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| VIA continue to see losses |
5/5/2003 |
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VIA Technologies announced Q1 results showing an $18.6 million loss, down from Q4 2002's $20.4 million loss
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| Mosel and Hynix dumping DDR in the Far East |
5/2/2003 |
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Mosel Vitelic Inc. that controls Taiwan's second-largest chipmaker ProMOS Technologies Inc., has been selling the chips for as little as US$2.30 while the spot price of a benchmark of 256 megabit double-data rate chip fell 4.7 percent to US$3.05.
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| China solicits anti-SARS technology |
5/2/2003 |
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China is working directly with the “National SARS Task Force of China” to locate technologies and products that could be used to treat, prevent or control the spread of SARS.
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| Celestica closing Dublin manufacturing |
5/2/2003 |
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The company blamed the continued downturn in the telecoms sector as the reason for the plant's closure, which made PCBs for mobile phones and networking devices. The company said it plans to move production to other facilities overseas.
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| SARS effect being felt in business |
5/1/2003 |
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37 percent of those polled, said that they have suspended new investments or expansions in their manufacturing and marketing operations on China. Ironically, most of the companies took the survey said SARS have not affected their major operations.
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| Applied Materials get new CEO from Intel |
5/1/2003 |
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The executive reorganization caught analysts by surprise, even though the company has undergone a period of restructuring, including layoffs, as it suffers from uninspiring financial results in the downturn.
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| Rambus case starts at FTC anti-trust hearing |
5/1/2003 |
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At the opening day of an FTC antitrust hearing here, the two sides squared off over whether Rambus was required to disclose pending synchronous memory interface patent applications to the JEDEC industry panel when Rambus sat on a JEDEC subcommittee to define an open SDRAM standard.
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| UMC business down but expect recovery in 2Q |
5/1/2003 |
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"We are expecting second quarter wafer shipments to increase by more than 20%. Demand for PCs would represent the biggest portion of the growth, followed by consumer and communications products.
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| TI chips to be used in China base stations |
5/1/2003 |
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TD-SCDMA is being developed as a third generation (3G) mobile communications standard for deployment in China. The Siemens 3G-based basestations are already in field trials in China and deployments with Chinese operators are expected to start at the end of 2003, TI said.
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| Asia's largest PC events, postponed |
5/1/2003 |
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Taipei Computer Association (TCA) and the China External Trade Development Council (CETRA), made the decision to postpone Computex and have not announced a new date for the event.
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| Computex postponed due to SARS |
4/30/2003 |
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The organizers have decided to postpone COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2003 to the last half of 2003. The exact days of the new schedule will be announced by the end of May.
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| Tokyo Electronic cut 1000 jobs |
4/30/2003 |
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TEL expects the semiconductor and semiconductor manufacturing equipment industries to continue to grow over the mid- to long-term, while seeing normal silicon cycle fluctuations. However, the company said there is a "global shakeout among the contenders."
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| Infineon transitions into 0.11 micron DRAM |
4/30/2003 |
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The resultant smaller chips lead to a production cost advantage per chip of around 30 percent compared to Infineon's current volume process technology, according to the company.
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| EX-Intel employee charged with Al Qaeda link |
4/30/2003 |
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Federal prosecutors on Monday (April 28) charged a former Intel Corp. engineer with allegedly conspiring to aid Al Qaeda and the Taliban, as part of a move to “levy war” against the United States
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| Court to start again on Rambus vs Memory Industry |
4/30/2003 |
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FTC lawyers will argue that Rambus (Los Altos, Calif.) violated U.S. antitrust laws “by deliberately engaging in a pattern of anticompetitive acts and practices that served to deceive an industry-wide standard-setting organization,” the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (Jedec).
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