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| NEC launch new EDRAM Chip |
11/20/2007 |
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NEC Electronics introduced two new technologies for the manufacturing 40nm system-on-chip (SoC) devices with embedded dynamic random access memory (eDRAM).
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| Smart adds new 8GB DDR2 DIMM |
11/19/2007 |
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SMART Modular Technologies has added to its lineup of Socket F, DDR2 registered DIMMs with an 8-Gbyte module.
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| Samsung cut 1000 jobs |
11/19/2007 |
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Samsung Electronics has cut more than 1,600 jobs since March amid a major restructuring effort.
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| Analyst warns about semi equipment downturn |
11/16/2007 |
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“We believe the semiconductor industry would fall into a demand-driven downturn in 2008. The ramifications of this event would be milder compared with 2001, but much dependent on the segment in the supply chain, with the downside risk lower for semiconductor companies"
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| IBM to try at distributed computing again |
11/16/2007 |
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For instance, a brokerage in New York that needs to use local servers to close trades could dispatch back-office number crunching to under-utilized machines in a branch office -- saving time and money.
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| Vodafone plans to expand through acquisitions |
11/16/2007 |
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Vodafone continued to pursue investments that would allow it, over time, to gain control -- although he noted that a "very strong" dividend stream might also focus Vodafone's attention in "some circumstances".
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| Printable silicon will revolutionize industry |
11/15/2007 |
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Kovio claimed that radio-frequency identification tags using its silicon ink will drop Kovio's price from 15 cents today to 5 cents by 2008, when Kovio begins volume production of its inkjet-printed RFID tags.
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| Microsoft promotes built-in GSM internet card on notebooks |
11/15/2007 |
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Microsoft and the GSMA published on Tuesday a study conducted by Pyramid Research that showed the majority of consumers would want such a notebook, if it fell within the $500 to $1,000 price range. If PC makers and wireless carriers worked together, such mobile PCs could fetch tens of billions of dollars each year in hardware sales.
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| $199 Linux PC proven hot seller at Walmart |
11/15/2007 |
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The gPC comes pre-loaded with the gOS operating system -- a Linux variant -- and a 1.5 GHz processor manufactured by Intel clone maker Via Technologies. The rest of the specs include an 80-Gbyte hard drive and 512 Mbytes of DDR 2 memory.
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| TSMC may take over AMD Germany Fab. |
11/14/2007 |
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AMD has been one of the largest international investors in Germany during the previous decade. Total investment in the Dresden site, including Fab 30, Fab 36, and the Dresden Design Center, was approximately $ 5 billion by the end of 2006.
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| TSMC to buy back Philips divestiture shares |
11/14/2007 |
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Philips, which currently holds an 8 percent stake in TSMC, intends to sell up to $1.5 billion of its shareholding in TSMC in the open market during this period.
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| NEC financial improved but still at a loss |
11/14/2007 |
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Net loss for the six months ended September 30 shrank to $41 million from $86 million, in the year-ago comparable period. NEC's revenue fell 3.6 percent, to $18.6 billion from $19.3 billion.
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| Hynix/ProMOS alliance worries DRAM makers |
11/13/2007 |
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Taiwanese chip makers have had a hard time developing the 60-nano level production process, the provision of the technology by Hynix will lead to greatly reducing the technological gap between Korean and Taiwanese companies.
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| Qimonda cuts capex for fab. |
11/13/2007 |
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Qimonda executives said in a conference call with financial analysts that CapEx for the financial year 2007 had come in at approximately $1.29 billion, down from approximately $1.32 billion as previously projected.
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| Microelectromechanical revolutionized every industry |
11/13/2007 |
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Global MEMS market in 2006 was about $7 billion and is expected to grow to more than $11 billion by 2011. In 2007, about 400 million MEMS chip units were shipped, or about 5 percent of the total foundry market.
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| New Zune players take spotlight |
11/13/2007 |
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Microsoft originally introduced the new models last month. They can wirelessly and automatically update their music, photos and videos when placed near a user's computer.
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| IBM regains spot for super fast computer |
11/13/2007 |
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The BlueGene/L System has held the No. 1 spot since November 2004. The latest list of top 500 computers was released Monday at SC07, the international conference on high-performance computing in Reno, Nev.
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| TSMC sales up |
11/12/2007 |
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TSMC’s net sales for October were $1 billion (32.6 billion NT), a 10.7 percent sequential increase, and a 20.6 percent year-over-year increase. Consolidated revenues for January through October totaled $8.1 billion (261.377 billion NT), down 3 percent from the same period in 2006.
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| STATS Chip PAC delisted pending take over |
11/12/2007 |
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STSPL and Temasek also disclosed in their Schedule 13D filing that STSPL intends to continue to seek to acquire additional ordinary shares and ADSs through open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions or otherwise, upon such terms and at such prices as STSPL shall determine.
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| Supercomputer guru to join Microsoft |
11/12/2007 |
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Reed will collaborate with Burton Smith, another parallel computing guru who joined Microsoft in 2005 to help spearhead work on multicore issues.
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