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| Nokia to reduce some staff |
2/13/2003 |
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The infrastructure arm of Nokia plans to reduce the number of R&D sites and centralize work into larger entities within the organization to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
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| Intel to compete in TI's sweet spot |
2/13/2003 |
The XScale-based PXA800F runs at 312MHz with 4Mbytes of integrated Intel On-Chip Flash memory and 512Kbytes of SRAM. In addition, the GSM/GPRS networks-aimed technology includes a 104MHz signal processor using Intel's MicroSignal architecture with integrated On-Chip Flash and SRAM.
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| New package plant opened in China |
2/13/2003 |
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The facility will be operated by Sawtek Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of TriQuint Semiconductor, to provide assembly, test, mark, tape and reel support for TriQuint's products that serve the worldwide cell phone market.
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| Progress reported in FRAM production |
2/13/2003 |
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The 32Mbit FRAM is made on 0.2-micron processing, which provides a 1.875 square micron cell size on a 96mm2 die. Toshiba claimed this is half the die size of other FRAMs with the same size cell.
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| Chartered to shut older fabs |
2/13/2003 |
"In order for us to have room to grow we have to resize capacity of older technologies," said Chia Song Hwee, president. "We are reducing mature capacity in order to make room for growth in 0.18- and 0.13-micron."
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| BenQ and Philips formed optical JV |
2/12/2003 |
"This joint venture concludes the series of measures taken to bring Optical Storage back to profitability and will position us well for continued participation in the data segment in a profitable way and further strengthen the successful DVD+RW platform in the future."
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| Applied Material : "Unknown Outlook hurts equipment market" |
2/12/2003 |
Chipmakers are reluctant to sign purchase orders these days. "The number of orders I have that are missed is mind boggling," said Bronson. "We don’t' see them going to competitors," Morgan added. "We just don't know if they are going to come in or not."
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| January good to foundry business |
2/12/2003 |
Following the upbeat announcement of UMC on increased business yesterday, TSMC announced that its sales for the month saw a 15.8 percent sequential increase, which company CFO Harvey Chang attributed to advanced sales for the Chinese New Year.
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| China to be key player in Semi Industry |
2/12/2003 |
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"No other country has such gigantic unused potential in terms of both demand and engineering capacity, executives said. "China is developing into a key player," Dunn, Doug Dunn, president and chief executive of the Dutch equipment producer ASML
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| Designers combine 802.11 and Bluetooth |
2/12/2003 |
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Both designs included RF transmit and receive sections, clock generation and filtering. Both require an external power amplifier for 802.11b, and both require an external digital baseband chip with A/D converters. Both chips also exploit the convenient fact that the center frequency for 802.11b is 2.4 GHz, the same as that for Bluetooth.
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| Samsung breaks through on Magnetoresistance RAM |
2/12/2003 |
“The most serious problem is the resistance variations but this can be handled with a self-reference sensing scheme, said Gitae Jeong, Samsung's lead researcher on the approach.
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| Low capex on passive may cause future shortage |
2/12/2003 |
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"A lot of these companies will continue to pull in expenses and manage with what they have," said Herve Francois, an analyst at CS First Boston, New York. "I don't see any of these companies rushing to expand capital expenditures to facilitate meaningful revenue growth."
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| Taiwan government to approve TSMC China plan |
2/11/2003 |
TSMC vows to comply with the government's regulations on the movement of individuals talented in the fields of high tech in the country while recruiting staff for its China plant.
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| New low cost Altera chip hits market |
2/11/2003 |
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Cyclone devices are Altera's low-cost FPGAs with densities ranging from 2,910 to 20,060 logic elements, and up to 288Kbits of embedded memory. They are based on a 1.5V, all-copper SRAM process.
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| UMC increased revenue |
2/11/2003 |
Revenues of $156 million (5.4 billion Taiwanese dollars) outshined January 2002's $115 million (4 billion TWD).
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| VLSI Research looks at semi manufacturing equipment trend |
2/11/2003 |
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The market will grow even more in Q2, despite a weak market for equipment, according to the San Jose based market research company. Critical subsystems will grow 26 percent next quarter over the current one, VLSI said.
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| Intel goes for dual-core processor |
2/11/2003 |
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The microprocessor giant disclosed the development of a new "arbiter" bus technology designed to manage two or more processor cores in the same IC package.
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| Rat race between Rambus and DDR memory |
2/11/2003 |
The ongoing contest between DDR and RDRAM will result in a horse race in which each architecture is expected at various points to claim the title of the industry's highest-performing memory.
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| AMD introduces new Barton processor |
2/11/2003 |
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AMD claimed that the new MPU is the highest-performance desktop PC processor in the industry, a point Intel Corp. immediately disputed. The top Intel desktop Pentium 4 runs at 3.06GHz with 512Mbye on-die L2 cache.
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| Court battle goes on between Promos and Infineon |
2/11/2003 |
Promos Technologies Inc. said Tuesday (February 11, 2003) that a Taiwan court has granted it the right to use process technology from Infineon Technologies AG for making DRAM chips.
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| U.K. feeling pinch on electronic manufacturing |
2/10/2003 |
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U.K. manufacturers are facing their worst recession since the early 1990s, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. The government figures indicate that factory output fell by 4 percent last year, representing the largest annual slump since 1991.
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