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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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| IBM announces new PowerPC 440EP |
9/23/2003 |
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The networking and storage applications-based SOC aims to extend the PowerPC 440 family into new applications, such as imaging and industrial control, and become a growth path for PowerPC 405XX users, IBM said.
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| AMD beats Intel in launching 64bits processor |
9/23/2003 |
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The new entry by AMD beats rival Intel to the punch. Semiconductor giant Intel's CTO Patrick Gelsinger last week at the Intel Developers Forum told reporters that 64-bit processing would not be needed at the PC level for several more years. According to Intel officials, PC operating systems and applications aren't yet ready for the technology.
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| NEC-Toshiba develope fuel cells to power notebook |
9/23/2003 |
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NEC Corp. and Toshiba Corp. last week showed prototypes of fuel cells that they said would find their way into notebook computers before the end of next year. The direct-methanol fuel cells weigh in at about 900 grams each and can power a system for five hours.
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| TI's Engibous looks at China electronics industry |
9/23/2003 |
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"Chinese firms were mostly run by Taiwanese. All but two of the CEOs were Taiwanese," he said. "That's when I learned very quickly that the electronics market over there is heavily influenced by companies here and I don't think that will change."
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