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| Elpida delivers smaller die DRAM |
10/7/2008 |
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Elpida’s chip size shrink was made possible by leveraging a new architecture on first-generation 65-nm process products, and estimates that costs for the shrunken version of 65-nm products will be approximately 20% less compared to first-generation products, the company explained.
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| Silicon shortage impedes solar growth |
10/7/2008 |
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Solar panel sales have been rapidly rising in the last several years, but the silicon shortage prevented the panel makers using crystalline technology to fully respond to demand. Thus silicon-based panels declined from about 93 percent to about 89 percent market share from 2004 to 2007, said Mints. The solar industry will become the largest user of raw silicon in 2008, outpacing the semiconductor industry
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| Samsung: "a cut above the competition" |
10/7/2008 |
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strong revenue growth over the past few years, with the highest increase occurring in the digital media division, which reported a 31 percent sales surge in 2007 on top of a 28 percent increase in 2006. Even in the distressed telecommunications networking business, Samsung's sales grew 16 percent in 2007 after falling slightly in 2006.
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| AMD to spin off Fab. |
10/7/2008 |
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As part of the long-awaited and expected plan--which impacts 3,000 jobs--AMD (Sunnyvale, Calif.) will spin off its manufacturing operations into a new foundry company that could compete against TSMC, UMC, and possibly, one of its partners in Chartered. So, in effect, AMD will essentially become a fabless design house.
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| AMD to launch new Shanghai Processor |
10/6/2008 |
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AMD said it will launch the 45nm server processors (Shanghai) in mid-October 2009 with core frequencies between 2.3-2.7GHz will be offerered initially, according to sources at server makers.
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| Promos to shut down 8-inch wafer fab |
10/6/2008 |
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ProMOS Technologies said that since it has already successfully migrated all foundry products, as well as its own proprietary legacy products, from the 8-inch wafer fab (FAB 1) to the 12-inch wafer fab (FAB 2).
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| VIA reports drop in revenue |
10/6/2008 |
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VIA Technologies has reported September 2008 revenues of only US$17.47 million, drops of 22.9% on month and 52.48% on year.
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| Elpida unveils DDR2 65nm DRAM |
10/6/2008 |
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Elpida Memory announced that it has developed a shrunken version of its 1Gb DDR2 SDRAM that delivers 20% more chips from a single 65nnm-processed 300mm wafer.
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| Microchip made offer to buy Atmel |
10/3/2008 |
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Microchip Technology Inc. and On Semiconductor Corp. made an unsolicited offer to buy chip maker Atmel Corp. for $2.3 billion and split the assets.
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| HP releases its own smartphone |
10/3/2008 |
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Aiming to push its hardware beyond the corporate world, Hewlett-Packard will release a new version of its iPaq smartphone that will also be marketed to consumers
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| Toshiba has no intention to bid for Sandisk |
10/3/2008 |
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Toshiba Corp. is unlikely to make a counter-bid for flash memory card maker SanDisk that would challenge Samsung's offer on the table, the Japanese company's Chief Executive Officer Atsutoshi Nishida has said.
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| Micron to cut Capex in 2009 |
10/2/2008 |
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Micron Technology Inc. announced some cost control measures after reporting a $1.6 billion loss for its fiscal year ended Aug. 28, but conceded that it faces ongoing challenges in a memory market plagued by oversupply and price degradation.
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| Intel to continue investment despite market turbulence |
10/1/2008 |
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Intel Corp. will continue to invest in products and technologies even though it sees that a U.S. financial meltdown is likely to affect the emerging markets that are crucial for its growth, its chairman said.
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| Tivo turns PCs into TV recorder |
10/1/2008 |
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TiVo Inc. and Nero AG of Germany announced that they will be launching a package that turns a Windows PC into a TV recorder, just like a TiVo set-top box.
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| Largest Hynix shareholder to sell stake |
9/29/2008 |
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The Korea Exchange Bank (KEB), the single largest shareholder of Hynix Semiconductor Inc., plans to sell its combined 36 percent stake that it holds with eight other companies in the chip maker, according to Reuters.
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