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| Broadcom reports bullish outlook |
1/27/2006 |
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Broadcom Corp., a diversified, high-growth maker of microchips, said quarterly earnings nearly tripled, topping all Wall Street expectations.
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| Microsoft net profit rose |
1/27/2006 |
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Microsoft Corp. reported a 5 percent rise in quarterly profit. The company said net income totaled $3.65 billion, or 34 cents per share, in its fiscal second quarter ended Dec. 31, compared to $3.46 billion, or 32 cents per share, a year earlier.
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| Nokia quarterly earnings meet expectation |
1/26/2006 |
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Nokia reported fourth-quarter earnings per share of 0.25 euros, in line with poll expectations. Net sales were 10.3 billion euros, up 9.3 percent from a year ago and above the average forecast of 10 billion.
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| Sony reports quarterly profit |
1/26/2006 |
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Sony reported a 47 percent jump in quarterly profit amid strong sales of a portable game console, bullish performance by its financial division, and weaker yen.
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| One billion transistors on Intel new chip |
1/26/2006 |
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Intel said it had made the world's first microchip using tiny new manufacturing methods that promise to let the world's top chipmaker make more powerful, efficient processors.
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| ST Micro reports lower net income |
1/25/2006 |
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ST Microelectronics reported lower net profit on as restructuring costs at Europe's second-biggest chipmaker offset higher sales driven mainly by wireless products.
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| Elpida reports profitable quarter |
1/25/2006 |
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Elpida Memory Inc. returned to the black in its December-ended fiscal third quarter. Sales for the quarter came in at ¥59 billion (about $513 million). Operating profit was ¥645 million (about $5.6 million).
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| Hynix profit rose 4 times |
1/25/2006 |
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Hynix Semiconductor Inc. forth quarter income jumped more than four-fold year-to-year, reaching 751 billion won (about $770 million), according to wire reports.
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| Sun posts quarterly loss |
1/25/2006 |
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Sun Microsystems posted quarterly results that missed analyst expectations on higher costs even as revenue rose, helped by the acquisition of Storage Technology Corp.
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| DDR2 shortage see in first quarter |
1/24/2006 |
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Nanya Technology predicts that the DDR2 shortage should increase to 30-40% in February that in turn would cause the contract prices to grow more than 10%, according to the company spokesperson.
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| Taiwan LCD manufacturing continues to grow |
1/24/2006 |
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Taiwanese companies are expected to grow market share in LCD television manufacturing to 31.1 percent in 2006, up from 28.4 percent in 2005, according to a source in Taiwan.
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| TI reports strong earnings |
1/24/2006 |
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Texas Instruments reported Q4 sales of $3.59 billion, up 14 percent from the same period a year ago. For the year TI reported a record revenue of $13.39 billion, a 6 percent increase over the previous year.
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| Motorola earnings jump amid strong phone sales |
1/24/2006 |
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Motorola said its fourth-quarter earnings rose, helped by strong sales of its mobile phones. It reported net profit of $1.2 billion, or 47 cents per share, compared with $647 million, or 26 cents per share a year earlier.
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| Spansion to tap on Elpida for Mobile DRAM |
1/20/2006 |
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The subsystem will incorporate MirrorBit NOR and ORNAND memory from the AMD/Fujitsu spin-off together with Elpida’s Mobile RAM, the companies said in a statement issued Thursday.
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| Japan put 27% tariff on Hynix |
1/20/2006 |
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Japan had already said in October 2005 that it had arrived at figure of 27.2 percent as the level of import duty to be levied on DRAM chips made by South Korea’s Hynix Semiconductor Inc. should it choose to proceed.
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| Rambus down for the quarter |
1/20/2006 |
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Sequentially, fourth quarter net income of $9.4 million was down 35 percent from net income of $14.5 million for the third quarter of 2005. Year-to-year, net income was up 45 percent from $6.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2004.
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| Motorola regains some ground |
1/20/2006 |
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The company recorded fourth-quarter sales of $6.5 billion in its Mobile Devices business, up 30 percent year-over-year. Handset sales reached 44.7 million, up 40 percent year-over-year.
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| AMD gains market share |
1/19/2006 |
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"AMD's growth rate increased in the fourth quarter resulting in continued market share gains across server, desktop and mobile product lines," said Robert Rivet, AMD's CFO.
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