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Elpida Memory is rumored to be on the hunt to acquire one or more Taiwan based memory manufacturers. Yukio Sakamoto, president & CEO is reported be visiting with Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs tomorrow (November 21). X-bit

Transmeta Corp is going private in a cash deal with Novafora Inc. worth a reported $255.6 million or in the neighborhood of $19.00. Extreme Tech

IBM and five universities want to build a computer that functions like a brain. the Inquirer

Nvidia launches a desktop supercomputer. Personal Computer World 

Semiconductor Industry Association predicts that the semiconductor market will slump in 2009. ars technica