Stephen Lawson

Asia's DSL (digital subscriber line) industry can benefit from hard lessons learned elsewhere, some participants said Tuesday at DSLCon Asia in Hong Kong, which this year is taking place amid a severe contraction in the DSL industry across most of the world.

Global PC shipments declined by two per cent in the second quarter of this year from the same period last year, logging the first year-over-year quarterly decline ever, market research company International Data Corp. (IDC) reported Thursday.

China United Telecommunications Corp. (China Unicom), China's second-largest mobile network operator, has awarded Nortel Networks Corp. a series of contracts to expand its nationwide GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) network.

Solectron Corp. announced late last month that it has acquired Cisco Systems Inc.'s manufacturing facilities for dense wave-division multiplexing (DWDM) optical network equipment in West Columbia, S.C.

America Online Inc. announced Monday a joint venture with Legend Holdings Ltd., China's dominant PC maker, to develop interactive Internet services for the Chinese market.

Intel Corp. on Monday met the demands of system manufacturers and unveiled a new chipset that will allow the Pentium 4 microprocessor to be used with DDR-DRAM (double data rate dynamic random access memory) and SDRAM (synchronous DRAM) chips rather than more expensive Rambus DRAM chips.

Wireless devices, a high-powered graphics chip set and the debut of the next generation of microprocessor manufacturing are expected to share the spotlight next week at Computex Taipei 2001, the annual convergence in Taiwan's capital of IT hardware vendors and buyers from around the world.

High-tech industrial parks in China will be linked together over a broadband network being built as part of the government-backed development project, according an executive of Wingo Network Technology Co. Ltd., which has been authorized to build the network.