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| TI estimate affected by late school start |
6/12/2007 |
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The company said that the lower education technology estimate reflects delays by retailers in stocking their back-to-school calculator inventory until closer to the start of school in Q3.
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| Apple to provide "Safari Browser for Windows" |
6/12/2007 |
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In a related announcement, Jobs said that developers will be able to build third-party applications for Apple's forthcoming iPhone by creating software that runs in a browser. The iPhone's browser, of course, is Safari.
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| Senate ignores call for H1-B reform |
6/11/2007 |
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In April, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) received enough H-1B petitions to meet the congressionally mandated cap of 65,000 for fiscal year 2008 just one day after starting the receipt of applications, marking the fifth year in a row that the cap has been reached before the start of the fiscal year.
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| Taiwan fabs see solid gain in order |
6/11/2007 |
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(TSMC) today announced its unconsolidated net sales for May were $759.9 million (25.09 billion new Taiwanese dollars), an increase of 11.5 percent over April, but a decrease of 6.3 percent from May 2006.
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| China signed $1B deal to extend 2G GSM |
6/11/2007 |
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There is still a need to improve and expand 2G services coverage. Ericsson said its equipment will be used to boost China Mobile's GSM coverage in 19 regions of China.
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| Toshiba notebook to use AMD chip |
6/8/2007 |
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Toshiba will use AMD chips in about 20 percent of the laptops it sells in the United States and Europe, according to a Reuters report last week.
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| Charter expects solid quater |
6/8/2007 |
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Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing reiterated its guidance to be on track and expect wafer shipments grow by 15 percent
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| Cell phone shipments hit 1 billion |
6/7/2007 |
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For the first time ever, over one billion cellular phones handsets are expected to be shipped in 2007, according to IC Insights Inc.
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| Toshiba to unveil super light notebook |
6/7/2007 |
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Toshiba plans to launch this month a line of notebook PCs that weigh as little as 1.9 pounds, are 0.77 of an inch thick, and sport up to 12.5 hours of battery life.
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| Google urges government to raise H1B visa |
6/7/2007 |
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Google executives called on the U.S. government to raise the number of foreign worker visas , or H-1B status, by illustrating the plight of one of its founders.
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| Wii outsells PS3 in Japan |
6/6/2007 |
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Sony Corp. took another blow with Nintendo Co.'s Wii game console outselling its PlayStation 3 by more than five to one in Japan last month
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| Acer crowned world 3rd largest |
6/6/2007 |
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Acer surpassed Lenovo in the first quarter as the world's third largest PC maker in terms of units shipped, a market research firm said.
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| iPhone to hit stores June 29 |
6/4/2007 |
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Apple Inc. will start selling its iPhone on June 29. Apple announced the date on Sunday, with three television commercials showing off the phone's large touchscreen and ability to watch video, play music and display photos.
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| Gartner lowered 2007 semi growth |
6/4/2007 |
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Gartner said it had cut its forecast for the semiconductor industry's 2007 performance to $269.2 billion, a 2.5 percent increase from 2006. In Gartner's previous forecast, it predicted a 2007 revenue increase of 6.4 percent.
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| Flextronics acquires Solectron |
6/4/2007 |
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Flextronics International Ltd. said that it would acquire rival Solectron Corp for $3.6 billion in cash and stock.
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| Hynix to sell fab to TSMC |
6/4/2007 |
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TSMC may be looking to cut a deal with Hynix Semiconductor that would see the foundry spend nearly $1 billion to pick up a 200mm wafer mega-fab with a capacity of 129,000 wafers per month.
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| MMCA card to have USB compatibility |
6/1/2007 |
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It slips into a standard USB slot yet complies with MMC electrical specs. That means consumers wouldn't need to buy MMC/SD card readers for PCs, and if it proves popular then system designers may not need to design in internal readers, either.
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| PC Big 3 workgroup allied to develope NAND controller standard |
6/1/2007 |
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Dell, Intel and Microsoft agreed to form the Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface (NVMHCI) working group, chaired by Intel. The group will draft by the end of the year a software interface linking a PC and its operating system to a flash module controller.
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