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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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| TI/MIT claimed 0.4V lowest power SRAM |
2/8/2006 |
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The 0.4-volt, sub-threshold SRAM achieves 2.25 times lower leakage power, as compared to its six-transistor counterpart at 0.6 volts, according to TI and MIT. The SRAM also claims to incorporate 10 transistors per bitcell to enable operations down to 400-mV.
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| TV industry poised to expand |
2/8/2006 |
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South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. expects its strength in flat screen TVs to propel it to TV sales of $10 billion by 2010.
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| National Semi praises Bush's hi-tech policy |
2/8/2006 |
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Halla said that he is encouraged by the recent State of the Union speech by President George W. Bush in which he pledged to double R&D funding, boost funding for math and science education and seek more liberal immigration policies for high-tech workers.
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| Skype to offer 10 way conference with Intel processor |
2/8/2006 |
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Intel has said that with Skype version 2.0 or higher there is a conference call feature that can include up to ten people at the same time — but that’s only possible if the computer’s processor is an Intel Centrino Duo or an Intel Pentium D processor.
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| Elpida outsources development to India |
2/7/2006 |
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“Our decision to establish Edison in India leverages the available talent for circuit design, layout and evaluation experience in that region,” said Yukio Sakamoto. “Each of our design centers enhances our global strengths and expands our product development capabilities.”
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| ST/Hynix Nand alliance yield high speed 4Gbit chip |
2/7/2006 |
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“Moreover, we fully expect this type of approach to be implemented as an industry standard feature in 2-bit per cell devices, which are rapidly increasing their share of the NAND Flash market. This method realizes the cost advantages of multilevel cell technology, but without sacrificing system read throughput and reliability.”
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| SMIC looking for opportunity to acquire capacity |
2/7/2006 |
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"We will pursue alternative opportunities to expand our capacity through the use of strategic alliances,” Chang said in a statement presenting the company’s fourth quarter financial results.
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| Record budget for US military requested |
2/7/2006 |
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The record $493.7 billion request unveiled Monday (Feb. 6) contains funding increases for the U.S. Army's Future Combat System, including $3.7 billion in fiscal 2007 and $22.4 billion through over the next five years. The troubled program is the Army's highest priority as it seeks to link soldiers to sensors and weapons via an advanced network.
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| IBM and Freescale have high hope on Power Processor |
2/7/2006 |
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By next year, Mayer said fully half of all cars will have at least one Freescale PowerPC-based controller onboard. Kelly noted that IBM displaced the MIPS and Intel X86 processors enroute to gaining design wins in the game machines from Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony. The companies want to duplicate those successes in the consumer market.
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| 3rd party PC chipset gained position |
2/6/2006 |
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It's Intel's inability to meet chipset demand from Q2 onwards that has seen its share of the graphics market tumble, and explains why strong chipset player VIA has done so well out of the year's market conditions.
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| IC designers are still better in the US |
2/6/2006 |
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Michael Fister, president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems Inc., said that intellectually there is not much difference between engineers in the U.S. and their counterparts in other parts of the world, but that experientially there is currently a big difference.
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| Solar cell industry consolidated |
2/6/2006 |
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“The transfer of Shell Solar to SolarWorld AG reflects the consolidation in the industry that has been emerging for some time. But for the foreseeable future, this could be the last major merger in the market."
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