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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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| Mobile application propels Spansion |
1/19/2006 |
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Spansion (Sunnyvale, Calif.) said Wednesday (Jan. 18) that net sales jumped 15 percent over the previous quarter to $592 million. The total was 21-percent higher than the same period last year.
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| Apple comes out on top with iPod |
1/19/2006 |
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Apple's net income, which equates to 65 cents per diluted share, was up 91 percent from the $295 million it reported for the first quarter of fiscal 2005 and up 31 percent from the 430 million in net income the company posted for the previous quarter.
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| China catching up on broaddband |
1/19/2006 |
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China¡¯s broadband market is projected to more than double over the next few years, according to Chinese networking equipment provider ZTE Corp.
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| H-1B quota closed for the year |
1/19/2006 |
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"U.S. employers will have no means to hire the world¡¯s brightest minds until the new fiscal year begins, more than eight months from now."
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| Agilent's restatement found $20million |
1/19/2006 |
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Due to an accounting error, Agilent Technologies Inc. has restated its fiscal results for fiscal 2004, increasing its net income for the full year and the fourth quarter of that year by $20 million.
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| Rambus re-initiated IP case against Micron |
1/18/2006 |
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In the case filed Friday, Rambus asserts infringement of its patents by DDR2, GDDR2 and GDDR3, and other memory devices that are currently shipping in the marketplace.
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| ChipMOS chairman being investigated |
1/18/2006 |
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The indictment is in connection with the alleged misuse of corporate funds in 2004 of ChipMOS. “The repurchase notes in question have been fully redeemed with interest,” according to the company. “The indictment does not allege that Mr. Shih-Jye Cheng gained personally from any of the alleged activities.”
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| Intel missed projection |
1/18/2006 |
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Intel Corp. posted net earnings of $2.5 billion, or 40 cents per share on sales of $10.2 billion in the fourth quarter, with revenue falling below the company’s updated guidance for revenue of $10.4 billion to $10.6 billion.
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| IBM sales down 12% |
1/18/2006 |
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Despite gains within its microelectronics business, IBM Corp. on Tuesday (Jan. 17) posted sales of $24.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2005, down 12 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2004.
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| Singapore's FTD partners Elpida to design DRAM |
1/18/2006 |
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With Edison Semiconductor FTD is using its previously developed “insourcing” model where it has set up development companies to work exclusively on behalf of global companies. FTD has used the model to work for Synopsys, Toshiba and Creative Technology.
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| National Instrument got into educational market un-intentionally |
1/17/2006 |
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A professor at Tufts University, Chris Rogers, reverse engineered National Instruments’ software LabView so that it could be used to program the Lego robotics system. Rogers brought his work to the Lego Group and the Lego Group approached National Instruments. National Instruments then worked with Lego to create an application based on LabView for the Mindstorms education version – one geared to the school market.
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| Graphics company go for "half-note" to push performance at cost |
1/17/2006 |
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The 80-nm process is a lithographic shrink of TSMC’s 90-nm process technology. As a consequence, this node supports most of the 90-nm libraries and intellectual property from TSMC and third-parties, requiring only simple re-characterization using 80-nm transistor models.
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| Samsung signed cross license on LCD technology |
1/17/2006 |
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The cross license covers patents in the area of thin-film-transistor LCD and organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology, especially so far as they are applied to LCD television.
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| AMD extended contract on SOI process |
1/17/2006 |
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Silicon-on-insulator wafer supplier Soitec SA has signed an SOI wafer supply contract with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. worth more than $150 million for the 2006 calendar year.
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| Agilent to spin off STS division as "Verigy" |
1/16/2006 |
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In August 2005 Agilent announced a plan to spin off its Semiconductor Test Solutions (STS) business, comprised of both the system-on-chip and system-in-package (SOC/SIP) and memory test market areas. STS is slated to become a new automated test company. The spin-off is expected to take place as soon as practical in 2006.
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