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| Xilinx lowers quarterly guidance |
10/10/2005 |
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Xilinx Inc. lowered its sales guidance for fiscal Q2 2006, now expected to be down 1 to 2 percent sequentially, below prior guidance of flat to up 4 percent sequentially, the company reported.
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| Courts won't rehear RIM's patent case |
10/10/2005 |
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A U.S. appeals court refused to reconsider an earlier ruling that upheld patent infringement charges against RIM and their popular BlackBerry wireless e-mail device.
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| TI's Templeton: development alliance is too slow ! |
10/7/2005 |
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“Alliances are a patch you use when you can’t afford something. It is a slower, negotiated process. TI in the past did joint development and there was a slower result. … Our focus is on time to market and time to volume,” he said.
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| Flextronics to expand into India |
10/7/2005 |
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Singapore-based electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider Flextronics reported today it would expand its existing operations in India through an agreement, to build an industrial park in Chennai.
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| Toshiba to expand on Flash production |
10/7/2005 |
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Toshiba (Tokyo) said it would look to boost capital spending above its initial plan for 169 billion yen ($1.49 billion) in the 2005 and 2006 time frame.
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| ATI feels obstacle on PC market |
10/7/2005 |
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ATI reported that PC revenue fell 18 percent to $377 million, due mostly to lower sales of performance and enthusiast desktop products.
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| Lockheed to supply military display system |
10/7/2005 |
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The awards are a follow-on to the AN/UYQ-70 Advanced Display Systems program contract initially awarded to Lockheed Martin in 1994. This indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract covers a five-year period and is valued at an estimated $500 million.
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| Atmel to unload its France fab |
10/6/2005 |
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“We are pleased to be able to reach an agreement that will preserve many jobs in France,” said George Perlegos, "this sale is an important step in Atmel’s plan to consolidate its manufacturing and reduce costs."
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| Luminescent Tech and SMIC to partner in 65nm litho |
10/6/2005 |
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The two companies will apply ILT to IC designs in their collaboration that commenced with the installation of Luminescent's Explorer development platform at SMIC’s production facility in Shanghai.
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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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