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| Broadband over power lines is making inroad? |
2/25/2005 |
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Broadband over power lines, the use of the existing power grid to provide high-speed broadband communication services, is on the way to compete with existing cable and DSL Internet services, said several speakers during a news conference this week.
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| New NAND flash players entering the market |
2/25/2005 |
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Samsung is expected to remain the leader in the NAND-based flash-memory market in 2005 and 2006, with Toshiba/SanDisk in the second place. But Hynix/STMicroelectronics, Infineon, and Micron will experience the fastest growth in the business, according to projected rankings from RBC Capital Markets Inc.
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| Intel to acquire firm with DTV products |
2/25/2005 |
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Intel said it would acquire Oplus Technologies Inc., a privately held company in Israel that designs, develops and markets IC and software products for flat-panel plasma and LCD-TVs etc and has three lines of video processors targeted at digital televisions (DTV) and digital displays.
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| Dell unveils new notebook for gamers |
2/25/2005 |
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Dell introduced two new powerful notebooks that are designed for gamers. The Inspiron XPS notebook comes with Intel's Sonoma technology for laptop, a new high-end NVidia graphic card, flashing lights when the notebook is running and shiny cases.
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| IBM crowned king in server revenue |
2/24/2005 |
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IBM stays at the top in server revenue last year, as the overall market increased by 7.2 percent, a market research firm said Wednesday.
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| Renesas CEO to retire |
2/24/2005 |
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Koichi Nagasawa, the founding chairman and chief executive officer of Japanese chip company Renesas Technology Corp., is to retire Apr. 1, 2005, the company has announced. Satoru Ito, currently president and chief operating officer is set to become president and chief executive officer.
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| Dell sticks with Intel, exclusively |
2/24/2005 |
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Dell decided to keep Intel as its sole microprocessor supplier althouth it has considered using chips from AMD, Dell's chief executive said.
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| Infineon to phase out fab in Munich |
2/23/2005 |
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Infineon plans to restructure its chip manufacturing in Germany. Production from Munich Perlach will largely be transferred to Regensburg and some to Villach. Manufacturing at Munich Perlach will be phased out by early 2007, Infineon said.
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| AMD to unveil dual-core desktop chip |
2/23/2005 |
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AMD is expected to show off a dual-core processor for desktops this week. The chip, code-named Toledo, will feature two separate Athlon 64 processing cores on the same piece of silicon, according to a company's spokesperson.
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| TSMC, Genesis joined open standard ATE consortium |
2/23/2005 |
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TSMC and Genesis Technology Inc. announced their support to the Semiconductor Test Consortium Inc. (STC), which is attempting to drive an open ATE standard, by joining the organization.
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| Sony to halt PDA production |
2/23/2005 |
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Sony Corp said on Wednesday it would halt production of PDAs and completely withdraw from the market by July.
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| Intel's Sonoma is well received |
2/22/2005 |
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Since its introduction in January, Intel's latest notebook chipset code named Sonoma has been in great demand, an Intel spokeswoman confirms.
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| Firefox download hit 25 millions |
2/22/2005 |
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The number of downloads of Firefox has reached 25 million, indicating that the open-source browser continues to gain market shares dominated by Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer.
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| ULi to have DDR2 chipset for both P4 and Pentim M |
2/21/2005 |
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ULi, the Taiwanese chipset company, aimed to begin manufacturing its first product with dual-channel DDR2 memory support at year-end, the source familiar with the company said. ULi also unveils a new all-in-one chip solution, to be in production in second quarter, for AMD K8 processors.
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