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| Dow Corning adds investment in Taiwan glass fab |
10/6/2005 |
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Slated for completion in 2007, the facility will ultimately manufacture Generation 5.5, 6, 7.5 and larger glass substrates to meet demand for desktop LCD monitors and flat-panel LCD televisions.
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| NAND Flash to dominate memory market |
10/6/2005 |
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“There are so many new applications for NAND,” said Reza Faramarzi, marketing manager for Hynix’ U.S. subsidiary (San Jose, Calif.). “There is an infinite demand for flash at the current price points.”
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| Covad acquired NetWeb for fixed-wireless |
10/5/2005 |
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"Our acquisition of NextWeb accelerates Covad's entry into the emerging wireless broadband market and addresses our key strategic initiative to take control of our destiny,"
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| UMC's Hu: Foundries must take change |
10/5/2005 |
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"We have to make the transition from foundry to solutions provider." That means having the right IP, test and packaging capabilities along with wafer manufacturing expertise to turn customer designs into chips that function in-system.
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| Prices remain soft on DDR DRAM |
10/4/2005 |
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Sellers in Asia had earlier hoped that prices of first-tier DDR 400/333 would reach $3 per chip in September amid tightening supply and brisk demand. However, that failed to materialize. Monday trading in Europe did not show the overdue pick-up in demand that players have been waiting for.
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| China's Grace Semi delays 130nm start |
10/4/2005 |
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Grace (Shanghai) has been shipping wafers based on 0.25-, 0.18-, and 0.15-micron technologies within its 8-inch fab in China. The company has been developing its 130-nm logic process. It is now expected to offer its 130-nm logic process in the first half of 2006 ¡ª which appears to be later than its original schedule.
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| Hynix is advancing in memory processing |
10/4/2005 |
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¡°Nova¡± is a 70-nm technology that claims to have a gate-length width of 80-nm. Like its previous processes, Hynix will use 193-nm ¡°dry¡± scanners from ASML Holding NV and atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment for capacitor scaling applications, according to company officials.
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| Next generation Wi-Fi driving towards interoperable standard |
10/4/2005 |
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He was referring to suggestions that Intel Corp, Atheros Communications Inc and Marvell Semiconductors, and including Broadcom itself, have linked on an interoperable physical and media access controller layer and plan to submit this to the IEEE by November.
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| AMD settles lawsuit to gain Cache system technology |
10/3/2005 |
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By synchronizing main computer memory and main cache memory, the company said the technology enables different memories to communicate and synchronize with each other, allowing peripheral devices to operate at faster speeds.
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| Micron reports profit |
10/3/2005 |
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Sales of DDR and DDR2 DRAM products represented slightly more than one half of Micron’s net sales for Q4. The higher level of DRAM sales reflects the combination of a 10 percent increase in megabit sales and a 3 percent increase in average selling prices.
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| China to become the largest exporting country |
10/3/2005 |
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In its first Economic Survey of China, the OECD pointed to a number of factors that will fuel China’s rise, such as its vibrant private sector, which produces more than half of its gross domestic product (GDP), and a budget deficit below 1 percent of GDP.
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| Semi sales rose in August |
10/3/2005 |
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According to Bruce Diesen, analyst with Handelsbanken Capital Markets these averages imply that actual world chip sales rose 6.2 percent year-on-year in August; which he attributed to surging PC shipments as well as broad strength in other equipment categories.
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| Hynix shows aggressive roadmap on NAND |
10/3/2005 |
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Hynix is quietly readying its first 70-nm NAND-based flash devices, including an advanced 16-gigabit chip. Until now, Hynix had been rather mysterious about its product plans in flash despite staggering growth in the arena.
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| Hynix to showcase 16-Gbit NAND flash |
9/30/2005 |
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Hynix is working on its first 70-nm NAND-based flash devices, including an advanced 16-gigabit chip. The company has been shipping 1-, 2-, 4-, and 8-Gbit densities NAND flash with its single-level cell (SLC) technology, according to officials from Hynix.
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| iSuppli cut chip sales forecast |
9/30/2005 |
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Market researcher iSuppli trimmed the its forecast for 2005 semiconductor sales amid rapid rise in global energy prices combined with a growing excess of chip production capacity.
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| Micron earnings up |
9/30/2005 |
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Micron Technology earned net income of $188 million, or 29 cents per diluted share, on net sales of $4.88 billion for its fiscal year ended September 1, the company reported.
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| Spansion to increase NOR flash prices |
9/29/2005 |
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Spansion has since late September informed customers about price increases for its 4Mbit and 8Mbit NOR flash, according to industry sources.
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| Samsung to put 33 billion on memory plant expansion |
9/29/2005 |
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Samsung Electronics announced a $33 billion investment plan to add new production lines, in a move to widen the gap with its smaller rivals while adding capacity in the relatively weak non-memory area, analysts said.
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