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| Price and demand continue to slide |
9/17/2008 |
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Some orders were even said to be cancelled. DRAM makers thus have no alternative but to lower their price further. Given that the downward price trend is solid, prices should hit bottom in October.
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| LTX-Credence Corp merger to cost jobs |
9/17/2008 |
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As are often the case when two industry specialists merge, such actions are not entirely unexpected. David Tacelli, CEO and president of the new test company and former CEO and president of LTX, said on a conference call.
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| Solar energy credit to expire |
9/17/2008 |
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Tax credits passed by the House will create more than 1.2 million employment opportunities, including 440,000 permanent jobs, and $232 billion in investment would be supported by the solar energy sector though 2016 if Congress extends the solar tax credit.
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| Samsung appeals to public to buy SanDisk |
9/17/2008 |
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"We believe Samsung's proposal does not provide appropriate value to our stockholders and is opportunistically timed at the trough of an industry-wide downturn," said Eli Harari, SanDisk's chairman and CEO.
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| Elpida predicts the DRAM market healthier next year |
9/16/2008 |
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Elpida and the other DRAM vendors cut prices to keep their fabs operating and to be well-positioned when an upturn came. But it did not come, and prices plummeted. Elpida's CFO, Toshiaki Hagiwara, called the price decrease a "huge plunge".
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| Toshiba is the latest to join bid for SanDisk |
9/16/2008 |
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Toshiba and SanDisk have been NAND partners for several years. The two companies compete in the market, but they are also partners in a NAND chip venture. SanDisk has a 49.9 percent ownership interest in Flash Partners Ltd., a business venture with Toshiba which owns 50.1 percent. Formed in fiscal year 2004, the 300-mm fab continues to produce NAND.
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| Wall Street meltdown to spill into hi-tech stocks |
9/16/2008 |
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The Dow industrials slumped more than 500 points to post their biggest one-day percentage loss since July 2002, while the S&P posted its worst one-day percentage loss since September 2001. Stocks in Europe, Asia and South America also plunged on the Lehman news and as Bank of America's weekend agreement to buy Merrill Lynch stirred concerns about mounting global economic problems. The dollar slumped on the wide aversion to risk, posting its biggest one-day drop against the yen in nine years.
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| TI to build Kilby Labs for innovations |
9/15/2008 |
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The facility aims to bring university researchers and leading TI engineers together to discover and develop life-changing opportunities for semiconductor technology, ranging from new ways to make health care more mobile to harnessing new power sources to enabling more fuel-efficient vehicles
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| New network algorithm to reduce power usage |
9/15/2008 |
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The company's Cypress system finds and eliminates duplicated files as it reads them, compresses what is left and keeps disks in a low power state when not needed. The result is a network-attached storage device that consumes an estimated 80 percent less power than its competitors,
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| NXP restructure, 4500 affected |
9/15/2008 |
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Frans van Houten, president and CEO of NXP (Eindhoven, Netherlands) told a teleconference that "redundancies are inevitable" with the biggest impact coming in the Netherlands, Germany, France and the United States.
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| Embedded SD Card to hit market soon |
9/12/2008 |
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SD Card Assiciation announced it will enter the embedded storage market in November, and it rolled out a standard for these storage devices Thursday.
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| 32GB CompactFlash Card from Sandisk |
9/12/2008 |
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SanDisk unveiled a 32-GB CompactFlash card, the company's largest CF storage device for professional digital photographers and videographers.
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| Micron to lower 2009 capital spending |
9/12/2008 |
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Micron Technology Inc. has quietly lowered its capital spending and is re-thinking the spin-off of its CMOS image sensor unit, according to an analyst.
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| Gartner cut 2008 chip forecast shipment |
9/12/2008 |
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Market research firm Gartner Inc. has revised its 2008 and 2009 semiconductor forecasts downward, saying macroeconomic trends, the collapse of the NAND flash memory market
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| Apple hit 4th place in notebook market ranking |
9/11/2008 |
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Apple has risen to fourth place in the home notebook PC market, driven by its success at attracting younger, more highly educated, and higher-income households, as well as the self-employed, a research firm said.
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| MEMS chip could prevent automobile accidents |
9/11/2008 |
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High aspect ratio microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) could harness the physics of inertial mass to enhance the sensitivity, signal-to-noise ratio and mechanical dampening of accelerometers for automobile airbags.
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| Elpida, Powerchip to reduce DRAM output |
9/10/2008 |
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Elpida Memory Inc. and its Taiwan partner, Powerchip Semiconductor Corp., have cut their production rates amid a downturn in the sector, according to reports.
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| HP annoucned 24 hours battery for notebook |
9/10/2008 |
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Hewlett-Packard launched a notebook configuration that the company claimed would provide 24 hours of battery runtime, beating claims by rivalDell by about five hours.
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| Intel goes green on Xeon chips |
9/9/2008 |
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Intel rolled out four halogen-free 45-nm Xeon processors and said all previously launched versions of the Xeon 5200 and 5400 series will now be halogen-free.
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