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| NEC to close fab in Roseville, CA |
1/30/2009 |
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NEC Electronics Inc.'s U.S. unit will close its 6-inch wafer fab line at its manufacturing facility in Roseville, Calif. by the end of March 2010.
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| Samsung unveils 4Gbit DDR3 DRAM using 50nm process |
1/29/2009 |
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has announced that it has developed a 4-Gbit DDR3 DRAM chip using a 50-nm manufacturing process. The memory operates at 1.35 volts and has a maximum data transmission speed of 1.6-Gbits per second, Samsung said.
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| Gmail works offline |
1/28/2009 |
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Google is rolling out a new system to let Gmail users access their accounts offline. Google will cache your messages on your system using Google Gears. You’ll be able to open your browser to Gmail.com, see your inbox, read and label messages and even write replies without a Net connection. Your messages will send once your system reconnects to the Web.
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| Sun's green data center saves $1 million a year |
1/28/2009 |
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Sun Microsystems says its just-opened Broomfield, Colo., data center saves a million kilowatt hours per month — enough to power 1,000 Colorado homes — and $1 million in energy bills per year without sacrificing performance. In fact, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based technology company says, the new green data center actually provides additional computing resources.
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| Analysts predict a huge fall in 2009 semi sales |
1/27/2009 |
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The global semiconductor market, currently in the grip of a supply-chain stall, will fall by 28 percent in 2009, according to Malcolm Penn, founder and principal analyst with market research firm Future Horizons Ltd.
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| Fujitsu buys Infineon software development group |
1/27/2009 |
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Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME) has taken over a software development of Infineon subsidiary Comneon GmbH. The Linz (Austria) based lab has significant expertise in the segment of automotive embedded systems.
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| TI sales fell, to layoff 3,400 |
1/27/2009 |
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Texas Instruments Inc. said it will lay off 12 percent of its workforce, or approximately 3,400 employees, as it restructures operations following one of the worst sequential and year-over-year quarterly performances in the history of the analog and digital signal processor company.
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| Qimonda's fall a blessing to DRAM industry |
1/26/2009 |
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The insolvency of Germany's Qimonda will offer some relief for the DRAM market, which is still set to shrink in 2009 for the third year in a row, analysts said.
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| Philips to layoff 6000 worldwide |
1/26/2009 |
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Royal Philips Electronics NV is to reduce its workforce by 6,000 worldwide this year after reporting its first quarterly loss for almost six years. It also halted an ongoing shares buy-back program.
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| SolarMagic chip to increase solar-electric efficiency |
1/23/2009 |
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The company employs its SolarMagic technology to disconnect the worst-performing cell in a series string and to deliver the maximum available power from the remainder. The technology then takes the reduced power available from that underperforming cell and adds it back—by dc/dc conversion—to the total power from the rest of the array.
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| China Mobile market to grow despite world economy |
1/23/2009 |
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China's wireless operators continue to attract new subscribers by reducing service fees, attracting first-time buyers and enticing existing customers to add a second number. New wireless subscribers in China are expected to exceed 90 million in 2009.
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| Samsung announced first quarterly loss |
1/23/2009 |
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Samsung posted an October-December operating loss of 937 billion won ($682 million), showing the impact of ravaged chip and LCD prices. The figure compares to a year-earlier profit of 1.78 trillion won and was much steeper than analysts' forecast for a 452 billion won shortfall.
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| Qimonda paralyzed, filed insolvency |
1/23/2009 |
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The Qimonda management still hopes to find investors to continue its buried wordline technology which the company claims to bring down production costs to a competitive level.
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| DRAM executives converging in Taiwan |
1/22/2009 |
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Meanwhile, Taiwan's Chinese-language Economic Daily, citing an executive at No. 2 DRAM maker Nanya Technology, said the Taiwan government would like to merge all of the island's struggling DRAM makers into a single company.
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| Intel not spared in this slump |
1/22/2009 |
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The chip giant will close two fabs and three IC-assembly factories. The actions at what comes to four sites, when combined with associated support functions, are expected to affect between 5,000-to-6,000 employees worldwide.
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| Microsoft to trim 5000, cut Capex |
1/22/2009 |
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Microsoft will slash 1,400 positions immediately, with the rest of the cuts coming by June 2010. The company said it will save about $1.5 billion in operating expenses and $700 million in 2009 capital expenditure.
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| Kingston buys $15M asset from ProMos |
1/21/2009 |
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ProMos would book a T$52.8 million loss on the sale to U.S.-based Kingston, according to a company statement ProMOS filed to the Taiwan stock exchange late on Wednesday.
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| Mobile TV Tuner flying at CES |
1/21/2009 |
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When a generation of young people is more inclined to watch only what they want to watch over the Internet at any time and any place of their choosing, integrating in a portable gadget a broadcast TV receiver seems almost superfluous.
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