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Friday, March 12, 2010

Industry News

National Semi reports strong sales up 5%	3/12/2010
National Semiconductor reported sales of $362 million in the quarter, up 5 percent from $345 million in the previous quarter and up 24 percent from $292 million reported in last year's third fiscal quarter.

Samsung researching High-K dielectric for semiconductor chips	3/12/2010
Samsung Electronics is reportedly exploring an alternative in high-k dielectrics: It is looking at gate-last technology

GlobalFoundries to spend $2.5 Billion in 300mm Fab	3/12/2010
GlobalFoundries Inc. is planning to spend $2.5 billion to increase its 300-mm wafer manufacturing capacity by 50 percent in 2010

Rambus wins patent suit against Nvidia	3/11/2010
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office upheld Rambus's patent-infringement case against Nvidia.

GlobalFoundries to start 22nm process at Dresden Fab	3/11/2010
GlobalFoundries Inc is starting work to help develop 22-nm CMOS process and will run the process in volume.

SMIC to cut 10% of work-force	3/11/2010
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Company (SMIC), China's top foundry chipmaker, plans to downsize 10% of its workforce in a move to accelerate its progress towards profitability.

Microsoft search engine market share up 11.5%	3/10/2010
Microsoft Bing continued to gain market share, growing to 11.5 percent of the U.S. search market in February, up from 11.3 percent in January.

Winbond to raise price on NOR Flash	3/10/2010
Winbond Electronics is looking to raise prices for NOR flash memory by 5% to reflect tight capacity according to industry sources

Taiwan motherboard makers see weak February shipment	3/10/2010
Taiwan first-tier motherboard makers Asustek Computer, Pegatron Technology, Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI) have all seen on-month drops in their February 2010 revenues.

Cisco unveils new CRS-3 routers	3/10/2010
Cisco Systems announced its next generation core router which can route 100 Gbit/second streams an throughput of up to 322 Terabits/second.

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