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| Sub-notebook - a huge market for SSD |
8/13/2008 |
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SSD vendors may have finally found a ''killer application'' for SSDs, which are based on NAND flash memories. The ultra mobile PC, netbook and related sub-notebook segments could become a big driver for SSDs, said Doreet Oren, director of product marketing for SSDs at SanDisk Corp.
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| AMD Dresden production manager left |
8/13/2008 |
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After less than two years at AMD's Dresden site, the company's manufacturing vice president Elke Eckstein has moved on. One of Germany's very few female semiconductor managers now is Chief Operating Officer for Osram Opto Semiconductor in Regensburg
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| Global wafer shipments increase 6%, SEMI said |
8/12/2008 |
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Reflecting macroeconomic concerns and following the slightly weaker Q1, silicon wafer area shipments on a worldwide basis grew more than 6% sequentially during Q2 over Q1 area shipments
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| Toshiba unveils 32GB NAND flash |
8/12/2008 |
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Toshiba Corp. launched 32GB embedded NAND flash memory devices that fully comply with the eMMC and eSD standards.
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| Lenovo reports $110 million quarterly profit |
8/11/2008 |
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Lenovo Group Ltd., the world's fourth-largest PC maker, posted a 65.3 percent rise in net quarterly profit, the slowest growth in a year, as it copes with a U.S. slowdown and weaker Chinese demand after a devastating earthquake.
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| TSMC, UMC July sales dropped |
8/11/2008 |
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TSMC and UMC both announced July sales that were weakened by the global slowing on a macroeconomic level.
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| Intel to release energy saving Core i7 chip |
8/11/2008 |
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Intel Corp. said it plans to sell its new generation of chips for desktop computers under the established "Core" brand, with the first chips of the new line to be called Core i7.
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| IBM to reduce pay on 3500 employees |
8/8/2008 |
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“The pay changes are being done to reduce costs and improve competitiveness, and also to reflect pay practices of other companies in the IT industry. We did a survey of competitors and found that most of those who have this alternate type of work schedule don’t pay a premium and those who do only pay about half of what IBM does."
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| Nvidia to use Transmeta's LongRun 2 technology |
8/8/2008 |
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The LongRun2 technology is a set of advanced power management, leakage control and process compensation technologies that are meant to reduce the negative effects of increasing leakage power and process variations in new process geometries.
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| 3 companies to joint develop new package technology |
8/8/2008 |
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The foundation of the technology that the companies hope will become a standard is Infineon's embedded wafer-level ball grid array technology that uses a combination of traditional front-end and back-end semiconductor manufacturing techniques with parallel processing of all the chips on the wafer, meant to lead to reduced manufacturing costs. The increased level of integration of the silicon's overall protective package, along with a higher number of external contacts.
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| Elpida to form joint-venture Chinese DRAM plant |
8/7/2008 |
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The joint venture will be located on a site area of 320,000 square meters, and expects to start operations in Q1 2010, with initial production plans calling for 40,000 wafers per month (wpm), rising to 80,000 wpm at a later time.
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| Hynix/Numonyx set to broaden joint development on NAND |
8/7/2008 |
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The synergies between the companies, combined with Numonyx's 40 year legacy in non-volatile memory and experience developing firmware, microcontroller and other system solutions will be key factors in helping to solve the limitations of the technology–moving NAND from raw silicon to systems, Hynix and Numonyx purport.
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| Beijing uses hi-tech to control Olympics weather |
8/7/2008 |
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The p575 will provide 10 times the computational power of the BMB's current weather-forecasting system. In addition to providing up-to-the-hour forecasts, it will be used to help predict air quality in Beijing and to improve the accuracy of forecasts in the regions surrounding the capital.
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| Lenovo stock climbs |
8/7/2008 |
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China's largest maker of personal computers reported a net profit of $110.49 million from April to June, versus a $66.84 million profit a year ago.
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| DRAM prices to hang low for another quarter |
8/6/2008 |
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Average DRAM contract price is expected to decline by more than 10% from the current level by the end of the third quarter. The inventory level in the channel and among PC OEMs has increased compared to the second quarter. Global economic conditions are adding more uncertainty on the demand side of the equation.
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| Tessera's McWilliams to transition out |
8/6/2008 |
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McWilliams is transitioning to a new role as chief strategy officer. Henry ''Hank'' Nothhaft, current vice chairman of the board, will become president and chief executive, effective immediately. McWilliams will remain chairman of Tessera's board of directors.
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| Digital TV to dominate Western Europe |
8/6/2008 |
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Germany will grow from 15.3 million households with digital TV in 2007 to 30.4 million in 2013. France, currently in second place with 18 million households, will retain that position with 26.9 million in 2013. The UK, in the lead at the end of 2007 with 22.3 million households, will slip to third by 2013, with 26.46 million households.
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| Cisco grows on global Internet boom |
8/6/2008 |
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Cisco has benefited as global phone companies and large corporations upgrade their networks to meet growing Internet use, but investors have been worried that a weaker economy could weigh on technology spending.
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| 64bit PC applications can be salvation to DRAM prices |
8/5/2008 |
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The best way to solve an inventory build-up is to ship more product, and in this case, the best way to ship more product is to ship 64-bit Vista and lots of RAM. If the two are indeed linked, we should see an increasing shift to 64-bit Vista over the next few months.
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| Intel publish paper on many-core architecture |
8/5/2008 |
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It uses a 1024 bits-wide, bi-directional ring network (i.e., 512 bits in each direction) to allow agents to communicate with each other in low latency manner resulting in super fast communication between cores.
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| Semiconductor ranking tabulated |
8/5/2008 |
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Market research company uncovered a big shakeup in ranking, which includes 8 US companies, including three fabless semiconductor suppliers; 6 Japanese companies; 3 European companies; 2 South Korean; and one Taiwanese company.
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