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| Acer to adopt direct marketing in China |
10/1/2004 |
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Acer Inc. is adopting direct marketing strategy that will cut cost, bracing themselves to compete directly with foreign brands such as Dell and IBM.
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| Asustek, no.1 motherboard producer in China |
10/1/2004 |
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After hitting more than 130,000 motherboards in third quarter, Asustek Computer Inc. replaced the reigning leader Micro Star International Co. as the largest producer in China.
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| Conexant hit over inventor |
10/1/2004 |
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The lower results for the quarter ending Friday, Oct.1, are due primarily to excess channel inventory in Asia that is a result of lower-than-expected demand, the company said. Conexant anticipates that pro forma non-GAAP earnings per share will range from a loss of 2 cents to a loss of 1 cent.
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| Nortel reduces layoffs |
10/1/2004 |
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the company announced Thursday (Sept. 30) that it will cut fewer employees as part of a proposed reorganization plan. At the same time, the Ottawa-based telecom equipment provider said it would evacuate 2 million square feet of office space once its restructuring efforts designed to slash costs are completed.
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| TI to market Memsic automotive sensors |
10/1/2004 |
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TI's sensors and controls group is to sell Memsic products to the automotive market and Texas Instruments has agreed to collaborate with Memsic on the development of automotive-specific products that Memsic would make for TI on a foundry basis.
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| Sandisk licensed embedded security technology |
9/30/2004 |
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"We view cryptographic security as an important element in our strategy for mobile storage in the coming years," said SanDisk's CEO, Eli Harari. "We selected the Discretix's CryptoFlash after an extensive evaluation of alternative solutions".
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| PCB book-to-bill at 1.04 |
9/30/2004 |
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Compared to 2003, shipments of PCBs were up 34.7 percent year-to-date, while bookings of PCBs were up 38 percent year-to-date.
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| Agere to layoff 500 in restructure |
9/30/2004 |
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With the action, the company expects to reduce its quarterly research and development (R&D) and selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expenses to approximately $170 million to $175 million by its fiscal Q3 2005.
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| SIA:R&D tax credit vital to US semi industry |
9/30/2004 |
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"The R&D tax credit has played a vital role in keeping U.S.-based semiconductor manufacturers in the forefront of this very competitive industry," said SIA President George Scalise, in a statement.
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| HP to build R&D in Puerto Rico |
9/30/2004 |
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"We are very pleased at the prospect of increasing HP's R&D activities in Puerto Rico," said Richard A. (Dick) Lampman, senior vice president of research, HP, and director, HP Labs. "We are eager to play an appropriate role as the government seeks to expand its technology sector."
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| Micron missed earning expectations |
9/30/2004 |
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Micron (Boise, Ida.) reported a net income of $94 million, or $0.14 per diluted share, in the period. This compares to a net loss of $123 million, or $0.20 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2003, and a profit of $90.9 million, or $0.13, in the previous period.
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| Taiwan notebook ODM going strong |
9/29/2004 |
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Quanta Computer Inc. has acquired ODM (original design manufacturing) orders from Japan's Toshiba Corp. Quanta becomes Toshiba's third Taiwanese contract manufacturer.
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| Cisco to open Shanghai VOIP R&D |
9/29/2004 |
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Cisco will hire 100 employees over the next 18 months in the Shanghai facility, which will focus on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technologies and other new features for telecommunications equipment, particularly for Chinese telephone carriers.
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| Sematech gets new director from Infineon |
9/29/2004 |
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Arkalgud, who will serve a three-year assignment at Sematech, has more than 14 years of experience in logic and memory areas within the chip industry, according to Sematech. He is the author of 22 publications and holds ten U.S. patents.
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| Motorola to re-align personnel after spin off |
9/29/2004 |
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"We're eliminating 1,000 positions around the world to better align our workforce to support seamless mobility and in anticipation of the Freescale Semiconductor separation,"
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| Micromem to develope MRAM on RFID |
9/29/2004 |
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"The MMT research team is able to fabricate components of the memory cell and is awaiting its next milestone, which is to assemble the components of the memory cell into a working device,"
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| Infineon opens Suzhou memory backend |
9/28/2004 |
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Infineon, is the second-largest chip maker in Europe has scheduled investment totaling US$1 billion in the new test-and-assembly plant, and volume production will start in the first quarter of 2005, with a maximum capacity of one billion chips per year and employ more than 1,000 people.
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| Micro Tune developes HDTV tuner for Toshiba |
9/28/2004 |
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Based on Microtune's MicroTuner MT2111 single-chip tuner, Toshiba's module is a ready-to-manufacture RF-to-video subsystem that complies with U.S. digital TV standards, including the DCR regulations of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for digital cable-ready TVs.
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| SMIC opens Beijing 300mm plant |
9/28/2004 |
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SMIC said pilot production began in July. The fab will initially produce high-density DRAMs using 0.11- and 0.10-micron process technology, according to an SMIC statement.
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| Power PC goes dual-core |
9/28/2004 |
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Freescale said. The MPC8641D device integrates two e600 PowerPC cores with each processor able to operate at a clock frequency of 1.5-GHz. There are two 1-Mbyte level-two caches and dual AltiVec(TM) vector processing engines.
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| Industrial sales show mixed picture |
9/28/2004 |
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But August sales results were mixed last month for electronics. Computer and semiconductor shipments were still restrained by sluggish Asian export sales while telecom equipment shipments soared.
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| Philips put 300mm fab on hold |
9/27/2004 |
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CEO of Philips Semiconductors, told investors and financial analysts today it would delay building a new 300mm fab until market conditions improve and its business could sustain it.
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| Innovative Silicon hires executive from MoSys |
9/27/2004 |
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The company is developing a dense semiconductor memory based on work carried out at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL) by Fazan and Serguei Okhonin.
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