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| Samsung announce 1Gb stacked BGA DRAM |
9/4/2003 |
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The chip is available in DDR 266 and DDR 333 versions and measures 11.5-millimeter by 12-millimeter. It meets the JEDEC DDR chip-scale package ball pitch specifications.
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| New laws might help IT recovery |
9/4/2003 |
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 could trigger an IT spending spree among publicly traded high-tech companies that will soon become legally obligated to keep a better accounting of their business processes and procurement habits.
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| Pilips outsources development to India |
9/4/2003 |
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Much of the new investment will go into research projects, Philips said. The Bangalore center, established several years ago, is the only Philips software center with a Level-5 certification under Carnegie Mellon University's Capability Maturity Model.
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| IT industry has yet to recover, Michael Dell |
9/3/2003 |
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But the long-awaited pickup in business or corporate IT spending is not taking place, at least not like many had hoped, Dell suggested. Corporate IT upgrades have begun, but its not exactly what one would call a boom
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| Chinese foundry glut not materialized |
9/3/2003 |
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"Just a few years ago some forecasters envisioned a glut of foundry capacity dumped on the market, placing foundries into the ominous position of competing in a commodity market with an overabundance of supply,"
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| Hynix adds hi-volt flavor to 0.18 process |
9/3/2003 |
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The process technology was developed to address the increased requirements for single-chip LCD driver chips. The single-chip solution includes a gate, source, controller, DC/DC converter and SRAM on the same device.
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| JEDEC Announces JEDEX Shanghai, China |
9/2/2003 |
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"JEDEC is pleased to coordinate a program that will assist with the growth and vitality of the industry in China and the world market" said Desi Rhoden, JEDEC Chairman of the Board.
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| Flat panel TV taking hold |
9/2/2003 |
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TECO is expected to ship about 100,000 flat-screen televisions this year with shipments expected to jump to 710,000 sets next year.
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| Wi-Fi chip price dropping |
9/2/2003 |
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Average selling prices for Wi-Fi chips will be slashed in half to $8 this year, $4 next year, and as little as $2 in 2006, predicted Sky Dayton, chief executive of Boingo Wireless Inc.
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| Intel invested another $23M in Elpida |
9/2/2003 |
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Elpida plans to use the $23 million to accelerate production of DRAMs, such as DDR2 SDRAM products. Additional details were not disclosed.
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| 10.5% increase in semiconductor sales |
9/2/2003 |
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“July’s sales reflect the continued strengthening of the semiconductor market and we believe that we will exceed our forecasted sequential growth of 5.9 percent for the third quarter,” George Scalise, SIA's president, said in a statement.
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| Chartered completed deal with Chinese partner |
9/1/2003 |
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Under the terms of the deal Chartered will provide 6-inch chip-making equipment and manufacturing process technology. It will receive cash and an equity stake in CSMC-Tech in return.
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| Intel to boost cache using 90nm process |
9/1/2003 |
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Prescott is a significant upgrade over current Pentium 4 microprocessors, doubling the on-die L2 cache to 1Mbyte with an expected 3.4GHz frequency. Intel has said Prescott will have improved pre-fetch branch prediction for improved performance.
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| SMIC to equip its new Beijing fab soon |
9/1/2003 |
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SMIC "may generate tool orders in excess of $1 billion for its Fab 4 facility being build in Beijing," Vassily added. In March, SMIC said it may move in manufacturing equipment for its previously announced 300-mm wafer pilot line at its Beijing plant by the end of this year or early 2004.
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| Flat panel gets attention at Berlin show |
9/1/2003 |
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"The transition most obvious to consumers today is not digital TV but flat-screen TVs," said Peter Rost, marketing director of digital TV at Micronas GmbH
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| VIA Technologies posts NT$1.1 billion Q2 loss |
8/29/2003 |
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VIA Technologies the world's second-largest maker of chipsets for personal computers, had a third straight quarterly loss after costs rose and competition with Intel and other rivals eroded its market share
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| Intel's mobile technology flourishes |
8/29/2003 |
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Intel Centrino mobile technology is becoming a fundamental platform in the new generation of notebook computers, and is helping notebooks to overtake the popularity of desktop computers.
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| Intel to open R & D center in Korea |
8/29/2003 |
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Intel said it plans to open an R&D center in South Korea by the end of 2003 to focus on technologies and standards for the digital home and wireless communications
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| SGI cut 600 jobs |
8/28/2003 |
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Silicon Graphics announce further cut of 600 jobs in an attempt to reduce expenses
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