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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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| 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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