position in the global hard disk drive market. He comes to Hitachi after spending 13 years at Western Digital Corporation, where he most recently served as vice president and general manager of WD Media. &amp;#8220;D</description>
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      <title>SH-Mobile Application Engine 4 Breaks Into GHz Realm to Open Up an Entirely New User Experience and Set the Pace for True Multimedia Convergence</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <description>SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Renesas Technology America, Inc., today announced that it is sampling the SH-Mobile Application Engine 4 (SH73720), an ARM&amp;#174; Cortex&amp;#8482; A8*1 based application engine running at maximum 1GHz, targeted for next generation mobile phone and mobile device implementations. With the integration of various dedicated processing engines, the device features ultimate multimedia capabilities such as full HD 1080p video recording, playback at 30fps, and high-speed 3D</description>
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      <title>Hitachi Laboratory Equipment Donation Extends Nationwide</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:37:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <description>CEBU CITY, Philippines--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) announced today the expansion of its knowledge and skills enhancement initiative in the Philippines called the Integrated University Program with the launch of its regional laboratory center at Cebu Technological University (CTU) Main Campus. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, DOST Secretary Dr. Estrella Alabastro, PEZA Director General Atty. Lilia de Lima and Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Commissi</description>
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      <title>UTEK Corporation’s Strategos and The wRatings Corporation Launch the SW Innovation Index</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <description>TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UTEK Corporation (NYSE Amex: UTK), a leading IP licensing and innovation services company, and The wRatings Corporation, an independent stock research firm, announced today the results of their inaugural SW Innovation Index for the consumer electronics industry. The study was conducted in a collaborative effort between The wRatings Corporation and Strategos, the strategic innovation consulting division of UTEK. Major highlights from the innovation capabilities study</description>
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      <title>Hitachi’s Origin 2.0 Software Gives Oasis Users Additional Motion Free Imaging and Parallel Imaging Capabilities</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:35:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <description>CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hitachi Medical Systems America Inc. is providing their Oasis users - at no charge - RAPID&amp;#8482;3D and RADAR&amp;#8482; Spin Echo and Balanced SARGE along with the ORIGIN 2.0 software upgrade. RAPID 3D provides multi-directional acceleration for parallel imaging. This will enable users to take advantage of higher acceleration factors, and greatly enhance Oasis&amp;#8217;s dynamic breast and abdominal imaging capabilities. RADAR Spin Echo and Balanced SARGE add to Hitachi&amp;#82</description>
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      <title>Hitachi Data Systems Introduces New Application and Data Recovery Solutions</title>
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      <description>SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and the only provider of Service Oriented Storage Solutions, today announced the addition of the Hitachi Dynamic Replicator to its replication and data protection software portfolio. In partnership with InMage Systems, a leading independent software vendor of disk-based business application recovery solutions for heterogeneous environments, Hitachi Data Systems meets the</description>
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      <title>Hitachi Debuts New 2TB SimpleDrive</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <description>SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced the availability of the newly designed SimpleDrive&amp;#8482; desktop external hard drive with capacities of up to two terabytes (2TB). In addition, the company announced that all of its 3.5-inch retail drives are now available in 2TB capacities, featuring the Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000, the industry&amp;#8217;s first 2TB 7,200 RPM hard drive that blends performance and high capacity with low power features</description>
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      <title>Capella Telecommunications, Inc. Named Channel Partner For Hitachi Node+ZeroTM RFoG Solution</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:57:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <description>ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hitachi Communication Technologies America, Inc., a leading supplier of Fiber-to-the-Premises solutions, today announced that Capella Telecommunications, Inc., will serve as a stocking distributor for Hitachi&amp;#8217;s Node+Zero Radio Frequency over Glass (RFoG) product family in Canada. Capella will support cable television and other communications network operators with Hitachi&amp;#8217;s single-fiber RFoG solution, enabling operators to deliver video, data and voice servi</description>
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      <title>Notice Concerning Capital Injection Changes for the NEC Electronics and Renesas Business Integration</title>
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      <description>KAWASAKI, Japan &amp; TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NEC Electronics Corporation (NEC Electronics; TSE: 6723), Renesas Technology Corp. (Renesas), NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701), Hitachi, Ltd. (Hitachi; TSE: 6501 / NYSE: HIT), and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (Mitsubishi Electric; TSE: 6503) today announced changes concerning the capital injection listed in its September 16, 2009 press release entitled &amp;#8220;NEC Electronics and Renesas Reach a Definitive Agreement on Business Integration.&amp;#8221; 1. R</description>
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      <title>Renesas Technology to Release SH7266 and SH7267 32-bit MCUs with Large-Capacity (1.5 MB) On-Chip SRAM</title>
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      <description>SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Renesas Technology America, Inc., today announced the release of a total of eight versions of the SH7266 and SH7267, two new high-performance 32-bit MCU products with an on-chip SRAM size of 1.5 MB, that are intended for embedded applications in the industrial and consumer fields such as displays for digital audio players or graphical dashboards. Sample shipments will begin in February 2010 in Japan. The SH7266 and SH7267 are the enhanced products of the SH7260</description>
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      <title>G-Technology by Hitachi Doubles Capacity Across 3.5-Inch Product Line</title>
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      <description>LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--G-Technology by Hitachi (www.g-technology.com), a leading provider of premium storage solutions for the Mac, creative pro and high-end audio/video (AV) markets, today announced that it is incorporating Hitachi&amp;#8217;s 2TB, 7,200 RPM, 32MB cache buffer hard drives across its entire 3.5-inch product line. Now with capacities ranging from 2TB to 32TB, G-Tech&amp;#8217;s new upgraded single-drive and ultra-fast, low-cost RAID systems include the G-DRIVE, G-SAFE, G-RAID, G-S</description>
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      <title>Hitachi High-Technologies to Acquire Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Business from Renesas</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <description>TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (President: Hidehito Obayashi; Hitachi High-Technologies) and Renesas Technology Corp. (Chairman: Katsuhiro Tsukamoto, Renesas) today announced a basic agreement for the transfer of the semiconductor manufacturing equipment business of wholly owned Renesas subsidiary Renesas Eastern Japan Semiconductor, Inc. (President: Yukio Murayama; Renesas Eastern Japan Semiconductor) to Hitachi High-Tech Instruments Co., Ltd. (President: Yoshinao</description>
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      <title>Hitachi EPON Equipment Used in Growth of Mobile Backhaul and Business Services</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:32:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <description>SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hitachi Communication Technologies America, Inc. (HCTA), the only vendor offering a comprehensive line of EPON, GPON, DePON&amp;#8482;, MW-PON&amp;#8482;, and RFoG equipment today announced that its EPON solutions are supporting the growth of mobile backhaul and business services. Recent successes in delivering service for mobile backhaul are driving the use of EPON in service provider networks. The industry is increasing the use of fiber technologies to access cell</description>
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      <title>Hitachi Announces New Fiber-to-the-Premises Quad Play PON Equipment for Cable System Operators</title>
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      <description>SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hitachi Communication Technologies America, Inc. (HCTA) the only vendor offering a comprehensive line of EPON, GPON, DePON&amp;#8482;, MW-PON&amp;#8482;, and RFoG equipment today announced a new line of Optical Network Units (ONU) for their DePON fiber access systems. The new ONUs leverage the low cost, high bandwidth available with PON while enabling cable service providers to keep their existing DOCSIS provisioning and management systems. The new products support</description>
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      <title>GazoPa, Similar Image Search Engine Begins Open Public Beta Testing</title>
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      <description>SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hitachi America, Ltd., today announced that their similar image search engine, GazoPa (http://www.gazopa.com) application will begin open beta testing and is available to the public at large. All features are available for test users without log in. The primary goal is to obtain a broad range of feedback, which will enable Hitachi to evaluate the broad scale market potential. GazoPa is a next generation image search engine that uses characteristics such as a color</description>
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      <title>Renesas Technology to Release SH7777 (SH-NaviJ3) SoC for Dashboard-mounted Car Navigation and Infotainment Systems Offering Enhanced Audio and Video Functions</title>
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      <description>SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Renesas Technology America, Inc., today announced the SH7777 (SH-NaviJ3), the third product in the SH-NaviJ Series of system-on-chip (SoC) devices for compact portable navigation and infotainment systems and low- and mid-priced dashboard-mounted car navigation and infotainment systems. It speeds up development through OpenGL&amp;#174; ES1.1*1 support and offers enhanced multimedia functions such as terrestrial digital TV broadcast support. The SH7777 (SH-NaviJ3) ma</description>
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      <title>Hitachi Introduces 100Gbps Next Generation Optical Transport Platform</title>
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      <description>ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hitachi Communication Technologies America, Inc. (Hitachi-CTA) today announced the AMN6400, the company&amp;#8217;s next generation optical transport platform, based on a 100Gbps architecture. The AMN6400 Advanced Packet/Optical Transport Platform combines the functions of next generation SONET, DWDM and packet-based systems into a single platform, offering network operators a smooth transition from legacy circuit-switched networks to the packet-based environment of the fut</description>
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      <title>Hitachi GST Hosts Official Opening of New Substrate Manufacturing Facility in Malaysia</title>
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      <description>SARAWAK, Malaysia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced the official opening of a new substrate manufacturing facility located in Sarawak, Malaysia. Hitachi GST acquired the facility in July and has been increasing the production of aluminum substrates used to manufacture its desktop-class hard drives. The company hosted an opening ceremony in Sarawak today with guests of honor that included The Right Honorable, Chief Minister of Sarawak, Pehin Sri D</description>
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      <title>Hitachi Data Systems Introduces New Agile Cloud Solutions</title>
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      <description>PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SNW FALL 2009 Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT) and the only provider of Service Oriented Storage Solutions, today announced the new portfolio of agile cloud technologies to accelerate and simplify the adoption of enterprise cloud computing environments. Specifically, the portfolio delivers the industry&amp;#8217;s most integrated set of computing resources to create a single pool of virtualized block, file and content s</description>
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      <title>Hitachi Unleashes Two Blazing Fast Drives for the Enterprise</title>
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      <description>SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced worldwide availability of two new 15,000 RPM Ultrastar hard drives for Tier 0/1, mission-critical, enterprise storage applications. The new drives include the Ultrastar C15K147, Hitachi&amp;#8217;s first 15,000 RPM, 2.5-inch 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard drive, and the new 600GB Ultrastar 15K600, the company&amp;#8217;s fourth generation 3.5-inch drive with either 6Gb/s SAS or 4Gb/s Fibre Channel</description>
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      <title>Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Appoints New Chief Financial Officer</title>
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      <description>SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced the appointment of Michael A. (Mick) Murray as chief financial officer. As a key member of the executive management team, Mr. Murray will focus on positioning the company for sustained profitability and long-term growth. Mr. Murray was most recently senior vice president, Finance, and chief accounting officer at Yahoo! Inc. &amp;#8220;We are pleased to welcome Mick to the Hitachi GST executive manage</description>
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      <title>Hitachi Data Systems CEO Jack Domme to Keynote Storage Network World Fall 2009</title>
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      <description>SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT) and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today announced that Chief Executive Officer Jack Domme, along with several other Hitachi Data Systems executives, will present at Storage Network World (SNW) Fall 2009 in Phoenix, Arizona, October 12&amp;#8211;15, 2009. Hitachi Data Systems-driven sessions include discussions around the evolving data center and customer issue</description>
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