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| AT&T Wireless set to embrace Wi-Fi network |
1/28/2003 |
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AT&T Wireless said Tuesday that it would work with a privately-held Wi-Fi network provider to give its customers wireless online access to some 485 places in the United States.
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| Intel will cut chips prices |
1/28/2003 |
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Intel has planned to cut prices for desktop Pentium 4 chips by late February, according to sources. The last of such cut was in November.
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| Venture fund rises in Silicon Valley |
1/28/2003 |
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Venture capital investments in U.S. start-ups in the fourth quarter fell to their worst level in five years with the exception in Silicon Valley.
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| Apple cuts prices of its PCs |
1/28/2003 |
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Apple Computer Inc. said Tuesday it will cut prices on its high-end Power Mac line PCs and on its flat-panel display monitors to boost sales.
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| NextWave takes back its wireless spectrum |
1/27/2003 |
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of bankrupt wireless company NextWave Telecom, and ordered the Federal Communications Commission to return wireless spectrum licenses worth $4.7 billion that NextWave won in a 1996 auction.
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| Broadcom chief resigns |
1/27/2003 |
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Henry Nicholas III, a founder and CEO at Broadcom Corp., has resigned. He is taking time off to deal with "serious family matters," according to a quote attributed to him in a company statement.
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| Taiwan to hold global summit to attract foreign investments |
1/24/2003 |
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Earlier this week, the ministry said they will hold global investment summit in October, the ministry will focus on potential investors in Japan, Europe, and the United States. Trade delegations will also be sent to these areas to hold investment seminars.
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| ProMos to go ahead with 300mm fabs |
1/24/2003 |
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The joint DRAM venture between Infineon and Mosel Vitelic Inc. returned to profitability in Q4 2002 with net profit of $17.3 million (600 million Taiwanese dollars) and has big plans for 2003, including the completion of a second 12-inch wafer fab, according to a Dow Jones report today.
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| TI to extend Micro-Mirror technology into optical networks |
1/24/2003 |
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Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN) will make a series of announcements concerning optical signal processing applications of the Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) - the unique semiconductor at the heart of TI's market leading DLP(TM) projection/display technology.
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| Production starts at Motorola Tianjin China fab |
1/24/2003 |
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The MOS17 fab itself was officially announced in the summer of 2000 after years of planning. The facility is part of a planned $1.9 billion manufacturing complex that will include a fab and a systems assembly plant.
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| TI sales strong on new DSP for 2.5G |
1/24/2003 |
The company announced it has shipped its first chip made using a 90nm manufacturing process, a digital baseband device for the 2.5G cellular handset market.
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| Avnet see stronger revenue from computer sales |
1/24/2003 |
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Avnet Inc., Phoenix, today reported that second quarter fiscal 2003 revenues increased from the prior sequential quarter, and the company returned to profitability before special charges.
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| Intel discloses detail on reconfigurable radio architecture |
1/23/2003 |
Rather than relying on programmable logic, Intel researcher Jeffrey Schiffer said Monday (Jan. 20) that the company's architecture will use a heterogeneous array of processors. Schiffer said the individual processors will be of intermediate complexity, between an FPGA and a modest CPU.
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| Via announce security features on new processor |
1/23/2003 |
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Via represents the latest processor vendor to incorporate security features in its products. Transmeta Corp. recently rolled out the Crusoe TM5800 processor line--equipped with new and advanced security features.
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| Government boost spending to help IT industry |
1/23/2003 |
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The Office of Management and Budget said it would increase government spending for computers, network equipment and other information technology by $6.5 billion during the fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1, 2003.
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| AMD hangs on in the market share game |
1/23/2003 |
AMD's share jumped from 13.6% in terms of units for the third quarter of 2002, to 17% in the fourth quarter of last year, according to the firm. Its revenue share jumped from 5.2% in Q3 of 2002, to 7.5% in Q4.
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| Flashing record business at Sandisk |
1/23/2003 |
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Product revenues were $158.7 million, up 20% sequentially. Retail sales increased 35% and represented 69% of product sales, while OEM/Industrial sales declined 4% relative to the prior quarter.
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| Motorola raise capex for much needed capacity |
1/23/2003 |
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Motorola Inc. executives addressing a conference call today said that the company's semiconductor products sector (SPS) would increase capital expenditure by more than 50% from the 2002 figure to spend $350 million in 2003.
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| TSMC gets Taiwan government resolution on China Fab investment |
1/23/2003 |
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"We've in principle approved TSMC's plan to invest in a wafer plant in China," the minister told reporters in Taipei following a meeting with other government officials. "A final authorization will be given by the Executive Yuan," or the cabinet.
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| Equipment book-to-bill near 1:1 December |
1/22/2003 |
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The ratio of orders to shipments reached 0.98 in December 2002, according to Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI). SEMI today released its December book-to-bill numbers, a three-month rolling average of orders and shipments for North American tool vendors.
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