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| Semiconductor firms raised 44% less fund in 3rd quarter |
11/4/2008 |
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Semiconductor companies raised $231.6 million in venture capital during the third quarter, a decrease of 44 percent from the second quarter and a year-over-year decrease of 57 percent from the third quarter of 2007, according to a new report from the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) trade group.
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| Atmel turned down cash offer |
11/3/2008 |
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Atmel has rejected an unsolicited bid from Microchip Technology Inc and ON Semiconductor proposing a joint acquisition of the company for $5 per share in cash, a total value of approximately $2.3 billion
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| NAND flash revenue to fall in 2009, firm projected |
11/3/2008 |
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iSuppli projected worldwide NAND flash memory revenue will fall by 14% to the $12 billion level in 2008, down from $13.9 billion in 2007. In 2009, global NAND flash memory revenue will decline by another 15%, according to the research company's data.
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| Winbond picks up legacy memory outsourcing |
10/31/2008 |
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Winbond is planning to manufacture the orders at its 12-inch fab and since the orders are mostly for high gross margin items, the outsourcing is expected to boost the company's overall gross margin.
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| Intel continue to invest in green energy China |
10/31/2008 |
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Making its first two cleantech investments in China, Intel Capital will devote $20 million to Trony Solar Holdings and announces plans to invest in electricity storage systems company NP Holdings.
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| Sony battery recall in effect |
10/31/2008 |
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There have been 19 reports of the batteries overheating, including 17 reports of fire, the CPSC said, with two people experiencing minor burns.
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| Freescale to layoff 10% |
10/31/2008 |
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Freescale (Austin, Texas)said it would reduce its global workforce by about 2,400 jobs as part of a restructuring program that the company expects will save more than $400 million per year.
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| Qimonda at point of no return |
10/30/2008 |
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On Wednesday, the company's stock was trading at 19 cents, which means it's down a staggering 98% from its 52-week high.
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| Motorola postpone mobile spin off |
10/30/2008 |
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The company on Thursday (Oct. 30) announced a loss of $397 million for the September quarter and said the separation of its two major business divisions would no longer occur in the third quarter of 2009 as previously planned.
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| Q3 Semi sales holds up |
10/30/2008 |
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Sales grew by 1.1 percent from August 2008 when sales were $22.7 billion. Sales of $196.4 billion for the first nine months of 2008 were up by 4 percent compared to the first nine months of 2007 when sales were $189 billion.
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| Mobile phone market losing growth momentum |
10/30/2008 |
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"We expect lackluster shipments in developed regions during the Holiday Season to be accompanied by less buoyant demand in select emerging markets suffering from weaker consumer sentiment. We predict 1.23 billion units for the full-year 2008, up 9 percent from 2007"
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| Notebook shipment surpass desktop |
10/29/2008 |
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The third quarter of 2008 (3Q08) saw notebook shipments into the U.S. market surpass 50% share, topping quarterly desktop PC shipments for the first time in the history of the industry. The share of notebooks shipped in the U.S. in 3Q08 stood at a solid 55.2%.
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| Broadcom completed acquisition on AMD DTV |
10/29/2008 |
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Broadcom said it anticipates AMD’s DTV business will have Q4 revenue between $15 and $20 million. The anticipated dilutive impact to EPS (earnings per share) of $0.04 to $0.05 per share in 2009,
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| Market speculations: TSMC to merge Chartered |
10/29/2008 |
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The report came at a time when technology companies, including chip foundries, are facing a slowing global economy that has taken a toll on consumer spending on new computers, mobile phones and flat-screen TVs that require microchips.
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| AMD promotes Rivet to Chief Operations Officer |
10/28/2008 |
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The promotions follow on major changes at AMD in recent weeks, ones that saw the company spin out its manufacturing operations into a new company. That move is expected to allow AMD to focus its resources more on technology, as well as help the company move back to quarterly profits.
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| SMIC Shanghai gets 32nm technology |
10/28/2008 |
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As early of January 1, the foundry can launch 32-nm logic process development in all of its own manufacturing facilities and can start 32-nm flash R&D in its 300-mm fab in Wuhan, China.
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| Toshiba launches 43nm SLC NAND |
10/28/2008 |
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The new lineup includes three products—16Gb, 32Gb and 64Gb—which integrate 43-nm monolithic 16Gb chips, the highest density SLC NAND chips available, according to Toshiba.
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| Vendors to build reduced spec. 11n |
10/28/2008 |
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Atheros Communications Inc. will try to drive 802.11n into mainstream Wi-Fi markets with a new line of chips. By stripping out support for multiple radios, Atheros is betting it can create a new class of higher volume 11n devices that hit the estimated $3-5 pricing of 11g parts but deliver better performance.
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| Happening at the Taipei IDF |
10/28/2008 |
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Comparing Intel’s X25-E Extreme SATA SSD with other current SSD offerings in the market, Intel’s solution features capacity of either 32 or 64GB and SATA1.5/3.0 interface with read/write speed up to 250MB/s and 170MB/s respectively.
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| Horizons: Semi market changed but not doomed |
10/27/2008 |
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"2009, could slip negative, depending on what happens to IC unit growth. At the moment we think this highly unlikely, given (a) the 6.1 percent advanced and developing market GDP growth forecast and (b) the fact there have only been two years of negative IC unit growth in the last 23 years, namely 1985 and 2001, both triggered by a massive inventory build."
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| Kingston braced for down turn |
10/27/2008 |
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Tu, who is visiting Gitex this week, said the company is positioned to weather the current global economic crisis. "Financially we are very strong." Tu also said the company has solid cash reserves, but did not specify.
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| Division between phone and computer gets blur |
10/27/2008 |
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But in five years, the market will see many "shades of gray" in mobile computing devices, predicted the Nokia executive. Smart phones and mobile computers are "converging and colliding,"
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| HDTV growth to explode |
10/27/2008 |
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Costs to providers to generate and deliver HD content are declining and the savings is being passed along to consumers.
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| Samsung report 40% drop in Profits |
10/24/2008 |
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Samsung posted a profit of US$856 million in the quarter, down 43 percent from the previous period and down 44 percent from a year ago.
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