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| Philips to sell shares in TSMC |
3/9/2007 |
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TSMC said Friday that Philips plans to sell TSMC shares it owns to help it make an orderly exit from its current $8.5 billion stake in the Taiwan company.
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| External HDD shipments soaring |
3/8/2007 |
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Global shipments of hard-disk drives rose 15.5% last year, as suppliers managed to overcome price wars, component shortages, and competitive upheavals, a market research firm said.
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| IM Flash continues its expansion plan |
3/8/2007 |
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IM Flash Technologies LLC, the NAND joint-venture between Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc., will push ahead with aggressive capacity expansion plans, the head of Intel's flash memory group said.
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| Dell goes "green" |
3/8/2007 |
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Dell is now the only computer maker to offer consumers free recycling, whether or not they are buying a new Dell product. You can go to a Dell website, and print out a prepaid shipping label to return your Dell desktop, laptop, printer or ink cartridge, free of charge. They'll send a service to pick the equipment up.
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| DRAM contract prices trend downward |
3/7/2007 |
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DRAM contract prices continues to fall another 10% in early March. Industry watchers generally attribute the fall as a sign of declining demand among PC OEMs.
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| Dell considers offer Linux |
3/7/2007 |
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Dell is considering offering the Linux operating system as an alternative to Microsoft's Windows on its personal computers, a Dell spokesman said.
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| TSMC unveils 65-nm embedded DRAM |
3/6/2007 |
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TSMC unveils the first embedded DRAM based on 65-nanometer process for Nvidia Corp. to be used in its latest mobile GPU, the foundry said.
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| Sluggish start for FPGA, DRAM sales |
3/5/2007 |
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The IC industry has started off poorly in 2007, as demand for analog, DRAMs, FPGAs, NAND flash and other products have been weak thus far, according to a report from Gartner Inc.
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| Upgrade your Xbox memory |
3/5/2007 |
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Microsoft Corp. announced plans to launch a 512MB Memory Unit for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system
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| AMD to miss first quarter earnings |
3/5/2007 |
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AMD said Monday that it is unlikely to meet its previously estimated revenue guidance of $1.6 to $1.7 billion for the first quarter.
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| Carl Icahn to acquire more shares on Motorola |
3/2/2007 |
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In January Icahn, whose wide-ranging investments include Blockbuster Inc., Imclone, Time Warner Inc., and several Las Vegas casinos, launched a campaign for a position in Motorola's board of directors. Motorola is continuing to review the nomination.
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| Consumer demand on chips results in good January |
3/2/2007 |
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Diesen said that Chinese exports of technology-based goods improved in January, after a slowdown in December. Meanwhile sales of the Sony Playstation3 have been disappointing while the Nintendo Wii has exceeded expectations. However, the Wii is less chip intensive.
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| Solar world to expand Hillsborough plant |
3/2/2007 |
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Solarworld plans to move its solar wafer production from Vancouver to Hillsboro. In addition, the company intends to double the manufacturing capacity of its Camarillo, Calif. plant to 100 MW.
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| Lenovo recalls notebook battery |
3/1/2007 |
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The commission said Lenovo Inc. is recalling about 100,000 lithium-ion extended-life batteries after it received four reports of batteries overheating and damaging the notebook, causing minor property damage and in one case, minor eye irritation.
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| AMD 690 graphic chipset integrated with ATI graphics |
3/1/2007 |
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“As a result of the ATI merger, AMD is delivering innovative platforms for the commercial and consumer markets featuring best of breed performance, visual computing experience, energy efficiency and stability.”
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| AMD discloses upcoming quartcore performance |
3/1/2007 |
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Advanced Micro Devices upcoming Barcelona processor will sport floating-point performance 42 percent higher than Intel's current top-of-the line CPU, the Xeon X5355 also known as Clovertown.
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| Gamer marathoned to his death |
3/1/2007 |
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The 150-kg (330-pound) man from Jinzhou, in Liaoning province, collapsed on Saturday, the last day of the holiday, after spending "almost all" of the seven-day break playing online games
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