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| Al Gore elected into Apple board |
3/20/2003 |
Al Gore has joined Apple Computer's board of directors, the computer maker said Wednesday (March 19). Steve Jobs called Gore an “avid Mac user.”
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| Cadence bailing out of OrCAD? |
3/20/2003 |
Coupled with a downsizing earlier this year of OrCAD's staff, the move has opened the door for competitors to claim that Cadence is abandoning or neglecting the shrink wrapped PCB tools market.
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| Micron samples highest density DIMM |
3/20/2003 |
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Micron said the 4Gbyte DIMM was delivered to Intel Corp. for system development, with validation testing of the module to follow. The part is sampling now and production is expected in Q4 '03.
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| ProMos claims legal right to use Infineon technology |
3/20/2003 |
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Late last year, Munich-based Infineon cut ties with ProMos, a joint venture with Mosel Vitelic Inc. of Taiwan. Infineon has terminated its DRAM procurement contracts, begun divesting itself of ProMos stocks, and ended its agreement to license the 0.11 micron process technology.
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| Taiwan to offer lowest cost notebook |
3/19/2003 |
The notebook, equipped with Transmeta’s Crusoe CPU, will command the lowest price in the market to date, sources said. Unlike ECS’s DeskNote mobile PCs, the low-price notebook will come with a battery.
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| China SMIC to build 300mm Fab in Beijing |
3/19/2003 |
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., one of China’s two native foundries, is building a 0.13-micron fab outside of Beijing that sources say could produce 300mm wafers.
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| NextFlash to produce at Winbond fab |
3/19/2003 |
NexFlash, which is partially owned by Winbond and has a memory partnership in place with Sharp Corp., will introduce a new line of serial flash memories in the second half of the year to be manufactured at Winbond's fab.
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| SEMI book-to-bill on the bounce |
3/19/2003 |
"While the bookings outlook appears sluggish, over 20 new fabs are expected to begin production in the next two years."
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| Sluggish demand force ProMos to cut CAPEX |
3/19/2003 |
"Global DRAM supply has been reduced this year because of the weak economy, so the problem right now is whether demand will pick up," said Albert Lin. "It seems that a recovery in demand won't come soon."
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| A new outlook on Asia Semi Design Industry |
3/18/2003 |
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China still provides the biggest opportunity in the short-term, but the overall electronics market is robust in India and Singapore and is expected to rebound in Japan over the next few years.
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| Germany tighten IT staff immigration laws |
3/18/2003 |
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Germany will suspend the issuance of green cards for IT professionals beginning July 31. The German government began issuing 20,000 green cards a year in August 2000 to speed the processing of visa applications.
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| SiS to supply Wi-Fi chip |
3/18/2003 |
The SiS160 is a media access controller (MAC) chip that conforms to the 802.11b standard.
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| Infineon annonce DDR2 chip samples |
3/18/2003 |
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Infineon's DDR2 memory will be available in speeds of 400Mbit/s, 533Mbit/s and 633Mbit/s. The chips are made with Infineon's 0.11-micron process technology, and come in x4, x8 and x16 configurations.
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| AMD trys to shake identity as "Intel's Competitor" |
3/18/2003 |
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Later this month, AMD will put the finishing touches on a two-tiered distribution model, in pilot mode the past two quarters, that puts Avnet Inc. at the top of the pyramid as the master distributor of the Duron and other AMD microprocessor lines.
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| Memory makers to scale back |
3/17/2003 |
The spot price of a benchmark 256MB memory chip fell to US$3.27 yesterday from a 12-month peak of US$8.88 on Nov. 4. Still, ProMOS plans to increase output by as much as 65 percent this year.
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| Electronic Industry invested cautiously in China |
3/17/2003 |
Most companies have opened sales offices, and some have even opened manufacturing plants. But the market still has yet to achieve the kind of critical mass necessary to lead companies to increase their commitment to the market.
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| Chartered admit lack of fund for expansion |
3/17/2003 |
A lack of funds for investment could see the company falling further behind and lose credibility as a foundry supplier. The company is looking for partners to help it equip a 300-mm wafer fab.
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| Intel's Centrino prices itself out of the market? |
3/17/2003 |
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WR Hambrecht believes that Intel has missed the mark with the product. "Expensive pricing of Intel's Centrino should slow Intel's WLAN penetration in 2003 as enterprise spending remains tepid,"
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| Chartered to cut back capital expenditure for lack of fund |
3/14/2003 |
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Chartered said a lack of funds for investment could lead the company to fall behind new production plant and lose credibility as a foundry supplier. The company is looking for partners to help it equip a 300-mm wafer fab.
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