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| China to promote its own "digital home" standard |
5/21/2004 |
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China has rallied 22 local companies to support its emerging standard, including PC makers Lenovo Group and Great Wall Computer Co. Ltd., along with leading consumer electronics and communications makers such as TCL Group, Konka Group, and Hisense Group
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| International Fabless Semiconductor Conference in Taipei |
5/20/2004 |
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This will also be the only time the event will be taking place outside the United States after 7 years. The one-day event aims to draw suppliers, fables IC companies, integrated device manufacturers (IDMs), and OEMs together.
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| Semi companies have money for acquisitions |
5/20/2004 |
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Pericom Semiconductor, has over $100 million to spend on acquisitions and believes now is the time to spend it. Cypress Semi says it has $600 million to send on mergers and acquisitions.
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| Intel confirms investment in Irish Fab |
5/20/2004 |
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The company plans to build the new Fab 24-2 fab module on the Ireland campus. The investment will add an additional 60,000-square-feet of manufacturing cleanroom space, plus the required manufacturing equipment to enable 65-nm technology.
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| Taiwan's cell manufacturers see increase in order |
5/19/2004 |
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Sources reported that four of Taiwan's mobile phone companies namely Compal Communications, Lite-On Technology, Arima Communications and Quanta Computer are expecting a positive increase in new orders and shipments.
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| Altera builds Nios-II on Nios' success |
5/19/2004 |
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The popularity of Nios has come as something of a shock to Altera. The company said it sold more than 12,000 development kits in the first three years, and is still selling over 1,000 kits per quarter.
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| AMD added new Opteron to its MPU line up |
5/19/2004 |
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The new Opteron processors feature Direct Connect Architecture for benefits and system advantages beyond extension of the instruction set, said Marty Seyer, AMD's VP and GM of the microprocessor business unit.
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| Semi Industry urge China to drop VAT tax |
5/19/2004 |
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World Trade Organization (WTO) is almost certain to find that China's VAT regime violates WTO rules. China presently imposes a value-added tax of 17 percent on sales of all imported and domestically produced semiconductors, but rebates the amount of the VAT burden in excess of 3 percent for semiconductors produced in China.
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| A boom year for Applied Material in China |
5/19/2004 |
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Applied Materials Inc. claims it will realize about $1 billion worth of business in China alone this year, according to executives from the chip-equipment giant.
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| VIA comes back to push Digital Home concept |
5/19/2004 |
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"The new architecture of the C5J Esther core will allow us to ramp up processor speeds to 2 GHz and above within the same thermal design points as previous cores, opening up new markets for our processors and extending the reach of the x86 architecture into new device categories,"
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| CD-R royalty expected to drop |
5/18/2004 |
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Along with lower priced CD-Rs, Taiwanese manufacturers are influenced to believe that Philips may lower their fees.
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| Teradyne signed major tester contract |
5/18/2004 |
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But with more and more fabless companies and IDMs as well outsourcing test, the subcon market is growing in importance as a market for equipment. Subcontractors have been steadily growing as market for Teradyne in recent years.
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| Lucent fined for overstating revenue |
5/18/2004 |
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SEC claims that nine Lucent employees improperly granted or failed to disclose various side agreements, credits and other incentives made to induce Lucent's customers to purchase the company's products.
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| Renesas combines PowerVR technology in new processor |
5/18/2004 |
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The SH4AL-DSP CPU core employs superscalar technology that enables simultaneous execution of two instructions and a seven-stage pipeline architecture to improve performance. At 1.8 MIPS/MHz, it offers approximately a 1.4-fold increase in performance.
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| Freescale appoints IBM veterian as chief |
5/18/2004 |
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Mayer spent almost 20 years at IBM, rising to the top job at the microelectronics division in mid-2001. He played a key role in the transition that focused on high-end foundry.
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| Intel chipset price cut will affect Taiwan manufacturers |
5/17/2004 |
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With the production capacities being tight also with the two foundry giants, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) and the weight of the price competition, there is concern that there might be a shortage of integrated chipsets in the coming months.
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| Micron address digital image market |
5/17/2004 |
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Micron Technology Inc. today rolled out its new MT9M111 DigitalClarity SOC 1.3-megapixel CMOS image sensor, designed specifically for camera-equipped cell-phones and PDAs.
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| Making use of locally un-used TV spectrum |
5/17/2004 |
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"By using existing technologies, smart radios can readily detect and use TV channels that are unutilized in a given market and avoid interference with local broadcasters."
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| World Semi Council set policy to protect semi trade |
5/17/2004 |
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To address policy issues, the WSC created a new Intellectual Property Task Force. The group also adopted a policy paper describing an approach for providing IP protection for IC layout designs.
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