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| UMC Ready for 90nm |
5/24/2004 |
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UMC said it's 90nm process has been qualified by several large IC manufacturers
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| Kingmax to focus on SODIMM in 2004 |
5/21/2004 |
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Lawrence Chang, deputy manager of Kingmax, "DRAM, which stands for dynamic random-access memory, is the "rice" in the PC food chain you can't live without it."
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| DRAM price on the retreat |
5/21/2004 |
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Overall, near-term DRAM market conditions appear to be shaky. Most suppliers' fiscal quarters end in June, tempting them to sell more DRAM to bolster their results.
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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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