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| Powerchip to increase NAND supply to Renesas |
5/19/2005 |
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Powerchip Semiconductor said it will allocate more than 10% of its capacity at its first 12-inch wafer fab by this June to produce NAND flash for Renesas Technology.
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| NAND Flash overtaking NOR flash in revenue |
5/19/2005 |
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The total sales of NAND flash memory was roughly equivalent to that of NOR-type flash in the first quarter of 2005, according to market research company iSuppli Corp.
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| New MS office in 2006 |
5/19/2005 |
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Microsoft said it will launch the next version of its Office spreadsheet, e-mail and word processing programs during the second half of 2006.
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| Intel 915 platform PCs drop below US$500 |
5/18/2005 |
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Prices for PC components supporting Intel’s 915 platform and LGA775 Pentium 4 CPUs, including motherboards, PCI Express (PCIe) graphics cards and DDR2 memory modules, have fallen by up to 30% in the Asia Pacific region
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| ST Micro to cut 3000 jobs |
5/16/2005 |
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ST Microelectronics set to cut 3,000 jobs outside Asia by the middle of next year to cut cost.
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| Sony, Toshiba attempt to unify DVD format |
5/16/2005 |
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The presidents of Sony Corp., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and Toshiba Corp. will meet as early as this week to try come out with an agreement on a unified format for next-generation DVD technology, a source close to the matter said.
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| Sony introduces PS3 |
5/16/2005 |
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Sony unveiled new PlayStation 3 video game console. PS3's new processor technology, called Cell, will offer high performance for movie-like realism in games, high-definition movies and other features.
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| IBM staff in China leaving Lenovo |
5/16/2005 |
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Lenovo has recently faced challenge in a surge of employee leaving from the former IBM unit in China, according to sources at IT companies.
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| Infineon opens Asia Pacific headquarters building in Singapore |
5/13/2005 |
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Infineon's presence in Singapore started in 1970 and has grown to a total staff of approximately 2,350. The Munich, Germany-based company has invested a total of $603 million (1 billion Singapore dollars) since its establishment in the region.
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| Transmeta shows result of restructuring |
5/13/2005 |
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"Our first quarter results reflect some of the modifications that we made to our product business model, and we would expect to realize the full financial benefits of our previously announced restructuring over the coming quarters,"
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| Xbox to go Triple-Core Power PC |
5/13/2005 |
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A three-core IBM PowerPC-based CPU delivers more than one teraflop of system floating-point performance for artificial intelligence and physics processing, while a custom ATI graphics processor and more than 512MBytes of memory provide visual fidelity.
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| Injunction issued on Renesas Microprocessors |
5/13/2005 |
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The order, issued by U.S. District Court Judge Owen Panner, prohibits Hitachi Ltd. and Renesas from selling or importing into the U.S. 18 different microprocessors found in Renesas' SH-3 and SH-4 product families.
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| War of the standards with China |
5/13/2005 |
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China attempted last year to establish a wireless standard known as the Wireless Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure. The WAPI security scheme would have required U.S. companies to manufacture two sets of chips, one for the Chinese market and another for the rest of the world.
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| China is catching up in IC deisgn |
5/12/2005 |
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The survey shows that Taiwan IC design houses lead in design capacity while Korean IC design houses lead in design complexity, Global Sources said. It also shows that China is not far behind either of those regions in design activities.
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| SIS invest in Vxis for video chip technology |
5/12/2005 |
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SiS (Taipei, Taiwan) and Vxis (Hsinchu, Taiwan) will work together to develop and market a wide range of chips for video home appliances and consumer products. The two companies will share intellectual-property (IP) to develop new devices.
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