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| Gartner revised chip growth in 2006 |
2/16/2006 |
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Market forecaster Gartner has revised its forecast for chip market growth in 2006 upwards to 9.5 percent as a result of news of increased capital spending budgets for 2006.
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| Microsoft to release Office 2007 |
2/16/2006 |
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Microsoft Corp. unveiled multiple versions of its upcoming Office business software suite with features that aim to simplify worker collaboration and improve efficiency.
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| NAND makers take a hit |
2/15/2006 |
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Shares in NAND flash manufacturers fell amid rumors that Sony would use hard discs in its MP3 players instead of flash chips due to collapse in reaching NAND pricing agreement with Samsung.
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| TI ships chip to power $20 handset |
2/15/2006 |
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Texas Instruments says it will soon start supplying mobile phone producers with a single chip that powers an entire entry-level handset to allow them to be priced as low as just above $20.
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| Apple ships notebook with Intel chip |
2/15/2006 |
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The first portable computers with Intel Corp. chips was shipped this week, after announcing last year it would switch from IBM chips, Apple Computer said.
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| DRAM sales declined in 2005 |
2/13/2006 |
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Worldwide DRAM revenues declined 5 percent in 2005 to $25 billion, down from $26.3 billion in 2004, according to Gartner Dataquest.
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| Technology export control killed Transmeta deal |
2/10/2006 |
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After several meetings with U.S. government officials, Transmeta and Culturecom mutually concluded that the necessary technology export control approvals could not be obtained for these two agreements within the timeframe.
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| Remarkable Nand profit elevates manuafacturer value |
2/10/2006 |
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Top suppliers Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and Hynix Semiconductor Inc. all reported enviable profits. The NAND businesses of these three companies collectively generated more than $6 billion in operating profits in 2005.
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| Micron promote CTO to COO position |
2/10/2006 |
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“Micron’s products, customers and the solutions we enable have evolved to a point where changing parts of our organization will continue to increase our presence and competitiveness in the global marketplace ,” Appleton said in a statement.
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| Korean FTC raided Intel office |
2/10/2006 |
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The commission's raids are part of an investigation into Intel's business dealings with four South Korean PC makers. That investigation began last summer.
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| IBM to ship blade server with Cell processor in Q3 |
2/9/2006 |
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The company said its new blade server would be part of a new family of blade servers called BladeCenter H and enable computing systems to transmit data 10 times faster than previously possible across corporate networks.
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| AMD sponsored study found government bias on MPU purchase |
2/9/2006 |
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The report found that approximately 69 percent of the applicable government solicitations for computer systems and technology in 2004 contained language that either required specific brand-name microprocessors or specified that the processor should be equivalent to a particular brand microprocessor.
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| Spansion regained market lead on NOR |
2/9/2006 |
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Spansion in the fourth quarter reported flash-memory revenue of $601 million, compared to Intel’s total of $600 million, according to iSuppli. STMicroelectronics Inc. was third with $335 million in NOR sales in the period, according to iSuppli.
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| AMD to leverage on I/O vertualization |
2/8/2006 |
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"Virtualization helps customers overcome the physical boundaries and underused capacity of IT systems, and is a key stepping stone for customers to increase operational efficiency and become more dynamic and responsive to business needs,"
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