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| JEDEX Conference - April 18-19 SanJose CA |
3/22/2006 |
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JEDEX, the leading venue for education and up-to-the-minute information on the trends and technical direction of the memory industry, is being held this year at the Marriott San Jose in San Jose, CA on April 18-19.
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| Rambus riding on positive notes |
3/22/2006 |
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The company raised its range to $45 million to $48 million from previous expectation of $41 million to $43 million for the quarter ending March 31.
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| Opposition surfaces on Micron's Lexar acquisition |
3/22/2006 |
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“Elliott is extremely displeased by the current Micron transaction, in which Lexar shareholders are to receive 0.5625 Micron Technology shares per each company share, as we strongly believe this transaction significantly undervalues Lexar,”
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| Motherboard shipment down, cast shadow on Q2 |
3/21/2006 |
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MB makers should take more cautious measures on their product deployment and sales forecast for 2Q06 as the AMD/Intel platform transition and the lead-free regulations that effective in 3Q, should jointly step brakes on rapid shipment growth, especially when 2Q is the traditional low season.
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| Power efficient design conference in Dallas |
3/21/2006 |
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This week in Dallas companies that have made their livelihood from improving the power efficiency of chips and electronic systems are gathering to show off their latest innovations at the Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC)
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| Samsung to supply 32GB NAND Flash drive |
3/21/2006 |
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Samsung (Seoul) also sells hard disk drives, but the company is aggressively developing NAND-based solid-state storage devices as a potential replacement for traditional storage, especially in MP3 players and hard drives.
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| H1-B workers badly needed |
3/21/2006 |
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Congress is considering increasing the annual H-1B visa cap by at least 50,000 without strengthening safeguards to protect foreign and domestic technology workers.
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| Transmeta did design for Sony and Microsoft |
3/21/2006 |
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“We intend to continue to seek additional strategic alliance opportunities and related agreements with these or other parties to provide engineering services that leverage our microprocessor design and development capabilities,”
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| IBM licensed Rambus XDR for Cell system usage |
3/20/2006 |
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"This agreement with Rambus is part of IBM's continued focus on our Cell BE-based chipsets in support of our goal of developing an array of leading edge computing products based on the revolutionary Cell BE architecture,"
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| SMIC selects Aviza termal processing system |
3/20/2006 |
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The RVP-550 vertical thermal processor for 300mm batch wafer processing is designed for process capability and production requirements through the 65nm node and beyond. The tool offers enhanced throughput as a result of its dual-boat platform.
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| U.S. to help Chinese in understanding semi IP's |
3/20/2006 |
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Even though there is deep dissatisfaction among many U.S. businesses about China’s track record, many semiconductor executives believe the benefits of engagement outweigh the risks of IP abuse. “The Chinese mainland will not go on ignoring IP protection,”
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| Fujitsu signed Rambus system license |
3/20/2006 |
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Semiconductor IP company Rambus Inc. has signed a patent license agreement with Fujitsu Ltd., covering the manufacture and sale of systems and semiconductors worldwide.
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| Lenovo to cut 1000 jobs |
3/17/2006 |
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Lenovo said it’s undergoing a restructuring that calls for the layoff of 1,000 employees and corporate operations to be moved from Purchase, N.Y., to Raleigh, N.C.
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