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| 2008 semi equipment spending to drop 20% |
4/17/2008 |
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Gartner Inc, a market research firm, projects spending for worldwide semiconductor capital equipment to fall 19.8% from last year to $47.5 billion amid weakening US economy and collapsing DRAM market.
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| Philips profits fall on weak TVs sales |
4/15/2008 |
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Royal Philips Electronics announced its core profit for the first quarter fell 28% on sales that increased just over half a percentage point.
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| US received 163,000 H-1B applications |
4/15/2008 |
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During the five-day window in April that the United States was accepting H-1B visa petitions, the government received 163,000 H-1B applications
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| Blockbuster made offer to buy Circuit City |
4/14/2008 |
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Blockbuster, the No. 1 U.S. movie rental chain, on Monday said it has offered to buy electronics retailer Circuit City Stores for about $1 billion to $1.3 billion in cash
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| NAND flash prices up slightly |
4/14/2008 |
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''MLC NAND prices have been moving up as well as with spot pricing for 8-Gbit MLC strengthening about 8 percent over the past couple days alone. 8-Gbit SLC has stayed pretty stable
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| AMD CTO to resign |
4/14/2008 |
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AMD said Friday that senior VP and chief technology officer Phil Hester has resigned. Hester is the third senior executive to leave AMD in less than a year.
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| Bribery allegations may cause Samsung chairman his job |
4/14/2008 |
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Samsung group chairman Lee Kun-hee is expected to step down after a second round of questioning by an independent counsel investigating allegations of bribery at the Seoul, South Korea-based consumer electronics giant, according to reports.
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| Ramtron unveil 2-Mbit FRAM |
4/11/2008 |
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Ramtron has released the industry's first 2-Mb serial F-RAM memory in an 8-lead TDFN package.
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| Micron unveils 4 GB DDR3 DIMM module |
4/10/2008 |
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Micron announced that it is sampling 4 gigabyte (GB) DDR3 modules, designed using 2 gigabit (Gb) components, to provide the industry’s highest density DDR3 modules for notebook computers.
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| VIA and SIS may skip Computex |
4/9/2008 |
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Chipset makers VIA Technologies and Silicon Integrated System (SiS) have decided not to participate in Computex 2008.
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| Intel delays P45 chipset |
4/4/2008 |
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The delay of the chipset is due to problems over compatibility between the chipset's PCI Express x16 port and graphics cards, noted the sources, adding that Intel has notified them that the problem should be solved and ready to launch 2-4 weeks.
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| Intel to use Atom on low cost notebook |
4/4/2008 |
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Future Classmate PCs will be built with the Intel Atom processor because it is an energy-efficient, low-cost computer chip designed to provide wireless capability to small mobile computing devices such as netbooks. Atom processors range from 800 MHz to 1.86 GHz in speed.
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