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| Custom IC market will continue to grow |
6/9/2004 |
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The customer-specific, MOS cell-based market will continue to find use across a wide spectrum of applications, ranging from relatively low volumes of high-complexity and high cost products, to high and very high volumes of lower-complexity and low cost products.
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| Gelsinger: Tools need to address yield problem |
6/9/2004 |
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"Our tools don't need to optimize for speed or logic functionality. They need to consider yield and bit splits, parameters and variations, leakage power, the distribution of that across the die, "
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| EDA tool consortium announces standard |
6/9/2004 |
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It has produced a first draft of its standard for encapsulating and describing hardware intellectual property and put the standard out for review by a newly enlarged membership.
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| Hypes at Computex boosted DRAM prices |
6/8/2004 |
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The price rise, however, reflects optimism among module makers and distributors. An analyst said that the spot prices will fluctuate in a narrow range between US$4.50 and US$5 in next few days or weeks.
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| Dataquest prdicts continue growth in Semi |
6/8/2004 |
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That growth is expected to hit 24.7 percent this year, followed by 13.8 percent in 2005. The market then is expected to drop 2.2 percent, followed again by an 8.9 percent pickup in 2007 and an 11.8 percent hike in 2008.
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| Freesacale offers radio chip at 2.45GHz |
6/8/2004 |
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Freescalehas launched two low-power, 2.45-GHz integrated radios — one for proprietary applications, the other with a full Zigbee protocol and network stack, IEEE 802.15.4 compliance and support for star and mesh topologies.
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| Cellphone TV endorsed by Samsung |
6/8/2004 |
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DMB, now coming online in Korea and Japan, is a multichannel broadcasting service with high-quality video. In principle, DMB will allow subscribers to watch television, listen to music, receive text messages, play videogames or cruise the Internet on their cell phone screens.
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| Tessera appoints new board member |
6/7/2004 |
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Nothhaft was chairman, president and CEO of Concentric Network Corp. from 1995 to 2001; Nothhaft guided the company through its successful IPO and merger with NextLink in 1999.
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| Freescale to revolutionize UWB with home products |
6/7/2004 |
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Freescale said its products address the demand for low power, cost effective UWB solutions for application such as media players, digital cameras and camcorders. The product families will also be designed to integrate sophisticated power management tools to help extend battery life.
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| Wine Industry uses MEM sensor to control climate |
6/7/2004 |
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Developed by Australia's Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for microTechnology and Motorola, the 4mm square chip is ideal for micro-climate measuring compared to traditional, much larger sensors, according to the device's developers.
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| Acer conceded in Tablet PC |
6/7/2004 |
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The company cited a lack of applications to drive adoption and the need to shrink the price premium tablets now command over standard notebook PCs.
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| First G3 CDMA2000 chips sampled |
6/4/2004 |
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The standard provides users with broadband capabilities to their cell phones, PDAs and other mobile devices, offering high-speed Internet connectivity that is ten times the speed provided by current cdma2000 1X and GPRS products.
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| EU looking for economic growth |
6/4/2004 |
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Meanwhile Future Horizons' Penn reserved most of his vitriol for the European politicians and bureaucrats he feels are letting the region down with reforms dogged by fudge and compromise and politicians tied to out-of-date ideologies and big gestures.
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| Vonage cut price on VOIP kit at retail stores |
6/4/2004 |
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An adapter and two months of Vonage service--has been lowered at 5,000 retail stores, including Best Buy, Circuit City, Fry's, and Radio Shack. The limited-time offer costs $79.99; a $50 rebate brings the final price to $30.
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| Hong Kong gets the spot light for Telecom World 2006 |
6/4/2004 |
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After considering revised bids from both locations, the offer from Hong Kong would offer savings in direct costs to exhibitors of between 30% and 50% depending on the size of stands, compared with Geneva.
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| Taiwan gears up for LCD TV |
6/3/2004 |
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Global shipments of LCD TVs are estimated to soar up to more than a hundred percent totaling around 10.2 million units this year, according to Topology Research Institute.
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| New memory module company makes its mark |
6/3/2004 |
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A-data's Vitesta 533MHz DDR2 DIMM is being showcased at Computex Taipei, plus it is being tested by three of the major motherboard manufacturing companies.
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| Broadcom to offer high-bandwidth I/O server engine |
6/3/2004 |
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AMD and Broadcom provided details this week of a strategic relationship that leverages both companies’ expertise in high-performance system input-output (I/O), storage management and control, and microprocessor technologies.
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| SMIC equips Beijing 300mm fab |
6/3/2004 |
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The equipment move-in at Fab 4 demonstrates SMIC's ability to compete in the global semiconductor market by providing our customers with the most advanced foundry services currently offered in the world,
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| Intel unveiled embedded processor one day behind AMD |
6/3/2004 |
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The company said the M 745 will be targeted at point-of-sale terminals and industrial computing, while the Celeron M will be aimed at wireless and wireline infrastructure. The PXA270 will serve in graphics-rich applications.
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