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| CompUSA reinvents image |
12/1/2003 |
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CompUSA is shaping the company as a consumer electronics chain store as the computer sales stall.
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| Nand flash shortage to remain for a year |
12/1/2003 |
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With the current supply can only satisfy 75% of the demand, Nand flash memory is in shortage, and the situation will remain for at least one more year, an industry new source said.
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| SST to develop 2Gbit NOR chip |
12/1/2003 |
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Manufactured at Powerchip's Hsinchu 300mm-wafer fab using 0.11-micron process technology, the 2Git NOR chip will be used to enter and compete in the flash data storage market.
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| PC shipments continue to rise |
12/1/2003 |
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Computers and memory market are all set to bounce back next year, continuing a revival observed in recent months, iSuppli said said Monday.
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| Acer introduces "Digital Home" |
11/26/2003 |
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Acer Value Labs is based on the PC architecture, but integrates IT product functionality with consumer electronics product ease-of-use. This bridging of the gap between IT and consumer electronics technology means digital content can now be transferred and exchanged through a network, and be enjoyed on all devices at anywhere and anytime.
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| A brighter IT Industry outlook |
11/26/2003 |
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The chairman of the Taipei Computer Association (TCA), Dr. Frank Huang said that the global IT is recovering and the outlook for next year is better than this year.
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| NAND Flash shortage predicted to last |
11/26/2003 |
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Although market leader Samsung is reported to be turning over half a 300mm fab for NAND flash memory production, (representing 10,000 wafers a month), Schock reckons: "That's not going to save the world. Samsung was saying it expects shortages up to the end of next year.
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| Intel announce progress in polymer memory |
11/26/2003 |
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One Intel researcher expects the multilayer plastic memory technology, if successful, to result in an order of magnitude jump in memory capacity and inspire many new products not feasible with conventional silicon memories.
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| Toshiba raise capital expenditure |
11/25/2003 |
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The financial shot in the arm will raise Toshiba's capex on semiconductors in this fiscal year from $1.07 billion to $1.18 billion (118 billion yen to 130 billion yen), and is needed to meet increased demand for memories, particularly flash memory for personal digital products.
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| IC design on the outsourcing trend to China? |
11/25/2003 |
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At 0.25 micron, a mask set costs about $250,000, which is probably the annual cost of an average high-level engineer in the United States, including insurance, stock options and other associated costs, noted Chen. "In China, you could hire a whole department for that much."
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| Intel show off working 65nm memory |
11/25/2003 |
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Using 65-nm design rules, Intel Corp. announced Monday (Nov. 24) that it has made fully functional 4-Mbit SRAMs with a cell size of 0.57 microns2 — small enough to maintain Moore's Law of density doubling every two years.
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| First China designed consumer processor debuted |
11/25/2003 |
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The tiny startup BLX IC Design Corp. has persuaded a few of China's top consumer electronics manufacturers to give its 32-bit embedded processor a try. Next year, expect to see its technology used in set-top boxes, "smart" TVs, digital video recorders and thin-client PCs.
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| Sweet memory spot for Christmas |
11/25/2003 |
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The latest contact DRAM prices negotiated for the second half of November continued to drop an average of 4% to 5%, according to DRAMeXchange, Taipei. This followed a 5% to 6% drop in DRAM spot market prices, which Smith Barney analyst Clark Westmont said was the biggest single weekly decline in seven months.
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| Intel lost top position in Flash |
11/24/2003 |
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Spansion, which was formed from the merger of the NOR-type flash suppliers Advanced Micro Devices and Fujitsu, took third place with a 13.8 percent share. "The newly formed Spansion became the number-one NOR flash supplier in the third quarter, surpassing fellow NOR supplier Intel," Van Hees said.
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| Intel to focus away from PC |
11/24/2003 |
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Most of his company's R&D spending would go toward the technology underlying wireless handheld devices, consumer electronics, and components of the communications infrastructure.
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| Micro robot can fly |
11/24/2003 |
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Epson developed the robot to demonstrate its homegrown micromechatronics technology. The robot consists of a 2.5 gram control module with two CPUs; a 1.3-gram Bluetooth module; a 1.3-gram sensor unit with a gyro-sensor, an accelerometer and an image sensor.
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| AMD 90nm production delay |
11/24/2003 |
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There has been a "two or three month slip" for the volume ramp of the 90-nm process, he said during a conference call with analysts. The AMD executive also outlined the company's 300-mm plans. As reported, the company set plans to build a 300-mm, 65-nm fab in Dresden, Germany. Production is set for 2006.
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| SST to take part in personal e'ID drive in China |
11/24/2003 |
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The Chinese government is embarking on a massive, nationwide program that would issue IC-based identification cards to its citizens. Yeh believes those cards will require anywhere from 0.5Mbit to 1Mbit of embedded flash.
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| NEC offers 8X DVD Drive |
11/21/2003 |
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NEC will start shipping the industry's first 8x-speed recordable DVD drives for personal computers next month.
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