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| Broadcom sued Qualcomm |
6/21/2005 |
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Broadcom sued Qualcomm last month in a California federal court, filing two separate suits, seeking damages and a permanent injunction barring the manufacture and sale of Qualcomm's core suite of baseband and RF ICs, including its multimedia, enhanced and convergence platform chips and its QChat VoIP technology for cellular phones.
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| China catching up on wafer meterial manufacturing |
6/21/2005 |
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Indeed, China is putting down roots for a domestic semiconductor and materials industry that could eventually go global, posing a potential threat to competitors and intellectual-property protections.
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| Counterfeit DRAM runs wild in India |
6/21/2005 |
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"In the process, there is no warranty on the counterfeits and the PCs may be damaged in the long run. This is damaging the brand name of Hynix in the market," the report quoted Suh as saying.
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| Jabil to add 500jobs in Memphis |
6/21/2005 |
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Jabil Circuit Inc. has announced it would expand its Memphis operation to support expanded manufacturing, assembly, and material handling of electronic cash registers and self-serve kiosks.
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| Market turns to fanless x86 processors |
6/20/2005 |
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With the order, VIA's microprocessors for the first time go into HP's computers. VIA Technologies stresses that with its fanless operation, the VIA Eden processor targets a myriad of embedded computing and personal electronics devices that require ultra low power consumption, rock solid reliability and compatibility with standard x86 operating systems and software applications.
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| Register module logic suppliers to merge |
6/20/2005 |
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The combined company will retain the IDT name and its stock will continue to trade on the Nasdaq national market under the ticker symbol IDTI. The merged company will be headquartered in San Jose, Calif.
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| Hynix may get out of debt soon |
6/20/2005 |
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Seoul, South Korea's Chosun Iibo reported this morning that Korea Exchange Bank, of the chipmaker's biggest creditors, had reported that Hynix had recently raised $1.3 billion in fresh funds in Korean and abroad. This heightens the company's chances of completing a $750 million overseas bond issue.
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| Intel built WLAN transceiver on all CMOS |
6/20/2005 |
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Intel said the transceiver features on-board power and low-noise amplifiers and 1.4-V operation. The SiP is the next step toward the company's vision of ubiquitous connectivity and an indication that Intel is rapidly developing the RF capability to achieve that goal.
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| CMP lunched Online vedio tech news |
6/20/2005 |
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Launched by CMP Media LLC's TechWeb network, The News Show will run segments ranging from up-to-the-minute tech news, interviews with top IT industry execs like Sun CEO Scott McNealy and General Motors CIO Ralph Szygenda, product reviews, opinionated analyses and an occasional rant or two.
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| Samsung to push for MMC Micro flash card |
6/17/2005 |
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In a move to push its MMC Micro flash card, Samsung has informed several of its clients that its NAND flash chips are not to be used on SD cards but should only be used in MMC micro cards, according to sources in Taiwan familiar with the matter.
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| Adobe reports profit up 37% |
6/17/2005 |
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Adobe Systems reported strong second-quarter earnings from strong sales on Acrobat and Photoshop software.
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| Google adds service on mobile search |
6/17/2005 |
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Google has rolled out a new search service that only links to pages that have been formatted for display in mobile devices' small screens.
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| Study shows PC demand stay strong |
6/17/2005 |
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Growth in PC sales should remain strong over the next year due to many factors, including low prices, the influence of emerging markets worldwide, and continuously growing demand for portable computers, according to research released this week by IDC.
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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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