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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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| Adobe announced good quarter |
3/14/2003 |
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Adobe Systems reported sales and profit growth for its fiscal first quarter with strong sales in its Photoshop publishing and Acrobat eletronic document making software.
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| Sandisk updates flash card line |
3/14/2003 |
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SanDisk is adding more capacity to its CompactFlash cards and introducing a smaller versions of the Secure Digital card format.
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| Worldwide PC shipment drops |
3/14/2003 |
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The long awaited growth for PCs in 2003 could be weaker than expected mainly due to declines in spending by the public sector, according to IDC research firm.
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| Philips plans for semiconductor recovery |
3/13/2003 |
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To return its semiconductor division to profitability by the fourth quarter of 2003, Philips Electronics plans to close a fab and focus on its core business.
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| Toshiba released 2Gbit flash NAND flash |
3/13/2003 |
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Toshiba unveiled a 2Gbit NAND flash memory, double the density of the firm's current NAND chip, with volume production expected to start in June.
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| Flash sales hit $7.7 billion in 2002 |
3/12/2003 |
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The flash memory market topped $7.77 billion in 2002 with NOR-flash and NAND-flash market valued at $5.58 billion and $2.25 billion respectively, according to market research firm Semico Research Corp.
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| Cell phone prices to drop |
3/12/2003 |
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Motorola said it expects the average price of a cell phone to drop about 5 percent in 2003 amid higher than normal inventories worldwide, said an executive of Motorola.
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| Laptop makers release products with Centrino chip |
3/12/2003 |
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PC makers began to announce their notebooks in Japan on Tuesday evening, a day before Intel's formal introduction of the Pentium-M and Centrino chips in New York, according to a report.
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| Intel's exec said outlook unclear |
3/12/2003 |
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Intel Corp. CEO Craig Barrett said Wednesday that the business outlook remains unclear due to the pending war in middle east.
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| DDR spot price up since late February |
3/11/2003 |
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DDR spot prices for 256Mbit memory have increased by 23.2% since late February to reach US3.45 today from an average of US$2.80 on February 27, according to a DRAM trade firm.
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| Flash card gross margin improves |
3/11/2003 |
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Strong demand and sliding prices for NAND flash memory chips could help flash mamory card makers to reach the gross margin rates of 30% in the near future, according to a press.
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| ServerWorks chipsets in shortage |
3/11/2003 |
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ServerWorks said it had a problem producing its Grand Champion chipset for two-processor servers in adequate volumes to meet demand. The problem has been fixed, but supplies likely will be tight for the month.
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| UMC delivers strong results |
3/10/2003 |
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United Microelectronics Corp. is experiencing a upbeat first quarter with likely double digit increase in revenue for the three months ending March, according to the latest sales figures from the company.
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| Storage market grew in Q4 |
3/10/2003 |
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Storage sales grew 12% sequentially in the fourth quarter with IBM and HP taking the lead, IDC reported. Storage sales totaled $5.4 billion in Q4 2002, dropped 15% over 2001.
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| Toshiba, Intel in wireless alliance |
3/10/2003 |
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Toshiba and Intel launches a campaign that aims to push the adoption of high-speed wireless access to the Internet in the public locations public locations like airports, coffee shops, hotels and convenience stores.
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