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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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| Infineon acquires Taiwan networking developer |
1/30/2004 |
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Infineon will establish a new company, Infineon-ADMtek, headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, after the acquisition to focus on developing broadband customer premise equipment (CPE) ICs and enable Infineon to enter the home gateway market.
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| Powerchip returns to profit |
1/30/2004 |
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The profits were generated from the 12-inch foundry, which enable to company to save substantial amount of time and money with high utilization rate.
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| Chartered expect to turn profit in Q1 |
1/30/2004 |
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Chartered expects to turn a profit in Q1 of 2004. Revenues are expected at about $224 million, plus or minus 3 million, the company said. Net income including special items will turn black at $7.4 million plus or minus 5 million, Chartered said in its forecast.
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| VoIP operator recruited big name chief |
1/30/2004 |
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Former Ameritech President Dwayne Goldsmith has joined Detroit-based Inflexion Communications Corp., a Voice-over-Internet Protocol specialist aiming to provide the service to underserved areas.
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| Pistorio predicts return of semi growth |
1/30/2004 |
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"The pace of the chip recovery is quickening, driven by the recovery of the U.S. economy. The jobless U.S. recovery has been driven by expansion of fixed investment, which means “the increase of IT spending.”
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| 3Com to expand Taiwan design center |
1/29/2004 |
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The center plans to hire nearly 100 employees by the end of 2004. The design center is 3Com's first large-scale R&D facility in Asia.
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| Packaging and test services grew |
1/29/2004 |
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During Q4, Amkor's customers' forecasts continued to strengthen, said Kim, adding that the company now expects revenue growth in Q1, normally a seasonally down quarter.
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| Cisco to help transform cable to 100% digital service |
1/29/2004 |
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Cisco already dominates router and switch architectures within cable modem termination systems, and extending its brand to optical transport will allow the company to move from headend to optical termination units in the backbone.
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