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| Infineon opens Suzhou memory backend |
9/28/2004 |
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Infineon, is the second-largest chip maker in Europe has scheduled investment totaling US$1 billion in the new test-and-assembly plant, and volume production will start in the first quarter of 2005, with a maximum capacity of one billion chips per year and employ more than 1,000 people.
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| Micro Tune developes HDTV tuner for Toshiba |
9/28/2004 |
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Based on Microtune's MicroTuner MT2111 single-chip tuner, Toshiba's module is a ready-to-manufacture RF-to-video subsystem that complies with U.S. digital TV standards, including the DCR regulations of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for digital cable-ready TVs.
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| SMIC opens Beijing 300mm plant |
9/28/2004 |
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SMIC said pilot production began in July. The fab will initially produce high-density DRAMs using 0.11- and 0.10-micron process technology, according to an SMIC statement.
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| Power PC goes dual-core |
9/28/2004 |
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Freescale said. The MPC8641D device integrates two e600 PowerPC cores with each processor able to operate at a clock frequency of 1.5-GHz. There are two 1-Mbyte level-two caches and dual AltiVec(TM) vector processing engines.
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| Industrial sales show mixed picture |
9/28/2004 |
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But August sales results were mixed last month for electronics. Computer and semiconductor shipments were still restrained by sluggish Asian export sales while telecom equipment shipments soared.
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| Philips put 300mm fab on hold |
9/27/2004 |
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CEO of Philips Semiconductors, told investors and financial analysts today it would delay building a new 300mm fab until market conditions improve and its business could sustain it.
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| Innovative Silicon hires executive from MoSys |
9/27/2004 |
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The company is developing a dense semiconductor memory based on work carried out at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL) by Fazan and Serguei Okhonin.
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| IDC see continue PC growth |
9/27/2004 |
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Commercial growth has led IDC to increase projections for total 2004 shipment growth from a June estimate of 13.5 percent to a current projection of 14.2 percent.
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| ProMos to use Hynix stack-cap technology |
9/27/2004 |
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Under the proposed agreement, ProMOS would license Hynix's stacked capacitor DRAM technology to enter that market. In turn, Hynix would utilize the foundry services of ProMOS.
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| Intel CEO to retire |
9/27/2004 |
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Paul Otellini, Intel's president and chief operating officer, is expected to replace Barrett.
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| Philips cut Q3 outlook |
9/24/2004 |
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Philips Electronics lowered its Q3 semiconductor division outlook during a meeting with investors and financial analysts.
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| BMW unveiled faster hydrogen car |
9/24/2004 |
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BMW unveiled the world's fastest hydrogen-powered car at the Paris auto show on Wednesdaye. H2R, the name of the car, is capable of exceeding 300 kilometers (185 miles) per hour.
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| Cirrus Logic cut sales outlook |
9/24/2004 |
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Cirrus Logic cut its revenue outlook for the quarter to $51 - $52 million, down from previous forecast of $61-to-$68 million.
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| Intel enhances Celeron chipset |
9/23/2004 |
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Intel announced that its Celeron D processor 340 and 910GL Express chip set will support advanced features like PCI Express, Intel High Definition Audio and the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900.
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| Cisco to setup research center in China |
9/23/2004 |
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Cisco Systems will set up its first research center in the China. "China will become the IT center of the world," Chambers told a Beijing news conference Thursday.
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| Infineon licensed Axon's memory technology |
9/22/2004 |
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Infineon Technologies has licensed Axon Technologies Corp.'s Programmable Metallization Cell (PMC) nonvolatile memory technology, said Axon in a statement. Micron Technology is the other licensee.
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| Sun to win back financial industry firms |
9/22/2004 |
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Sun is laying out work to win back some of its former financial-industry customers with its a new line of servers with cutting-edge technology that are as cheap and powerful as the Linux-based servers.
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| Hynix accused of accounting fraud in 1999 |
9/22/2004 |
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Hynix Semiconductor is alleged to have committed an accounting miss-statement of nearly 2 trillion won (about US$1.74 billion) back in 1999, according to the Korean Times and other Internet reports.
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| Sales for fabless companies grew in Q2 |
9/21/2004 |
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Revenues for public fabless companies grew 44 percent year over year to a total of $8.3 billion in second quarter of 2004, the Fabless Semiconductor Association (FSA) said.
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