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| Samsung strike deal with AT&T wireless on handsets |
8/18/2003 |
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Samsung Electronics, the world's No. 3 maker of wireless telephones, striked a deal to provide mobile phone handsets to AT&T wireless. AT&T Wireless customers can use the new phone to access high-speed data services, imaging, text messaging and wireless Web services.
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| Gartner raised 2003 chips sales |
8/18/2003 |
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Gartner Inc. raised its predictions for the 2003 semiconductor market amid a strong second quarter reported by many chips companies. The market research firm has up the 2003 worldwide semiconductor growth estimate to 11.2 percent or $173 billions from previous prediction of 8.3 percent or 168 billions.
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| Hitachi outsource its hard drive production to China |
8/18/2003 |
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose, has outsouced and signed a deal with Great Wall Technology Ltd., a high-technology enterprise group based in Shenzhen, China, to manufacture the hard disk drive.
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| Sony upgrades memory stick |
8/18/2003 |
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Sony released a new version of its Memory Stick Duo card, called the Memory Stick Pro Duo with a capacity of up to 512MB, up from a maximum of 128MB in the previous version. It will theoretically be able to transfer data at a rate of up to 20 megabytes per second under optimal conditions, according to Sony.
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| China governments must buy local software |
8/18/2003 |
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Aimed at breaking the dominance of Microsoft on desktop computers, a new policy from China's governing body states that all government ministries must buy only locally produced software at the next upgrade cycle, according to a news source.
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| Stolen processor turns up in Taiwan |
8/15/2003 |
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Intel Corp. exported the batch of 50,000 CPUs worth more than US$10 million from New York to London in July. The customer in UK went Heathrow Airport to claim the Intel's CPUs and later found that the whole batch of CPUs was stolen.
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| Positive news for the PC market |
8/15/2003 |
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Gartner today forecasted worldwide PC shipments to reach 39.8 million units in the current quarter of 2003, a 9.6 percent increase over Q3 2002. Gartner further projects PC shipments to reach 161.3 million units in 2003, an 8.9 percent increase from 2002.
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| Koreans advanced in DRAM market position |
8/15/2003 |
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While Samsung's quarterly DRAM sales moving from $1.12 billion to $1.155 billion, sales values slipped back at Micron Technology Inc. and Infineon Technologies AG. Hynix increased sales markedly from $476 million in the first quarter to $510 million
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| XBOX switched to ATI for new design |
8/15/2003 |
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The deal is something of a surprise given that ATI's chief rival, Nvidia Corp., has provided the graphics processor for the Xbox since Microsoft first entered the gaming market as an OEM several years ago.
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| Internet worm runs wild |
8/14/2003 |
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MSBlast is designed to launch a denial-of-service attack, specifically a Syn Flood, against Microsoft's Windowsupdate.com Web site on Aug. 16. Computers infected by Blaster scan the Internet looking for other machines running Windows that have an open security hole.
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| "b" to be replaced by "g" |
8/14/2003 |
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802.11b is on its way out, making room for 802.11g, according to a research report today.
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| Nvidia and Cirrus Logic settles graphics engine IP |
8/14/2003 |
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The companies said all outstanding claims and counterclaims in the lawsuit between Cirrus and Nvidia will be dismissed. Cirrus said its patent infringement claims against ATI remain pending.
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| Rambus/Infineon case heading for Supreme Court |
8/14/2003 |
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In June, Infineon Technologies A.G. filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn an appellate court ruling absolving Rambus Inc. of fraud for failing to disclose pending SDRAM patents to the JECEC Solid State Technology Association panel while the body was drafting an industry SDRAM standard.
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| AVL to validate DDR400 DIMMs for VIA |
8/14/2003 |
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Via Technologies Inc. has joined with Advanced Validation Labs (AVL), Fountain Valley, Calif., which will conduct a validation program of DDR400 memory modules with Via chipsets.
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| A city's push towards information technology |
8/13/2003 |
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The city has given every Taipei resident a free e-mail account as well as a chance to take part in a free three-hour Internet training session. Some 220,000 residents have signed up for them so far.
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| LovSan bug runs wild |
8/13/2003 |
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Message inside the host code said “Billy Gates why do you make this possible? Stop making money and fix your software!”
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| Applied Material report orders up |
8/13/2003 |
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Although the results disappointed analysts, orders were up $1.05 billion, or 9 percent, from $971 million in the second quarter. The total was down, however, 41 percent from $1.78 billion for the third quarter of 2002.
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| Efficeon, a new twist from Transmeta |
8/12/2003 |
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Transmeta Corp. today christened its TM8000 microprocessor with the brand name Efficeon. While recent months have seen Transmeta make a concerted push into the embedded space, Efficeon¡¯s main focus promises to be on ultra-low power and ultra-portable notebooks.
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| Low cost wireless chip has big promises |
8/12/2003 |
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By stripping out the higher-layer networking support and complexity of Bluetooth, ZigBee, 27-MHz and 900-MHz wireless technologies, Cypress keeps the current draw of its WirelessUSB LS radio in sleep mode below 1 microamp and its price at about $2, with plans to cut it to $1 quickly.
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| Use of white LED drives circuit innovations |
8/12/2003 |
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Although white LED drivers have been available for several years, demand has soared in the past year as new mobile phones and PDAs are produced with color rather than monochrome displays.
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