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| Russia to build 300mm Fab |
6/19/2007 |
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Russia is planning to construct a 300-mm wafer fab at Nizhny Novgorod according to Alexander Kalinin, deputy chairman for the Russian Federal Fund for Electronics.
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| Yahoo replace CEO |
6/19/2007 |
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Yahoo replaced Chief Executive Terry Semel with its co-founder Jerry Yang, bowing to pressure as the company has fallen behind Google.
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| Google opens China R & D center |
6/19/2007 |
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Google plans to open a research and development center in Shanghai, stepping up its effort to build a bigger search business in China.
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| Kingston China starts test operation |
6/18/2007 |
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Kingston Technology's fully-owned testing and packaging house Payton Technology has started production at its window ball grid array (WBGA) lines
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| Hynix credit rating improved |
6/15/2007 |
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'Hynix will maintain its strong position in the global dynamic random access memory (DRAM). In addition, it will remain competitive due to its continual migration into 66nm processing technology and the fact that its planned 12-inch wafer production capacity in China and Korea'
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| Flash cache on PC not found very powerful |
6/15/2007 |
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The technology may have a hard time finding a foothold on the desktop—at least, motherboard manufacturers seem to think so. They believe the performance gains offered by Turbo Memory are not significant,
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| Samsung opens largest fab in North America |
6/15/2007 |
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Samsung said that the 1.6 million square foot building -- as large as nine football fields—will be used to manufacture 300-mm NAND flash memory wafers with the first product of the new plant to be 16-Gbit NAND flash chips on 50-nm process technology.
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| Over 2 Billion PC Users In 2015 |
6/14/2007 |
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The world will see more than 2 billion PCs in use by 2015, which means two out of every seven people in the world are PC users eight years later, a market research firm said Monday.
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| Intel Will Slash Priceof Core 2 Quad Chips by 50% |
6/14/2007 |
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Intel Corp.the leading chipmaker is planning to reduce price of some processors including its Core 2 Quad processors by 50 percent on July 22, in a document Intel has distributed to its customers, according to a report published Tuesday from Bloomberg news.
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| SIA Growth Forecast For 2007 Semi Down to 1.8% |
6/14/2007 |
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The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA),one of many industry watchers that has backtracked on previously optimistic outlooks for the year's performance, dramatically downgraded its forecast for 2007 global microchip sales growth yesterday from its 10 percent estimate made in February to a 1.8 percent.
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| Hard Drive Industry Faces Hard Time |
6/14/2007 |
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According to iSuppli, although HDD shipments increased by 12.2 percent, in the first quarter compared to the same period a year ago, they declined by 4.7 percent from the fourth quarter of 2006. Meanwhile plunging prices squeezed the margins of the major HDD suppliers during the period.
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| Memory prices on the rebound |
6/13/2007 |
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"We're probably closer to price-bottoming than not," Kipp Bedard, Micron's vice president for investor relations, said Tuesday at a shareholder conference in New York.
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| Analyst optimistic on PC industry |
6/13/2007 |
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By the end of 2008 there will be more than 1 billion personal computers in use worldwide, and more than 2 billion by 2015, according to a new report from Forrester Research, Inc.
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| PC industry trouts need for PC chipset |
6/13/2007 |
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Debate is heating up in some circles of the PC world about whether the venerable PC chipset will stay or fade away as process technology makes it increasingly feasible to bring its features on board the CPU. The quick answer: it's not going anywhere anytime soon.
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| eTT DRAM weaken backend tester sales |
6/12/2007 |
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Company originally planned to buy 16 T5593 testers in the second quarter, now expects to buy only six, with the remainder to be purchased in the third quarter.
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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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