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| Sun to cut 5000 jobs |
6/1/2006 |
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Sun Microsystems said it would cut up to 5,000 jobs and exit several facilities in Silicon Valley in the hope of restoring profit
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| AMD launched AMD "Live" PC |
5/31/2006 |
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AMD today launched its AMD Live! PC, with leading OEMs including Acer, Alienware, Fujitsu Siemens, Gateway, HP, Sahara, and Tsinghua Tongfang releasing products in June.
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| AMD to invest US$2.5 billion on 12-inch wafer production in Germany |
5/30/2006 |
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AMD announced that it plans to invest a total of US$2.5 billion to expand its microprocessor manufacturing capacity over the next three years by adding additional 12-inch wafer production capabilities in Dresden through the implementation of three new projects.
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| M-Systems to offer equity shares |
5/26/2006 |
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The company wants more cash to secure additional supply sources for NAND flash memory and possibly to make acquisitions, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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| Spansion maintains lead in NOR flash |
5/26/2006 |
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Memory supplier Spansion LLC retained its position as the leading supplier of NOR-type flash memory in the first quarter, according to preliminary market-share data from iSuppli Corp.
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| Dell to pre-install Google software |
5/26/2006 |
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Dell would set the homepage of the computer's browser to a co-branded Dell/Google Web site, and would make Google the default search engine.
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| AMD takes lead in 4 way server |
5/26/2006 |
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AMD has a strong share of the four-way server market. The chip maker now claims 48.1 percent of that market in the United States and 36 percent worldwide.
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| Powerchip cut prices on memory |
5/25/2006 |
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For non-branded 512Mbit DDR2 chips, the price has been lowered about 6% to US$4.5 from the previous US$4.8, while branded 512Mbit DDR chips has declined more than 11% to US$4 from US$4.5.
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| Rambus changes revenue strategy |
5/25/2006 |
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“Patent licensing on its own is not a long-term sustainable business model, we want to add value to our customers. For these technology product licenses, the licensee gets a GDS-II level design plus engineering services, including help with things like signal integrity, packaging and board design.”
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| Koreans are losing position on LCD production |
5/25/2006 |
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"Korea will not be able to regain the No. 1 position,” Lidow predicted. ISuppli estimates show South Korea’s LCD panel market share will drop to less than 40 percent by the fourth quarter of 2007. "Taiwan will remain the leader."
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| Qimonda eying on 50% of FB-DIMM memory market |
5/25/2006 |
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"We are [aiming for] a market share of around 50 percent in this market segment," said Thomas Seifert, a Qimonda board member and second in command behind CEO Kin Wah Loh.
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| Intel announced Xeon dual core with FB-DIMM |
5/24/2006 |
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This is the first processor due to launch based on Intel’s Core micro-architecture. It delivers up to 125 percent performance improvement over previous generation dual-core Xeon processors, and up to 60 percent performance improvement over competing x86-based architectures.
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| Samsung to sell laptop with flash drive |
5/24/2006 |
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This is a significant move for semiconductor NAND flash memory into a commercial mobile computing application and could spell the end of the hard disk.
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| IPTV is up at the horizon |
5/24/2006 |
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Internet protocol television (IPTV) got a massive boost today when Alcatel and Microsoft announced a global deal with HP for servers that will support the next generation of television. In another announcement, Alcatel and Microsoft said they will also use IBM’s servers for IPTV deployment. The servers will support Microsoft’s TV IPTV Edition software platform.
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| Intel to introduce reduced cost PC to India market |
5/24/2006 |
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Intel has also licensed its platform for fully featured, low-cost desktop PCs for first-time individual users to five Indian manufacturers: Wipro Ltd., PCS, Millennium, HCL and Zenith Computers. Those machines are to be introduced in two months.
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| CMOS sensor: a good business at Micron |
5/24/2006 |
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Micron has been focusing on camera phone sensors and claims to have accounted for 33 percent of the total market for those devices in 2005. Now the company is bidding for higher presence in the sensor market for digital still cameras.
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| Jet-impingement cooling show promises |
5/24/2006 |
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Michel said recent experiments with the immersed jet impingement technique have shown cooling power densities of up to 370W/cm2 with a single phase water cooler. The current limit of most air cooling technologies now in use is about 60 W/cm2.
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| DDR2 expected to be mainstream by year end |
5/23/2006 |
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Intel has already stopped its validation program for DDR memory chips and modules, and AMD has released its first CPUs with built-in DDR2 memory controllers, known as the Socket AM2 platform. Intel has also accelerated its schedule to commence shipments of CPUs based on the new Intel Core microarchitecture
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| SOI can be a cost saving, instead |
5/23/2006 |
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"Use of SOI-enabled memory optimization tools can increase the benefits of SOI from breakeven to a cost reduction of over 40 percent, depending on the product, technology and process complexity," Itow said.
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| Spansion filed suit against Macronix |
5/23/2006 |
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The copyright claim was added to Spansion's trademark infringement and false advertising complaint filed against Macronix in March. The suit seeks $100 million in damages for unlawful statements misrepresenting Macronix as an authorized second source for Spansion MirrorBit Flash memory.
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