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| Asia's largest PC events, postponed |
5/1/2003 |
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Taipei Computer Association (TCA) and the China External Trade Development Council (CETRA), made the decision to postpone Computex and have not announced a new date for the event.
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| Computex postponed due to SARS |
4/30/2003 |
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The organizers have decided to postpone COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2003 to the last half of 2003. The exact days of the new schedule will be announced by the end of May.
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| Tokyo Electronic cut 1000 jobs |
4/30/2003 |
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TEL expects the semiconductor and semiconductor manufacturing equipment industries to continue to grow over the mid- to long-term, while seeing normal silicon cycle fluctuations. However, the company said there is a "global shakeout among the contenders."
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| Infineon transitions into 0.11 micron DRAM |
4/30/2003 |
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The resultant smaller chips lead to a production cost advantage per chip of around 30 percent compared to Infineon's current volume process technology, according to the company.
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| EX-Intel employee charged with Al Qaeda link |
4/30/2003 |
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Federal prosecutors on Monday (April 28) charged a former Intel Corp. engineer with allegedly conspiring to aid Al Qaeda and the Taliban, as part of a move to “levy war” against the United States
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| Court to start again on Rambus vs Memory Industry |
4/30/2003 |
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FTC lawyers will argue that Rambus (Los Altos, Calif.) violated U.S. antitrust laws “by deliberately engaging in a pattern of anticompetitive acts and practices that served to deceive an industry-wide standard-setting organization,” the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (Jedec).
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| International consortium offers embedded memory optimizer |
4/30/2003 |
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ATOMIUM, is a comprehensive set of interactive tools that traverses application code, optimizing it to reduce the number and cost of memory transactions. The process can result in dramatic reductions in system energy consumption as well as die area.
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| TSMC see profit up |
4/30/2003 |
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"Our customers are loading inventories. Short-term indicators from them are pointing to very encouraging directions," the TSMC chairman said.
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| Connector shipment index down |
4/30/2003 |
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Connector and printed-circuit board suppliers are still struggling with weak demand and excess production capacity.
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| ChipPac reports year to year increase sales |
4/29/2003 |
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Fremont, Calif.-based assembly and test house ChipPAC Inc. today reported Q1 revenue declined 4.4 percent sequentially to $88.6 million, per the company's previous guidance, but still up 11.9 percent year over year
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| Infineon to cut jobs |
4/29/2003 |
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Infineon will cut 500 jobs from its corporate layers, such as administration, and another 150 jobs from its Secure Mobile Solutions Group. Transferring and outsourcing will trim another 250 jobs worldwide and lead to other savings.
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| Industry have not seen disruption of SARS yet |
4/29/2003 |
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Market researchers research Gartner surveyed 20 major semiconductor companies in Hong Kong and China and found that most vendors had so far seen no significant negative effects from SARS.
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| TSMC included 65nm in their roadmap |
4/28/2003 |
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The TSMC released 2004 roadmap for higher advanced process technology during their TSMC 2003 Technology Symposium. TSMC presented the first details of its 65-nm technology for use in next-generation designs starting in late 2004 according to Jack Sun, TSMC's senior director of logic technology.
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| Hynix fights EU decision |
4/28/2003 |
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The South Korean memory supplier claims that Infineon Technology AG and Micron Technology Inc., the two companies that separately spurred anti-subsidy investigations against it, have caused more harm than good.
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| TI jumps on market with power over Ethernet chip |
4/28/2003 |
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Power over Ethernet is an emerging standard that allows both direct current (DC) power and data to be delivered over a standard Ethernet cable. This would free various devices that use Ethernet connectivity from requiring a separate power supply.
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| Semi equipment outlook positive |
4/28/2003 |
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Sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment will rise slowly until the fourth quarter and then accelerate as more companies start to outfit 300mm wafer fabs and transition to 90-nanometer process technology.
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| Mosaid gets royalty on their DRAM technology |
4/28/2003 |
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"This agreement is an important achievement for Mosaid since Winbond Electronics is our first running royalty term licensee, as well as the first Taiwanese company to license our patents,"
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| UMC strengthening design capability |
4/25/2003 |
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This means the company may no longer be able to accept certain new IC designers that may be competing with its existing clients. It is part of UMC's strategy to invest in IC design houses in Taiwan and overseas to secure orders.
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| IDC projects Hyper Transport to take hold |
4/25/2003 |
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Vernon Turner, IDC group vice president, said the 2003 projections are based on actual parts counts ot items shipped and silicon starts and products already committed to production by the end of 2002.
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| Samsung to upgrade Austin plant to 90nm |
4/25/2003 |
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First opened in 1998, the Samsung Austin DRAM fab will be updated from 130-nm technology to 90-nm design rules, with a 40,000 sq. ft. addition to the existing clean room. The facility upgrade will start next month.
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| Combining ASIC with FPGA on a die |
4/25/2003 |
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The technology would let Samsung's ASIC customers design a single device that could be used across multiple product lines. Samsung may also design its own standard products in this way, officials said.
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| ST profit improved |
4/25/2003 |
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The Geneva-based company said it earned $79 million, or 9 cents per share, in the quarter ended March 29, up 140% from $33 million, or 4 cents a share in the first quarter of 2002.
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