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| Yahoo news site got made-over |
4/28/2005 |
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Yahoo revamped its News site, giving it a new look and features to help users searching for news and personalizing headlines.
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| Gate suggests removing workers' visa cap |
4/28/2005 |
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The United States should remove visa limits to allow more skilled foreign citizens to work at U.S. companies if it wants to remain a leader in technology, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said.
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| Motorola to develope 3G in China Center |
4/27/2005 |
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"The investment in the 3G Development Center also further underlines our commitment to China. With this center, we are offering our customers in China quicker deployment of solutions and more direct access to Motorola's global 3G expertise."
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| Inventory level shows good sign |
4/27/2005 |
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Partly due to the decline in excess inventories, in Q1, iSuppli raised its forecast of 2005 semiconductor revenue growth to 6.1 percent, up 1.4 percentage points from the previous prediction of 4.7 percent in Q4 2004.
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| TSMC to start 65nm production in December |
4/27/2005 |
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TSMC said FPGA maker Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.) and other customers have taped out 65-nm designs and received functional prototypes of 65-nm designs, including devices with areas of logic and memory, for initial validation and benchmarking.
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| IDC predicts consumer IC to double |
4/27/2005 |
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"The consumer semiconductor market is one of the fastest growing and most challenging segments in the semiconductor industry,"
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| TSMC quarterly sales dropped |
4/26/2005 |
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TSMC announced first quarter revenue of $1.77 billion (55.65 billion Taiwanese dollars), a 12.9 percent sequential drop and 3.2 percent drop year-over-year.
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| Sap, Microsoft co-develop software |
4/26/2005 |
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Microsoft and SAP are jointly developing a new product, code-named "Mendocino," that will link together their widely used business software programs, the companies said.
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| Infineon reports quarterly loss |
4/26/2005 |
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Infineon said it slipped into a net loss as it was weighed down by restructuring charges and continuing losses at its communications division. It issued a gloomy outlook for the third quarter.
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| Nanya sees 80% DDR2 market by year-end |
4/25/2005 |
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Nanya Technology said its DRAM price slumped 24% sequentially in first quarter 2005. But optimistic that prices will rebound this quarter, according to a Taiwan local news source.
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| Rambus updates development on legal cases |
4/25/2005 |
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Rambus reported latest developments in three legal cases. First, in the antitrust case that Rambus brought last year against DRAM manufacturers Hynix, Micron and others, the California Superior Court for the City and County of San Francisco Friday overruled an objection filed by defendants seeking dismissal of the case.
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| Microsoft delivers Window for 64bit PCs |
4/25/2005 |
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Microsoft started selling new Window XP Professional x64 Edition and Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions operate on systems running 64-bit microprocessors from AMD and Intel. The new software costs the same as their 32-bit counterparts and support applications designed for old 32bit Window.
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| Powerchip optimistic on DDR2 |
4/22/2005 |
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A recovery to occur in the third quarter as the market demand will shift from the current DDRI memory chips to higher density DDRII chips. Hence, the company's operation will remain profitable.
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| PC OEM's to spend more on Taiwan designs |
4/22/2005 |
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Dell confirmed that it will procure Taiwan-made PCs valuing more than US$10 billion this year. According to the source, HP is going to spend up to US$20 billion to purchase PCs from Taiwan, whereas Lenovo plans to allocate US$5 billion.
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| Semi CapEx outlook improves |
4/22/2005 |
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Market researcher IC Insights has raised its 2005 worldwide semiconductor industry capital spending forecast, projecting that capex will be down 5 percent this year.
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| Rambus acquired digital core IP from GDA |
4/22/2005 |
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Specifically, Rambus is acquiring digital core IP compatible with PCI Express, Ethernet, SPI-4, USB and SATA protocols, as well as products in development that will be made available based on customer demand, the company said.
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| SIA points out that US is losing semi industry on tax burden |
4/22/2005 |
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"A dramatic shift in semiconductor manufacturing is now under way," Scalise said during testimony before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission in Palo Alto, Calif. "Approximately two-thirds of the 300-mm wafer fabrication facilities now under construction worldwide are in Asia.
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| Hynix start to redeem itself |
4/22/2005 |
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The creditors plan to sell a 30 percent stake at home or overseas and subsequently sell the remaining 51 percent stake after 2007, the bank was quoted as saying in the report. Creditors had earlier agreed not to sell Hynix shares until the end of 2006, the report said.
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| Chartered gets deeper into the hole |
4/22/2005 |
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Capacity utilization in first quarter was 59 percent, compared to 81 percent in the year-ago quarter, and 61 percent in fourth quarter 2004.
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| Elpida produce high speed DDR2 on 90nm |
4/21/2005 |
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“Our ability to begin DDR2 SDRAM production at 90nm will help Elpida meet growing industry demand for high-density, high-speed DRAM such as DDR2-533 and DDR2-667,”
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| Samsung's Kang predicts the "Perfect Digital Storm" |
4/21/2005 |
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As the semiconductor industry continues its transition toward the consumer electronics and mobile markets, Samsung's Jon Kang warns that the memory segment is facing its own "perfect digital storm" where only the prepared will survive.
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