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| Micron to buy Numonyx for U$1.2 Billion |
2/10/2010 |
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Micron Technology said they have signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Numonyx in an all-stock transaction valuing Numonyx at approximately US$1.27 billion.
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| AMD launch new Graphic chip |
2/8/2010 |
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AMD has announced the introduction of the ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics chip, the latest addition to the line-up of ATI Radeon HD 5000 series GPUs.
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| Altera unveil 28-nm FPGA |
2/8/2010 |
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Altera announced today new innovations that will be incorporated into upcoming 28-nm FPGAs.
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| Taiwan government refuse to fund TMC |
2/5/2010 |
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Critics say the new DRAM company has proceeded at a snail's pace since its formation in March 2009, and that the timing for restructuring Taiwan's DRAM sector has passed as some chipmakers are returning to profit as chip prices recover.
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| IBM showed graphene transistor success |
2/5/2010 |
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Almost four times faster than previous demonstrations, the graphene transistors were fabricated at the wafer scale using epitaxially grown graphene processing techniques that are compatible with those used to fabricate silicon transistors.
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| Apple's A4 guru started own venture |
2/5/2010 |
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It now transpires, according to a New York Times article, that former P.A. Semi engineers have been leaving Apple to form a startup said to be working on a server processor and with links to Cisco. Company is named Agnilux Inc. (San Jose, Calif.)
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| New enterprise smartphone in development |
2/5/2010 |
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"The Nirvana phone represents a near-term paradigm shift — OK Labs, Citrix, and our ecosystem partners envision real-world converged nirvana devices enabled for both mobility and desktop productivity entering the market within 12 to 18 months."
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| Electronic Distributor Association set rules to discourage counterfeit |
2/4/2010 |
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Robin B Gray, executive vice president of NEDA, describes the guidelines as a way to codify best practices and as a way to thwart the entrance of counterfeit components into the electronics supply chain. “It's something that authorized distributors have been doing for several years now".
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| EU to bring anti-trust to 10 DRAM companies |
2/4/2010 |
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The people familiar with the situation said the companies were expected to settle with the Commission under its new settlement procedure introduced in 2008, possibly making it the first case in which firms admit taking part in a cartel in return for a 10 percent cut in fines.
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| Electronics to be blamed on Toyota recall? |
2/4/2010 |
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Automotive electronics will become even more pervasive as new hybrid, electric and fuel cell technologies are deployed in new cars. Hence, the auto industry must boost its investment in consistent data collection methods, advanced analytics and new techniques for tracking design and manufacturing data to pinpoint which vehicle models need to be recalled.
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| IC Insights: DRAM will do well in 2010 |
2/4/2010 |
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IC Insights said that 2010 will start a three-year reversal of this downward trend. The high wafer fab manufacturing capacity utilization, low capital spending, improving global economy and ongoing demand for units is likely to put upward pressure on average selling prices, which should help turn the market around for many IC products beginning in 2010.
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| Smart Modular upgraded guidiance |
2/3/2010 |
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The Company expects to report GAAP diluted net income per share in the range of $0.16 to $0.18 for the second quarter of fiscal 2010, substantially exceeding its previous guidance of $0.06 to $0.08 per share announced on December 17, 2009. Non-GAAP diluted net income per share is expected to be in the range of $0.14 to $0.16, a substantial increase to the previous guidance provided by the Company of $0.09 to $0.11.
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| Business and investment returns to UMC |
2/3/2010 |
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UMC (Hsinchu, Taiwan) announced it would increase its capital expenditures for 2010 to be between $1.2 billion and $1.5 billion to accommodate strong demand from customers at advanced technology nodes. Fourth quarter sales were up 1.2 percent compared with the third quarter and up nearly 50 percent from the fourth quarter of 2008, UMC said.
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| Apply executives arrested for leaking customer process |
2/3/2010 |
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The information stolen included manufacturing process technology details for DRAMs and NAND flash memory as well as investment plans for chip production, which were passed on to Hynix Semiconductor Inc., the reports said.
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| ARM extends momentum into 2010 |
2/3/2010 |
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Eagle is aimed at smartphone, mobile computing, digital television and communications infrastructure applications. More broadly described as application processors ARM has categorized this as a 3 billion unit per year market.
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| Claims against iPAD start to surface |
2/2/2010 |
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A Chinese company that sells a tablet PC like Apple's newly announced iPad may sue the U.S. company over the similar design between the devices, it said Monday. Japanese electronics company Fujitsu has also said it owns the rights to the name "iPad," raising another possible legal challenge for the Apple device.
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| Samsung roll-out 1.35V/30nm DDR3 |
2/2/2010 |
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A 4-Gigabyte (GB), 30-nm module when used in a new-generation notebook will consume only three watts per hour, which is just three percent of the total power usage of a notebook.
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| PCM vs NAND in SSD |
2/2/2010 |
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even at approximately 5 percent bandwidth utilization you can easily get to 10,000s of gigabytes per day. This is a far cry from MP3 players. A technology that may have been perfect for an MP3 player is going to impose significant limitations in an enterprise-class server.
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| Altera to provide 28nm partial reconfigurable |
2/2/2010 |
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According to Altera, the partial reconfiguration capability on its 28-nm chips will enable customers to load new functionality into portions of the FPGA without interrupting normal operation. Users will benefit from reduced cost and power consumption by implementing only active logic.
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| Intel/Micron announced 25nm flash |
2/1/2010 |
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Intel said its 25nm lithography process is not only the smallest for NAND flash memory technology but it's also the overall smallest semiconductor technology in existence. That means its manufacturing process will lend itself to advances in the more general area of consumer electronics and computing applications.
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