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| Winbond to exit commodity DRAM market |
2/6/2004 |
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Winbond Electronics said it will completely drop the production of commodity DRAM by the third quarter of 2004 except for shipments it has committed to make to Infineon Technologies.
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| Ericsson delivered impressive report |
2/6/2004 |
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Ericsson reported a surprisingly strong pretax profit of 5.5 billion Swedish crowns ($754.4 million) in the last quarter ended December. The estimates called for a profit of 2.66 billion crowns.
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| Employment growth below estimates |
2/6/2004 |
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U.S. payroll employment continued to expand in January. But the gain of 112,000 is below estimates. Meanwhile the unemployment rate fell again, to its lowest level in two years.
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| Microsoft will make spammers pay |
2/6/2004 |
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Microsoft Corp has declared war against spammers by raising the cost of spam for spammers with a new technology targeting the low barrier to sending mass messages.
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| Electroglas's sales and losses both up |
2/5/2004 |
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Electroglas, a supplier of wafer probing and test handling solutions, saw sales of $14.3 million, a 32 percent sequential increase and a 9 percent increase from Q4 2002.
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| DRAM prices increase |
2/5/2004 |
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Spot market DRAM prices have been up for the last four weeks, reported iSuppli Corp.
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| Cisco sales and earnings top estimates |
2/4/2004 |
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Cisco reported a fiscal second-quarter profit of 18 cents per share, up from 14 cents a year earlier and a penny more than the analysts expected.
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| Hitachi turns to profit |
2/4/2004 |
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Hitachi reported a profit of 2.5 billion yen ($23.7 million) in the last quarter ended December in contrast to a loss of 2.2 billion yen a year earlier.
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| Service sectors top estimates |
2/4/2004 |
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Activity in the nonmanufacturing sectors of the U.S. economy surged in January, the Institute for Supply Management reported Wednesday.
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| Factory orders jump |
2/4/2004 |
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Factory orders climbed 1.1 percent in December, the Commerce Department said, topping analysts' estimates of 0.2 percent gain. It fell 0.9 percent in the month of November.
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| Intel delay Dothan mobile chip |
2/3/2004 |
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Intel delay the launch of its mobile Dothan processors to April or May from early February as most recently revised. The move has upset the Taiwan based notebook makers
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| Chip sales flat over the holidays |
2/3/2004 |
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The three-month average of worldwide chip sales fell by 0.5 percent to $16.03 billion in December from $16.12 billion last November, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported.
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| AMD gets help from Europe nations to build fab |
2/3/2004 |
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The European Commission, a union made up of 15-European nations, has officially approved state fund of $680 million to aid Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in building a wafer fab in Dresden, Germany, according to a local news.
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| Hynix to mass produce NAND flash |
2/3/2004 |
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Hynix Semiconductor plans to produce 512-Mbit NAND flash memory chips in volume starting this month, according to a Dow Jones report Tuesday.
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| Notebook with desktop Prescott chip |
2/2/2004 |
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With the introduction of desktop Prescott processors, some second-tier Taiwanese notebook makers see the opportunity by packing it in the notebook before Intel launches Mobile Prescott processors in the second quarter of this year, according to sources.
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| Intel releases faster Pentium chips |
2/2/2004 |
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Intel is launching the even faster version of its Pentium 4 microprocessor that should mark a record speed of up to 4 gigahertz by the end of the year.
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| Manufacturing activities show strength |
2/2/2004 |
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The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) reported its index of manufacturing activity rose to 63.6 last month from a revised 63.4 in December. Economists, on average, expected an ISM index of 64.
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