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| HP posted great profit and revenue |
8/17/2007 |
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Described by chairman and CEO Mark Hurd as the company's "best revenue growth since 2000."
the Palo Alto, Calif., company said net income rose 29 percent and revenue strengthened 16 percent in its fiscal third quarter ended July 31, on a surge in software revenue, and healthy demand for computers, especially notebooks.
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| Does VOIP has the reliability we needed? |
8/17/2007 |
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In general, VoIP is considered to be more unreliable than the Public Switched Telephone Network since it relies on data connections to transmit voice. Subscribers take a chance when they sign up for VoIP services, but it's up to the providers to address issues as quickly as possible or ideally to eliminate them altogether.
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| China, not the ideal environment for every manufacturer |
8/17/2007 |
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Universal Instruments' foray into China hasn’t been a total disappointment, however. It has had success in managing an R&D innovation center in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, which provides technical supports to its customers. Sales offices in Beijing and Shanghai also worked well to provide pre-sales and post-sales technical services.
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| Xbox 360 to use TSMC embedded DRAM process |
8/16/2007 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) today announced that Microsoft Corp. has started production of its Xbox 360 graphics-memory subsystem using TSMC's 90-nm embedded DRAM (eDRAM) process.
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| Fab utilization up high |
8/16/2007 |
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The utilisation rate was 89.7 percent in the quarter, up from 87.5 percent in January-March, the Semiconductor International Capacity Statistics (SICAS) group said on Thursday.
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| AMD yet to confirm NY fab |
8/16/2007 |
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AMD "has until July 2009 to decide whether to proceed with the project. After that, $1.2 billion in state incentives will expire,".
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| Sony selects Singapore for new battery plant |
8/16/2007 |
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Sony said in a statement that the facility, which is due to begin operations in August 2008, will employ about 500 people and produce up to 8 million lithium-ion polymer batteries a month.
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| Fujitsu to offer 2 lbs Lifebook |
8/15/2007 |
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"Basically, anything that can be done on laptop can be done on this," said Moore. "We really view it as a PDA replacement. It's much more robust, much more mobile and much more powerful."
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| Dell missed some back-to-school color |
8/15/2007 |
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Dell failed to deliver about 500-600 units of its newly launched color Inspiron notebooks to Taiwan-based retailer Tsann Kuen early this month as originally scheduled
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| DRAM prices resume down trend |
8/15/2007 |
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In the DRAM spot market today, prices declined sharply amid sluggish trading. For the mainstream 512Mb(64M*8)667/533MHz, prices dropped to USD2.12/2.07.
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| Hynix bets on SOI DRAM |
8/14/2007 |
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Hynix Semiconductor has licensed SOI (silicon-on-insulator) DRAM cell technology from startup Innovative Silicon. The move is startling both because it puts a massive company firmly in Innovative's camp and because Hynix intends to use the technology for a new generation of bulk DRAM chips.
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| AMD to impliment speed up algorithm |
8/14/2007 |
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"This will give AMD some advantage over Intel, but I doubt it would be as much as the 64-bit extensions did," said Nathan Brookwood, principal with market watcher Insight64 (Saratoga, Calif.) "It will take awhile for this to show up in processors," he added.
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| Electronics stocks hurted as market falls |
8/13/2007 |
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As of early afternoon Friday, the Fed's injections into the market seem to have made a relatively positive effect on Wall Street. As of 12:30 p.m. ET, the Dow was at 13,216.62, about 54 points below Thursday's closing price. The NASDAQ stood at 2,543.22, down one-half of a percentage point from Thursday's close.
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| WiMax 700MHz getting to heat up |
8/13/2007 |
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For its part, Intel began sampling last week prototypes of its Echo Peak chip set, a module that supports both 802.11n and WiMax. The module will be part of Intel's Montevina notebook platform that ships in late 2008.
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| Vietnam, the next manufacturing frontier? |
8/13/2007 |
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Rick Howarth, general manager of Intel Products Vietnam, told press that construction on the company's 500,000-square-foot facility in the Saigon Hi-Tech Park would begin in December, and was targeted for completion by mid-2009.
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| Nextest quarterly revenue down substantially |
8/10/2007 |
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NAND flash ATE maker Nextest Systems Corp. said revenue for the quarter ended June 30, was $13.78 million, down 35 percent from the March 2007 quarter revenue of $21.2 million and down 47 percent from the June 2006 quarter revenue of $26.1 billion.
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| AMD to restructure debt, tap extra fund |
8/10/2007 |
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AMD said today it will restructure some of its roughly $5 billion debt, floating $1.5 billion in convertible notes to repay a loan it had with Morgan Stanley.
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