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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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| Mitchubishi still in DRAM dilemma after years |
5/23/2006 |
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The move hints that the DRAM price-fixing scandal could extend beyond the companies that have already been implicated. Earlier this month, Samsung Electronics, Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and Infineon Technologies AG agreed to pay fines totaling $160 million to settle a class-action suit
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| Strong semi sales seen in Europe |
5/22/2006 |
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The value of chip sales through distributors reached 1.38 billion Euros in the quarter, which is the highest sales number since 2001.
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| Mosel Vitelic no longer a memory company |
5/22/2006 |
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Mosel Vitelic (Hsinchu, Taiwan) has a DRAM-making subsidiary, ProMOS Technologies Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) but Mosel Vitelic itself is set to end production of DRAMs in the first half of this year. Solar cell production is expected to be ramped up and become Mosel Vitelic’s main business
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| Silicon microphone moves into portable PC |
5/22/2006 |
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Yole Development (Lyon, France) claims that the silicon microphone market reached nearly 100 million units last year and will grow to 800 million units by 2010.
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| Intel announce "FlexGo" PC for emerging markets |
5/22/2006 |
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Under the program, called "FlexGo," a PC running Windows XP with a 17-inch monitor that normally sells for $600 would be sold for between $250 and $350, with 10 hours of usage time included. Pre-paid cards available at stores would buy additional time for about 75 cents per hour.
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| Mosel to get out of DRAM business |
5/19/2006 |
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Mosel Vitelic has decided to stop DRAM production by the end of the first half of this year and gear up for the development of the solar cell market, according to company chairman ML Chen.
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| On Semi alliance with Kingvon of China |
5/19/2006 |
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Power semiconductor supplier ON Semiconductor reported that it has established a joint power laboratory with Kingvon Group, China’s largest set-top box (STB) manufacturer located in Sichuan Province, western China.
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| Symantec file suit against Microsoft |
5/19/2006 |
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Symantec Corp. sued Microsoft Corp. accusing it of misappropriating trade secrets to develop its own competing features and products, including the next version of Windows.
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| AMD previews quad-core chip |
5/18/2006 |
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AMD says its new chip design, quad-core processor, will boost performance without increasing power consumption.
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| Samsung to introduces Hybrid hard drive |
5/18/2006 |
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Samsung Electronics will exhibit a commercial prototype of a Hybrid Hard Disk (HHD), a next-generation hard drive for notebooks and PCs that integrates NAND flash memory with rotating magnetic storage.
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