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| DRAM price pressure up in slow sales |
7/3/2003 |
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In the absence of confirmed deals, the new levels were considered notional, however, market participants remain optimistic that price levels will hold.
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| ChipMos to restructure: moved CEO to ProMos |
7/3/2003 |
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The ChipMOS board still hasn't voted on the new chairman to replace Hu, Cheng said. Mosel vice president Thomas Chang said the company held a board meeting on Friday and decided to cut some jobs and transfer employees to ProMOS.
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| VIA denies rumor to sell CPU division |
7/3/2003 |
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“We think it should breakeven this year so it's still a sustainable business,” said Richard Brown, Via's head of marketing. “It would be insane to get out now just when business is improving.”
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| Industry to feel semi shortage by 2004 |
7/3/2003 |
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There's more good and bad news for an industry that expects the worst. "We're entering into a huge upgrade cycle," he said. "What we're seeing are huge shortages coming. I think we could see shortages in early 2004".
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| Intel extends 800FSB license to ATI |
7/3/2003 |
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Dave Orton, president and chief operating officer of ATI, said the agreement would allow ATI to integrate a version of its Radeon graphics processor architecture with its peripheral logic chipsets for Pentium4 based systems that use the FSB-800 interface.
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| Is it real demand? |
7/3/2003 |
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iSupply tallied the overall component surplus at just $300 million at the end of March, down from $1.2 billion at the end of 2002, but only because severely depleted inventory in other segments of the supply chain offset suppliers' bloated levels.
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| Free Trade signed between Hong Kong and China |
7/2/2003 |
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Beijing, will eliminate import tariffs on many goods made in the territory and is expected to save its exporters billions of Hong Kong dollars. 273 kinds of Hong-Kong origin goods would enjoy zero tariffs in the China market and thousands more products will enjoy zero tariffs in 2006.
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| Movement to electronic ID card seen |
7/2/2003 |
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Using a Java-based smart card technology with a contact interface as its prototype, the Belgian national ID card "will be tested over the next six months," After an evaluation period, Brussels will decide how to expand the program. The goal is to distribute ID cards nationwide within three to five years.
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| Companies are taking holiday week off |
7/2/2003 |
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"Synopsys chose to do a shutdown during a slower time of year as a prudent cost-saving measure. The shutdown should save the company several million dollars."
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| Samsung, after Intel, announces MCP RAM |
7/2/2003 |
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The Mobile DDR and NAND memory chips operate at 1.8V. MCP, which is sampling now, supports deep power-down mode, programmable driver strength, and partial array/self-refresh in mobile phones.
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| Network DRAM dead on stale birth |
7/2/2003 |
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In meetings last month, Cisco managers decided to cancel well defined plans for a Cisco Network DRAM (CNRAM) and opt instead for standardizing on a mix of SDRAM, Fast Cycle DRAM and Reduced Latency DRAM for its systems.
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| Powerchip to build second 300mm fab |
7/1/2003 |
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Construction would start in November, with the equipment scheduled to arrive in early 2005 and mass production to start in the Q2 2005.
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| The great migration to 300mm has started |
7/1/2003 |
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The researcher reports the semiconductor industry saw five additional advanced technology fabs begin operation since January, bringing the total number of 300mm fabs to 22. Additionally, there are eight more 300mm fabs gearing up to come online before year-end.
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| New chip includes VoIP into ADSL gateway |
7/1/2003 |
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"By overlaying voice on a broadband access network using DSL as the transport, these new devices enable Internet service providers to offer consumers low-cost, multi-port voice services in addition to data services over a single copper wire connection,"
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| AMD lost some position to competition |
7/1/2003 |
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AMD is now forecast to post losses for the next few quarters and it may be forced to borrow from investors to boost its cash position, analysts said.
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| AMD expands Opteron variety |
7/1/2003 |
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AMD expanded its Opteron 64-bit server line to include for the first time processors for four-to-eight way servers, as well as a low-end uniprocessor family for workstations and one-way servers.
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| Samsung license Rambus Yellowstone memory interface |
7/1/2003 |
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Some industry analysts believe Samsung is aiming to develop a new memory chip using the Yellowstone interface for the next generation Sony game console. Sony itself has licensed Yellowstone from Rambus. Toshiba Corp. and Elpida memory Inc. are also Yellowstone licensees.
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| iSupply: Verdict on Semi recovery is not out yet |
6/30/2003 |
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Q1 show an increase of 9.6 percent, with two thirds of the 72 companies being tracked achieving positive growth. But on a sequential basis, comparing Q4 2002 with Q1 2003, revenues show a market decline of 5.8 percent, with only 40 percent of companies tracked posting growth.
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| Work Group formed to unify digital home |
6/30/2003 |
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In several years, the guidelines will evolve to incorporate emerging or subsequent versions of existing standards to cover wider areas such as home controls and communications.
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| Multi-level Flash advanced |
6/30/2003 |
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The industrywide shift to MLC flash is intended to provide a cost-effective way to bump up density to support high-end features. For NOR flash suppliers, the move is crucial to head off encroachment by less expensive, higher-density NAND flash.
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| Semi sales rebounded and on track |
6/30/2003 |
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"As SARS and the geopolitical issues come under control, we expect to see demand in all geographic sectors, especially China, strengthen in the second half of the year,"
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| Intel boosts Celeron to 2.6GHz |
6/27/2003 |
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Intel released two new Celeron processors that will run at 2.5GHz and 2.6GHz, adding to the current processor line-up that aims at the low-cost, budget end of desktop PCs. Previously, the fastest Celeron was a 2.4GHz processor.
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