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Toshiba is the latest to join bid for SanDisk 9/16/2008
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.
Wall Street meltdown to spill into hi-tech stocks 9/16/2008
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.
ITC to investigate LSI/Freescale infringement case 9/15/2008
Freescale filed the complaint on Aug. 15, requesting that the ITC issue an exclusion order and a cease and desist order, the ITC said.
TI to build Kilby Labs for innovations 9/15/2008
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
New network algorithm to reduce power usage 9/15/2008
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,
NXP restructure, 4500 affected 9/15/2008
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.
Embedded SD Card to hit market soon 9/12/2008
SD Card Assiciation announced it will enter the embedded storage market in November, and it rolled out a standard for these storage devices Thursday.
32GB CompactFlash Card from Sandisk 9/12/2008
SanDisk unveiled a 32-GB CompactFlash card, the company's largest CF storage device for professional digital photographers and videographers.
Micron to lower 2009 capital spending 9/12/2008
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.
Gartner cut 2008 chip forecast shipment 9/12/2008
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
Intrinsity, Samsung inked deal develop high speed controller 9/11/2008
Intrinsity Inc. this week signed an agreement with the System LSI division of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd to develop high performance, low power processors using its 1-of-N Domino Logic technology.
Apple hit 4th place in notebook market ranking 9/11/2008
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.
MEMS chip could prevent automobile accidents 9/11/2008
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.
Chartered to meet lower end of guidance 9/10/2008
Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Pte. Ltd. said that it expects to be at the lower end of its previous sales guidance.
Elpida, Powerchip to reduce DRAM output 9/10/2008
Elpida Memory Inc. and its Taiwan partner, Powerchip Semiconductor Corp., have cut their production rates amid a downturn in the sector, according to reports.
HP annoucned 24 hours battery for notebook 9/10/2008
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.
Toshiba unveils 240GB hard disk for ultra-notebook 9/10/2008
Toshiba introduced a 240 GB hard disk drive for ultra-mobile PCs and a 120 GB HDD for portable media players.
Intel goes green on Xeon chips 9/9/2008
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.
Weakness in IC market to continue 9/9/2008
Based on some key indicators from Taiwan's chip and PC houses, the signs in the IC industry are going from bad to worse.
Intel ships SSD for PCs 9/9/2008
Intel started shipping two solid-state drives for desktop and notebook PCs.
Michael Dell spent $100 million on Dell stocks 9/9/2008
Michael Dell sees value in Dell by spending $100 million late last week to acquire 4.7 million shares, according to a Federal filing Monday.
AMD to release competitive desktop CPUs early next year, report said 9/8/2008
Advanced Micro Devices will bring out processors early next year that appear to be much more competitive with Intel offerings, according to a report.
National Semi net earnings down 9/8/2008
National Semiconductor reported sales for its fiscal Q1 2009 ended August 24 of $466 million, up 1% from fiscal Q4 and down 1% from fiscal Q1, while fiscal Q1 net income dropped to $80 million, or 33 cents per share, from net income in fiscal Q4 of $83 million, or 34 cents per share.
TSMC reportedly see slower 4th quarter 9/8/2008
Leading foundry chip vendor TSMC is seeing orders down substantially in the fourth quarter, according to Tristan Gerra, an analyst with financial management company Robert W. Baird & Co..
Reports said Samsung interested in buying Sandisk 9/8/2008
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is considering acquiring SanDisk Corp., according to reports.
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