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| Lenova completes acquisition of IBM PC division |
5/3/2005 |
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Lenovo said it has completed its $1.25 billion acquisition of IBM's personal computing division, making the Chinese vendor the world's third largest PC maker behind Dell and Hewlett-Packard.
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| SiS rides AMD K8 chipset sales to higher margins |
5/2/2005 |
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Rising AMD K8-compatible chipset shipments for notebooks helped Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) reach gross margins of 31.35% in the first quarter, up 9.45-percentage points on year, according to the company.
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| Hynix, ST joint memory fab begins construction |
4/29/2005 |
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The joint venture of STMicroelectronics and Hynix Semiconductors laid the first stone at the site of their front-end memory-manufacturing facility in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, China.
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| Acer reports upbeat earnings |
4/29/2005 |
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Acer Inc., Taiwan's top personal computer maker, said its net profit in the first quarter rose 54.6 percent from a year earlier to 2.15 billion Taiwan dollars (68 million US).
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| HP might cut jobs at printer division |
4/29/2005 |
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Hewlett-Packard might cut jobs at its printer business by 10 percent or more in a move to trim costs amid falling printer prices, BusinessWeek reported.
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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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