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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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| 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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