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| MediaTek increased stake at ALi |
6/30/2004 |
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MediaTek Inc. bought a 19 percent stake in Ali Corp., worth of NT$555 million. According to an analyst, MediaTek will gain several seats on ALi's board.
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| Traditional US mobile chip manufacturers losing ground |
6/30/2004 |
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The rise of Asian manufacturers and the shift of the mobile phone market to the Far East remains a major challenge to the established industry leaders, with the level of competition only expected to intensify in the coming years.
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| Renesas outlines future strategy |
6/30/2004 |
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Under the new plan, the company has revamped its organization and launched three new groups: System Solution, Standard Products and Memory.
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| Nortel to turn over manufacturing to Flextronics |
6/30/2004 |
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In total, Flextronics will take over manufacturing of equipment valued at $2.5 billion. About 2,500 employees would be transferred to Flextronics, and Nortel said it hopes to reap annual savings of as much as $100 million from the deal.
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| R&D Credit, very important to US business |
6/30/2004 |
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The Senate earlier approved legislation increasing incentives to perform research in the United States. Under the provision, only R&D performed in the U.S. would qualify for the tax credit.
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| STP shipment to increase on Olympic games |
6/29/2004 |
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Set-top-box will increase in the second half due to the major world games such as the upcoming Olympic games in Athens and increasing uses of digital televisions.
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| Windows towards "open source"? |
6/29/2004 |
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"The derivatives program allows OEMs and manufacturers to modify code and ship derivatives based on that code," This option is open to all licensees of Windows CE, moreover they are not obliged to give the modified code back to Microsoft, he added.
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| Executive changes at Transmeta |
6/29/2004 |
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John O'Hara Horsley will serve as acting CFO following the resignation of Svend-Olav Carlsen who left to accept an opportunity at a privately held company, Transmeta said in a statement.
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| Intel confirms chipset fault |
6/29/2004 |
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Intel will replace as many as 600,000 products at the motherboard level, said Joe Osha, an analyst with Merrill Lynch. The company may reuse the CPUs on those boards, he speculated
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| Intel rolls out 64/32 bit processor |
6/29/2004 |
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"By bringing out 64-bit CPUs compatible with the AMD approach, Intel has endorsed AMD's design. That's the good news for AMD," said Nathan Brookwood, a market watcher with Insight64.
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| LCD chip production to move towards China |
6/28/2004 |
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Due to high demand and limited production capability in Taiwan, many local IC design firms for LCD driver are taking measures by looking for foundries services available in China.
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| Taiwan's Hon Hai receives Apple contract |
6/28/2004 |
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Taiwan's leading manufacturer of information technology products, have received contract orders of web communication products from Apple Computer Inc. With expansion in mind.
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| Kerry pledge $30B for high-tech |
6/28/2004 |
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According to Kerry, an anticipated $30 billion in revenue from selling unused analog television spectrum would pay for the technology plan. High-tech companies such as Intel have supported the sale of unused spectrum for data transmission and other applications
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| US returns sovereignty to Iraqi government |
6/28/2004 |
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The handover of sovereignty took place earlier in the day, at 10:26 a.m. Baghdad time. The transfer of power came two days before the June 30 deadline previously announced by the U.S.-led coalition.
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| Intel finds bugs in DDR2 Chipset |
6/25/2004 |
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Intel has discovered a manufacturing error in some of the I/O controllers in the company's Grantsdale chip set that can cause a PC to fail to boot up or to freeze.
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| AMD setup Japanese R & D Lab |
6/24/2004 |
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AMD has opened an engineering laboratory within its Tokyo office that is intended to help AMD penetrate low-power portable equipment markets
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