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| Companies expect to hire more |
3/16/2004 |
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U.S. employers nationwide say they will soon hire more workers than they have in the past three years amid improve market condition, according to the Employer Outlook Survey by Manpower International, a staffing company.
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| GE to buy InVision |
3/15/2004 |
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GE has agreed to buy InVision Technologies Inc. for about $900 million to expand its security technology business.
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| Samsung predicts DRAM shortage later this year |
3/15/2004 |
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Samsung Electronics expects a global shortage of DRAM chips later this year as the industry switches production to more specialized chips used in cell phones and digital cameras, the company said Monday.
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| EDS let go its software unit for $2b |
3/15/2004 |
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EDS said it has agreed to sell a software development unit to three buyout firms for $2.05 billion in cash as part of a plan to sell assets outside its core business.
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| Ultra Wide Band wireless demonstrated |
3/12/2004 |
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"The demonstration is unique in the industry to date, in that it shows integrated multi-media and data transmission via our complete end-to-end system solution in a noisy 'real-world' environment, from standard NDIS driver on one PC to a standard NDIS driver on another,"
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| Tibits on the memory market |
3/11/2004 |
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Meanwhile, the industry reports on memory showed that the prices increase in last two months, reflecting a positive impact on local dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chip producers.
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| Intel against proprietary Chinese standard for wireless |
3/11/2004 |
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A unique Chinese national standard will slow the development of China's Information technology industries because it will hamper the ability of Chinese firms to access the innovations emerging from thousands of companies around the world and because it will make it more difficult for Chinese producers to export to world markets,
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| LG to work with Intel on Home Networking |
3/11/2004 |
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A memorandum of understanding was signed by Patrick Gelsinger, Intel's chief technology officer during a week-long tour of Asia, and LG Electronics President and CTO Paik Woo-hyun.
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| IDC: PC industry reconvers in 2004 |
3/11/2004 |
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Aggressive pricing, improving business spending, and consistent growth in portables - should keep overall growth in double digits for the next couple of years.
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| Sun to set up RFID application centers in Asia |
3/10/2004 |
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The company intends to set up two RFID technology centers in the Asia-Pacific area. One of them will be set up in Australia, and other one may be established in either Taiwan or S. Korea or other nations in Asia.
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| IDC: PC semiconductor to grow 18% |
3/10/2004 |
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"Carrying the recovery along will be the key trends of mobility, connectivity, and increasing overlap between the consumer and PC markets."
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| SMIC Beijing 300mm plant taking shape |
3/10/2004 |
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But a state-of-the-art fab in Beijing, just like the Beijing Olympics in 2008, can potentially yield as much political capital and prestige as it can finished 300-mm wafers.
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| Foundry business picks up |
3/10/2004 |
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TSMC's net sales for February totaled NT$18,385 million (about $552 million). On a year-over-year basis, net sales for February increased 48.9 percent.
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| TSMC to plan additional 12inch fab at Taichung |
3/9/2004 |
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Vice CEO F.C. Tseng said recently that his company was indeed seeking sites for the construction of the planned leading-edge facility, which would come with a 35nm-process technology development center.
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| January semi sales flat, pick up expected |
3/9/2004 |
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This pause is temporary. Sales growth should resume early in 2004 at about a 20 percent annual pace. The renewed sales surge will be driven by a mini-spending boom this spring in the United States when 20 percent bigger tax refunds are received,
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