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| Fab utilization up high |
8/16/2007 |
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The utilisation rate was 89.7 percent in the quarter, up from 87.5 percent in January-March, the Semiconductor International Capacity Statistics (SICAS) group said on Thursday.
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| AMD yet to confirm NY fab |
8/16/2007 |
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AMD "has until July 2009 to decide whether to proceed with the project. After that, $1.2 billion in state incentives will expire,".
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| Sony selects Singapore for new battery plant |
8/16/2007 |
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Sony said in a statement that the facility, which is due to begin operations in August 2008, will employ about 500 people and produce up to 8 million lithium-ion polymer batteries a month.
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| Fujitsu to offer 2 lbs Lifebook |
8/15/2007 |
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"Basically, anything that can be done on laptop can be done on this," said Moore. "We really view it as a PDA replacement. It's much more robust, much more mobile and much more powerful."
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| Dell missed some back-to-school color |
8/15/2007 |
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Dell failed to deliver about 500-600 units of its newly launched color Inspiron notebooks to Taiwan-based retailer Tsann Kuen early this month as originally scheduled
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| DRAM prices resume down trend |
8/15/2007 |
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In the DRAM spot market today, prices declined sharply amid sluggish trading. For the mainstream 512Mb(64M*8)667/533MHz, prices dropped to USD2.12/2.07.
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| Hynix bets on SOI DRAM |
8/14/2007 |
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Hynix Semiconductor has licensed SOI (silicon-on-insulator) DRAM cell technology from startup Innovative Silicon. The move is startling both because it puts a massive company firmly in Innovative's camp and because Hynix intends to use the technology for a new generation of bulk DRAM chips.
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| AMD to impliment speed up algorithm |
8/14/2007 |
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"This will give AMD some advantage over Intel, but I doubt it would be as much as the 64-bit extensions did," said Nathan Brookwood, principal with market watcher Insight64 (Saratoga, Calif.) "It will take awhile for this to show up in processors," he added.
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| Electronics stocks hurted as market falls |
8/13/2007 |
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As of early afternoon Friday, the Fed's injections into the market seem to have made a relatively positive effect on Wall Street. As of 12:30 p.m. ET, the Dow was at 13,216.62, about 54 points below Thursday's closing price. The NASDAQ stood at 2,543.22, down one-half of a percentage point from Thursday's close.
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| WiMax 700MHz getting to heat up |
8/13/2007 |
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For its part, Intel began sampling last week prototypes of its Echo Peak chip set, a module that supports both 802.11n and WiMax. The module will be part of Intel's Montevina notebook platform that ships in late 2008.
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| Vietnam, the next manufacturing frontier? |
8/13/2007 |
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Rick Howarth, general manager of Intel Products Vietnam, told press that construction on the company's 500,000-square-foot facility in the Saigon Hi-Tech Park would begin in December, and was targeted for completion by mid-2009.
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| Nextest quarterly revenue down substantially |
8/10/2007 |
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NAND flash ATE maker Nextest Systems Corp. said revenue for the quarter ended June 30, was $13.78 million, down 35 percent from the March 2007 quarter revenue of $21.2 million and down 47 percent from the June 2006 quarter revenue of $26.1 billion.
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| AMD to restructure debt, tap extra fund |
8/10/2007 |
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AMD said today it will restructure some of its roughly $5 billion debt, floating $1.5 billion in convertible notes to repay a loan it had with Morgan Stanley.
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| Output for 300mm fab to double by 2008 |
8/9/2007 |
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Worldwide 300-mm capacity will double from the beginning of 2007 to the end of 2008, as 25 new 300-mm high-volume fabs come online, according to SEMI. By the end of 2008, some 73 300-mm fabs will provide over 6.2 million wafers per month.
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| Hynix, Sandisk co-develop new fab |
8/9/2007 |
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SanDisk and Hynix plan to build a joint fab for NAND flash, according to a report quote an article from Wall Street Journal as source.
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| Cisco earnings beat estimates |
8/8/2007 |
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Cisco Systems Inc. posted a higher-than-expected 25 percent rise in quarterly profit and raised its long-term revenue target as more companies bought equipment to handle Web traffic.
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