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| DRAM module makers fight for OEM market |
8/22/2003 |
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The DRAM module upgrade market is shrinking as average PCs are loaded with enough memory to run standard applicatins. To offset the lose revenues, DRAM modules makers are entering the OEM market, but have to go through stiffer quality requirements, sources familiar with the market said.
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| Intel raises earnings expectation |
8/22/2003 |
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Intel Corp. raised its revenue guidance for the third quarter to between $7.3 billion and $7.8 billion, up from earlier guidance of $6.9 billion to $7.5 billion. Analysts expect revenue of $7.2 billion, up from $6.5 billion revenue it posted in the year-earlier period.
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| Teradyne to cut 400 jobs |
8/21/2003 |
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Teradyne Corp. is expected to cut 400 jobs or 7 percent of its workforce to offset the slower than expected chip equipment recovery, according to a report from SG Cowen Securities Corp.
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| DRAM spot prices expects to upswing |
8/21/2003 |
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While mainstream DRAM contract prices have steadily risen in the past few weeks, DRAM spot prices have remained flat, DRAMeXchange said.
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| Front-end chip equipment orders to rise |
8/21/2003 |
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The front-end chip-equipment orders are expected to jump 4 percent to 14 percent in the third quarter of 2003, compared to the second period of this year, according to a report from Morgan Stanley.
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| Foundries utilization rate rose |
8/21/2003 |
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Utilization rate of the worldwide foundries rose above 85 percent in the second quarter reaching the sector's historical average as it recovers from its worst-ever slump, said a survey.
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| Dell cut prices on PCs, printers |
8/21/2003 |
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Dell Inc. cut prices on PCs, printers and other products by up to 22 percent on Wednesday in a move to undercut the competition ahead of the back-to-school season.
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| Gateway to sell PC targeting gamers |
8/20/2003 |
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Gateway Inc. said it would release the 700X Gaming PC designed specifically to play video games. The 700X PC would include the most powerful graphics processor from Nvidia Corp. and some of the top games from leading publisher Electronic Arts Inc.
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| DRAM contract prices rise steadily |
8/20/2003 |
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Contract prices for 333mhz 256Mbits DDR DRAMs rose steadily in Asia since May 20, Dow Jones reported. DRAM chip contract prices, adjusted every two weeks, jumped by around 3.5 percent to a range of $5.38-to-$5.00 per chip, according to DRAMeXchange, a DRAM clearing house.
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| HP fell short of estimates |
8/20/2003 |
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HP reported the third-quarter profit that fell short of analysts' expectations in what the company defined as a "tough" quarter. The operating earnings is 23 cents a share compare to 14 cents a year ago, but still 3 cents short of estimates. Sales also missed analysts' projections.
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| IPAC independent from OSE |
8/19/2003 |
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A group led by former CEO of Integrated Packaging Assembly Corp. (IPAC) has acquired the manufacturing division of OSE-USA (OSEU), a provider of chip-packaging services in San Jose, California.
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| Kingston invests $50 million in Elpida |
8/19/2003 |
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Kingston Technology disclosed it has invested about $50 million in Japanese DRAM supplier Elpida Memory Inc in exchange for non-voting stock.
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| Agilent reports a loss |
8/19/2003 |
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Agilent Technology reported a net loss of $1.56 billion, or $3.28 per share on revenue of $1.5 billion for its fiscal Q3. Excluding charges, the company would have reported a loss of $110 million, or 23 cents per share, Agilent said. The company had a loss of $223 million last year the same period.
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| Samsung strike deal with AT&T wireless on handsets |
8/18/2003 |
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Samsung Electronics, the world's No. 3 maker of wireless telephones, striked a deal to provide mobile phone handsets to AT&T wireless. AT&T Wireless customers can use the new phone to access high-speed data services, imaging, text messaging and wireless Web services.
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| Gartner raised 2003 chips sales |
8/18/2003 |
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Gartner Inc. raised its predictions for the 2003 semiconductor market amid a strong second quarter reported by many chips companies. The market research firm has up the 2003 worldwide semiconductor growth estimate to 11.2 percent or $173 billions from previous prediction of 8.3 percent or 168 billions.
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| Hitachi outsource its hard drive production to China |
8/18/2003 |
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose, has outsouced and signed a deal with Great Wall Technology Ltd., a high-technology enterprise group based in Shenzhen, China, to manufacture the hard disk drive.
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| Sony upgrades memory stick |
8/18/2003 |
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Sony released a new version of its Memory Stick Duo card, called the Memory Stick Pro Duo with a capacity of up to 512MB, up from a maximum of 128MB in the previous version. It will theoretically be able to transfer data at a rate of up to 20 megabytes per second under optimal conditions, according to Sony.
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| China governments must buy local software |
8/18/2003 |
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Aimed at breaking the dominance of Microsoft on desktop computers, a new policy from China's governing body states that all government ministries must buy only locally produced software at the next upgrade cycle, according to a news source.
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| Stolen processor turns up in Taiwan |
8/15/2003 |
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Intel Corp. exported the batch of 50,000 CPUs worth more than US$10 million from New York to London in July. The customer in UK went Heathrow Airport to claim the Intel's CPUs and later found that the whole batch of CPUs was stolen.
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