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| Credence to buy NPTest |
2/23/2004 |
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Credence said it will acquire NPTest for $660 million to expand its lead as a pure-play capital equipment manufacturer in non-DRAM semiconductor test.
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| Manufacturers Beware - Longer Lead Time |
2/20/2004 |
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"Increased global demand is already pushing out lead times, while some manufacturers are raising their prices to reflect hardening market conditions,"
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| Virus Alert ! |
2/20/2004 |
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First line of defense is NOT TO OPEN these emails and DELETE immediately. Quickly add the above titles into your message filter, prefer delete from the server.
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| Semi equipment Book-to-Bill rises to 1.18 |
2/20/2004 |
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The billings figure is 8 percent above the revised December 2003 level of $963 million and 33 percent above the January 2003 billings level of $784 million.
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| Intel shows 90nm NOR Flash at IDF |
2/20/2004 |
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The company can pack approximately 100 dies per wafer in a 130-nm process. In a 90-nm process, however, the company has shrunk die size in half, packing approximately 216 dies per wafer.
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| FTC closes Rambus anti-trust case |
2/19/2004 |
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"[The] ruling dismissing the FTC case is a fundamentally important step for Rambus as we seek to be fairly compensated for the use of our intellectual property," said John Danforth
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| MRAM getting real |
2/19/2004 |
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MRAM is one of several candidates as a "universal memory" technology offering the combination of non-volatility and high-speed random access, and which once mature could displace many established forms of solid-state memory.
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| Outlook on Set-Top-Boxes |
2/18/2004 |
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The US and Europe regions will have greatly change to enjoy digital STB first before elsewhere in the world. Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan likely to switch to digital in next few years.
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| Intel announces "Digital Home" reference design |
2/18/2004 |
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"Our vision is actually very straightforward," he said. "It's about giving consumers what they want. Consumers will be able to enjoy content anywhere, anytime and on any device in their home."
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| VoIP software to go open source |
2/18/2004 |
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Now, to increase adoption of its software in the enterprise world, the Woburn, Mass.-based company will hand over the code for its software to a third-party non-profit organization, which will distribute the code as open source.
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| NEC researchers unveil super clock chip design |
2/18/2004 |
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A chip might have one IP core that is suitable for sequential processing whose operating frequencies was 10 GHz and also have four IP cores that are suitable for parallel processing whose operating frequencies are 2.5 GHz and are fed from the same clock signals.
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| Intel settles 64bit on common MS64 operating system |
2/18/2004 |
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Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said in a videotaped presentation that Microsoft has released a beta version of its 64-bit Windows for Extended x86 Systems. That OS will support both the new Intel chips and Advanced Micro Devices' 64-bit Opteron and Athlon CPUs.
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| Cingular won bid to acquire AT&T Wireless |
2/17/2004 |
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Cingular Wireless won the bidding war to acquire AT&T Wireless Services for nearly $41 billion in cash. The merger between the second and third largest U.S. wireless companies was announced as Britain's Vodafone Group PLC withdrew from the contest after four days of rising bids.
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| Carl Icahn wins auction on Allegiance Telecom |
2/17/2004 |
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Allegiance has been in Chapter 11 bankruptcy since May 2003. It will seek court approval for the XO deal from U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Drain in New York on Feb. 19.
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| Importer beware of Chinese currency changes |
2/17/2004 |
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China is feeling the worldwide pressure to raise the value of its currency. After refusing to consider revaluation last fall, Chinese officials are now volunteering that they are studying the problem.
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| Intel unveils Fully Buffered Memory architecture |
2/17/2004 |
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The interconnect scheme rests on a number of technical advances in transmitter and receiver circuitry. Primary among them are the ability to conduct simultaneous bi-directional transactions over a single wire, using receivers that perform a simple subtraction to separate incoming from outgoing signals.
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| Fab runs full capacity |
2/16/2004 |
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UMC, the Taiwanese foundry, expects to be at 100 percent capacity this quarter, which represents, according to CEO Jackson Hu, an opportunity for UMC to increase its prices.
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