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| Toshiba sue Hynix for NAND infringement |
11/9/2004 |
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This legal action stems from a patent cross-licensing agreement made between the companies in August 1996, which expired Dec. 31, 2002. Prior to expiration, the companies began negotiating an extension of the agreement, in which Toshiba sought to secure a reasonable fee for access to its patents. Since a satisfactory conclusion was not reached, Toshiba felt it had no alternative other than to pursue legal recourse.
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| Infineon to sample epassport chip to US government |
11/8/2004 |
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It remains unknown which contactless chips or which specific implementations will be eventually deployed in "tens of millions" of e-passports the U.S. government will begin issuing next year.
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| Renesas braces for down turn |
11/8/2004 |
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Renesas' forecast coincides with the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics group's fall forecast, which predicted a faster decline for the IC market than expected in its spring forecast. The Renesas internal outlook is more severe.
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| Nanotech to revolutionize memory industry |
11/8/2004 |
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LSI believes it could use nanotech technology to embed more than 30-Mbits fast memory on an integrated cellphone processor, the current embedded memory limit due to power leakage and yield problems with conventional memories.
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| Nvidia income skyrocketd |
11/8/2004 |
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"Our improving financial performance reflects the success of the GeForce 6 architecture and our strategy to re-capture the technology leadership position. We are ramping the GeForce 6 family aggressively and intend to quickly drive our award-winning architecture into every segment and market we serve.”
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| iSupply predicts semi growth for 2005 |
11/8/2004 |
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iSuppli said that next year will see 9.6 percent global semiconductor sales growth. The strong increase contradicts other forecasts this week that call for an essentially flat 2005.
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| Dell to sell blade servers |
11/5/2004 |
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Dell will roll out its first Xeon-based system, a year and a half after competitors debuted blades using Intel's best-selling server CPU, analysts said.
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| Nvidia improves earnings |
11/5/2004 |
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Nvidia posted 3rd quarter net income of $25.9 million, or 15 cents a share, on sales of $515.6 million compare to earning of $6.4 million, or 4 cents a share, on sales of $486.1 million last year.
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| Powertech ups capacity on DDR2 testing |
11/4/2004 |
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Powertech Technology is planning to double its DDR2-testing capacity each quarter over the next two quarters, according to a new source in Taiwan.
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| Web callers are building up strong |
11/4/2004 |
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Over 50 million western European consumers with a broadband Internet connection at home may use telephony by 2008, a report said.
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| Intel to cut prices on 915 chipsets |
11/3/2004 |
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Intel is said to plan to cut prices for its 915 chipsets family on December 26 in a move to boost sales, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers.
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| Research firm cut 2005 chip growth rate |
11/2/2004 |
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World Semiconductor Trade Statistics, or WSTS, slashed its 2005 growth forecast on chips to 1.2 percent from the previously forecast of 8.5 percent. The expected growth for 2004 is 28.5 precent.
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| National Semi lowers its guidance |
11/2/2004 |
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National Semiconductor lowered its revenue guidance for its fiscal Q2 to range from $445 million to $450 million, down about 18 percent to 19 percent sequentially.
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| Oracle set final Peoplesoft bid at $24 a share |
11/2/2004 |
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Oracle up its all-cash bid for Peoplesoft to $24 a share, valued at $8.8 billion. The company said this is its "best and final offer", and would drop the bid if the offer would be rejected by midnight Nov. 19.
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| Nokia unveil 3 more new phones |
11/2/2004 |
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Nokia unveiled three new camera phones at a company event on Tuesday, including the 7710 media device, a semi-oval phone with a touch screen and designed for television and video, the 3230 smartphone with a megapixel camera, and the 6020 camera phone.
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| AOL to cut 700 jobs |
11/2/2004 |
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In a move to cut cost, America Online plans to trim more than 700 jobs early next month, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
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| OKi setup China design center |
11/1/2004 |
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Oki Electric has set up a design center subsidiary in China to focus on designing communication application chips.
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