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| HP searching for New CEO |
2/9/2005 |
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Carly Fiorina is out at Hewlett-Packard and Robert Wayman has been named interim CEO. Patricia Dunn was tapped as nonexecutive chairman
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| Microsoft buy anti-virus company |
2/9/2005 |
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Microsoft announced plans to acquire a company whose software aims to protect corporate networks from e-mail borne threats and said it would sell a product based on the technology.
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| Intel to ship Dual-Core Processor |
2/8/2005 |
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Intel said it has completed initial production runs of its forthcoming dual-core processors, and is on track to begin shipping them to market next quarter
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| Toshiba Launch Memory Interface Standard Group |
2/7/2005 |
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A group of leading semiconductor companies, led by Spansion and ARM, today launched the Platform Independent Storage Module (Pismo) advisory council, an industry organization focused on streamlining system-level memory validation and test
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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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