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| TSMC set to increase Capex |
1/29/2004 |
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The money will be used to boost overall capacity by 15 percent, to about 4.6 million 8-inch equivalent wafers. Within that context, 12-inch wafer capacity will increase 130 percent.
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| VIA answers to spying alligations |
1/28/2004 |
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Prosecutors have accused VIA chairwoman Cher Wang and her husband, Wenchi Chen, the firm's president, of sending Chang to work D-Link with main initiative to secretly acquire chip-testing simulation software.
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| Ion implant tool maker confirms major order |
1/28/2004 |
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Therma-Wave Inc. today claimed a multi-million dollar order for its Therma-Probe XP 300mm ion implant monitoring tools from a leading, undisclosed Asia-based DRAM producer.
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| MyDoom virus running wild |
1/28/2004 |
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Central Command, a computer security services company based in Medina, Ohio, estimated Tuesday that the Internet worm was spreading globally and accounting for one out of every nine e-mail messages being infected.
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| ARM joins SOC business by acquiring design company |
1/28/2004 |
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Privately held Triscend (Mountain View, Calif.) was formed in 1997 and has 41 staff. Its single-chip platform is designed to provide customized system-on-chip devices combining the flexibility of a field-programmable device and the price point of a standard product.
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| Infineon acquiring Taiwan IC designer |
1/28/2004 |
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Infineon said Wednesday (Jan. 28) it will buy Hsinchu-based ADMtek Inc, a privately held fabless firm, for about $75 million. It will pay another $25 million “earn-out” bonus if certain performance targets are met during the next two years.
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| VoIP debate heats up |
1/27/2004 |
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Internet-based phone service is relatively small. About 150,000 American homes used it in 2003, up from 39,000 in 2002, according to In-Stat/MDR, a research firm. But it’s growing fast and may prove thornier than online taxation, experts said.
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| RFID take priority with Wal-Mart |
1/27/2004 |
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With the Jan. 1, 2005 deadline less than a year away, semiconductor companies looking to cash in on the United States' largest retailer's RFID enforcement -- not to mention similar ones coming from the U.S. Department of Defense and European retailer Metro.
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| Analyst talk about 64-bit processor |
1/27/2004 |
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"The microprocessor business is a business that is in transition," Matas said. Using history as a guide, Matas believes that the software to exploit 64-bit computing will not be available for several years.
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| Circumstance allows Semi companies to plan Capex more appropriately |
1/27/2004 |
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Now, the equipment for a 12-inch, 90-nm fab is vastly more expensive than the shell and is quite modular. Companies tend to build the shell and then add only as much equipment as demand justifies, knowing it will be easy to incrementally increase capacity by adding machines later.
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| Break through in memory testing |
1/27/2004 |
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To date, the difficulty in testing bare DRAMs, compared with flash or SRAMs in unpackaged form, has limited the use of DRAMs in the stacked packages used in cell phones. That may change as probe card vendors develop wafer-level test capabilities that make it easier to fully test DRAMs in parallel.
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| Polymer display rolls up inside your pen |
1/27/2004 |
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Polymer Vision, a new technology incubator established by Philips Research, unveiled Monday (Jan. 26) what it claims is the thinnest, most flexible, active-matrix display so far.
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| Memory maker found shortfall in revenue |
1/26/2004 |
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The memory maker attributed the shortfall to delays in the recognition of revenue from new customer projects that commenced later in the quarter than the company previously had anticipated based upon such customers' earlier projections.
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| Distributors found profit in China |
1/26/2004 |
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“The margins are tighter, but in the last two quarters we have expanded and improved our margins,” said Andy Bryant, president of Avnet Electronics Marketing, a division of Phoenix-based Avnet Inc.
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| SIA said semiconductor cycle is still 3 years |
1/26/2004 |
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“The conclusion was to leave it in 2004 — a return [for the second edition in a row] to a rounded three-year-per-node pace. Of course, this does not indicate any abrupt transition in the rate of technology development,” Doering added. “The rate of progress continues to evolve somewhere between two and three years.”
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| Nortel to sell manufacturing plants to Flextronics |
1/26/2004 |
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The deal, if consummated would result in the transfer of Nortel's optical, wireless and enterprise manufacturing operations to Flextronics although Nortel said it would retain control over the strategic management of its supply chain.
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| Southeast Asia will be memory focal |
1/26/2004 |
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Micron Technology Inc. said it anticipates more than 50 percent of its revenue would be generated in southeast Asia within a few years with China, Hong Kong and Japan accounting for a significant portion of the increase.
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| Atmel return to profitability |
1/23/2004 |
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Atmel returned to profitability in Q4 of last year, one quarter after it declared that the recovery was at hand.
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| Kodak to cut 15,000 Jobs |
1/22/2004 |
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Eastman Kodak, the world's leading photography company, said today it would cut 12,000 to 15,000 jobs
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| Red Hat to launch Linux in China |
1/22/2004 |
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Red Hat, the leading seller of the Linux operating system, plans an expansion into China, potentially including a partnership with China's Red Flag Linux
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