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| DRAM contract prices rise steadily |
8/20/2003 |
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Contract prices for 333mhz 256Mbits DDR DRAMs rose steadily in Asia since May 20, Dow Jones reported. DRAM chip contract prices, adjusted every two weeks, jumped by around 3.5 percent to a range of $5.38-to-$5.00 per chip, according to DRAMeXchange, a DRAM clearing house.
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| HP fell short of estimates |
8/20/2003 |
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HP reported the third-quarter profit that fell short of analysts' expectations in what the company defined as a "tough" quarter. The operating earnings is 23 cents a share compare to 14 cents a year ago, but still 3 cents short of estimates. Sales also missed analysts' projections.
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| IPAC independent from OSE |
8/19/2003 |
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A group led by former CEO of Integrated Packaging Assembly Corp. (IPAC) has acquired the manufacturing division of OSE-USA (OSEU), a provider of chip-packaging services in San Jose, California.
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| Kingston invests $50 million in Elpida |
8/19/2003 |
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Kingston Technology disclosed it has invested about $50 million in Japanese DRAM supplier Elpida Memory Inc in exchange for non-voting stock.
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| Agilent reports a loss |
8/19/2003 |
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Agilent Technology reported a net loss of $1.56 billion, or $3.28 per share on revenue of $1.5 billion for its fiscal Q3. Excluding charges, the company would have reported a loss of $110 million, or 23 cents per share, Agilent said. The company had a loss of $223 million last year the same period.
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| Samsung strike deal with AT&T wireless on handsets |
8/18/2003 |
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Samsung Electronics, the world's No. 3 maker of wireless telephones, striked a deal to provide mobile phone handsets to AT&T wireless. AT&T Wireless customers can use the new phone to access high-speed data services, imaging, text messaging and wireless Web services.
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| Gartner raised 2003 chips sales |
8/18/2003 |
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Gartner Inc. raised its predictions for the 2003 semiconductor market amid a strong second quarter reported by many chips companies. The market research firm has up the 2003 worldwide semiconductor growth estimate to 11.2 percent or $173 billions from previous prediction of 8.3 percent or 168 billions.
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| Hitachi outsource its hard drive production to China |
8/18/2003 |
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose, has outsouced and signed a deal with Great Wall Technology Ltd., a high-technology enterprise group based in Shenzhen, China, to manufacture the hard disk drive.
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| Sony upgrades memory stick |
8/18/2003 |
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Sony released a new version of its Memory Stick Duo card, called the Memory Stick Pro Duo with a capacity of up to 512MB, up from a maximum of 128MB in the previous version. It will theoretically be able to transfer data at a rate of up to 20 megabytes per second under optimal conditions, according to Sony.
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| China governments must buy local software |
8/18/2003 |
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Aimed at breaking the dominance of Microsoft on desktop computers, a new policy from China's governing body states that all government ministries must buy only locally produced software at the next upgrade cycle, according to a news source.
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| Stolen processor turns up in Taiwan |
8/15/2003 |
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Intel Corp. exported the batch of 50,000 CPUs worth more than US$10 million from New York to London in July. The customer in UK went Heathrow Airport to claim the Intel's CPUs and later found that the whole batch of CPUs was stolen.
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| Positive news for the PC market |
8/15/2003 |
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Gartner today forecasted worldwide PC shipments to reach 39.8 million units in the current quarter of 2003, a 9.6 percent increase over Q3 2002. Gartner further projects PC shipments to reach 161.3 million units in 2003, an 8.9 percent increase from 2002.
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| Koreans advanced in DRAM market position |
8/15/2003 |
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While Samsung's quarterly DRAM sales moving from $1.12 billion to $1.155 billion, sales values slipped back at Micron Technology Inc. and Infineon Technologies AG. Hynix increased sales markedly from $476 million in the first quarter to $510 million
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| XBOX switched to ATI for new design |
8/15/2003 |
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The deal is something of a surprise given that ATI's chief rival, Nvidia Corp., has provided the graphics processor for the Xbox since Microsoft first entered the gaming market as an OEM several years ago.
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| Internet worm runs wild |
8/14/2003 |
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MSBlast is designed to launch a denial-of-service attack, specifically a Syn Flood, against Microsoft's Windowsupdate.com Web site on Aug. 16. Computers infected by Blaster scan the Internet looking for other machines running Windows that have an open security hole.
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| "b" to be replaced by "g" |
8/14/2003 |
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802.11b is on its way out, making room for 802.11g, according to a research report today.
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| Nvidia and Cirrus Logic settles graphics engine IP |
8/14/2003 |
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The companies said all outstanding claims and counterclaims in the lawsuit between Cirrus and Nvidia will be dismissed. Cirrus said its patent infringement claims against ATI remain pending.
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| Rambus/Infineon case heading for Supreme Court |
8/14/2003 |
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In June, Infineon Technologies A.G. filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn an appellate court ruling absolving Rambus Inc. of fraud for failing to disclose pending SDRAM patents to the JECEC Solid State Technology Association panel while the body was drafting an industry SDRAM standard.
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| AVL to validate DDR400 DIMMs for VIA |
8/14/2003 |
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Via Technologies Inc. has joined with Advanced Validation Labs (AVL), Fountain Valley, Calif., which will conduct a validation program of DDR400 memory modules with Via chipsets.
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