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| Softbank reported $700 million loss |
11/11/2003 |
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Softbank reported Monday that its group net loss grew to 77.3 billion yen ($707 million) in the six months ended Sept. 30, from a loss of 55.8 billion yen in the same period a year ago.
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| Microsoft cuts Xbox in Japan |
11/11/2003 |
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U.S. software giant Microsoft is slashing the price of its Xbox video-game console to 16,800 yen (US$154) ahead of the Christmas shopping season.
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| Acer releases new slim and speedy server |
11/11/2003 |
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Acer America unveiled Intel's Xeon based Altos R701 with hyperthreading technology designed specifically for Internet and application service providers.
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| Foundries's business up in October |
11/10/2003 |
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The world two largest contract chip manufacturers, TSMC and UMC, reported a 25 percent and a 21 percent rise in business respectively in October, according to recent company statements.
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| Promos to build 2nd 12-inch fab |
11/10/2003 |
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ProMOS Technologies, a major DRAM maker in Taiwan, is getting ready to build its second 12-inch fab late in the first quarter of next year, according to company spokesperson.
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| Microsoft to design its own chip for Xbox |
11/10/2003 |
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Microsoft Corp. is planning to license intellectual property from suppliers and actively participate in the design of chips that would be used in the Xbox, according to a news report.
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| Infineon back to profitable |
11/10/2003 |
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Infineon Technologies turned to profit in the fourth quarter with of $56 million net income on sales of $2.02 billion, the company reported.
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| TSMC report significant increase in sales |
11/7/2003 |
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For the first full month after a record Q3, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. today announced that net sales for October climbed 33 percent year-over-year, a new record high for a third consecutive month.
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| Gartner: Q4 PC market look optimistic |
11/7/2003 |
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Worldwide PC shipments are expected to total 47.2 million units in the quarter, a 12.4 percent increase from the same period last year, according to Gartner data.
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| VoIP to entrench |
11/7/2003 |
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The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday (Nov. 6) it has scheduled a Dec. 1 hearing on regulatory issues raised by the emerging voice technology. Shortly after the forum, FCC officials said, the agency will launch a review into the migration of voice services to IP-based networks.
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| Media PC market to take off |
11/7/2003 |
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In-Stat predicted the global retail value of the digital TV-PC products segment, which includes everything from digital terrestrial PC-TV tuners, digital terrestrial set-top boxes to free-to-air satellite PC-TV tuners, wil grow from about $923 million this year to nearly $4 billion in 2007, a compound annual growth rate of 48 percent.
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| UMC business on the rise |
11/6/2003 |
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United Microelectronic Corp. (UMC) expecting ten percent increase in wafer production in the fourth quarter due to strong market demand, according to UMC's new CEO, Jackson Hu.
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| Online Christmas shopping to rocket |
11/6/2003 |
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Close to 40 percent of online users plan to do some or all of their holiday shopping online, an increase of 18 percent over last year. Overall, consumers are more confident in spending in the online channel; fewer consumers cited fear of credit card security.
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| Japan to be the fastest growing semi market |
11/6/2003 |
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The Japanese chip market is expected to grow 24.3 percent to $37.9 billion in 2003, according to the SIA. Its market is projected to increase 17.9 percent to $44.7 billion in 2004, 4.6 percent to $46.8 billion in 2005 and 4.4 percent in 2006 to $48.9 billion.
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| Scientist use nanospring pill to detect cancer |
11/6/2003 |
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"We see the potential for individual, real-time, early detection of cancer, where we transmit a signal wirelessly for about 24 hours. As the nanosprings work their way through your body, they detect any cancer there and send a radio frequency signal out [through the skin],"
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| Samsung to use ATI chip for digital TV |
11/6/2003 |
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Xilleon is a high-definition MPEG decoder chip; the NXT2003 is a single-chip ATSC/OpenCable digital demodulator chip, ATI said. ATI also makes the Theater 310, a receiver IC for NTSC, ATSC and digital cable reception, the company said.
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| In-Stat has good news for semi market |
11/6/2003 |
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"Although the first half of 2003 ran slightly below our expectations the second half has started strong resulting in no net change to the overall annual forecast. Growth will continue throughout 2004 when we expect 25.9% ahead of 2003,"
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| NEC to build its first 300mm fab. |
11/6/2003 |
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NEC Electronics and its subsidiary, NEC Yamagata Ltd., are to build the 300-mm wafer line on the first floor of NEC Yamagata's fab with the total investment of about 60 billion yen (about $540 million).
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| DRAM makers uniformly optimistic |
11/5/2003 |
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Meanwhile, in the DRAM market, there is growing optimism about market prospects in 2004, although it is tempered by concerns over a lack of a technology or density transition next year, according to iSuppli analyst Nam Hyung Kim.
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| FCC lays Hollywood a hand on HDTV rules |
11/5/2003 |
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The “broadcast flag” is a digital code that can be embedded into a digital broadcasting stream. It signals DTV reception equipment to limit the indiscriminate redistribution of digital broadcast content.
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| Intel to use hi-k dielectric by 2007 |
11/5/2003 |
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As silicon dioxide is thinned to about five atomic layers in order to turn on the transistor more quickly, electrons have tunneled through the oxide layer, causing wasted power during the "on" state. The switch to a high-k material will reduce power leakage while the transistors are switching.
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| eMemory announce novel memory cell structure |
11/5/2003 |
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The companies are all keenly interested in what appears to be a novel cell structure that has the characteristics of EPROM -- used to store program data code -- but uses a simple, logic-based process that is more easily ported from fab to fab.
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