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| Non RoHS parts may be hard to find |
4/14/2006 |
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Those companies that still need components that are not compliant with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive may find those parts have become harder to find and more expensive.
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| Analyse try to explain AMD's guidance reduction |
4/14/2006 |
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“We believe that this means AMD ramped Fab 36 slower than expected and that this will be viewed in one of two ways. Either the ramp has gone slowly as a result of poor execution or management was being conservative in previous guidance by giving a large depreciation number, and after the fab began producing mature yields at a quick pace, demand did not warrant further equipment start-up until later in the year,”
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| Semi Industry hit new height in 2005 |
4/14/2006 |
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Worldwide semiconductor revenue reached a record $235 billion in 2005, surpassing the industry's previous high of $223 billion set in 2000, according to market analyst firm Gartner Inc.
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| Samsung to build 300mm fab in Austin |
4/14/2006 |
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said Thursday (April 13) that it plans to invest $220 million to add a new 300-mm line to its existing fab in Austin, Texas.
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| AMD's Ruiz see slow quarter coming up |
4/13/2006 |
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AMD expects second quarter sales to be flat to slightly down seasonally from the first quarter of 2006, although sales are still projected to be 65 percent higher than second-quarter 2005 results.
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| UK company persues new printable memory |
4/13/2006 |
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The demonstrator has arrays of up to 100 bits and was constructed using a line width of 220-microns. TFE and Xaar achieved a read/write endurance of 100,000 cycles on the demonstrator.
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| Rambus name new CFO |
4/13/2006 |
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Company CEO Harold Hughes, who came to Rambus from Intel in January 2005, named Satish Rishi as senior VP and CFO of the Los Altos, Calif.-based company.
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| EU okays grant for top electronic companies |
4/12/2006 |
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The project is expected to create about 190 additional research posts as well as safeguarding existing jobs at Infineon’s and AMD’s production sites in Dresden. It is aimed at establishing a research platform for nanoelectronic technologies including two research centers where a series of collaboration research projects will be carried out.
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| Micron see good business, raise capex |
4/12/2006 |
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During a conference call to discuss its financial results on Monday (April 10), Micron (Boise, Ida.) disclosed that its total capital expenditures would hit $2.6 billion in fiscal 2006, up from $2 billion from its previous estimate.
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| AMD re-align prices on processor |
4/12/2006 |
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The chip maker Monday increased prices for its Althlon 64 desktop processors by about $2 to $3 each, depending on the model. Processors affected include AMD's highest end 4000 series parts.
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| Nantero claim success on 22nm NV memory cell |
4/12/2006 |
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Nantero Inc., a private company developing a non-volatile memory based on the bi-modal stability of a carbon nanotube matrix laid across an etched trench, has announced it has fabricated and successfully tested a 22-nanometer memory switch.
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| Lexar files complain against Toshiba |
4/12/2006 |
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In this complaint, Lexar (Fremont, Calif.) — which is in the process of being acquired by Micron Technology Inc. — asserts that Toshiba's flash-memory chips and flash cards infringe upon Lexar's U.S. Patent Nos. 6,801,979, 6,397,314 and 6,978,342.
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| Micron missed quarterly earning |
4/11/2006 |
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Wall Street was looking for $0.15 a share on sales of $1.34 billion for the quarter. For the first quarter of fiscal 2006, the company reported net income of $63 million, or $0.09 per diluted share, on net sales of $1.4 billion.
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| Lower PC prices lured buyers |
4/11/2006 |
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"This unforeseen resurgence of a category pronounced dead back in 2004 is attributable to several factors, but value and digital media attributes lead the pack,"
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| Fire at Electronic Show, 50 dead |
4/11/2006 |
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Indian trade fairs still take place in far more primitive venues—often cloth tents set up over interconnected bamboo poles with little regard for safety regulations.
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| DRAM Test: a major challenge for tester companies |
4/10/2006 |
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DRAM technology has reached a juncture requiring significant revisions in test approaches unless, of course, it hasn't. ATE powerhouses Advantest and Agilent Technologies have staked out significantly different positions on what emerging DRAM technologies will require.
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| iSupply: NAND growth to slow down |
4/10/2006 |
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The rate at which the market for NAND flash memories will grow in 2006 is going to be less than half the rate achieved in 2005, according to market forecast company iSuppli Corp.
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| Taiwan foundry business picking up |
4/10/2006 |
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As a result of the strong March performance TSMC’s sales revenue for the first quarter of 2006 was NT$77.3 billion (about $2.39 billion), up 38.9 percent from the NT$55.653 billion (. March sales at UMC increased more than 20 percent year-on-year to reach NT$8,456 million.
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| Transmeta resumes design work for Sony |
4/10/2006 |
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The latest agreements call for Transmeta to perform a variety of design and engineering services for the Sony Group over project periods ranging from three months to one year, ending March 31, 2007.
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| ".eu" opens a frantic race |
4/10/2006 |
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Just over 300,000 Europeans scrambled to register their .eu Internet domain names in the first hour of being able to do so, according to figures issued by the European Registry of Internet Domain Names (Eurid).
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