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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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| Apple to develop more powerful iPOd? |
10/12/2004 |
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Industry watchers are speculating that Apple is preparing to unveil a 60-gigabyte iPod that would become its top-of-the-line offering.
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| Top motherboard makers report higher shipments |
10/11/2004 |
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The top-four Taiwan motherboard makers, shipped a combined total of 8.44 million motherboards in September, up 19.7% from 7.05 million units in August, according to a new sources in Taiwan.
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| Law firm filed suit against Infineon |
10/8/2004 |
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A Law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Infineon Technologies.
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