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| Infineon Invests US$1B in Malaysian Fab |
2/7/2005 |
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Infineon will invest US$1 billion to set up a wafer fab at Kulim Hi-Tech Park for power and logic semiconductors used in automotive and industrial power applications
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| RoHS information urgent as lead-free deadline gets near |
2/4/2005 |
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Using regional seminars, detailed Web-based lead-free information and databases containing composition data on electronic parts, distributors are trying to avert serious supply chain problems that may occur if manufacturers don’t quickly switch over to RoHS-compliant parts.
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| Taiwan: a major player on VOIP |
2/4/2005 |
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During the second half of 2004, sales for enterprise gear climbed 53 percent. But that was definitively outpaced by VoIP phones going into the home market, which saw gains of 199 percent over the first half of last year.
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| Excessive 200mm capacity might upset market |
2/4/2005 |
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"While 300-mm 90-nm capacity should ultimately offer a better cost advantage and extendibility down to 65-nm and below, this 200-mm capacity may serve as overflow capacity once leading edge chip demand becomes robust enough to fill up 300-mm fabs."
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| Elpida bets on Ovonyx memories |
2/4/2005 |
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"Elpida plans to utilize Ovonyx' phase-change technology to further explore the development of new DRAM features that will provide the high performance and low current consumption required for next-generation mobile applications,"
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| Winbond secures loan for 300mm Fab. |
2/3/2005 |
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In the long term, Winbond's 12-inch fab is expected to produce single-transistor pseudo-SRAM (1T PSRAM), using Infineon’s 90nm technology, as well as other specialty memory chips. Chiao said the fab may also produce flash-memory chips.
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| MCI in Europe positioning for new life |
2/3/2005 |
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This week, MCI expanded the service to nine European countries, using Synchronous Digital Hierarchy rather than Sonet as the physical-layer backbone.
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| Significant telecom growth registered for 04 |
2/2/2005 |
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According to the TIA's 2005 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast, total spending for 2004 was an estimated $784.5 billion, an increase of 7.9 percent over the previous year.
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| On-Semi to open SEC center in Seoul |
2/2/2005 |
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"Support for our key customers in these highly competitive markets is best achieved by placing our proven expertise in advanced power management as close to the engineering base of these customers as possible,"
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| Was 2004 semi equipment market overheated? |
2/2/2005 |
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Dr. Robert Castellano, president of The Information Network said in a statement, “Semiconductor manufacturers will need to absorb $4.43 billion in excess equipment purchases in 2004, which drove capacity utilization to the mid-80 percent range in Q4, and will result in a 9.4 percent drop in revenues in 2005.
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| Nokia setup 3G center in Taiwan |
2/1/2005 |
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In Taiwan’s market will see the start of third generation infrastructure to kick off this year with estimate of1~2 million subscribers expected to sign up for this kind of service. Also, Nokia is gearing up to launch its 3G mobile phone soon, perhaps mid-February at less than NT$10,000 each unit.
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| Taiwan's Trendlab posts virus alert |
2/1/2005 |
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TrendLabs has received several infection reports indicating that this malware is spreading in US, China, and Japan. This WORM_BAGLE variant arrives on a system as an email attachment. It sends copies of itself to all email addresses it gathers from files with certain extensions but skips those addresses that contain particular strings.
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| China's Nanotech license SST flash core |
2/1/2005 |
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Under terms of the agreement, Nanotech is to license SST’s 0.25-micron, self-aligned SuperFlash technology to provide Nanotech’s foundry customers developing programmable logic and embedded flash memory products with access to SST’s flash memory technology.
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| SMIC is trading volume for profit |
2/1/2005 |
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Because of expanding capacity, the company said sales increased 6 percent to $291.8 million from $274.9 million in the prior quarter. However, it did not offer a profit and loss breakdown because it is still assessing the operational impact of a settlement, announced Sunday (Jan. 30), with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. regarding a patent infringement lawsuit.
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| SBC eliminates AT&T with $16B |
2/1/2005 |
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The deal announced Monday (Jan. 31) has been approved by the boards of both companies. Under terms of the deal, AT&T shareholders will receive stock worth $18.41 a share and a special dividend of $1.30 a share.
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| Marconi to work with Huawei on development |
2/1/2005 |
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The companies have signed a memorandum of understanding about how they can collaborate in strategic markets and, importantly, have discussed how Marconi can help Huawei's aggressive pursuit of infrastructure business in Europe, especially the U.K.
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| iSuppli maintains "yellow alert" for Semi Industry |
1/31/2005 |
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There also have been reports of some inventory still languishing in the channel, although those stockpiles decreased significantly during the quarter. The inventory build during 2004 occurred for all products and across all regions.
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| Cypress samples 256K MRAM |
1/31/2005 |
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Two of the seven unnamed customers reported the MRAMs are fully functional in initial system tests, with the other five currently developing evaluation systems.
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| Congressmen asked for review on IBM sale to Chinese |
1/31/2005 |
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Procedurally, the Foreign Investment Committee, which is chaired by Treasury Secretary John Snow, will conduct a 30- to 45-day review of the IBM-Lenovo deal and provide a recommendation to the president.
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| SMIC settles with TSMC |
1/31/2005 |
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Under the terms of the settlement, SMIC (Shanghai) will pay TSMC (Hsinchu, Taiwan) some $175 million, payable in installments over six years. Some $30 million will be paid in the first five years, with $25 million owed in the sixth year, according to the companies.
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