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| Winbond to dispose 8 inch fab to Vanguard |
3/23/2007 |
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No fund raising activities would be required for the acquisition as Vanguard is cash-rich, with the equivalent of NT$12.19 billion on the books as of the last quarter, the company said.
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| Micron opens Xi-an assembly |
3/23/2007 |
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Micron Technology Inc. opened a new manufacturing facility in Xi’an, China this week, the company’s first such facility in the country, designed to assemble and test Micron’s semiconductor products, including dynamic random access memory, NAND flash memory and CMOS image sensors.
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| AMD employs Chartered on 65nm |
3/23/2007 |
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An AMD spokesperson told press that it is currently in full production with Chartered at 90-nm and is in the midst of a transition to 65-nm.
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| NEC Shanghai to add capacity |
3/23/2007 |
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The company currently has one fab in full production, and a second fab, Fab 2, recently started operation and will ramp into mass production later this year. Fab 1C is under construction and scheduled to ramp up in 2008.
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| Google gPhone vs Apple's iPhone? |
3/22/2007 |
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Google isn't commenting directly on leaks from Europe and the United States which describe a low-cost, Internet-connected phone with a color, wide-screen design. Newspaper and blog reports in recent months have Google shopping its phone design to potential mobile phone manufacturing partners in Asia.
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| Intel Capital invests in China broadband standards |
3/22/2007 |
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Legend Silicon (Fremont, Calif.) plans to use the proceeds to develop terrestrial digital TV demodulation IC products that comply with the newly approved China Digital Television Terrestrial Broadcasting standard. Legend Silicon was one of the key contributors to the standard, also known as DMB-TH.
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| AppleTV sale starts |
3/22/2007 |
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The Apple TV has the potential to alter the media landscape and boost Apple's value as a company. Mac users, and many more PC users, would buy the device in the next five years, overtaking set-top box maker TiVo and mail-order DVD renter Netflix.
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| Memory card prices forces substrate price down |
3/21/2007 |
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Kinsus, which is now the leading memory card substrate supplier in Taiwan, says customers are requesting lower quotes. The stronger price bargaining power from customers may expose the company to a 20% ASP drop risk in 2007, the company added.
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| Toshiba/Hynix settles |
3/21/2007 |
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The agreement caps litigation Toshiba levied at Hynix in 2004 after the two companies couldn't agree on a licensing contract renewal involving NAND Flash (define) memory chips.
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| Multi-core server will change market landscape |
3/21/2007 |
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IDC predicts server revenue growth rates will be lower in comparison, but are reduced to a lesser extent than shipment growth rates as customers deploy more richly configured systems in terms of memory, disk, and I/O to balance the increase in processing and server utilization.
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| China forge ahead with TD-SCDMA |
3/21/2007 |
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The world's largest mobile phone service operator by number of subscribers is forging ahead with the TD-SCDMA technology even before it has secured a license. China Mobile is seeking bids for contracts reportedly worth $3.1 billion in total.
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| SanDisk/Hynix joins technology on new NAND development |
3/21/2007 |
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The joint venture would involve equal capital investments by both companies in production capacity at Hynix. The companies' x4 technology cooperation was started between msystems Ltd. and Hynix before the acquisition of msystems by SanDisk last July for $1.35 billion.
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| DRAM prices dropped 44% for year |
3/20/2007 |
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Average DRAM spot prices across all densities were down 6.5 percent for the seven-day period ended March 16, compared to the previous period, according to Gartner. Average spot prices stood at $3.67 on a 512-megabit basis for the period, down 39 percent since the beginning of 2007.
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| Inotera to build more DRAM fab. |
3/20/2007 |
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Inotera already has one 12-inch fab, and is outfitting a second. The third fab will come online in 2009, at the earliest. A schedule wasn't available for Fab 4.
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| Rambus ruling on hold pending appeal again |
3/20/2007 |
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The Federal Trade Commission has temporarily suspended portions of its earlier rulings against Rambus Inc., allowing Rambus to appeal the agency's recent antitrust rulings.
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| Digital TV converters available soon |
3/20/2007 |
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LG is one of three companies that have developed converter boxes to prevent analog television sets from going dark on Feb. 17, 2009, when U.S. television stations are required to switch to digital.
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| China manufacturer enters into $100 PC |
3/20/2007 |
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ZhongKe believes the 800MHz Loongson 2E CPU is technically superior to the 366MHz AMD Geode GX2-500 currently used in the project. ZhongKe is also trying to persuade backers of the project that it will be able to facilitate distribution and service in China because of its familiarity with local supply chains.
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| Fired Atmel executive fights back |
3/18/2007 |
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"As one of Atmel's largest shareholders, I am concerned that the current board and management have undertaken a series of entrenching, self-enriching and value-eroding actions,"
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| SIA semi-equipment book to bill flattened |
3/18/2007 |
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The three-month average of worldwide billings in February 2007 was $1.58 billion. The billings figure is about two percent under the final January 2007 level of $1.60 billion and 23 percent higher than the February 2006 billings level of $1.28 billion.
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| Electro-magnetic paint blocks WiFi theft |
3/18/2007 |
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A materials R&D firm announced this week that it has developed a novel way to protect in-building wireless data from unauthorized incursions -- applying its wireless blocking paint to buildings.
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| US equity group to acquire JVC |
3/18/2007 |
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Matsushita has accepted a bid by Texas Pacific Group (TPG) to purchase its JVC subsidiary and has begun talks to complete the deal by the end of March
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| Texas Pacific Group to buy JVC |
3/16/2007 |
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Matsushita has accepted a bid by Texas Pacific Group (TPG) to purchase its JVC subsidiary, according to sources close to the companies.
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