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| Altera delivers upbeat earnings |
10/15/2008 |
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Altera Corp. said third-quarter profit climbed 37 percent, topping Wall Street targets and sending its shares up nearly 9 percent.
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| Maxim acquired video compression chip maker |
10/15/2008 |
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Analog chip maker Maxim Integrated Products Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Mobilygen Inc., a developer of H.264 video compression chips.
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| Intel profits jump, uncertain about 4th quarter |
10/15/2008 |
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Intel said profits rose 12% in the third quarter because of higher margins and lower expenses, but the chipmaker said it was uncertain of the impact the global financial crisis would have on the rest of the year.
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| Global technology spending slowing down |
10/14/2008 |
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Gartner Inc. sharply cut its forecast for global technology spending next year, seeing a drop in spending in Western Europe and a slim rise in the United States.
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| HP to setup second PC production in China |
10/13/2008 |
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Aiming to raise its profile in the growing Chinese market, Hewlett-Packard said that it will open a second manufacturing plant in that country, to be located in the west China city of Chongqing.
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| Fabless market's growth slowing down |
10/13/2008 |
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Fabless semiconductor company revenue totaled $13.9 billion in the second quarter of 2008, rising 4 percent quarter-over-quarter and 9 percent year-over-year
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| Qimonda set for restructuring |
10/13/2008 |
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Qimonda will change its product focus, reduce capacities and shut down production lines. About 3000 jobs in Germany and the U.S will be cut.
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| Micron takes over Qimonda's Inotera stake |
10/13/2008 |
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Qimonda AG announced that it has reached an agreement with Micron Technology, Inc. to sell its 35.6 percent stake in Inotera Memories Inc., its joint venture with Nanya Technology Corporation, to Micron.
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| Electric fuel charger boost mileage by 20% |
10/10/2008 |
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Recently completed six months of road testing with a diesel-powered Mercedes-Benz. The tests increased fuel efficiency from 32 to 38 MPG on highways (a 20 percent boost) and a 12 to 15 percent gain in city-driving mileage. The researchers claim the device could also be adapted to gasoline, biodiesel and kerosene.
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| Turn your lights into network connection |
10/10/2008 |
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The initiative seeks to use visible light beams for communications between wireless devices and LED-based lighting fixtures. The LED-based scheme could also be used to communicate between automobiles that are increasingly using LEDs. The overall goal is to build new communications capbilities into all LED lights while alleviating congestion in current RF bands.
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| Micron to layoff 15% |
10/10/2008 |
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Micron (Boise) blamed the moves on a lingering memory downturn caused by declining demand and product oversupply. The company said NAND average selling prices (ASPs) have fallen significantly below manufacturing costs, particularly for 200-mm lines.
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| Capex down 25% in 2008 |
10/9/2008 |
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In a survey of what Intel, AMD, Samsung and the rest of the chip industry will spend on processor manufacturing, Gartner found that capital spending will decline 25 percent in 2008 and drop further in 2009. The drop in spending is related to oversupply of DRAM and NAND flash memory.
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| DataRam acquires Cenatek for SSD technology |
10/9/2008 |
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The company's high speed storage systems productsleverage patented solid state disk hardware and RAMDisk software technologyto set new standards for price and performance.
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| Konarka opens Solar Power Plastic plant |
10/9/2008 |
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"Our technical leadership and innovation in flexible thin film solar, along with this facility's capabilities of producing in excess of 10 million square meters of material per year, will allow us to produce Power Plastic for indoor, portable, outdoor and building integrated applications."
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| IBM's profit defying market financial crsis |
10/9/2008 |
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Shares of IBM rose 6 percent in after-market trade on the news on Wednesday (Oct. 8), which came after technology shares have been hammered by fears that a global recession would crush corporate IT spending.
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| German institution to develope Lithium-polymer battery |
10/8/2008 |
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Over the next three years, the Fraunhofer Institutes in Germany will collaborate with Volkswagen to explore lithium-polymer accumulators as alternatives to the lithium-ion batteries today’s vehicles often use.
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| Google to award robotic race to the moon |
10/8/2008 |
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Google is offering $30 million to international competitors in a race to see which can safely land a robot on the lunar surface. The two new teams bring the number of competitors for the Lunar X Prize to 14.
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| Down economy to affect cell phone market |
10/8/2008 |
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While industry executives often say cellphones are the last thing consumers will give up to save money, analysts are now citing lengthening phone replacement cycles and weakening economies around the world for their weaker sales estimates.
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| China losing glamour to Vietnam and India |
10/7/2008 |
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As Gartner lowers its forecast for Asia/Pacific semiconductor growth, it notes the China/Hong Kong market is expected to continue to experience sustained lower growth, as compared to emerging markets like India and Vietnam.
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