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| Judge to keep Rambus case in California Court |
2/14/2005 |
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Rambus Inc. scored a victory in its antitrust case against several DRAM suppliers Monday (Feb. 14), with the California appellate court upholding a trial court decision to continue case litigation in the California Superior Court in San Francisco.
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| Cypress exits MRAM market |
2/14/2005 |
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"Based on our latest calculations at Cypress, we no longer believe that the 1T-1MTJ MRAM technology will be able to successfully attack the SRAM market, leaving MRAM as a niche technology with higher bit pricing than that of SRAM."
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| Texas Instruments to ramp up 90-nm DSP Device |
2/14/2005 |
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At the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) here, Texas Instruments Inc. disclosed that it will shortly begin sampling its first 65-nm devices amid an aggressive ramp on the 90-nm front
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| HP to unveil AMD powered Blade Server |
2/11/2005 |
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Hewlett-Packard plans to unveil on Monday its first blade servers using Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor, as well as a more conventional server and a workstation that use the new chip.
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| IBM to ship low-end Unix Server |
2/10/2005 |
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IBM announced this week that it will be offering two new low-end Unix servers, running on its 64-bit Power5 processor.
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| HP searching for New CEO |
2/9/2005 |
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Carly Fiorina is out at Hewlett-Packard and Robert Wayman has been named interim CEO. Patricia Dunn was tapped as nonexecutive chairman
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| Microsoft buy anti-virus company |
2/9/2005 |
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Microsoft announced plans to acquire a company whose software aims to protect corporate networks from e-mail borne threats and said it would sell a product based on the technology.
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| Intel to ship Dual-Core Processor |
2/8/2005 |
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Intel said it has completed initial production runs of its forthcoming dual-core processors, and is on track to begin shipping them to market next quarter
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| Toshiba Launch Memory Interface Standard Group |
2/7/2005 |
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A group of leading semiconductor companies, led by Spansion and ARM, today launched the Platform Independent Storage Module (Pismo) advisory council, an industry organization focused on streamlining system-level memory validation and test
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| Infineon Invests US$1B in Malaysian Fab |
2/7/2005 |
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Infineon will invest US$1 billion to set up a wafer fab at Kulim Hi-Tech Park for power and logic semiconductors used in automotive and industrial power applications
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| RoHS information urgent as lead-free deadline gets near |
2/4/2005 |
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Using regional seminars, detailed Web-based lead-free information and databases containing composition data on electronic parts, distributors are trying to avert serious supply chain problems that may occur if manufacturers don’t quickly switch over to RoHS-compliant parts.
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| Taiwan: a major player on VOIP |
2/4/2005 |
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During the second half of 2004, sales for enterprise gear climbed 53 percent. But that was definitively outpaced by VoIP phones going into the home market, which saw gains of 199 percent over the first half of last year.
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| Excessive 200mm capacity might upset market |
2/4/2005 |
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"While 300-mm 90-nm capacity should ultimately offer a better cost advantage and extendibility down to 65-nm and below, this 200-mm capacity may serve as overflow capacity once leading edge chip demand becomes robust enough to fill up 300-mm fabs."
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| Elpida bets on Ovonyx memories |
2/4/2005 |
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"Elpida plans to utilize Ovonyx' phase-change technology to further explore the development of new DRAM features that will provide the high performance and low current consumption required for next-generation mobile applications,"
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