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| VIA sales slides by 33% |
3/3/2005 |
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VIA Technologies recorded revenues of NT$1.03 billion in February, down 33.4% on-month and 37.1% on year.
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| U.S court dismissed Rambus suit against Infineon |
3/2/2005 |
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A Virginia judge in the SDRAM and DDR DRAM memory product patent infringement case against Infineon Technologies Inc. from Rambus Inc. dismissed Rambus’ patent infringement claims.
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| Philips claims plastic nonvolatile memory breakthrough |
3/1/2005 |
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Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and scientists at Philips Research have published details of a nonvolatile memory implemented in plastic, in the March issue of Nature Materials.
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| Broadband over power lines is making inroad? |
2/25/2005 |
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Broadband over power lines, the use of the existing power grid to provide high-speed broadband communication services, is on the way to compete with existing cable and DSL Internet services, said several speakers during a news conference this week.
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| New NAND flash players entering the market |
2/25/2005 |
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Samsung is expected to remain the leader in the NAND-based flash-memory market in 2005 and 2006, with Toshiba/SanDisk in the second place. But Hynix/STMicroelectronics, Infineon, and Micron will experience the fastest growth in the business, according to projected rankings from RBC Capital Markets Inc.
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| Intel to acquire firm with DTV products |
2/25/2005 |
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Intel said it would acquire Oplus Technologies Inc., a privately held company in Israel that designs, develops and markets IC and software products for flat-panel plasma and LCD-TVs etc and has three lines of video processors targeted at digital televisions (DTV) and digital displays.
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| Dell unveils new notebook for gamers |
2/25/2005 |
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Dell introduced two new powerful notebooks that are designed for gamers. The Inspiron XPS notebook comes with Intel's Sonoma technology for laptop, a new high-end NVidia graphic card, flashing lights when the notebook is running and shiny cases.
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| IBM crowned king in server revenue |
2/24/2005 |
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IBM stays at the top in server revenue last year, as the overall market increased by 7.2 percent, a market research firm said Wednesday.
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| Renesas CEO to retire |
2/24/2005 |
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Koichi Nagasawa, the founding chairman and chief executive officer of Japanese chip company Renesas Technology Corp., is to retire Apr. 1, 2005, the company has announced. Satoru Ito, currently president and chief operating officer is set to become president and chief executive officer.
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| Dell sticks with Intel, exclusively |
2/24/2005 |
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Dell decided to keep Intel as its sole microprocessor supplier althouth it has considered using chips from AMD, Dell's chief executive said.
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| Infineon to phase out fab in Munich |
2/23/2005 |
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Infineon plans to restructure its chip manufacturing in Germany. Production from Munich Perlach will largely be transferred to Regensburg and some to Villach. Manufacturing at Munich Perlach will be phased out by early 2007, Infineon said.
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| AMD to unveil dual-core desktop chip |
2/23/2005 |
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AMD is expected to show off a dual-core processor for desktops this week. The chip, code-named Toledo, will feature two separate Athlon 64 processing cores on the same piece of silicon, according to a company's spokesperson.
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| TSMC, Genesis joined open standard ATE consortium |
2/23/2005 |
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TSMC and Genesis Technology Inc. announced their support to the Semiconductor Test Consortium Inc. (STC), which is attempting to drive an open ATE standard, by joining the organization.
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