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| Toshiba may exit high def. DVD market |
2/18/2008 |
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Toshiba is expected to announce soon a retreat in the high definition DVD battle, with analysts suggesting the Japanese group and its backers would abandon its HD-DVD effort, leaving the stage clear for the Sony backed Blu-ray format.
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| Goldman downgrades DRAM supply industry |
2/15/2008 |
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Goldman Sachs chip analyst James Covello today downgraded both Micron (MU) and Novellus (NVLS) to Sell from Neutral, citing expectations that DRAMs will be in excess supply throughout 2008,
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| Hynix to sell spot market again |
2/15/2008 |
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In September last year, Hynix stopped providing DRAM chips to the spot market after its second-quarter profits dropped 35 percent due to the supply glut in the chip industry. Hynix had previously sold about 16 percent of its total DRAM production on the spot market.
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| Fab Capex to drop |
2/15/2008 |
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A recent analysis of SEMI’s fab database reports revealed that spending on fab equipment this year is expected to decline 15% compared to the 9% growth last year, reflecting a downward revision of the outlook reported in the October 2007 fab database report.
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| Software needed to utilize multi-core |
2/15/2008 |
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Core counts will quickly rising to eight or more per chip. But software developers are still stuck with a mainly serial programming model that cannot easily take advantage of the new hardware.
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| Wii to unseat Xbox 360 |
2/15/2008 |
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The installed base of the Wii is expected to rise to 30.2 million units in 2008, up from 18 million last year, iSuppli said. This will take the Wii beyond the Xbox 360's projected total of 25.7 million this year.
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| Analyst now clear AMD Puma gliches |
2/14/2008 |
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“Follow-up calls with AMD confirmed that AMD is not having Puma technical issues. According to AMD sources the processor and chipset (an industry first with DX.10 support) is functioning as expected,”
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| Smart Modular acquired SSD company |
2/14/2008 |
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Adtron, a designer and manufacturer of solid state flash disk drives, has been acquired. SMART Modular Technologies, which is based in Fremont, California.
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| Module makers place hope on DDR3 |
2/14/2008 |
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Makers are optimistic the market will pick up in H2 2008 when Windows Vista fully takes off and demand for high-capacity modules heightens. Suppliers expect that computers that integrate Windows Vista will account for 60 to 70 percent of the DRAM market.
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| 3 companies to form JV for LCD driver |
2/14/2008 |
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In doing so, Renesas and Sharp will consolidate their business operations in the field to create the new company, Renesas SP Drivers Inc, which will design, develop, sell, and market the drivers and controllers.
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| AMD might have glitch on upcoming Puma |
2/14/2008 |
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''Our channel checks suggest AMD's Puma platform for notebooks may have a technical glitch. We have not been able to confirm this with AMD and if a problem exists, AMD could have a fix in the works that saves the launch,''
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| Chip to enhance mobile internet experience |
2/14/2008 |
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The aim is to make Web-browsing on a mobile phone similar to that on a computer, and do away with the frustrating and common experience of slow or non-functioning links and downloads.
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| 2007 DRAM supplier ranking confirmed |
2/13/2008 |
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Hynix Semiconductor remained the second largest DRAM maker as its revenue grew 19% to $6.7 billion. The revenue increase coupled with the revenue declines of most other DRAM manufacturers resulted in Hynix growing its global DRAM market share from 16.6% in 2006 to 21.3% in 2007.
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| Micron to support nano research at university |
2/13/2008 |
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This gift to the university will support research and education in microelectronics. Micron says relationships with universities offer unique opportunities for students and faculty to enhance research activities that support the roadmap of the semiconductor industry.
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| Un-maned cargo space ship to launch |
2/13/2008 |
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The Jules Verne was built by Astrium, an aerospace subsidiary of the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co., and will be placed in orbit 250 miles above the Earth. Launch is scheduled for March 8.
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| AMD emphasis on new computer software stack |
2/13/2008 |
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By putting in place new levels of abstraction, the industry could let applications developers write parallel programs without needing to know the details of every multi-core processor.
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| Nand Flash at 43nm production |
2/12/2008 |
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The new 16Gbit products have a chip area of approximately 120mm2, less than 70% that of same-density NAND Flash memories jointly developed by Toshiba and SanDisk and fabricated with 56nm process technology.
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| Mobile Internet accelerated |
2/12/2008 |
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And the 800-pound gorilla at Mobile World this year, Google, with its Android platform, is promising to bring "desktop" Web experiences to the mobile world.
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| Prototype of Google's Android shown |
2/12/2008 |
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While the Open Mobile Alliance is intended to define common characteristics among mobile phones so that operators can offer interoperable services, the alliance is also designed to go much deeper into "implementation definitions,"
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| Sony to offer Window Smart Phone |
2/11/2008 |
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Sony Ericsson is announcing plans for its first Windows Mobile device, a move aimed at boosting the company's presence in the North American smartphone market.
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