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| Tower Semi Q4 sales up 50% |
1/4/2006 |
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Tower Semiconductor Ltd. said it expects revenue for its Q4 ended December 31, 2005 to be approximately $31 million, an increase of approximately 50 percent sequentially over Q3.
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| Samsung, LG.Philips to mass produce 7G LCD |
1/3/2006 |
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Samsung Electronics and LG.Philips LCD separately reported the commencement of 7th generation (7G) thin-film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display (LCD) panel production.
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| AMD licenses Rambus technology |
1/3/2006 |
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Rambus Inc. said Tuesday that chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has agreed to pay $75 million over five years to license Rambus technology for boosting the speed at which computer chips communicate with each other.
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| Socket-478 going strong in emerging market |
12/29/2005 |
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Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) and VIA Technologies, two major chipset specialists in Taiwan, anticipate that strong sales of Socket-478 motherboards from the channel segment in emerging markets will be driving shipment growth throughout the first quarter of 2006.
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| Year end "state of memory" |
12/29/2005 |
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In DRAM spot market today, most OEMs were ready for inventory checking at the end of the year.
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| UMC chairman resigns amid polictical pressure |
12/29/2005 |
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Robert Tsao on Thursday (Dec. 29) announced that he plans to resign from his positions as chairman and board member of Taiwanese foundry specialist United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC). Tsao has been the center of attention in UMC’s recent move to restate its results and a controversial investment in a Chinese foundry provider.
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| Samsung to license Ovonyx phase memory technology |
12/29/2005 |
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Ovonyx Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have entered into a long-term license agreement to use Ovonyx' intellectual property relating to the thin-film semiconductor memory technology.
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| LG puts large screen bet on LCOS |
12/29/2005 |
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LG is currently rolling out its LCoS 71-inch TV in the Australian market, and will subsequently add marketing efforts in the U.S. and introduce the product in South Korea, according SpatiaLight.
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| Science conference attacked by terrorist |
12/29/2005 |
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Police said the gunman sprayed automatic gunfire during a conference at the Indian Institute of Science, based in the southern Indian city of Bangalore. Professor M.C. Puri from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, was killed in the attack.
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| Economy bloom get Japanese to build Fab again |
12/28/2005 |
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Overall, Japan is seeking to regain lost ground in semiconductors. After sizzling expansion effort in 2003 and 2004, Japan’s leading semiconductor makers slipped back into the abyss in 2005, following top-level executive changes, mounting losses, capital spending cuts and disappointing product demand .
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| Processors in short supply |
12/28/2005 |
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"AMD is experiencing unprecedented demand for our desktop processors and this unprecedented demand has depleted our supply of packaging components."
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| Memory prices trends up |
12/28/2005 |
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DRAMeXchange’s DXI index jumped 1.13 percent to 2,695 points last week — a trend that signifies a possible price rebound for DRAM makers in the marketplace.
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| India firm offers hand-held example design |
12/28/2005 |
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Called DesignFlex, the design was developed jointly with Mediatronix Pvt. Ltd., (Kerala, India). It will enable product companies to migrate to the handheld/portable segment more easily and speed time-to-market.
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| Large companies will get technology through acquisition in 2006 |
12/27/2005 |
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There are expectations 2006 will be a good year for semiconductor technologies as mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, and some consolidation is prompted by large-diversified companies looking for successful fledglings to fill technology holes.
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| Samsung to supply Sony on Nand |
12/27/2005 |
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The order from Sony could account for one-fifth of Samsung's NAND-based flash-memory production, exceeding the value of its chip sales to Apple Computer Inc.
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| Micron Earnings Fall on Price Slump |
12/22/2005 |
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Micron Technology Inc. reported today that sales for its fiscal Q1 2006 ended December 1 were $1.36 billion, up 8 percent on both a sequential and year-over-year basis.
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| Japan plans own Internet search engine |
12/22/2005 |
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Japan's government, high-tech firms and universities will team up to develop their own Internet search technology, an official said, amid soaring profits for US giant Google.
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