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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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| LED backlite to outshine in 2009 |
1/21/2009 |
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Aided by rising demand from LCD-TV makers, revenue from LEDs is expected to increase by 2.9 percent in 2009, following 10.8 percent growth in 2008. In contrast, the overall semiconductor market is set to decline by 9.4 percent in 2009, according to iSuppli's latest forecast.
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| IBM beats recession |
1/21/2009 |
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Shares IBM Corp. rose more than 4% in premarket trading Wednesday, a day after delivering a full-year forecast that topped Wall Street's expectations and a 12% rise in fourth-quarter profit.
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| DDR3 adoption to delay |
1/20/2009 |
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DRAMexchange have warned that the global recession will lead to a delay in the mainstream adoption of DDR3 Memory.
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| Equipment vendors share risk on phase change memory |
1/20/2009 |
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Semiconductor equipment vendor Aixtron AG (Aachen, Germany) and Ovonyx Inc. (Rochester Hills, Mich.) have agreed to cooperate on the qualification of atomic vapor deposition (AVD) process technology for the scaling of phase change memory (PCM) products.
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| Nanya postpones fab construction |
1/20/2009 |
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Nanya Technology's plan would invest $100NT billion ($3US billion) to build the second 12-inch wafer plant. Although the Taipei county government issued a license in November for the construction project, the company has failed to proceed with the plan.
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| AMD sells handheld technology to Qualcomm |
1/20/2009 |
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Under terms of the deal, Qualcomm will hire some design and development teams from the processor specialist's handheld business, notably those involved in developing technologies to enhance mobile devices in areas including 2D and 3D graphics, audio/video, display, and architecture.
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| AMD accelerates cut back |
1/19/2009 |
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In AMD's US and Canadian operations, the company said it will enforce salary reductions of 15% for managers with titles of VP and above, 10% for all other employees who are not eligible for overtime pay, and a 5% cut to overtime pay.
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| Work hour cut seen across industry |
1/19/2009 |
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"Short-time working is used to avoid cutting jobs and keeping the expertise in the company. We believe that this way we can save our competiveness over periods when business does not run so well and when the downturn is over we can do a flying start."
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| Last chance to get your DTV converter |
1/19/2009 |
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Approximately 9 million boxes are still available for customers who have waited until the last minute to make a purchase, according to DTC's research.
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| Unprecedented hitting-of-the-brakes |
1/19/2009 |
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Based on recent statements from some of the industry's leading players, plant utilization levels could slide to 50 percent or lower in the ongoing quarter before slowly picking up in the second quarter due to what analysts describe "as inventory cleansing" at OEMs.
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