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| Intel to build plant in China |
1/12/2007 |
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Intel Corp., the world's top chip manufacturer, plans to invest in a major new plant in China to make leading-edge chips, two sources with knowledge of the plan said.
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| PS3 sales behind Xbox 360, Wii |
1/12/2007 |
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Nintendo Co. Ltd. sold 604,200 of its new Wii video game consoles in the United States in December, beating Sony Corp. which sold 490,700 units of its new PlayStation 3, according to retail market research firm NPD.
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| Surplus Semi swelled in 4th quarter |
1/11/2007 |
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Surplus semiconductor inventories rose again in the fourth quarter of 2006 to $4.3 billion, an increase of 4.9 percent over the previous quarter, according to iSuppli Corp.
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| Spansion to use Rambus patented technologies |
1/11/2007 |
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Flash memory specialist Spansion Inc. have signed a five-year patent license agreement with Rambus. The royalty-based deal gives Spansion access to a broad range of Rambus patents.
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| Intel launched Quad Core Processor |
1/10/2007 |
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Intel formally introduced three more quad-core processors, including the first to carry the Intel Core 2 Quad processor brand name that begins the expansion of quad-core PC sales to mainstream buyers.
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| Sandisk launch new MP3 Player at CES |
1/10/2007 |
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SanDisk on January 9 unveiled two new MP3 players, the price-friendly Sansa Express and the Wi-Fi supporting Sansa Connect , at the ongoing CES 2007 in Las Vegas
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| Apple introduced iPhone. |
1/10/2007 |
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Apple on January 9 introduced its much anticipated iPhone which combines a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls and an Internet communications device all into one device.
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| Measured optimism for semiconductor industry in 2007 |
1/9/2007 |
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Four of the leading market research firms - Semico, IC Insights, VLSI Research & Gartner, though no iSuppli - gave their prognoses on the semiconductor industry for 2007 in a press conference at SEMI's ISS conference being held in Half Moon Bay, CA, yesterday. There were no bulls or bears in attendance as a consensus seems to have developed that 2007 will bring modest IC revenue growth over 2006, with growth predicted to be within a range of 5 percent to 9 percent for the year
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| ProMOS getting into CMOS image sensor business |
1/9/2007 |
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Memory maker ProMOS Technologies is getting into the CMOS image sensor business, investing $10 million in a Silicon Valley start-up that will initially target low-density sensors for mobile phones.
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| SIS suffers largest revenue drop |
1/5/2007 |
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SiS on January 4 reported its self-estimated revenues of NT$421.0 million for last month, down 33.45% on month and 72.85% on year.
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| TI offers DDR3 register chips for memory modules |
1/5/2007 |
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Introduced as the industry's first fully-integrated register and phase-locked loop (PLL) for DDR3 registered dual in-line memory modules (RDIMMs) the SN74SSTE32882 has been announced by Texas Instruments.
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| Elpida rolls 70-nm DDR2 DRAMs |
1/4/2007 |
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Elpida Memory has begun mass production of the DRAM industry's first 1-gigabit and 512-megabit DDR2 SDRAMs using 70-nanometer process technology.
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