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| Analyst improves near-term DRAM market outlook |
7/18/2006 |
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iSuppli Corp. has upgraded its assessment of near-term DRAM market conditions for suppliers to "neutral," up from the "negative" rating it has maintained since April. The upgrade is credited to "improving pricing and demand," the firm said today.
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| Hynix makes 80-nm DRAM |
7/18/2006 |
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South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor said Tuesday it has begun volume production of 80-nm technology-based 512 megabit DDR2 DRAM chips.
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| Judge cut award payment in Rambus suit |
7/18/2006 |
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A U.S. judge tossed out a $307 million patent infringement award to Rambus Inc. in its suit against Hynix Semiconductor Inc., according to Reuters.
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| Analyst cut rating on 3 chip stocks |
7/18/2006 |
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A Wall Street analyst downgraded Texas Instruments and two other stocks from the equivalent of a buy rating to hold, citing growing weakness in demand for cell phones.
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| HP develops tiny wireless chip |
7/17/2006 |
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Hewlett Packard Co. has developed a miniature wireless data chip the company said could broaden access to digital content in the physical world.
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| Advance phones from Samsung |
7/17/2006 |
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Samsung Electronics said it became the first handset maker to deliver an unlicensed mobile access (UMA)-based phone to Europe that supports both fixed-line and wireless telecommunications services.
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| Intel to introduce new Itanium chip |
7/17/2006 |
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Intel Corp. is set to introduce a long-delayed chip model on Tuesday code-named Montecito that is the first in it Itanium chip line to have the equivalent of two electronic brains on a single piece of silicon, the Wall Street Journal said on its Web site.
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| Samsung predict DRAM price dip |
7/14/2006 |
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Samsung Electronics expects prices in dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips to drop in the third quarter after a mild rise in the second quarter
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| Intel to axe 1000 managers |
7/14/2006 |
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Intel plans to fire 1,000 managers as part of an effort to cut $1 billion in costs, a company spokesperson said.
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| 34 states sue DRAM companies |
7/14/2006 |
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Thirty-four states filed lawsuits in U.S. federal court here against eight DRAM manufacturers and their subsidiaries, charging price-fixing.
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| Kingston predicts rapid growth to spur Asia sales 35% in 3Q |
7/13/2006 |
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Kingston believes its shipments of both DRAM and NAND flash products will jump by 35%, sequentially, in the third quarter, in the Asia-Pacific region, thanks to price cuts by Intel, said Scott Chen, vice president of the company's APAC business division.
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| First-tier notebook shipments to miss 2006 targets |
7/12/2006 |
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First-tier Taiwan-based notebook makers are expected to see their notebook shipments in 2006 fall short of their targets by 5-10% due to slower-than-expected shipments in the first half of this year
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| Nextest debuts high-speed flash tester |
7/12/2006 |
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Nextest Systems has rolled out its latest line of automatic test equipment (ATE) that is designed for use in high-speed flash-memory testing.
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| Altera lays out plans for 65nm FPGA |
7/11/2006 |
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Lltera to launch Stratix III test devices, the next-generation FPGA solution that will deliver significantly higher density with as much as a 20 percent performance boost, and power savings.
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| Motorola may add two R&D centers, targeting Asia |
7/11/2006 |
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Motorola is evaluating locations for at least two new R&D centers, adding to its six current R&D sites worldwide, with two in Chicago and one each in London, Beijing, Seoul and Singapore, according to sources
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| No AMD K8L processors until 2008 |
7/11/2006 |
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has recently indicated that its new K8L processor for its next-generation Socket AM3 platform will not be available until 2008.
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| Freescale announce MRAM samples |
7/10/2006 |
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Freescale Semiconductor Inc. announced the commercial availability of a chip that combines traditional memory's endurance with a hard drive's ability to keep data while powered down.
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