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| Broadcom got a piece of iPod pie |
10/24/2005 |
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The Broadcom chip and other ICs account for 17 percent of the $151 total bill-of-materials (BOM) cost for the 30GByte iPod, according to iSuppli.
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| SanDisk acquires OTP company |
10/24/2005 |
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Matrix (Santa Clara, Calif.) has been developing and supplying 3D-based one-time programmable chip technology since its inception in 1998. The technology is used for storage applications that do not require multiple rewrites.
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| Former CEO of Infineon under investigation |
10/24/2005 |
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German weekly magazine Focus reported that the Schumacher was under suspicion and that Schumacher denied any wrongdoing but was cooperating with the authorities, according to Reuters.
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| Power Chip to build 4 DRAM Fab |
10/21/2005 |
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Powerchip Semiconductor is planning to build four DRAM wafer fabs over the next six years at a cost of about $10 billion,
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| Japan sets Hynix tariff at 27% |
10/21/2005 |
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Japan has come up with a figure of 27.2 percent as the level of import duty to be levied on DRAM chips made Hynix Semiconductor Inc
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| Samsung Q3 profits fell |
10/14/2005 |
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Samsung Electronics reported a 30 percent drop in quarterly profits on Friday amid lower prices of memory chips and flat screens.
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| Promos runs DDR2 using 90-nm design process |
10/14/2005 |
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ProMOS Technologies will start pilot run production on DDR2 chips with 90nm process in late October with shipment schedule to be on early 2006, according to industry sources.
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| AMD to open its second fab in Germany |
10/14/2005 |
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Advanced Micro Devices will open its 300-mm Fab 36 with 65-nm process technology in Dresden, Germany this Friday, the company announced. It is the second fab at the same location.
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| Samsung DRAM priced fixing cost $300 million |
10/13/2005 |
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Samsung Electronics Company and its U.S. subsidiary have agreed to plead guilty for participating in an international conspiracy to fix prices in the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) market, the U.S. Justice Department announced today.
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| Yahoo, Microsoft to link on instant messaging |
10/13/2005 |
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Yahoo and Microsoft are close to announcing a partnership that would let their instant-messaging tools communicate with each other, a first for an industry that has limited people to using the same service if they want to talk to each other.
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