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| Applied Materials will purchase Semitool for $364 million |
11/18/2009 |
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Leading chip making equipment company Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has made an agreement to purchase Semitool Inc. (Kalispell, Mont.) for $364 million in cash. This is based on an $11 per share tender offer. Semitool is a supplier of electrochemical plating and wafer surface preparation
equipment.
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| The era of ddr3 is coming |
11/17/2009 |
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With customers pushing the DDR3 generation, memory packaging and testing firms Powertech Technology (PTI), Formosa Advanced Technologies Company (FATC) and Walton Advanced Engineering all estimate DDR3 will contribute 90% to their overall DRAM shipments at the end of 2010, up from 40-50% at end-2009, according
to company sources.
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| SOI Industry Consortium adopted new member:Mentor |
11/15/2009 |
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The SOI Industry Consortium this week announced Mentor Graphics Corp as its newest member, saying that in joining the group the company aims to expand EDA tool and methodology support for SOI (silicon-on-insulator) technology.
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| Kaspersky Unveils Antivirus for Mac |
11/15/2009 |
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"Since 2005, there has been a marked increase in the number of vulnerabilities in the Mac OS which can be used to conduct an attack via the Internet," said Gun Suk Ling, managing director for Kaspersky Lab, Southeast Asia.
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| Taiwan Memory Corp. may be dead without government fund |
11/13/2009 |
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The decision by the economics committee effectively halts government efforts to reform the fractious and troubled dynamic random access memory sector. Taiwan is the world's second-biggest manufacturer of D-Ram chips, which are found in every computer, but many Taiwanese D-Ram companies were on the brink of collapse.
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| AMD outlines low power X86 cores |
11/13/2009 |
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Advanced Micro Devices sketched rough outlines of two new x86 cores—including a rival to Intel's Atom--the company plans to put in products for 2011. It also said it has working versions of its first 32nm Fusion chips that integrate x86 and graphics cores and will sample them before June.
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| ARM-based notebook get Flash 10 |
11/13/2009 |
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Qualcomm calls such devices smartbooks and Jacobs showed off a thin "always-on" red computer made by Lenovo that is based around Qualcomm's Snapdragon, ARM-based microprocessor.
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| Intel/AMD settles |
11/13/2009 |
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The deal will end a long-running legal battle between the rivals and will see Intel pay AMD $1.25 billion. Under the agreement's terms, AMD and Intel obtain patent rights from a new five-year cross-license agreement. Each company will also give up any claims of breach from their previous license agreement, issued in 2001.
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| Healthcare reform to lead growth in medical electronics |
11/12/2009 |
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Healthcare reform focuses on a model based on care management, in which a primary physician provides and coordinates overall care for the patient in the most effective, efficient manner. That approach could make technology an integral part of the system. “You start to look at health IT as being a [way to enable] this comprehensive approach, is a different way of paying for healthcare.”
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| Notebooks will lead semi growth |
11/12/2009 |
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The firm projects that netbook unit shipments will enjoy a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 31.3 percent from 2009 through 2013, reaching 59.5 million units. Revenue from netbooks is expected to have a CAGR of 27.4 percent during the same period, reaching $16.2 billion in 2013, according to the report.
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| HP acquires 3Com |
11/12/2009 |
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The agreement calls for 3Com stockholders to receive $7.90 for each share of 3Com common stock that they hold at the closing of the merger, a 39 percent premium over Wednesday's closing price of $5.69.
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| TI integrates MEM with uController |
11/11/2009 |
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"MotionX is a game-changing technology for motion detection, as it enables sensor-enhanced portable devices to sophisticatedly and intelligently understand environments and adjust through simple gestures,"
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| China selects Infineon on id chips |
11/11/2009 |
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As of the first quarter of 2010, all Chinese passports will be issued as electronic passports and in the first full year of the roll-out, about 6.5 million electronic passports will be handed out, the company added.
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| Sony Ericsson to close UK R&D |
11/11/2009 |
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The company said that the announcement was part of its "ongoing global cost reduction activities and is subject to consultations with trade unions and employee forums."
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| SMIC settles with TSMC, CEO out |
11/11/2009 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC, Hsinchu, Taiwan) settled its trade secrets lawsuit with Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC, Shanghai, China) today, with SMIC agreeing to pay $200M in cash and an undisclosed amount of stock and warrants to TSMC.
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| Windows 7 revives PC market |
11/10/2009 |
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“A combination of factors impacted Windows 7 PC sales at the outset, but the trajectory of overall PC sales is very strong leading into the holiday season,” he said.
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| Freescale to go fab-lite |
11/10/2009 |
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ATREG (Advanced Technology Real Estate Group), the semiconductor division of Colliers International, has been appointed as advisor to Freescale in the sale of the company's two operational 150-mm semiconductor manufacturing facilities.
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| Ventures into China on LED technology |
11/10/2009 |
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The fab will be Durham, NC-based Cree’s first chip-production facility outside of North America and is targeted to also house future components manufacturing expansion. The company said it expects that the new chip production facility will help accelerate LED lighting.
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| Intel Atom powers text to speech machine |
11/10/2009 |
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The Intel Reader is a paperback-sized device that can take a picture of printed text with its 5 megapixel camera and convert it to speech. The company hopes the $1,499 system will serve millions of people with dyslexia and difficulty seeing printed text.
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| SIA : 2009 not as bad, 2010 be better |
11/9/2009 |
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SIA projecting worldwide sales of $219.7 billion for 2009, a decline of 11.6% from the $248.6 billion reported in 2008. The industry group's earlier forecast made in June called for a more than 21% 2009 sales decline on 2008 numbers. The SIA forecast further projects that sales will grow by 10.2% to $242.1 billion in 2010
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| UK's Wolfson to open R&D in Yokohama |
11/9/2009 |
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With our recently-recruited team of engineers, we will strengthen relationships with our customers in Japan, designing and developing solutions which will help them continue to create revolutionary consumer electronics products.
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