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| Taiwan's Typhoon shuts down businesses |
7/18/2005 |
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Taiwan's government ordered financial markets shut today and canceled flights as Typhoon Haitang descends on the island's capital, bringing torrential rains and winds gusting at up to 172.5 miles an hour.
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| National Semi to get out of Singapore |
7/15/2005 |
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Following National’s announcement in March to seek a buyer for its Singapore plant, the company has now decided to accelerate its cost savings by closing the plant and consolidating production volume into its assembly and test plants in Melaka, Malaysia, and Suzhou, China.
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| Rambus sales increased |
7/15/2005 |
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Rambus Inc. reported Thursday record financial results for the second consecutive quarter with Q2 revenues of $40 million, up 14 percent over Q2 2004, and up 1 percent from Q1.
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| US semiconductor to loose market share |
7/15/2005 |
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according to market research company IC Insights, U.S. companies are expected to lose worldwide semiconductor market share over the next four years, from holding 46 percent of the market in 2004 and 2005 to 42 percent in 2009.
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| Samsung project better second half |
7/15/2005 |
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"We expect both sales and operating profit to improve in the second half. We see a solid demand recovery in major sale items including DRAM, NAND flash, LCD and mobile phones with the arrival of the high demand season,"
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| Gates: Progress seen on IP compliance in Asia |
7/14/2005 |
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Gates said: "If you go back say 15 years and look at Hong Kong and Taiwan, the amount of piracy was close to 100 per cent and now both markets have made substantial progress and the majority of business-used software is licensed."
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| China's semi industry will rely on local consumption |
7/14/2005 |
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The size of China as a market for electronics may ultimately play a larger role in China's emergence in semiconductor manufacturing than lower costs. "Dell didn't go to China because they wanted to reduce costs," Wu said. "They want to sell a PC to every Chinese."
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| Cell phone delivery show signs of slowing |
7/14/2005 |
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"The slowing pace is a result of some mature markets at, or near, full penetration, and weaker-than-expected growth in some emerging ones. It's a sign of a maturing industry."
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| Intel to release 2nd round dual-core early 2006 |
7/14/2005 |
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"We're on track for delivery of Presler in the first half of 2006, most likely the earlier part of the first half," confirmed Intel. "It will be the next-generation dual-core processor using multichip packaging technology."
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| Flash price putting pressure on AMD/Spanion |
7/13/2005 |
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“While we believe product momentum continues, particularly in the microprocessor business, we recognize that the impending IPO of the Spansion flash business may be an overhang on further near-term share appreciation,” Tim Luke, managing director of equity research, at the firm said in a report.
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| Flash growth puts challenge on testing |
7/13/2005 |
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It's not uncommon for the latest generation cell phones to incorporate DRAM, SRAM, NOR and NAND chips in one package. "There's not phones being designed, in terms of advanced (3G) phones, that don't have MCPs in them," Ericson said.
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| DRAM production control will stabalize price |
7/13/2005 |
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Many suppliers' DRAM operations are expected to suffer losses in the second quarter and so, in order to stanch the flow of red ink, suppliers are expected to slow production increases and hold the line on contract price cuts in the second half.
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| ARM goes for multi-core |
7/13/2005 |
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The test chip, based on the ARMv6 instruction set architecture, comprises four processors running with cache coherence and was made by NEC using a generic 130-nm manufacturing process with no optimizations for performance or power, the company said.
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| Film base display demonstrated |
7/13/2005 |
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The electronic display could replace paper in a number of applications, according to Fujitsu, ranging from information boards, billboards, posters to menus at restaurants to point-of-purchase tags. Fujitsu, Ltd. intends to introduce paper display products in its fiscal 2006.
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| Dell CTO encourage changes in IC industry for consumers |
7/12/2005 |
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Kevin Kettler told the Semicon West conference on Monday (July 11) that chip makers need to sharpen their focus on the consumer market through higher levels of silicon integration, innovative packaging for emerging mobile devices and shortening design cycles through design reuse.
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| Intel office raided for anti-trust investigation |
7/12/2005 |
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Swindon, Munich, Madrid and Milan offices of Intel Corp. subsidiaries in Europe, chip distributors and computer makers were raided by European Commission and local officials on Tuesday (July 12) as part of an investigation into possible antitrust violations
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| DRAM prices seen up |
7/12/2005 |
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256-Mbit DDR-400, contract prices went up by 2.3 percent to $2.2 while prices for 512-Mbit DDR-400/333/266 memories went up by 3.3 percent to $4.4. Several DRAM makers say the upward trend for prices is expected to continue until September due to high seasonal demand.
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