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| Infineon leads way on |
10/1/2003 |
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Infineon Technologies said it will employ the lead- and halogen-free DRAM components ahead of European legal requirements that come into force in 2006 and 2007.
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| Infineon's appeal in Rambus case has a setback |
10/1/2003 |
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A patent infringement appeal from Infineon failed to make the roster of the U.S. Supreme Court's preliminary short list of cases it will hear this year, according to the news sources.
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| DPAC's losses deepen |
9/30/2003 |
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DPAC Technologies reported a net loss of $1.1 million on sales of $4.4 million in the second fiscal quarter of fiscal year 2004, ended August 31, 2003, the company said Tuesday.
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| Samsung releases 4Gbit NAND |
9/29/2003 |
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Samsung Electronics has developed a 4-Gbit NAND-style flash memory using advanced manufacturing process technologies, the company reported.
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| Chips sales hit 13.42 billion in August |
9/29/2003 |
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Chips sales worldwide hit $13.42 billion in August, a increase of about 4 percent from previous month and sixth consecutive monthly increase, reported Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).
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| Toshiba to license SST's flash technology |
9/29/2003 |
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Toshiba will license SST's embedded SuperFlash cores technology to be used in their microcontrollers for consumer electronics and industrial products, said Silicon Storage Technology Monday.
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| Electronics shipment ups and down |
9/26/2003 |
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August shipments from U.S. electronics factories fell 0.4 percent compared with July, reversing part of the outsize 5.6 percent jump in the previous two months.
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| Beckman won M$934 jury verdict against Flextronics |
9/26/2003 |
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The Flextronics group, the former Dovatron, was sued by Beckman in the second quarter of 2001. Of the total jury award, which was entered in Orange Country California Superior Court, $931 million was classified as punitive.
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| Computex going strong even with date change |
9/25/2003 |
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There were 9,568 buyers and foreign reporters on the first day of the show, compared to 9,253 last year. The number of exhibitors and booths broke a 22-year record.
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| Foundry prices moving up |
9/25/2003 |
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Q3 saw the average CMOS wafer prices increase 3 percent from Q2, according to the Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA).
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| Capital spending forcast adjusted upward |
9/25/2003 |
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Based on an updated survey of 47 major semiconductor producers, IC Insights, based here, projects that capital spending will hit $29.935 billion in 2003, up 11 from $27 billion in 2002.
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| Intel to invest $450 million in Micron |
9/25/2003 |
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The investment was made "in the context of comprehensive business agreements between the two companies confirming an ongoing, close relationship between the companies and alignment of business interests, including deployment of DDR2 memory and 300 mm wafer processing.
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| Silterra sees heavy consumer product booking |
9/24/2003 |
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The company's Fab 1 utilization rate will reach more than 90 percent in Q4 and is expected to remain healthy during 2004, compared to a 50 percent to 55 percent rate a few months ago.
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| TI sues Qualcomm for breach |
9/24/2003 |
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The action, which was filed in Delaware Chancery Court, is the third round of a protracted legal wrangle between Dallas-based TI and San Diego-based Qualcomm. The quarrel started in July when Qualcomm filed suit in the Deleware court against TI over the issue of confidentiality of the patent-portfolio sharing agreement.
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| VIA positions a come back on PC chipsets |
9/24/2003 |
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Chen Wen-chi, believes his company must surpass Intel Corp. on chipset technology within the next six months if it is to recapture market share lost during a two-year legal battle over bus licensing fees.
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| Will DDR2 be mainstream after Intel's announcement? |
9/24/2003 |
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"If the DDR2 price premium is small and goes away quickly, we could see a fairly aggressive ramp," said Pete MacWilliams, Intel senior fellow and director of platform architecture. "If the premium is too high, it will take longer to bring DDR2 into the mainstream."
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| MSN to drop its chat room services |
9/24/2003 |
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In a statement, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant said it made the decision following the growing abuse of the Internet, particularly in unsupervised, anonymous chat rooms.
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| Computex opens Monday in Taipei |
9/23/2003 |
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COMPUTEX Taipei was postponed due to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which claimed 84 lives from 671 infections in Taiwan few ago earlier.
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