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| Next wave of semiconductor goes to consumer |
5/9/2005 |
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Korean companies have a particularly good understanding of how the market works – that it can sell the initial product to a first wave of buyers, but to attract the new wave it must add more features without adding to the overall cost of the end device.
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| Beware of the next electronic bubble |
5/9/2005 |
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What we are looking at is a bid to pop a hidden bubble, which is what government intervention has created --namely an artificially low cost of labor -- for those who willingly took advantage of it. When that bubble pops, it will create a giant sinkhole that will swallow up a lot of companies.
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| Opticom to continue work on plastic memory |
5/9/2005 |
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Opticom said Thursday (May 5) that, following the review, it had approved a plan to maintain TFE's technical facilities at current levels for at least a further six months in the hope of exploiting TFE's leadership position in polymer memory research.
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| Sun to develope product for emerging markets |
5/9/2005 |
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The plan is part of Sun's global initiative to consolidate its R&D operations in four key regions: Bangalore; Beijing; Prague, Czech Republic; and St. Petersburg, Russia
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| Federal court strikes down digital TV protection scheme |
5/9/2005 |
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The three-judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) exceeded its authority by requiring that digital TVs, PCs and digital recorders sold after July 1 include a "broadcast flag" anti-copying capability.
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| Intel shows dual core system at analyst meeting |
5/9/2005 |
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At its Intel Spring Analyst meeting in New York on Thursday, Abhi Talwalkar, general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprises Group showed off two working servers running upcoming dual-core implementations of Xeon code-named Dempsey and Paxville, respectively.
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| Sprint, Intel to team on WiMAX standards |
5/6/2005 |
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Sprint has jumped into the WiMAX arena, announcing it has signed an agreement with Intel to advance the development of IEEE 802.16e WiMAX mobile technology.
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| BlackBerry is best-selling PDA |
5/6/2005 |
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PDA shipments, which previously had been flat, increased dramatically in the first quarter of 2005 because of the growing popularity of always-on e-mail
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| IBM to cut 13,000 jobs |
5/5/2005 |
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IBM announced plans to implement a restructuring plan, including voluntary and involuntary workforce reductions of between 10,000 and 13,000 employees worldwide.
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| Intel claims 915 chipsets not affected by ASE fire |
5/3/2005 |
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Despite the recent fire at Advanced Semiconductor Engineering’s (ASE) Chungli plant, sources at ASE’s major customers such as Intel, Nvidia, ATI Technologies and VIA Technologies said the impact on their products will be limited.
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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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