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| Toshiba, Canon co-develop next generation LCD TV |
3/8/2006 |
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Toshiba Corp. and Canon Inc. announced that they will start the first stage of mass production of surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED) panels in July 2007 and launch SED TVs in Q4 2007.
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| Gateway says to work harder in corporate market |
3/8/2006 |
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Gateway Inc. is well-positioned in the faster-growing markets for notebooks and flat-panel monitors, but still has work to do in its direct sales of PCs and to the professional market, the company's interim CEO said.
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| Micron buys Lexar Media |
3/8/2006 |
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Micron Technology Inc. on Wednesday said it would buy Lexar Media Inc.for about $675 million in stock to help expand in the flash memory chip market.
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| Intel showcase low-power "Woodcrest" server chip |
3/8/2006 |
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Intel next-generation "Woodcrest" server processor, scheduled to be released in the third quarter, runs at a low-voltage that consumes only 40 watts, said an Intel executive during IDT in San Francisco this week.
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| UMC February sales up 20% |
3/8/2006 |
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United Microelectronics Corp. sales in February increased more than 22 percent year-to-year, but declined more than 10 percent sequentially, the company said.
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| Intel demo fast boot up platform |
3/8/2006 |
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Intel previews its next-generation notebook with speedy system boots and application launch using NAND flash memory during the IDF in San Francisco.
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| Intel to roll out Wimax this year |
3/7/2006 |
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Intel Corp. said it has moved up to this year its expected roll-out of cards that will let computers access the Internet using Wi-Max, a new long-range, high-speed wireless technology.
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| Lexar Media lowered guidance |
3/7/2006 |
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NAND flash supplier Lexar Media, Inc. lowered its guidance for Q4 results, saying today that it December quarter revenues should be in the range of $237 million to $240 million.
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| Novell earnings fall short |
3/7/2006 |
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Novell stock tumbled after the company posted a big drop in first-quarter profit and issued a warning for the second quarter.
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| Toshiba to build new fab for flash? |
3/6/2006 |
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Toshiba and its partner SanDisk will jointly spend about $4.3 billion to build a new flash memory plant in Japan, business daily Nihon Keizai said.
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| Micron faces lawsuit on price fixing |
3/6/2006 |
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Micron Technology face a class action lawsuit alleging price fixing. The legal firm of Schiffrin and Barroway, LLP said it had filed a class action lawsuit in federal court in Idaho on behalf of Micron securities holders between Feb. 24, 2001 and Feb. 13, 2003. A different firm filed a similar suit last month.
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| Nvidia claimed first in HD graphic processor |
3/3/2006 |
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Nvidia Corp. said today it is now shipping its PureVideo technology, aimed at allowing support for high-definition video including hardware acceleration for content based on the advanced H.264 specification.
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| January Semi sales hit +7% |
3/3/2006 |
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"The new year got off to a good start for the global semiconductor industry with strong year-on-year growth in a historically weak month," said SIA President George Scalise.
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| AMD filed to subpoena Skpe record |
3/3/2006 |
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Skype, EBay Inc.'s Internet-phone unit, recently signed a deal with Intel. Chip maker Intel is working with Skype to add features to Skype's internet telephony software, but the features are restricted to Intel dual core processors.
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| Google switches to AMD server |
3/3/2006 |
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Google has more than 200,000 internal servers worldwide. The search engine company has started to buy AMD’s 64-bit Opteron processors for almost all new purchases, according to the reports, which cited Morgan Stanley analyst Mark Edelstone.
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| Gateway settles infringement for $47M |
3/3/2006 |
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In 2004 and 2005, H-P filed additional suits against both Gateway and eMachines, including one with the International Trade Commission claiming that at least 27 of its patents were being breached.
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| Samsung not to shift NAND capacity back to DRAM |
3/2/2006 |
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Samsung will not shift a significant amount of NAND flash capacity to DRAM production, as it expects NAND flash pricing will rebound in the short-term, according to Woosik Chu, senior vice president of investor relations at Samsung.
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| Hynix executive to serve jail terms for price fixing |
3/2/2006 |
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Four South Korean executives from Hynix Semiconductor Inc. have agreed to plead guilty for their role in fixing prices of DRAM (dynamic RAM), agreeing to serve about one-half year in U.S. prison and pay a US$250,000 fine each.
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| Xilinx offer 65nm FPGA technology |
3/2/2006 |
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Configurable logic chipmaker Xilinx Inc. said Tuesday that that it has sampled first silicon for the 65nm generation of its Virtex FPGA product family.
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| DDR2 price to climb |
3/2/2006 |
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DDR2 SDRAM contract prices are expected to grow by a minimum of 5-to-10 percent sequentially in the first half of March, while standard DDR SDRAM tags should stay flat, according to the DRAM clearing house.
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| Global LCD display sales increased |
3/2/2006 |
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DisplaySearch (Austin, Texas) reported fourth-quarter 2005 sales of $14 billion, up 13 percent quarter-to-quarter and 78 percent year-over-year.
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