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| CMOS sensor technology to lower camera costs |
10/19/2004 |
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Compared to CCDs, CMOS sensors offer a lower price, less power consumption, and the ability to integrate other functions on chip. These advantages are significant in the camera phone market.
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| Microsoft to work on network security with Cisco |
10/19/2004 |
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Microsoft will match its in-development Network Access Protection software with Cisco's Network Admissions Control technology, introduced in July. Both are intended to tighten security at network end points by checking the status of PCs and laptops to ensure they're virus free, up to date on patches, and compliant with company software policies.
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| Xilinx marches onto automobile market |
10/19/2004 |
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"Many consumer technologies are being integrated on a platform that has a disparate lifecycle and development cycle than other consumer electronics," said Robert Bielby, senior director of strategic marketing. "The cycle for a car is 1-6 years. Consumer is literally a year at best."
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| SBC sells Wi-Fi subscription at $2/month |
10/18/2004 |
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The $2-per-month SBC offer requires a one-year subscription to FreedomLink. SBC charges non-DSL subscribers $20 a month for the service and sells day passes on its network for $8 in most locations.
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| Fairchild to use Jilin foundry |
10/18/2004 |
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"Asia Pacific is the fastest growing region globally and this agreement with Jilin Sino-Microelectronics enhances our ability to deliver products locally, quickly and cost effectively,"
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| National opens backend in Suzhou |
10/18/2004 |
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The plant is a half-million square feet and was built to allow National to expand its capacity for assembling and testing semiconductors, complementing its existing assembly and test plants in Malaysia and Singapore.
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| Intel kills 4Ghz Pentium4 |
10/15/2004 |
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Intel announced to cancel plans for a 4-gigahertz chip release, saying it would improve CPUs performance other than faster clock speed.
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| Samsung profits up but see pressure on flash, LCD |
10/15/2004 |
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Samsung Electronics posted a 46.2 percent year-over-year increase in Q3 net profit to $2.34 billion (2.69 trillion Korean won), but a sequential drop of 14.1 percent due to competition and lower prices of LCD screens and flash memory.
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| Sun's sales improve |
10/15/2004 |
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Sun Microsystems posted a narrower quarterly loss as revenue rose year-over-year for the second consecutive quarter after three years of declines.
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| Toshiba to make FPGA for Xilinx |
10/14/2004 |
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Toshiba said it will start manufacture high-performance field programmable gate array (FPGA) products for Xilinx with volume production starts in Q1, 2005.
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| Dell to sell plasma TVs |
10/14/2004 |
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Dell Inc. add plasma televisions and a slimmed-down digital music player to its product lines.
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| Apple's profits double |
10/14/2004 |
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Apple Computer reported quarterly profit more than doubled on strong sales of its iPod digital music player and notebook computers.
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| Renesas take further legal action against Nanya |
10/13/2004 |
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Renesas Technology Corp. has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction against Nanya Technology to stop it from importation, marketing and sales of semiconductor memory products at its Japan subsidiary.
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| Yahoo reported upbeat earnings |
10/13/2004 |
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Yahoo reported a quarterly net profit that more than tripled from the year earlier, boosted by the sale of shares it held in rival Google Inc. and stronger online ad revenue.
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| Intel's profits rise |
10/13/2004 |
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Intel Corp.'s third-quarter profits rose 15 percent amid struggling with weaker than expected PC sales and excess inventory.
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| LG Philips sales down due to display prices pressure |
10/12/2004 |
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LG.Philips LCD (Seoul) reported third-quarter 2004 sales of $1.6 billion, down 19.6 percent from the second quarter as higher display fab capacity spawned an inventory build-up and falling liquid crystal display (LCD) prices.
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| Infosys earnings fly |
10/12/2004 |
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Infosys Technologies of India reported a 49 percent increase in second-quarter profits, citing strong demand for its outsourcing services.
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| Microsoft to launch Windows XP Media Center |
10/12/2004 |
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Microsoft is set to launch a new version of its Windows XP Media Center, a personal computer designed for viewing movies, listening to music and scrolling through digital pictures.
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| SGI to sell Intel-base Linux system |
10/12/2004 |
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Silicon Graphics Inc. announced that it will ship a new Intel Itanium-based Linux workstation that it claimed to be the most powerful of its kind in the world.
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