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| TSMC meets 1Q revenue |
3/7/2003 |
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TSMC raised its forecast for the first quarter of 2003, while also indicating it will see monthly sequential increases in the second quarter of this year
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| Intel 1Q sales revenue on track |
3/7/2003 |
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Intel reported that its first-quarter sales are on track with expectations, a potentially good sign for the PC business
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| IBM launched Fab consulting servicee |
3/6/2003 |
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IBM has unveiled an engineering services business for Europe, the Middle East and Africa intended to sell contract design and other services based on the company's chip design and manufacturing expertise
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| Cypress to cut 150 more jobs |
3/5/2003 |
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Cypress Semiconductor said it is cutting an additional 150 workers from its payroll, even as it expects Q1 revenues to be slightly higher than its previous guidance
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| Hynix finds new CEO |
3/5/2003 |
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Hynix named Eui-jei Woo as chairman and sole chief executive, to head up a restructuring of the Korean chipmaker
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| Celestica closes Oklahoma factory |
3/3/2003 |
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Celestica will lay off 450 employees when it closes an Oklahoma City manufacturing plant that was leased from Lucent two years ago
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| Hynix to open 300mm Fab |
3/3/2003 |
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Hynix Semiconductor plans to open a 300mm-wafer pilot line in the fourth quarter of this year
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| Analyst see light in Semi Market |
2/28/2003 |
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"While DRAM prices and geopolitical and macro risk cloud near-term visibility, we come away from the conference feeling incrementally more positive that the industry is headed in the right direction in 2003 and that investors with a six to nine month investment horizon will be rewarded for being early in the stocks," Goldman Sachs
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| Nintendo to use Matrix 3D RAM |
2/28/2003 |
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As an alternative memory for mask ROM on the Game Boy platform, 3D memory will have to compete less expensive memories such as P2ROM supplied by Oki Electric Co., Ltd.
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| Hynix's executive team to resign |
2/28/2003 |
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Hynix Semiconductor Inc. (Seoul, South Korea) said Thursday (Feb. 27) that all its senior executives, some 50 in number, had offered to resign, following shareholder approval of a bailout plan for the financially strapped DRAM maker.
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| Infineon denies rumor on reconciliation |
2/28/2003 |
Infineon spokesman today told the press in Munich that "nothing has changed" in the firm's intention to sell all of its ProMOS stock and to quit the joint venture. He reiterated that the German firm is continuing to dispose of its entire 28% stake in ProMOS.
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| Hi-tech looks to Asia for funding |
2/27/2003 |
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Silicon Valley transpacific investment experts will discuss "how U.S. entrepreneurs can fight the domestic funding crunch by accessing investment from Asia,"
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