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| Wi-Fi market to grow, revenues stay low |
7/31/2003 |
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Wi-Fi market is expected to grow over the next few years but overall revenues will remain flat as vendors drop prices to fight competition and control more market share, according to market research firm.
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| NEC's 3G phones built by Solectron |
7/31/2003 |
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NEC plans to outsource its 3G handsets production (about 1 million units per month) for market outside of Japan to Solectron's plant in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province (China), according to its press release.
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| Ingram Micro profits up |
7/31/2003 |
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Ingram Micro Inc., the world's largest distributor of computers and electronics, said its quarterly profit rose to $11.5 million from $8.8 million last year amid expense cutting operation. Revenue declined to $5.17 billion from $5.35 billion.
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| Market marches toward recovery |
7/31/2003 |
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The hope for ecomomic recovery is on track after a surprisingly strong report on gross domestic product growth.
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| Toshiba loss widen, weak PC sales |
7/30/2003 |
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Toshiba Corp reported a larger quarterly loss from a year ago, hurt by falling prices of notebook computers overseas and poor demand for factory-related equipment like power generators as well as Toshiba's household products such as television.
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| Memory prices rise |
7/30/2003 |
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DDR DRAM chip prices should remain relatively stable this week after some positive surge in price in first half of July, according to DRAMeXchange.
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| IBM released eServer with Opteron chip |
7/30/2003 |
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IBM launched its Opteron-based eServer 325 and said it will deliver 1,058 copies of such machine to Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology for use on biology and materials sciences researches.
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| Sun, Silicon Graphics co-develop software bindings |
7/29/2003 |
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Sun Microsystems and Silicon Graphics Inc. said at a conference Monday that they will work together to develop standard software bindings linking Java to the OpenGL graphics applications programming interface.
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| Consumer confidence index dropped |
7/29/2003 |
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U.S. consumer confidence drop in July as worries over rising unemployment took a heavy toll, the Conference Board reported on Tuesday.
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| JEDEC to re-design DDR2 buffered memory for servers |
7/29/2003 |
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A task group has formed within JEDEC to work on a standard for fully buffered DDR2 DIMMs aim to be used in the servers. Present buffered DIMMs design will be unable to support larger memory needed for the the upcoming high speed servers running at speeds of 667 to 800Mbits/s, according to a source.
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| Intel to increase server chipset market |
7/29/2003 |
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Two of Intel upcoming chipsets, code-named Lindenhurst and Twin Castle, target at the server market. That directly post a threat to ServerWorks which is the dominant seller in server chipset, according to analysts.
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| Infineon to invest in memory assembly and testing in China |
7/28/2003 |
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Infineon Technologies has joint venture with China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Venture Co. (CSVC) in China for memory assembly and testing. Infineon said it will invest $241 million in the venture over the next five years.
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| Xilinx chose UMC over IBM on foundry work |
7/28/2003 |
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Xilinx has selected UMC over IBM as the main foundry for its 0.13-micron and 90nm PLDs, according to a source. The decision made was based on UMC's progress in 90nm volume production, the source speculated.
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| Microsoft to add 5,000 jobs |
7/28/2003 |
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Microsoft Corp. plans to add between 4,000 and 5,000 jobs in its 2004 financial year and increase spending on research and development to about $6.9 billion, an increase of about 8 percent compared to last year, the company said.
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| Sony 's quarterly profit plunge 98% |
7/25/2003 |
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Sony reported its net profit in the June quarter plunged 98 percent from last year to Japanese Yen 1.1 billion (US$9.3 million) as global demand for electronics faltered
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| Hynix loses trade ruling |
7/25/2003 |
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Hynix Semiconductor Inc, faces tariffs of as much as 45 percent after the U.S ITC found that exports from the South Korean company are injuring American competitors
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| ITC upholds ruling on Hynix dumping |
7/24/2003 |
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The U.S. International Trade Commission on Wednesday (July 23)upholds the June ruling by Commerce, which imposed a 44.71 percent duty against all Hynix DRAM imported into the United States.
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