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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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| U.K. Authorities Get Tough on RoHS |
7/10/2006 |
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RoHS enforcer National Weights and Measures Laboratory (NWML) has been directed to take a tough stance over the new hazardous materials rules from day one as it starts to police the European directive which came into law on July 1.
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| AMD slashes 2Q sales outlook |
7/7/2006 |
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Advanced Micro Devices , lowered its sales target for the second quarter, saying it now expects second quarter sales to be approximately $1.215 billion, down roughly 9 percent from first quarter sales of $1.332 billion
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| ProMOS announces new plant |
7/6/2006 |
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ProMOS Technologies said it would spend US$2.5 billion in building a new advanced plant to meet future demand for bigger memory storage.
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| Samsung ships GDDR4 memory chips |
7/6/2006 |
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Samsung has begun mass producing the world's fastest graphics memory chips, dubbed GDDR4, based on 80-nm process technology.
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| Qimonda samples DDR3 SODIMM memory |
7/5/2006 |
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Qimonda AG, the world’s second largest DRAM supplier, today announced that it has supplied the industry’s first DDR3 SO-DIMM samples
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| Chipset suppliers see revenues drop in June |
7/5/2006 |
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VIA Technologies and Silicon Integrated System (SiS) saw revenues decline in June sequentially as the impact of the low season continued to be felt and their shares in the chipset market dropped.
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| HP launches AMD Turion 64 X2-based laptops |
7/5/2006 |
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HP on July 4 launched in the Taiwan market two laptops powered by AMD's 64-bit Turion 64 X2 mobile CPUs, with the company expected to introduce more AMD-based notebooks for the business sector in the second half of this year, according to company sources.
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| Intel postpones launch of new desktop CPUs to July 27 |
7/3/2006 |
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The launch of the Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800, Core 2 Duo E6300, E6400, E6600 and E6700 processors, which were originally expected to arrive on July 23, will be postponed to July 27,
according to a recent review of Intel's product roadmap by sources at Taiwan motherboard makers.
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