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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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| TI partners with Silicon Logic designs |
1/22/2003 |
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The partnership will allow TI to change from a "middle-of-the-road ASIC supplier" in terms of technology to one that can pursue designs for advanced switchers, routers and network processors.
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| Intel's entry into Wi-Fi mobile platform positive for industry |
1/22/2003 |
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Intel's size will only serve to heighten the market's promise. Most based their reactions on the company's lack of an established track record in the WLAN space and said that questions remain on how far-reaching a product Intel will initially offer.
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| UMC increases stake at SIS |
1/22/2003 |
UMC, the world's No.2 pure-play foundry service provider, said that it bought 14 million global deposit receipts (GDRs) issued by SiS late last week, boosting UMC's stake in Hsinchu-based SiS to nearly 15%.
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| Infineon narrows loss for year |
1/22/2003 |
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While seeing improvements in several segments of its operations, especially the key DRAM sector, the German semiconductor company believes the best it can still hope for through the first half of 2003 is stable demand since several market segments remain weak and susceptible to continued pricing pressures.
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| Motorola reports improved profit |
1/22/2003 |
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The entire company reversed its year-ago fourth quarter loss, reporting net income of $174 million, or 8 cents a share for the latest quarter compared with a net loss of $1.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2001.
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| Infineon and UMC stays on while AMD departs |
1/21/2003 |
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Last year, AMD and UMC entered an agreement to build a 50:50 joint-venture 300-mm wafer fab called Au Pte Ltd. in Singapore. AMD's departure will have no significant impact on the progress of the Infineon-UMC development partnership.
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| TSMC taps Vanguard for LCD driver capacity |
1/21/2003 |
VIS predicts that logic ICs will grow to more than 50% of its overall sales while DRAM's share of its total sales falls. TSMC is a major VIS shareholder, holding a 25.28% stake.
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| Health of the PC market |
1/21/2003 |
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On an annual basis worldwide shipments of PC were up 1.5 percent, following a decline of 4.2 percent in 2001, IDC reported.
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| Abit motherboard adds security chip |
1/21/2003 |
Experts in the field say this is only the beginning of a big push to offload security onto a separate processor, and the number of players that have swelled into this market will consolidate as the market matures over the next few years.
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| Aruba says Wi-Fi is ready for Enterprise |
1/21/2003 |
Aruba's hardware and software combination effectively "locks" the enterprise air space and provides self-calibrating, self-healing capabilities, along with load-sharing and mobile IPSec firewalling at gigabit data rates.
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| Micron get it's feet into TCAM Network memory |
1/21/2003 |
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Micron and NetLogic are taking a different approach with the development of their Glueless TCAM (GLTCAM) product line. Under the development agreement, the companies will cross-license internally developed technologies to produce a TCAM that both companies can market to their customers.
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| NEC confirms new president |
1/21/2003 |
NEC Corp. on Monday named Akinobu Kanasugi as its new president, succeeding Koji Nishigaki who was appointed vice chairman of the board.
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| Taiwan officials to discuss Microsoft settlements |
1/20/2003 |
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Officials said on Thursday that Microsoft Taiwan had received the settlement proposals returned by the committee last Friday. The FTC also attached its major requests concerning adjustments to the prices of Microsoft software products, the protection of consumers' interests, after-sales service and the lifting of restrictions on competition
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| ATI under security trading probe |
1/20/2003 |
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The OSC launched an investigation of a number of trades in Markham, Ontario-based ATI stock made just prior to a May 2000 profit warning. That announcement of a profit shortfall caused the company stock to drop 24 percent.
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| New SOI wafer plant springs up in Shanghai |
1/20/2003 |
Shanghai Simgui has begun shipping SOI wafers to local and foreign customers within its new plant in Shanghai. The company's wafers are based on the SIMOX technology from SOI pioneer Ibis Technology Corp. of the United States.
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| Altera marching onto 0.9 micron FPGA |
1/20/2003 |
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Altera officials said 90-nm process technology is so different from 0.13 micron that it makes more sense to create another architecture from scratch than to migrate existing products to the new design rules.
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| Intel exits 3rd party chip design services |
1/20/2003 |
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The microelectronics unit operated as a fabless ASIC supplier, designing chips for startups and small companies and helping them get access to major semiconductor foundries. The venture was intended to enable new applications.
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| Rambus slammed with FTC 's Antitrust suit |
1/17/2003 |
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is asking a federal judge for an immediate antitrust ruling against Rambus, accusing the technology company of destroying evidence
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