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| Wire bonder provider lowers forcast |
8/12/2004 |
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"Our revised guidance is based on our customers’ latest indications regarding wire bonder capacity. Some customers are now more cautious about the timing of future demand,"
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| Fairchild Semi to expand in China |
8/12/2004 |
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Fairchild Semiconductor (South Portland, Maine) has added power design centers in Shanghai and Shenzhen and increased headcount and capacity at its less than year-old Suzhou facility.
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| MS to offer XP-Lite to Asian countries |
8/12/2004 |
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Starter Edition will initially ship on inexpensive PCs in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. The Redmond, Wash.-based developer already had rolled out localized Windows XP-Office XP bundles in the first two nations, and Microsoft had previously announced it was negotiating with the three governments
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| Lehman downgrades Intel outlook |
8/11/2004 |
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"Heading into 2Q04, we had signaled some reservations on our outlook, however, we were left surprised by the impact of Intel's higher production yields prompting a need for it to slow wafer starts and hence lower fab utilization levels and margins,"
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| China defy global standards, forms own |
8/11/2004 |
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The moves, if successful, could have a dramatic impact on the global electronics industry. While the standards initially are aimed at the indigenous Chinese market, the long-term goal is to export these products -- and thus the standards -- outside of China.
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| ISSI ventures into non-memory products |
8/11/2004 |
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Already, just over half of his engineers are working on non-memory projects, such as smart cards, wireless chip sets and application specific controllers.
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| China's silicon pioneer died at 70 |
8/11/2004 |
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In 1980, Chen walked away from a coveted position at the national Chinese Academy of Sciences to launch a high-tech development company in the Zhongguancun area of Beijing.
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| PCI Express chipsets to gain position |
8/10/2004 |
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VIA Technologies and Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) are expecting higher chipset shipments in third quarter as the level of non-Intel chipsets inventories going to increase reported by Taiwan motherboard makers.
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| Embedded 64bits to grow on handsets |
8/10/2004 |
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Customer-specific, cell-based 64-bit embedded processor market will thrive, with forecasted growth over that timeframe of 82.7%, according to In-Stat/MDR.
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| Cambridge Display filed S-1 registration for IPO |
8/10/2004 |
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The number of shares and the timing of the IPO has not been finalized, but the offering is expected to raise no more than $40.25 million, according to the S-1 registration. The filing is dated July 30, 2004.
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| VIA settles dispute with MediaTek |
8/9/2004 |
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VOS agreed to pay MediaTek a royalty of US$25 million upon execution and US$5 million per year in each of the following five years. In return, MediaTek agreed to grant VIA a perpetual license to any of its copyrights and trade secrets as well as a five-year license to any of its existing intellectual property
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| Infineon to do 300mm and 90nm DRAM at Winbond |
8/9/2004 |
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Under the terms of the additional agreement, Munich-based Infineon will transfer its 0.09-micron DRAM trench technology and 300mm production know-how to Winbond, based in Taipei.
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| Worldwide chips sales for June reach $20 Billion |
8/6/2004 |
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With the Asia-Pacific region approaching half the world's chip market in June (43.8 percent) the 'actual' worldwide sales were $20.70 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).
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| SiS launced new DDR2 chipset |
8/6/2004 |
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Chipset vendor SiS launched a new 'northbridge' chip as companion for the Intel Pentium 4 CPU, with the part number SiS649
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