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| Indian companies anxious to buy Motorola |
4/3/2008 |
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Chairman of Videocon Industries Ltd., as saying that "we have hired one of the world's top three investment bankers, who will convey our interest to buy out the mobile-handset business of the U.S. company."
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| Solar efficiency boosted by gallium selenide |
4/3/2008 |
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CIGS technology converts 19.9 percent of the sunlight hitting the cell into power, beating the previous mark of 19.5 percent and nearing the multicrystaline silicon cell record of 20.3 percent.
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| DRAM leaders said: No price hike |
4/1/2008 |
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``As far as I know, Samsung Electronics has no immediate plans to raise contract computer chip prices to major clients,’’ a Samsung source who is familiar with the situation told The Korea Times Monday.
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| Gartner releases 2007 semi manufacturer ranking |
4/1/2008 |
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Three vendors in the top 10 reporting double-digit growth while four vendors showed declines in revenue, Stamford, Conn-based market research company Gartner Inc reported worldwide semiconductor revenue of $273.9 billion in 2007, a 3.8% increase from 2006.
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| European smart card security compromised |
4/1/2008 |
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Chaos Computer Club (CCC) experts along with colleagues from the University of Virginia cracked the encoding scheme with little effort. The achievement allows the crackers to read out data, recharge payment cards, copy RFID cards or generate "new" users.
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| Dell to eliminate Austin manufacturing |
4/1/2008 |
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Plans to save $3 billion annually over the next three years by closing its Austin, Texas desktop computer manufacturing plant and cutting thousands of jobs.
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| Rambus threatened to file injunction agains Hynix |
3/31/2008 |
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Fresh off a major courtroom victory over Hynix Semiconductor and other manufacturers, Rambus says it's considering seeking an injunction against Hynix to keep it from making memory chips that infringe on its patents.
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| Elpida calls for 20% increase in chip prices |
3/31/2008 |
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Elpida will inform computer makers that it plans to increase prices 10 percent in the first half of next month and another 10 percent in the second half of April after demand rose and inventory levels fell, Chief Executive Officer Yukio Sakamoto said in a Bloomberg Television interview broadcast today.
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| Printable solar cells? |
3/31/2008 |
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Printed electronics technology promises extremely low cost, flexible, and disposable circuitry that can be manufactured with custom inkjet printers or high-speed presses with designers using multilayer ink formulations.
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| Indian tech companies owns work but not the IP |
3/31/2008 |
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Indian engineers' names appear on patents they help develop for their overseas clients, but the overseas customers own those patents. India companies typically file invention disclosures on behalf of their customers, but rarely own any IP based on their work.
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| iPhone to go full 3G |
3/31/2008 |
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"Our latest channel checks point to a significant production build of a 3G iPhone beginning in the month of June after a initial small build in May,"
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| Corning opens LCD glass factory in China |
3/28/2008 |
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Corning Inc officially announced the opening of its first thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) glass substrate manufacturing facility in Beijing, China.
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| Red Hat expects growth amid economic downturn |
3/28/2008 |
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Red Hat Inc. said Thursday its fourth-quarter profit rose 7 percent as the software distributor worked to expand the footprint of its open source products with costly internal investments.
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| Oracle missed sales but beat earning targets |
3/27/2008 |
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Oracle announced fiscal third-quarter earnings rose 30% from a year ago, in line with Wall Street expectations. But sales missed forecasts, a possible sign that big businesses may be starting to pull back on tech spending.
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| Rambus got victory this round |
3/27/2008 |
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Rambus won a major court victory Wednesday in its decade-long effort to get royalties from the world's major DRAM makers.
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| Worldwide Semi equipment sales up in 2007 |
3/27/2008 |
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Worldwide sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment rose 6% over $40.47 billion in 2006 to $42.77 billion, industry association Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI)reported.
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| PC industry experinced battery shortage |
3/26/2008 |
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Dell Inc said the market was experiencing a shortage of laptop batteries partly because of a recent fire at a major supplier, but the company was working with other suppliers to limit any price increases.
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| Motorola to spin off handset division |
3/26/2008 |
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Motorola Inc. announced plans to separate its struggling handset business from other operations Wednesday, forming two separate, publicly traded companies.
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| Analyst lowers Micron's earning estimates |
3/26/2008 |
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Semiconductor analyst lowered estimates on Micron Technology Inc’s February quarter estimates due to a combination of memory price deterioration, lower gross margin assumptions, and weaker than initially anticipated image sensor volumes.
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| Slower economic might hurt PC growth |
3/26/2008 |
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Worldwide PC shipments are forecast to reach 293 million units this year, a 10.9% jump from 2007, a market research firm said. But weaker economic could drive the growth down to single digit.
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| Renesas plans to expand back-end production |
3/25/2008 |
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Renesas Technology announced plans to invest four billion yuan (US$566.4 million) to add a new building at its back-end process plant to increase its capacity for micro-controller production.
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| 40nm manufacturing process by TSMC |
3/25/2008 |
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TSMC announced its first 40 nm manufacturing process technology that includes a full design service package and a design ecosystem that covers verified third party IP, third party EDA tools, TSMC-generated SPICE models and foundation IPs.
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