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| AMD to miss first quarter earnings |
3/5/2007 |
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AMD said Monday that it is unlikely to meet its previously estimated revenue guidance of $1.6 to $1.7 billion for the first quarter.
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| Carl Icahn to acquire more shares on Motorola |
3/2/2007 |
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In January Icahn, whose wide-ranging investments include Blockbuster Inc., Imclone, Time Warner Inc., and several Las Vegas casinos, launched a campaign for a position in Motorola's board of directors. Motorola is continuing to review the nomination.
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| Consumer demand on chips results in good January |
3/2/2007 |
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Diesen said that Chinese exports of technology-based goods improved in January, after a slowdown in December. Meanwhile sales of the Sony Playstation3 have been disappointing while the Nintendo Wii has exceeded expectations. However, the Wii is less chip intensive.
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| Solar world to expand Hillsborough plant |
3/2/2007 |
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Solarworld plans to move its solar wafer production from Vancouver to Hillsboro. In addition, the company intends to double the manufacturing capacity of its Camarillo, Calif. plant to 100 MW.
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| Lenovo recalls notebook battery |
3/1/2007 |
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The commission said Lenovo Inc. is recalling about 100,000 lithium-ion extended-life batteries after it received four reports of batteries overheating and damaging the notebook, causing minor property damage and in one case, minor eye irritation.
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| AMD 690 graphic chipset integrated with ATI graphics |
3/1/2007 |
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“As a result of the ATI merger, AMD is delivering innovative platforms for the commercial and consumer markets featuring best of breed performance, visual computing experience, energy efficiency and stability.”
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| AMD discloses upcoming quartcore performance |
3/1/2007 |
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Advanced Micro Devices upcoming Barcelona processor will sport floating-point performance 42 percent higher than Intel's current top-of-the line CPU, the Xeon X5355 also known as Clovertown.
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| Gamer marathoned to his death |
3/1/2007 |
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The 150-kg (330-pound) man from Jinzhou, in Liaoning province, collapsed on Saturday, the last day of the holiday, after spending "almost all" of the seven-day break playing online games
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| Singapore made offer to buy ChipPAC |
3/1/2007 |
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Temasek subsidiary Singapore Technology Semiconductors said Thursday it would pay $1.14 per share for the 64.4 percent of STATS ChipPAC that it doesn't already own, rising to $1.23 per share if its final stake exceeds 90 percent.
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| Vista expected to create memory market 2H |
2/28/2007 |
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Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) president Brian Hsieh today expressed optimism that the Windows Vista operating system will drive up DRAM prices in the second half of the year.
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| Qimonda to consolidate distribution in Singapore |
2/28/2007 |
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Qimonda's customers in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific will soon be receiving their orders of dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, chips from the spanking new 25,000 square feet storage and distribution facility in Singapore.
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| China RoHS: Effective March 1, 2007 |
2/28/2007 |
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Specifically, China is requiring all products that meet its regulations for the six hazardous substances include a logo to signify that, an “e” enclosed by a green circle. If the product does not meet the regulations, China requires that a listing of the included hazardous substances be include in the product’s documentation and a different circle logo be included on the packaging.
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| Sematach on shaky ground ? |
2/28/2007 |
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Freescale is exiting the chip-making organization. Meanwhile, Micron (Boise, Idaho) has joined the International Sematech Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI), bringing its overall membership to 14 companies.
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| AMD to try fusion chips with both SOI and standard CMOS approach |
2/27/2007 |
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AMD is designing two versions of its Fusion processors. One version is said to be manufactured by AMD itself using silicon-on-insulator process technology, whereas the other one may be made by former-ATI’s (now AMD’s graphics product group) main foundry partner,
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| Samsung to ship phase RAM sample |
2/27/2007 |
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The company said it has offered 256 to 512 Mb, 90-nm node product to several major mobile pone manufacturers. Toward the volume production slated for the first half of 2008,
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| Intel to upgrade N.M. fab to 45nm |
2/27/2007 |
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Fab 11X will be the company's fourth factory scheduled to use the 45nm process, with production in New Mexico scheduled to start in the second half of next year.
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| Intel fights for $2.4B export sales tax |
2/27/2007 |
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The company said if it loses the appeal there is a "possibility of a material adverse impact on the results of operations" for the period when the matter is resolved.
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| Cypress backs out of fab. business |
2/26/2007 |
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Already a partner of Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., Cypress is turning to UMC to help solidify its "fab lite" strategy, something Cypress pithily labels "No More Moore." It's also an important move to shore up outsourced capacity at the leading edge.
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| Infinera to raise fund through IPO |
2/26/2007 |
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Infinera Inc., the start-up that used a proprietary InP processes to integrate photonic and electronic elements in photonic ICs and which has raised over $330 million in venture capital funding since its founding in 2000, is to raise $150 million through an IPO.
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| IBM chooses immersion against EUV |
2/26/2007 |
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IBM Corp. Friday (Feb. 23) outlined its lithography roadmap, saying that it would extend 193-nm immersion lithography down to the 22-nm node for logic production. In other words, extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography could get pushed out again.
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| Microsoft's $1.52B patent verdict prompts cry for reform |
2/26/2007 |
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Computer and software makers have argued that the patent system gives too much power to patent holders, many of whom don't sell any products but seek to make money by suing profitable companies and holding them to ransom.
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