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| IBM and Freescale have high hope on Power Processor |
2/7/2006 |
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By next year, Mayer said fully half of all cars will have at least one Freescale PowerPC-based controller onboard. Kelly noted that IBM displaced the MIPS and Intel X86 processors enroute to gaining design wins in the game machines from Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony. The companies want to duplicate those successes in the consumer market.
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| 3rd party PC chipset gained position |
2/6/2006 |
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It's Intel's inability to meet chipset demand from Q2 onwards that has seen its share of the graphics market tumble, and explains why strong chipset player VIA has done so well out of the year's market conditions.
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| IC designers are still better in the US |
2/6/2006 |
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Michael Fister, president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems Inc., said that intellectually there is not much difference between engineers in the U.S. and their counterparts in other parts of the world, but that experientially there is currently a big difference.
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| Solar cell industry consolidated |
2/6/2006 |
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“The transfer of Shell Solar to SolarWorld AG reflects the consolidation in the industry that has been emerging for some time. But for the foreseeable future, this could be the last major merger in the market."
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| Intel might have bought small processor company |
2/6/2006 |
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A source said it was believed that Conformative had been acquired by Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.) but that the acquisition had not been considered to be materially significant thereby explaining why Intel had not filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission and why no press release had been issued.
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| AMD website hacked |
2/3/2006 |
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AMD's Web site. Customer support discussion forums on the forums.amd.com site have been compromised and are being used in an attempt to infect visitors with malicious software.
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| Infineon produces 65nm samples |
2/2/2006 |
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Infineon Technologies AG announced that it has produced first sample chips based on its 65nm CMOS platform technology.
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| NAND dumping in China |
2/2/2006 |
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Distributors have reportedly dumped NAND-based flash memories from South Korean vendors into the China market, according to Gartner Dataquest Inc.
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| MCP memory to go to volume in Q4, |
2/2/2006 |
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Micron said it had launched a range multichip package (MCP) memories for use in mobile phones and would be manufacturing them in volume late in 2006
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| Apple may retire ipod shuffle |
2/1/2006 |
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The Shuffle may not be long for this world, it may soon be replaced by a 1-gigabyte version of the iPod Nano
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| Researchers Warn of File-Destroying Worm |
2/1/2006 |
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If you have computer files you'd rather not lose, now is a good time to make sure your anti-virus software is up to date. A worm set to activate Friday will corrupt documents using the most common file types, including ".doc," ".pdf," and ".zip."
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| NEC Announces Intel Itanium2 Processor-Based Server |
2/1/2006 |
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NEC has announced that its Intel Itanium2 processor-based server, the Express5800/1160Xe, has achieved what is claimed to be the world's best TPC-C benchmark performance on an 8-processor IA server platform
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| Rambus sets up European office |
1/30/2006 |
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Rambus has appointed Udo Muerle as Director of Business Development for its new European office with responsibility for the overall management and direction of Rambus’ strategic customer and partnership relationships in Europe.
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| Japan's Hynix tariff goes into effect |
1/30/2006 |
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One week after being proposed by the country's Ministry of Finance, a countervailing duty of 27.2 percent on DRAMs manufactured in Korea by Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and exported to Japan has been approved by Japan's cabinet and gone into effect.
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| Chartered earnings up |
1/27/2006 |
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Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing today announced its revenues for Q4 ended December 31, 2005 of $367.2 million, up 92.7 percent from $190.6 million in Q4 2004
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| PCS gets memory order from Dell |
1/27/2006 |
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Following Nanya and Promos, Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) has also received orders, possibly DDR2 chips, from Dell, sources familiar with the matter said.
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