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| Fujitsu to spend $1.5 to expand fab |
3/19/2004 |
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Fujitsu plans to spend about US$1.5 billion to add a 300-mm wafer fab to its Mie semiconductor complex in central Japan, the company said.
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| Adobe earnings jump |
3/19/2004 |
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Adobe posted record first-quarter earnings of $123 million on revenue of $423.3 amid strong global sales.
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| SMIC's IPO disappointing |
3/18/2004 |
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SMIC's IPO was a flop during its first day of trading, felling 11 percent in New York and 8 percent in Hong Kong.
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| Fabless ICs sales up 16% in 2003 |
3/18/2004 |
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Worldwide public fabless revenue grew 16.2 percent in 2003, totaling $24.2 billion, the Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) said.
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| Microsoft denies monopoly allegation |
3/18/2004 |
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Microsoft denied charges in its first trial of a class-action suit brought by Minnesota state that it abused its operating system monopoly to hike prices.
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| DDR in tight supply |
3/17/2004 |
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For the week of March 10, average spot prices for 256Mbit (32Mbitx8) DDR400 were flat while DDR333 and DDR266 in same capacity were up slightly, according to a report from market analysts.
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| AMD enhances lower power Athlon |
3/17/2004 |
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AMD introduced the energy-saving Athlon XP-M 2100+ processor for notebooks such as Fujitsu's 4-pound LifeBook S2000, the company said in a statement.
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| Time Warner may let go AOL |
3/17/2004 |
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Time Warner Inc. is looking into possibility of selling or spinning off America Online, according to a published report.
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| Lehman possitively up estimates for AMD |
3/16/2004 |
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Lehman raises the firm's expectations for AMD with slightly higher sales and improving margins amid the company's positive play in the flash market and industry adoption of the company's 64-bit Opteron processor, the company in a report.
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| Hynix to invest a fab in China |
3/16/2004 |
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Hynix Semiconductor Inc. plans to build a wafer fab in China with a $800 million budget, according to a report.
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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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