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| LSI Ligic switch to Fabless |
9/15/2005 |
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In a major shift from a fab-lite to a fabless manufacturing model, LSI Logic Corp. plans to sell its 8-inch Gresham, Ore., manufacturing facility
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| HDTV will take off this year with lower cost and government help |
9/15/2005 |
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But an even stronger catalyst for HD adoption worldwide is that governments from the U.S. to Japan to Australia and Germany are mandating the phase-out of analog television broadcast, to be replaced by digital broadcast, which is increasingly high-definition capable.
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| Semico Research projects rebound in 2006 |
9/15/2005 |
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Semico believes that the media hub will be a killer catalyst enabling the connectivity that all this digital content demands. The media hub is a device that captures digital content from different platforms and transcodes the content into a variety of playback formats.
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| Infineon/X-Fab deal fell through |
9/15/2005 |
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Hans-Jürgen Straub, CEO of X-FAB, said it became clear during the negotiations that there were significant risks in the acquisition and that “the economic and structural deficits in Perlach were insurmountable.”
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| QThink opens silicon design center in Austin |
9/14/2005 |
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QThink said it has completed nearly 200 complex design projects in leading-edge technologies, including 8 current and completed projects in 90nm, and 35 130nm projects with TSMC, UMC, Chartered, and IBM foundries.
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| VOIP to grow explosively |
9/14/2005 |
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The number of residential VoIP subscribers worldwide is predicted to rise to 197.2 million in 2010, up more than 40-fold from 4.8 million in 2004. This level of growth would help drive worldwide sales revenue from wireline VoIP equipment to $24.5 billion in 2010
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| SMIC uses mixed vendor equipment on new fab |
9/14/2005 |
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Which vendors won the latest chip-equipment orders at Chinese silicon foundry provider Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC)? Applied Materials, Axcelis, Lam, Mattson, Novellus and Varian appear to be the winners for orders within SMIC’s new Fab 6c plant in Beijing
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| Intel has way to keep die cost constant |
9/14/2005 |
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Intel's average manufacturing cost per die will remain constant at approximately $40 during the period 2003 to 2005, despite increasing die sizes and rising cost of fabs, mask sets.
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| Samsung declares 'NAND Rush' |
9/13/2005 |
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NAND flash market has witnessed a compounded growth rate of 70 percent annually over the last four years. That growth speed, predicted Hwang, will trigger a ripple effect across the electronic industry that will result in increased portability, new design choices and more convergence in digital applications.
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| Micron to expand Singapore backend facility |
9/13/2005 |
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“The $250 million investment in our Singapore expansion reinforces Micron’s ability to meet the growing demand for semiconductors throughout the expanding Asian marketplace,”
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| HP to restructure in France |
9/13/2005 |
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Hewlett-Packard France confirmed Monday (Sept. 12) that 1,240 jobs, or one-fourth of its workforce here, would be cut.
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| Will NAND replace NOR? |
9/13/2005 |
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During the past few years, NAND has been touted as a replacement for NOR in mobile phones. However, will there be enough NAND available to fill the void left by NOR supplier departures iSuppli believes the answer to this question is no.
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| Massive recall for Playstation |
9/13/2005 |
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Sony said it has received 38 reports of adaptors overheating, including 19 reports of melting. There have been four reports of minor property damage, two reports of minor burns and one report of a minor shock.
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| National Semi reported upbeat earnings |
9/9/2005 |
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National Semiconductor Corp. reported net earnings of $85.6 million, or 24 cents per share on revenue of $493.8 million the first quarter of fiscal 2006 ended Aug. 28, 2005.
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| Prices for DDR up, while DDR2 down |
9/8/2005 |
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Contract prices for DDR and DDR2 went in opposite directions in the first half of September. Mainstream DDR chip prices were up within a 2.11% range, while most DDR2 chip prices were down 3.3%.
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| TSMC August sales up sequentially |
9/8/2005 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said that while net sales for August were down year over year, they climbed sequentially 11.2 percent to $23.2 billion new Taiwanese dollars.
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| TI to ship a single chip platform for video |
9/8/2005 |
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Texas Instruments says it plans to introduce a new single chip platform, called DaVinci, which combines digital signal and general-purpose processing chips with all the software, design tools and accelerators needed to create the next generation of digital video products.
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