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| Suppliers optimistic at Semicon West |
7/12/2005 |
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SEMI suggested the industry has hit the bottom and things are beginning to improve. "No one likes a downturn, but it is a mild one," said Stan Myers, president and CEO of SEMI. His remarks came during a press conference this afternoon here.
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| Cadence chairman retires |
7/12/2005 |
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Bingham is stepping down as executive chairman and as a member of the Cadence board of directors, a position he had held since May 2004, after serving as president and CEO since 1999 and as executive VP and CFO of the San Jose, Calif.-based company since 1993.
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| Appeals court reversed judgement on SanDisk's case |
7/12/2005 |
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SanDisk said the CAFC ruling supports its interpretation of the key inventive features claimed in the '987 patent, and thereby eliminates the primary non-infringement argument of Ritek, Pretec and Memorex.
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| Hon Hai/ Foxconn to further expand in China |
7/11/2005 |
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Some speculation swirled that Hon Hai's latest move only served as a sign for bigger plans to buy client Motorola Inc's handset plant in Tianjin with the goal of clinching a deal to make low-end handsets for the world's No.2 mobile phone brand.
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| Teradyne to offer Open Flex to other Testers |
7/11/2005 |
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Flex is Teradyne's configurable test system; it first announced in 2003 that it would open its proprietary configurable system to third-party instrument vendors, dubbing the initiative OpenFlex.
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| IBM shows dual-core PowerPC chip |
7/11/2005 |
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IBM Corp. showed off its PowerPC 970MP, a dual-core version of an earlier design, this one aimed at applications that require 64-bit and symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) with ranges from 1.4 to 2.5 GHz.
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| NEC lowers earning outlook |
7/8/2005 |
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NEC Electronics Corp. gave lower guidance for sales revenue in the first fiscal quarter ended June 30.
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| Micron countersue Tessera |
7/8/2005 |
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Micron Technology countersued Tessera Technologies Inc., three months after Tessera sued Micron for patent infringement and anticompetitive conduct in March, Micron said.
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| Siebel warns on earnings outlook |
7/8/2005 |
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The outlook for Siebel Systems Inc. is not getting any better as the business software maker has warned that quarterly revenue will fall short of Wall Street estimates.
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| Broadband over power lines gain momentum |
7/7/2005 |
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Current Communications Group, provider of broadband Internet service over power lines, said it has received investment money from Google, Hearst and Goldman Sachs.
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| Rambus announces XDR interface at 8GHz |
7/7/2005 |
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Rambus Inc. has announced the latest version of its high-bandwidth XDR memory interface technology, XDR2, which uses a micro-threaded DRAM core and circuit enhancements that enable data rates starting at 8-GHz frequency switching
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| LG to use Palm OS in future smart phone |
7/7/2005 |
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LG Electronics has agreed to use a version of the Palm OS designed by Palmsource in a future smart phone, the company said during a press release.
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| DRAM contract prices up in July |
7/6/2005 |
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Contract prices for DDR, DDR2 SDRAM and NAND flash all picked up for July, according to contract houses in Taiwan.
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| Intel seek grants from Israel for fab |
7/6/2005 |
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Intel has appealed to the government of Israel to approve an enlarged grant to help it build a wafer fab in the country, according to a local newspaper in Israel.
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| Hynix secured 1.3 billion loan |
7/6/2005 |
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Hynix Semiconductor has raised $1.3 billion from a group of local financial institutions, according to a Korea Times report.
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| May factory orders up |
7/6/2005 |
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Orders for manufactured goods increased 2.9 percent in May, led by a big jump in orders for aircraft, according to a government report.
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| Flash chips prices continue to fall |
7/5/2005 |
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Prices for the most widely-used flash memory chips in music players, 1 gigabit and 2 gigabit NAND chips, have been on the decline for months. One reason the 1 gigabit parts have been falling in price is that they are reaching the end of their life. The 2 gigabit chips are quickly becoming the most popular NAND chips in the industry.
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| Chips sales dropped for second month |
7/5/2005 |
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For the second month, worldwide chip sales dropped. The three-month average of worldwide sales of semiconductors hit $18.05 billion in May, a sequential decline of 0.5 percent from $18.14 billion in April, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported.
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| Red Hat reported Upbeat earnings |
7/5/2005 |
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Red Hat's revenues grew by 45.5% to $60.8 million, compared with last year's $41.8 million. The bulk of its growth came from subscription sales: $49.2 million versus $30.6 million a year ago. Revenues from its services increased marginally by 3.1%.
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