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| Hedge fund manager upset at MOSAID |
8/18/2006 |
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Specifically, Loeb believes that Mosaid’s product business is without value, but that its IP division could be salvaged if sold.
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| Equipment sales slow down |
8/18/2006 |
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North American capital equipment vendors posted a book-to-bill ratio of 1.06 in July, down from 1.14 in June, SEMI said.
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| Boeing pulls plug on in-flight WiFi service |
8/18/2006 |
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Boeing has confirmed it would phase out its Connexion in-flight wireless service by the end of the year. The move marks the final blow for a much-hyped six-year program for Internet access on board airliners that was beleaguered from the start.
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| Rambus requests hearing on delisting |
8/18/2006 |
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Rambus has said it would delay filing the 10-Q report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) pending the outcome of an internal investigation into historical stock options granting practices.
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| Singapore to develop economical zone in Russia |
8/17/2006 |
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Singapore has experience developing economic zones in China, India, Vietnam and soon in Indonesia. In return for its expertise, Singapore is seeking access to Russian natural gas fields.
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| HP had a growth quarter |
8/17/2006 |
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Hewlett Packard saw sales in the Americas region rise 8 percent year-over-year to $9.7 billion, Asia-Pacific sales up 7 percent to $3.8 billion, and sales in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa up 2 percent to $8.4 billion.
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| Breakthrough allows HD to go Terabit per sq. inch |
8/16/2006 |
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Hard disk drives could be dramatically enhanced with storage densities beyond one terabit per square inch as a result of magnetic sensor research being carried out at the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory in partnership with the Universities of Cambridge and Nottingham.
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| IBM to open Linux OS for Cell processor |
8/16/2006 |
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“IBM is going to be as bold and aggressive with open source as we are with Linux, more broadly and permanently transforming our company with the open movement,”
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| NOR up/NAND down |
8/16/2006 |
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NOR market revenue was boosted by slower average selling price (ASP) declines. NAND flash sales dropped the second quarter as their average selling prices declined,
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| Korean Pantech sells cell phone into Canada |
8/16/2006 |
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Pantech Group, South Korea's second largest mobile phone maker, announced Wednesday (Aug. 16) it has launched its own-branded handset for the first time in Canada, in partnership with Canada's major mobile telecommunications service carrier Telus.
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| Former CEO of Rambus resign from board |
8/16/2006 |
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To avoid appearance of a conflict of interest, Tate felt he could best support the company by resigning from his position on the Board as Rambus resolves these option issues.
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| AMD's quart-core compatible with Due-core socket |
8/15/2006 |
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AMD (Sunnyvale, Calif.) said that the quad-core Opteron processors are expected to be electrically, thermally and socket-compatible with dual core Opteron processors being launched now.
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| Intel to stop selling Pentium D |
8/15/2006 |
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The winnowing of the four older Pentium D models comes in the wake of the recent launch of Intel's new desktop Core 2 Duo processors, also known as "Conroe." The new chips use Intel's new Core microarchitecture, widely seen as its cleanest dual-core design to date.
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| Dell recalls notebook battery after truck fire |
8/15/2006 |
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Dell announced the recall in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The agency said it was the largest computer-related recall in its history, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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| China's Memory Devices making inroad |
8/15/2006 |
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The firm said it was still waiting for regulatory approval to complete a $96.8 million takeover of Taiwanese memory module maker TwinMOS, which boasts a significant presence in the U.S. and Europe. The planned merger is a key part of Memory Devices' plan to become the No. 2 player in the solid-state memory sector behind Kingston.
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| Atmel's internal fight getting ugly |
8/14/2006 |
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Earlier this week, Atmel Corp.'s board of directors fired several executives, including its president and CEO George Perlegos and its executive VP Gust Perlegos over the misuse of corporate travel funds.
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| Shareholders try to block Sandisk/M-system merger |
8/14/2006 |
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Dashiell versus SanDisk and Capovilla versus SanDisk, have been waged in the California Superior Court for Santa Clara County and are class action claims on behalf of shareholders of Msystems. Defendants include SanDisk, Msystems, and several officers and directors of Msystems.
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| Chip equipment grew 50% |
8/14/2006 |
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The 50 percent growth from a year earlier was driven by quadrupled sales in China and growth in North America and Taiwan, the report said.
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| Wide spread option backdate prompt indictment |
8/14/2006 |
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On Thursday, two former executives of Brocade, former president and CEO Gregory Reyes and former vice president of human resources Stephanie Jensen, were hit with a 12-count indictment for scheming to backdate stock option grants to give employees favorably priced options.
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| NAND flash here to stay |
8/11/2006 |
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Flash memory, especially NAND, is expected to last at least for three more generations amid delay of the "universal memory" technologies, according to an analyst.
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