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| Samsung release impressive earnings |
10/20/2003 |
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Samsung Electronics reported net income of 1.84 trillion won in the third quarter (about $1.57 billion) on sales revenue that exceeded 11.26 trillion won (about $9.6 billion).
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| IC, chip equipment book-to-bills improves |
10/20/2003 |
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The worldwide semiconductor and chip equipment book-to-bill ratios rose in September over August, according to VLSI Research Inc, signifiying a possible high tech recovery.
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| Atmel saw better business |
10/17/2003 |
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The semiconductor maker posted revenues of $335 million for Q3, a sequential increase of 5.2 percent over Q2's $318. Revenues were 12.2 percent higher than the same quarter a year ago. Atmel narrowed its net loss in Q3 to $31.8
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| AMD sales increased 88%, but still carry lost |
10/17/2003 |
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"We delivered strong sales growth in our microprocessor and flash memory business lines while tightly managing our expense structure," said Robert Rivet, CFO, in a statement. "Sales were up on a global basis reflecting increased demand in each of our major businesses and all geographic regions."
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| FCC clears way for 3G |
10/17/2003 |
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In the first report and order, the agency opened up 90 MHz of spectrum for 3G and advanced broadband wireless services in the 1700- and 2100-MHz bands. It second action was to open up 12.9 GHz of spectrum divided between the 70-, 80-, and 90-GHz bands.
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| Sales improved at Molex |
10/17/2003 |
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"The overall level of new orders during the September quarter was encouraging, and we believe that a majority of our global markets are now in an initial phase of cautious expansion,"
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| Cypress beats odds for earning |
10/17/2003 |
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"If these trends continue, we believe there is a strong possibility that the modest recovery of 2003 will turn into a boom in 2004-2005," Rodgers added.
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| Nanya posts loss |
10/16/2003 |
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Nanya projects that global DRAM supply will remain tight through the next quarter. Kau forecasts global DRAM bit production will grow 41% this year, less than the industry consensus of 55% growth.
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| IBM to hire more people |
10/16/2003 |
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"Next year, in fact, we see the need for approximately 10,000 new positions in key skill areas, including high-value services, middleware technologies, Linux and open standards-based hardware and software.
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| Will x86 architecture expand into Network standard? |
10/16/2003 |
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"We are already seeing the x86 get significant use in storage area networking. In the future will it extend to the network itself and to ubiquitous handheld devices? I think so," Weber said.Weber predicted that if cellphones become general-purpose computers, designers will leverage the installed base of PC software and hardware to drive them.
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| HP inch ahead of Dell in PC sales |
10/16/2003 |
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"The race between HP and Dell just got a lot closer," crowed Jim McDonnell, vice president of marketing at HP's Personal Systems Group. "HP considerably narrowed the gap with only 0.3% points separating HP from the top spot."
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| Rumors Intel's Prescott runs into power issue |
10/15/2003 |
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As reported, there are rumors flying that Intel is struggling with the 90-nm process, which is due out later this year. Intel's next-generation desktop processor was reportedly running at a whopping 103 Watts.
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| Semi shipment up 10% |
10/15/2003 |
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According to the San Jose-based consortium's Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) consensus forecast, silicon suppliers anticipate shipments will again increase by 15 percent in 2004.
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| Intel to shrink capital investment |
10/15/2003 |
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Amid a plan to narrow its capital spending, Intel Corp. on Tuesday (Oct. 14) announced third-quarter revenue of $7.8 billion, up 15 percent sequentially and up 20 percent year-over-year.
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| New packaging allow double capacity memory |
10/15/2003 |
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The package can include up to four chips using a combination of NOR flash, SRAM, pseudo SRAM or SDRAM for a memory density of up to 1 Gbit. It is the first time Intel has used SDRAM in its MCP. Intel acquires the SDRAM and SRAM from outside suppliers.
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| Transmeta disclose details on LongRun2 |
10/15/2003 |
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Ditzel positioned LongRun2 as a potentially broad solution to leakage problems that are emerging in chips made at the 90- and 65-nm nodes. "As far as we can tell, we think we have a unique solution to the leakage problem," he said.
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| Sun to double power with new processor |
10/14/2003 |
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UltraSPARC IV uses chip multithreading (CMT) to achieve the throughput increase. The technology allows the processor to execute tens of threads simultaneously. Initial servers will see double the throughput, Sun said in a statement. The company expects to continue to improve throughput with server blades in 2006.
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| DRAM demand looks dim |
10/14/2003 |
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"Although iSuppli believes a pre-Christmas demand still could materials, present market conditions and pricing trends appear more pessimistic than iSuppli expected,"
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| Rambus to push XDR Memory |
10/14/2003 |
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The XDIMM memory module will provide 12.8Gbytes/sec. to 25.6Gbytes/sec. of bandwidth, four times more memory module bandwidth in the same pin count and form factor as DDR2 DIMMs, Rambus boasted. XDR offers a roadmap to 6.4GHz and can scale to interface widths of up to 128-bits, enabling memory system bandwidths up to 100Gbytes/sec
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| HP to develope printer for handsets |
10/14/2003 |
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HP's mobile phone printing software was designed for Nokia's Series 60 platform. It remains unclear whether the same HP software can seamlessly run on handsets developed by other Series 60 licensees such as Siemens or Infineon.
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