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| Chip equipment October sales fell |
12/16/2002 |
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Global sales of chipmaking equipment fell 13.0 percent in October from the month before to $2.03 billion, a research firm reported. The decline means the timing for the tech market rebound that everyone is hoping of remains largely unclear.
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| Printer sales in Japan declined |
12/16/2002 |
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Printer sales in Japan decline for sixth consecutive quarter, Gartner Japan¡¦s Dataquest division reported. The report cited the continued weakness in printer demand in Japan is due to weak corporate IT spending.
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| Toshiba in talks with Sony and Fujitsu to build 12" fab |
12/16/2002 |
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Toshiba is reportedly in talks with Fujitsu and Sony in a joint investment to build a 12-inch fab in Ooita. On the other hand, Toshiba has confirmed plans to invest 350 billion yen over four years to build two 12-inch fabs, one making system LSIs and the other memory chips.
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| AMD restructures memory group |
12/16/2002 |
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AMD said its memory group will be rearranged into two new business units: one will focus on selling flash memory for embedded and wireless products while the other will aim at emerging markets such as the auto industry.
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| AMD signs channel partner in Taiwan |
12/13/2002 |
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Uppertech, a leading semiconductor channel distributor in Taiwan, will begin receiving AMD flash memory shipments in Q1 next year to distribute to makers of 3C (as consumer, computing and communications) devices.
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| TSMC denies rumor on China Fab roadblock |
12/13/2002 |
“We have not slowed our plans for investment in China,” said Chuck Byers, TSMC’s director of worldwide brand management. “We’re still waiting for final approval from the [Taiwanese] government.”
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| Infineon chief threaten to relocate company |
12/13/2002 |
"We cannot accept that we pay twice as much tax as the competition. Whatever is necessary [to alleviate this] we will do. Would we go somewhere else? It's not something we would do lightly," Schumacher said.
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| Samsung becomes world 2nd largest semi supplier |
12/13/2002 |
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Among the top players, Samsung was the major winner in 2002, with its sales growing by nearly 50% to $9.2 billion and its ranking jumping from the number four to the number two spot in iSuppli's list.
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| Samsung breaks through with single chip color driver |
12/13/2002 |
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The single chip integrates the gate and source drivers with a power core and 418Kbit graphic memory core. The 1.8V operation and power-saving mode enables longer battery life for mobile applications.
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| Taiwan goverment delays TSMC China fab application |
12/12/2002 |
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Ministry of Economic Affairs spokesman, Berton Chiu said: "We must wait until the information is complete before opening the approval meeting." The economic ministry is currently consulting opinions from other ministries, and asking TSMC to provide supplementary information.
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| UMC enhance technology partnership with Micronas |
12/12/2002 |
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The two companies met at Micronas' operational headquarters in Freiburg, Germany, where Micronas' CEO Wolfgang Kalsbach and UMC's chairman Robert Tsao are said to have discussed a wide range of topics to enhance the partnership.
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| Sprint to integrate operations, cut staff |
12/12/2002 |
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The reductions will affect the company's information technology, network, billing and accounts receivable departments and will impact engineers, said a spokeswoman at Sprint's headquarters.
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| Sanmina forms medical division in Israel |
12/12/2002 |
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The new site will become part of Sanmina-SCI's newly formed Medical Systems Division. The Ma'a lot plant makes complex medical systems and other high-end industrial products.
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| Power consumption might void Moore's Law |
12/12/2002 |
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While high-k dielectrics and clever circuit design may help keep the industry on its traditional curve of doubling device densities every two to three years, those solutions are likely to run out of steam by the end of this decade.
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| Looking for your year end bonus ? |
12/11/2002 |
On average, Taiwan companies from all industries will give out an average of 1.3-months extra pay as year-end bonuses before Chinese New Year on February 1, the poll found.
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| Andy Grove talks about economy and technology |
12/11/2002 |
Grove pointed to a 6 percent unemployment rate, possible war in Iraq and economic meltdown in South America as potentially destabilizing factors to the economic health of the industry at large.
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| Hynix announce 500MHz graphic DDR chip |
12/11/2002 |
Hynix vice president of worldwide marketing, said the high speed DDR-I graphics chip will provide high performance at a 10% cost advantage over DDR-II graphics units.
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| New start foundry names COO |
12/11/2002 |
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Brunner was most recently general manager of Siemens' Electronic Manufacturing Center in Vienna, Austria.
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| TSMC provides advanced product design libraries |
12/10/2002 |
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The new library program provides both third party and TSMC-developed libraries, which are tuned for a variety of process technologies including TSMC's most advanced NexsysSM 90 nanometer process for system-on-chip (SoC) design.
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| China to sign technology agreement with US |
12/10/2002 |
The agreement symbolizes growing research and commercial ties between Chinese government agencies and U.S. companies and universities. Chinese officials have forged research deals with several universities on technology research, including the University of Maryland.
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| Infineon breaks up with ProMos |
12/10/2002 |
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Infineon said Tuesday that it will stop buying DRAM chips from ProMOS as of January 1, 2003, and will not transfer any more technology to the venture beyond .11 micron.
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| Micron introduce 'Q-Flash', conpatible to 'StrataFlash' |
12/10/2002 |
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"As a drop-in replacement, this non-volatile memory device provides networking and communications customers with an efficient, alternative source, requiring no additional software or hardware changes to an application's design," said Jerry Johnson of Micron.
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