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| IC design on the outsourcing trend to China? |
11/25/2003 |
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At 0.25 micron, a mask set costs about $250,000, which is probably the annual cost of an average high-level engineer in the United States, including insurance, stock options and other associated costs, noted Chen. "In China, you could hire a whole department for that much."
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| Intel show off working 65nm memory |
11/25/2003 |
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Using 65-nm design rules, Intel Corp. announced Monday (Nov. 24) that it has made fully functional 4-Mbit SRAMs with a cell size of 0.57 microns2 — small enough to maintain Moore's Law of density doubling every two years.
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| First China designed consumer processor debuted |
11/25/2003 |
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The tiny startup BLX IC Design Corp. has persuaded a few of China's top consumer electronics manufacturers to give its 32-bit embedded processor a try. Next year, expect to see its technology used in set-top boxes, "smart" TVs, digital video recorders and thin-client PCs.
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| Sweet memory spot for Christmas |
11/25/2003 |
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The latest contact DRAM prices negotiated for the second half of November continued to drop an average of 4% to 5%, according to DRAMeXchange, Taipei. This followed a 5% to 6% drop in DRAM spot market prices, which Smith Barney analyst Clark Westmont said was the biggest single weekly decline in seven months.
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| Intel lost top position in Flash |
11/24/2003 |
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Spansion, which was formed from the merger of the NOR-type flash suppliers Advanced Micro Devices and Fujitsu, took third place with a 13.8 percent share. "The newly formed Spansion became the number-one NOR flash supplier in the third quarter, surpassing fellow NOR supplier Intel," Van Hees said.
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| Intel to focus away from PC |
11/24/2003 |
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Most of his company's R&D spending would go toward the technology underlying wireless handheld devices, consumer electronics, and components of the communications infrastructure.
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| Micro robot can fly |
11/24/2003 |
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Epson developed the robot to demonstrate its homegrown micromechatronics technology. The robot consists of a 2.5 gram control module with two CPUs; a 1.3-gram Bluetooth module; a 1.3-gram sensor unit with a gyro-sensor, an accelerometer and an image sensor.
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| AMD 90nm production delay |
11/24/2003 |
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There has been a "two or three month slip" for the volume ramp of the 90-nm process, he said during a conference call with analysts. The AMD executive also outlined the company's 300-mm plans. As reported, the company set plans to build a 300-mm, 65-nm fab in Dresden, Germany. Production is set for 2006.
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| SST to take part in personal e'ID drive in China |
11/24/2003 |
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The Chinese government is embarking on a massive, nationwide program that would issue IC-based identification cards to its citizens. Yeh believes those cards will require anywhere from 0.5Mbit to 1Mbit of embedded flash.
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| NEC offers 8X DVD Drive |
11/21/2003 |
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NEC will start shipping the industry's first 8x-speed recordable DVD drives for personal computers next month.
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| HP set to compete in Copier Market |
11/20/2003 |
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HP announced plans to enter the $24 billion copier business with new multifunction printing machines and software for managing them over corporate networks
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| China develop new Video Format |
11/19/2003 |
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China has announced a government-funded project to promote an alternative to DVDs and 'attack the market share' of the global video format
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| Hynix sue EU for unfair Tarriffs |
11/19/2003 |
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Hynix filed a lawsuit last week against the European Union claiming that the EU Commission's imposition of hefty import duties on its chip exports is unfair.
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| The new Comdex Show |
11/18/2003 |
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The new Comdex this year, a re-designed show seems less about glitz and more about business.
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