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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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| 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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