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| Chinese foundry to tap Hong Kong stock market |
12/28/2004 |
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Chinese silicon foundry provider Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (ASMC) is moving ahead with its initial public offering (IPO) despite unfavorable market conditions, according to a report from the South China Morning Post.
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| The Emerging-Nation PC Market |
12/23/2004 |
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US, Europe and Asia-Pacific would add 150 million new PCs to the world market by 2010, but in the Asia region will see 1.3 billion by 2010 from 575 million this year.
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| Low-k hitting limits of physic and cost |
12/23/2004 |
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Presenters at the conference appeared to sustain the organization’s position that interconnect materials below 2.5 k-effective may be too expensive to develop and too difficult to work with to be economically practical for all design schemes.
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| Chinese fab affected by slow down |
12/23/2004 |
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Based on the latest assessment, gross margin for the fourth quarter is now expected to be approximately 6 percent lower than the previous quarter, rather than flat with it, mainly due to lower DRAM ASP and an inventory charge.
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| Micron sales and profit up |
12/23/2004 |
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In preparation for the unfolding market transition to DDR2 DRAM, Micron dedicated additional wafer production to this higher performance architecture.
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| Pentagon tested airborne packet relay system |
12/23/2004 |
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Under a program called "Interim Capability for Airborne Networking," the Joint Stars, or Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, aircraft used its dedicated radios to link to the Pentagon's Secret IP Router Network, or Siprnet.
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| Electronic to play bigger part in our life |
12/22/2004 |
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“We’re going to see more electronics in everyday tasks like RFID for bus journeys, and for transport in general," said Mukerjee, “using a mobile handset to pay for goods, or for loading a chip card with credit.”
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| ChipMos directors arrested related to embezzlement case |
12/22/2004 |
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Taiwan-based ChipMos Technologies Ltd. today reported that two of its directors have been indicted by the Taipei District Prosecutor’s Office in connection with alleged embezzlement during the late 1990s at Pacific Electric Wire & Cable Co. Ltd.
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| Sanyo reported earthquake damage up to $837 million |
12/22/2004 |
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The outer shell of the building was not heavily damaged, but frequent aftershocks made it difficult to determine the amount of damage inside the clean room and to pipes, slowing recovery efforts and the resumption of operation.
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| US dispute WTO's view point on Hynix DRAM subsidize issue |
12/22/2004 |
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The argument that persuaded the respective authorities to impose the countervailing tariffs was that the transfer of massive debts built up by Hynix at state-run banks and then converted into equity holdings represented a form of illegal subsidy that runs against WTO agreements to which Korea is a signatory.
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| Microsoft lost appeal in EU antitrust |
12/22/2004 |
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The decision by the EU Court of First Instance in Luxembourg on Wednesday (Dec. 22) means Microsoft must sell a European version of Windows without the Windows Media Player. The software giant will also be required to disclose parts of its Windows source code.
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| Walmart.com to offer $498 notebook PC |
12/21/2004 |
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The Balance notebook is the lowest-priced laptop currently on the market to include a complete operating system and office suite -- comparable machines cost hundreds more even without an office suite or software included.
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| Heavy fine and jail term recommanded for embezzlement |
12/21/2004 |
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Hu Hung Chiu, former chairman of Mosel Vitelic Group and vice president of the defunct Pacific Electric & Wire Co., be jailed for 20 years for NT$ 18 billion fraud. Along with Hu, Taipei prosecutors also indicted six people on charges of embezzlement and offences against the Securities Exchange Law
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| PCI Express will take time for market |
12/21/2004 |
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However, some local industry experts said that the PCI Express will take time for the user to adopt because of high cost and no substantial application of software that will require high data transfer.
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| Micron to ship 2Gbit NAND |
12/21/2004 |
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With the NAND segment the fastest growing in the memory market, projected to be $7 billion in 2004 and $8.7 billion in 2005, according to Web-Feet Research Inc., Micron said it has been able to leverage its experience in DRAM process technology to support NAND flash customers.
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| DoCoMo demonstrated 4G technology |
12/21/2004 |
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The 4G equipment used variable-spreading-factor spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (VSF-Spread OFDM) radio access method and multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) multiplexing with a signal detection algorithm in order to achieve the 1Gbit/s data transmission with 100MHz bandwidth in the downlink.
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| Two camps of Blue Ray technology fights on |
12/21/2004 |
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On the Blu-ray side, Sony last month bought MGM and its more than 9,000 movie catalog to compliment its own proprietary media. That was followed by an announcement from Toshiba that it had garnered support from Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Studios.
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| Cisco buys security technology |
12/21/2004 |
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Protego's scalable architecture for threat management, monitoring and mitigation are said to make more effective use of network and security devices by combining traditional security event monitoring with network intelligence.
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| iSupply predict DRAM market to grow |
12/20/2004 |
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The market research firm suggests that 2004 will represent the peak of the present DRAM growth cycle, with 2005 bringing a marked slowdown in sales.
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| Industry stays "Cautiously Optimistic" |
12/20/2004 |
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U.S. electronics and computer factories boosted their output 1.1 percent in November versus October, and 18.3 percent from last October, according to the Federal Reserve Board.
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| Embezzlement charge shakes Taiwan DRAM company |
12/20/2004 |
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Taipei prosecutors have charged Hu Hung-chiu, along with five others, with using offshore shell companies to bilk huge amounts of money from Pacific Electric Wire and Cable Co. If found guilty the Mosel chairman faces up to 20 years in jail and a fine of around $30 million.
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| Fairchild's Fab in Maine interrupted by explosion |
12/20/2004 |
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The explosion occurred when a tanker truck was unloading hydrogen gas at Fairchild's fab in South Portland, according to the Associated Press. No one was hurt, according to the report.
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