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| Flat panel TV taking hold |
9/2/2003 |
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TECO is expected to ship about 100,000 flat-screen televisions this year with shipments expected to jump to 710,000 sets next year.
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| Wi-Fi chip price dropping |
9/2/2003 |
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Average selling prices for Wi-Fi chips will be slashed in half to $8 this year, $4 next year, and as little as $2 in 2006, predicted Sky Dayton, chief executive of Boingo Wireless Inc.
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| Intel invested another $23M in Elpida |
9/2/2003 |
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Elpida plans to use the $23 million to accelerate production of DRAMs, such as DDR2 SDRAM products. Additional details were not disclosed.
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| 10.5% increase in semiconductor sales |
9/2/2003 |
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“July’s sales reflect the continued strengthening of the semiconductor market and we believe that we will exceed our forecasted sequential growth of 5.9 percent for the third quarter,” George Scalise, SIA's president, said in a statement.
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| Chartered completed deal with Chinese partner |
9/1/2003 |
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Under the terms of the deal Chartered will provide 6-inch chip-making equipment and manufacturing process technology. It will receive cash and an equity stake in CSMC-Tech in return.
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| Intel to boost cache using 90nm process |
9/1/2003 |
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Prescott is a significant upgrade over current Pentium 4 microprocessors, doubling the on-die L2 cache to 1Mbyte with an expected 3.4GHz frequency. Intel has said Prescott will have improved pre-fetch branch prediction for improved performance.
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| SMIC to equip its new Beijing fab soon |
9/1/2003 |
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SMIC "may generate tool orders in excess of $1 billion for its Fab 4 facility being build in Beijing," Vassily added. In March, SMIC said it may move in manufacturing equipment for its previously announced 300-mm wafer pilot line at its Beijing plant by the end of this year or early 2004.
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| Flat panel gets attention at Berlin show |
9/1/2003 |
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"The transition most obvious to consumers today is not digital TV but flat-screen TVs," said Peter Rost, marketing director of digital TV at Micronas GmbH
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| VIA Technologies posts NT$1.1 billion Q2 loss |
8/29/2003 |
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VIA Technologies the world's second-largest maker of chipsets for personal computers, had a third straight quarterly loss after costs rose and competition with Intel and other rivals eroded its market share
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| Intel's mobile technology flourishes |
8/29/2003 |
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Intel Centrino mobile technology is becoming a fundamental platform in the new generation of notebook computers, and is helping notebooks to overtake the popularity of desktop computers.
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| Intel to open R & D center in Korea |
8/29/2003 |
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Intel said it plans to open an R&D center in South Korea by the end of 2003 to focus on technologies and standards for the digital home and wireless communications
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| SGI cut 600 jobs |
8/28/2003 |
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Silicon Graphics announce further cut of 600 jobs in an attempt to reduce expenses
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| Infineon ship 1Gbit DDR chip |
8/27/2003 |
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Infineon said that it has shipped first samples of its 1-Gbit Double Data Rate (DDR) Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) using the industry's smallest die area.
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| U.S investment firm to buy stake in Hynix |
8/27/2003 |
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Korea Exchange Bank the main bank involved in Hynix Semiconductor's investment tangle, is about to see its majority stake sold to U.S. investment fund Lone Star before the end of this week
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| Intel to build US$200m facility in China |
8/27/2003 |
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In a boost to China's economy Intel will begin construction next year on a US$200 million chip testing-and-assembly facility in the western Sichuan province
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