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| Gateway won order from US Air Force |
6/16/2005 |
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The U.S. Air Force has signed an $8 million contract to outfit its military bases with nearly 10,000 Gateway desktop PCs, the company said.
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| Cell phone on planes |
6/16/2005 |
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Boeing Co. unit Connexion expects to start selling cellular phone services to airline passengers as early as next year, the company said.
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| Rambus licenses XDR technology to IBM |
6/15/2005 |
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Rambus has given IBM a license to use its high-speed XDR memory controller interface cell technology, dubbed XIO. The technogy will be used to power IBM upcoming high-performance consumer applications utilizing its 90-nm ASIC process, the company said.
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| AMI acquired Flextronics chip unit |
6/15/2005 |
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AMIS Holdings Inc., the parent company of AMI Semiconductor, said that it has acquired the semiconductor division of Flextronics Inc. for $135 million in cash.
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| LCD TVs double in sales and unit shipment |
6/14/2005 |
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Global sales of flat-panel TVs more than doubled in the first quarter to 3.15 million units, driven by significant price reductions supported by large cost savings in factories, a survey said.
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| HDTV over DSL by broadcom |
6/13/2005 |
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Broadcam announced that its IPTV set top box was used in the world's first demonstration of delivering a live HDTV broadcast over a DSL network.
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| China to build 20 new fabs by 2008 |
6/13/2005 |
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SEMI said that 20 new fabs will be built in China between now and 2008, and many of them will be furnished with used equipment.
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| Intel keeps prices intact |
6/13/2005 |
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The latest price list released by Intel showed prices on its latest chip remain the same, indicating a strong demand in personal computer especially in notebook segment.
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| Sony, Nokia release new phones |
6/13/2005 |
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Sony Ericsson launched four new phones, which it said would boost its presence in the low and mid-segment market.
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| Intel Yonah pricing revealed |
6/10/2005 |
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Intel dual-core notebook processors, (codenamed Yonah), will be priced similarly to the current prices for the 700-series Pentium M processors
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| ST to cut 2300 jobs in Europe |
6/10/2005 |
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STMicroelectronics NV presented plans to cut 2,300 European jobs by mid-2006 to its European Work Council, the company said today.
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| AMD is planning a 64-bit version of its Sempron processor |
6/10/2005 |
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AMD is planning a 64-bit version of its Sempron processor, presaging a down-market duel in which the scrappy semiconductor vendor will battle Intel's upcoming 64-bit Celeron D for control of the so-called "value-priced" market segment, where PCs can sell for as little as $300.
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| Taiwan DRAM makers may flood spot market with DDR2 |
6/9/2005 |
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DRAM makers in Taiwan plan to accelerate the market’s migration to DDR2 by shipping all of their 50-60 million DDR2-667 chip inventory to the spot market in the third quarter in an attempt to drive down DDR2 spot prices below DDR prices
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| Intel to add 945 chipset for mainstream segment |
6/9/2005 |
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Intel will add a new integrated 945 chipset, the 945GZ, to bring support for the company’s Pentium D dual-core processors to the mainstream market, with volume production slated for the first quarter of 2006
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