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| Death of a leader |
6/9/2006 |
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Lanza built New York-based L-3, a spinoff of Lockheed Martin Corp., into a top U.S. military contractor through a series of rapid-fire acquisitions. Reports here speculated that Lanza's sudden death could make the $10 billion company a takeover target.
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| PCI Express to speed up |
6/9/2006 |
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Graphics chips need the new 5-Gbit/s speeds to drive higher performance as well as open the door to using the fast channels to eliminate graphics memory in favor of using the systems main memory—even when graphics are on a card off the motherboard.
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| Rambus alleged Micron and Hynix price fixing |
6/7/2006 |
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Some of the e-mails also suggest a collaboration among Rambus competitors to keep prices low to discourage use of Rambus's double data rate, or DDR, technology, according to the Journal, which was given access to the e-mails by Rambus.
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| Kingmax shown high-capacity mobile memories |
6/7/2006 |
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The Kingmax Group (Computex Taipei Hall 1, Booth A932) is showcasing at Computex 2006 its latest-generation DRAM modules and flash memory products, with the primary focus on mobile applications.
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| Nvidia teams with Intel on next-gen Mobile Platform |
6/7/2006 |
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“We believe smart phones are going to be the next wave of interesting high-performance handsets. We also believe that the handset market is starting to look a little like the PC market did 10 years ago in that there really needs to be a standard platform that content developers and standards developers can go off and write to,”
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| SIA revised semi growth upward |
6/7/2006 |
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DRAM sales, however, are projected to increase more modestly, at 9.1 percent to $27.9 billion in 2006 and to $32.8 billion in 2009, a CAGR of 6.4 percent.
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| Transmeta's Efficeon processor to be sold under AMD brand |
6/6/2006 |
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The Santa Clara, Calif.-based processor company has struck a deal with its former rival, the much larger Advanced Micro Devices, to re-brand and sell a specialized version of Transmeta’s Efficeon microprocessor in emerging markets.
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| Intel enters market on serial flash |
6/6/2006 |
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Intel is sampling its SPI parts now and will move to volume production toward the end of the year on a 130-micron process at its fab in Ireland.
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| "One laptop per child" displays challenge |
6/6/2006 |
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The key is to develop a $35 flat panel display that will draw much less power. What's more, the portable needs to be more powerful than the average $2000 portable whose architecture "has not changed much in the last 15 years,"
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| Patriot listed Intel and AMD as licensee for their processor IP |
6/6/2006 |
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Patriot (San Diego) has a stake in the Moore Microprocessor Patent portfolio, and has benefited from license agreements with AMD, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu Ltd. and Casio Computer Co. Ltd. The MMP portfolio is owned jointly by Patriot and the TPL Group.
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| Micron up bid to get Lexar |
6/5/2006 |
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The DRAM company today announced that it is prepared to increase the exchange ratio that each outstanding share of Lexar common stock would receive in the merger from 0.5625 shares of Micron common stock to 0.5925 shares of Micron common stock.
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| New York state offers $1B to lure AMD |
6/5/2006 |
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The incentives are part of a plan to enable AMD to build a 300-mm fab in the Luther Forest Technology Park in upstate New York, according to the report. The $3.5 billion fab could employ as many as 1,000 people.
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| Micron has "fusion memory" to counter Samsung "one nand" |
6/5/2006 |
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Micron believes that it offers a standard and superior solution, as compared to what it calls proprietary offerings from msystems and Samsung. Micron’s all-in-one memory and controller package streamlines a manufacturer’s mobile design process and simplifies NAND flash procurement logistics.
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| Analyst warned of processor price war |
6/5/2006 |
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Diesen said that Intel had stopped trying to make a profit on its current generation of PC processors and had initiated a price war with its rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD). The average price of a PC processor in April was less than half what it was in March.
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| Intel putting up communications business on sale |
6/5/2006 |
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The reported communications-chip sale is said to be part of Intel’s plan to overhaul the company. Intel is also set to include the layoff or redeployment of 16,000 employees, according to speculation from one Web site.
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| Apple changes strategy in India |
6/5/2006 |
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Apple Computer Inc. is shutting down its software development and support operations center here after just two months of operation, according to a report in published Sunday.
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| AMD Discloses Plans for New Products |
6/2/2006 |
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.'s biggest rival in the market for microprocessors that act as the brains of personal computers, unveiled plans for new products it said would deliver improved performance and efficiency.
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| Taiwan chipset and mobo makers prefer Intel-ATI tie-up |
6/2/2006 |
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Taiwan-based chipset and motherboard makers, in response to recent speculations that ATI Technologies is an acquisition target for AMD, feel that an Intel buyout of ATI would make more sense, according to industry sources.
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| Google Unlikely to Make Own Web Browser |
6/1/2006 |
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Google said itis unlikely to create its own Web browser, even though the company remains worried about being slighted by the next version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
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| Qimonda offers DDR2 memory modules for Intel server platforms |
6/1/2006 |
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Qimonda AG is manufacturing its Double Data Rate 2 (DDR2) fully buffered Dual-In-line memory modules (FB-DIMMs) in high volume for Intel’s Bensley server platforms in 533MHz and 667 MHz for densities ranging from 512 MBytes to 4GBytes
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