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| Motorola to Slash 4000 More Jobs |
5/31/2007 |
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Motorola Inc. said it's shrinking of an additional 4,000 jobs,with the expectation to reduce costs to return to profit. Thus it brings the total of cut-down-job number to 7,500 this year.
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| SMA Predicts Capital Spending Cut in Semi-Industry |
5/30/2007 |
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SMA (Strategic Marketing Associates ) has cut its capital spending forecast for 2007 by 50 percent.The firm previously forecast capital spending this year to increase by 10 percent to almost $60 billion; however, it is now forecasting only five percent growth and warning that growth could dip to zero.
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| Samsung Bumps up Storage Capacity in 3G Phones |
5/30/2007 |
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With a four gigabyte multi-chip package,Samsung Electronics is cranking up the storage capacity in 3G mobile phones. It is said that this multi-chip package will prompt some phone makers to design out external memory card slots.
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| NEC Employees in Kickback,Fake Order Scandal |
5/30/2007 |
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As Tax investigators looking into NEC Corp. have found that employees placed fake orders and took kickbacks, compounding the problems at a company long dogged by accounting troubles,this Japanese electronics maker now possibly faces a Nasdaq delisting.
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| UTAC see continue oversupply in DRAM |
5/29/2007 |
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Tsai said DRAM oversupply will not see any improvement before 2008. Given that the current price of DRAM has exceeded production costs.
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| Accidental Death of Altera CEO Rodney Smith |
5/29/2007 |
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Rodney Smith, was killed Friday in a bicycle accident in Menlo Park. As a sports-car loving executive he built a startup programmable-logic company called Altera into an industry powerhouse and retired four years ago as chairman and CEO of the FPGA company.
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| Bad Year Comes to Contract Chip Makers |
5/29/2007 |
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Contract chip makers will have a tough time this year, as analysts lower revenue projections for contract chip makers to 5.1 percent, market researcher Gartner Inc. said Monday.
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| Fujitsu unviels WiMax chip for cellphone |
5/25/2007 |
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Fujitsu Microelectronics America Inc., one of the first suppliers of a fixed WiMax transceiver chip, showed its first samples of the MB86K21 mobile WiMax chip at the Interop conference here.
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| Dell to push PC sales through Wal-Mart |
5/25/2007 |
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Dell plans to start selling personal computers at 3,000 Wal-Mart stores in the United States and Canada as of June 10, launching a major drive to sell its PCs through retailers, a company spokesman said.
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| Dell offers PC with Linux |
5/24/2007 |
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Dell Inc. said it is launching three computer systems with the open-source Linux operating system.
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| NEC unveils system-on-glass LCD |
5/24/2007 |
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NEC Corp. and its NEC LCD Technologies unit have developed a system-on-glass display that integrates on a substrate a 230-Kbit DRAM frame memory along with display transistors and peripheral circuits.
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| UMC setup R&D site in Tainan |
5/23/2007 |
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United Microelectronics Corp. open a new R&D center in Southern Taiwan that will focus on 45-nanometer and below process technologies.
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| Lenovo reports a profit for its US operation |
5/23/2007 |
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Lenovo said its U.S. business turned a profit in its fiscal fourth quarter after 3 quarter of losses. The company said its notebook shipments up 29 percent year over year.
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| Microsoft, Sandisk develop advanced USB drive |
5/22/2007 |
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Sandisk announced it has teamed up with Microsoft Corp. to deliver a next-generation software and hardware solution to place application programs and personal customization on USB flash drives and flash memory cards.
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| Intel, ST establish new flash company |
5/22/2007 |
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Intel and ST Micro along with investment firm Francisco Partners, announced plans for a new independent flash company that will see key assets from the companies.
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| Motorola awarded patent for solar-power cell phone |
5/22/2007 |
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Motorola has been awarded a patent for technology the company says will make it possible to recharge the battery of mobile phones through solar cells embedded within the liquid crystal display.
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