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| Panasonic to cut 15,000 Jobs |
2/4/2009 |
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Panasonic said it will slash 15,000 jobs and shut 27 plants worldwide as the global slowdown batters the world's economy.
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| VIA Reports Revenue Drop in January |
2/4/2009 |
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VIA Technologies recently announced revenues of NT$367 million (US$11 million) for January this year, drops of 16.78% on month and 61.33% on year.
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| India unveils $20 Laptop |
2/3/2009 |
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India said it will sell a US$20 (S$30) laptop developed domestically by scientists at the Vellore Institute of Technology.
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| Chartered to axe 600 jobs |
2/3/2009 |
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Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Pte. Ltd. is reducing its worldwide workforce by approximately 600 people, or about 8 percent of its total employment.
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| Micron and MosAid settle IP Infringement |
2/3/2009 |
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Micron Technology Inc. will license the patent portfolio of Mosaid Technologies Inc., and Mosaid will acquire 400 Micron patents under the terms of an agreement to settle pending litigation.
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| SanDisk post 4th Quarter Loss |
2/3/2009 |
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SanDisk posted a net loss in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles of $1.86 billion, or $8.25 per share, on revenue of $864 million for the fourth quarter of 2008.
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| ProMos to receive NT$5 Billion in Loan |
2/3/2009 |
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ProMOS Technologies, one of Taiwan's financially-troubled DRAM chip suppliers, will receive a syndicated loan of NT$5 billion (US$148 million) from nine local banks.
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| Western Digital offers 2 Terabyte Hard Drive |
2/2/2009 |
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WD announced the first 2 terabyte (TB) hard drive - the world's highest capacity drive and the latest addition to WD's popular, environmentally friendly, cool and quiet, WD Caviar Green hard drive family.
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| Xillinx unveils latest FPGA |
2/2/2009 |
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Xilinx has announced launching the Spartan-6 and Virtex-6 families of field-programmable gate arrays.
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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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