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| Sony 's quarterly profit plunge 98% |
7/25/2003 |
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Sony reported its net profit in the June quarter plunged 98 percent from last year to Japanese Yen 1.1 billion (US$9.3 million) as global demand for electronics faltered
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| Hynix loses trade ruling |
7/25/2003 |
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Hynix Semiconductor Inc, faces tariffs of as much as 45 percent after the U.S ITC found that exports from the South Korean company are injuring American competitors
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| ITC upholds ruling on Hynix dumping |
7/24/2003 |
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The U.S. International Trade Commission on Wednesday (July 23)upholds the June ruling by Commerce, which imposed a 44.71 percent duty against all Hynix DRAM imported into the United States.
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| Motorola fallen on ranking |
7/24/2003 |
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Motorola has been a fixture in the listing of top 10 semiconductor suppliers ever since the ranking was first compiled, but the U.S. company has recently fallen on hard times amid the current and severe IC downturn.
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| Not so good business even for connectors |
7/24/2003 |
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Molex Inc. reported a net income of $2.0 million, or 1 cent per share, on sales of $476.1 million in its fourth 2003 fiscal quarter ended June, compared to a net income of $27.3 million, or 14 cents per share, on sales of $456.3 million in the year-ago.
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| 1st Silicon license embedded Flash from SST |
7/24/2003 |
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"We selected SST's SuperFlash technology because of its high reliability, logic compatibility and low-cost structure," said John Nelson, chief executive of 1st Silicon, Kuching, Malaysia.
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| IDC said Asian PC market up 12% in quarter |
7/23/2003 |
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IDC expects the second half of 2003 to be slightly softer than initially anticipated. The global economic still in the roller coaster ride, there is no sign of clear recovery.
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| Transmeta added LPC flash driver on TM8000 |
7/23/2003 |
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Transmeta's recently-introduced TM8000 processor will incorporate low-pin-count (LPC) flash devices from Sharp Microelectronics Inc. and STMicroelectronics Inc.
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| Mobile graphics standard in the forming |
7/23/2003 |
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The group is poised to ratify as early as Wednesday (July 23) version 1.0 of its OpenGL Embedded Systems (ES) standard that members hope will see widespread use in cellular phones.
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| Better days ahead for equipment manufacturers |
7/22/2003 |
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While the overall ratio of equipment bookings and billings was 0.93, the book-to-bill ratio of backend assembly and test equipment was 1.19. North American suppliers received orders of $209.5 million according to the three-month rolling average.
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| Revenues grew at Sanmina-SCI |
7/22/2003 |
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Revenues were up slightly from the $2.6 billion in revenue it posted in the year ago period, but losses grew year over year. Sanmina-SCI Corp. today reported that it generated $2.7 billion in revenue in its June quarter, posting a net loss of $12 million, or 2 cents per share.
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| Infineon projects return to profit |
7/22/2003 |
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Infineon Technologies AG said it is optimistic about improving sales in the second half, especially for its high-volume memory business. It also expects to return to overall profitability.
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| TI beats analyst with wireless shipment |
7/22/2003 |
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In a surprising turnaround, TI said its second quarter wireless IC sales declined 5% on a sequential basis but rose 16% from the year-ago quarter, helping the company to slightly exceed analysts' revenue and earnings estimates.
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| Intel and Cisco attempt to unify Wi-Fi interface |
7/22/2003 |
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Once verification is completed, approved devices will receive a special Centrino/Linksys logo, "Verified with Intel Centrino Mobile Technology." The verification process is currently underway.
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| Tester sales making headline at Semicon |
7/21/2003 |
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Equipment utilization rates were up, but they weren't triggering volume orders like they have in the past. At best, customers were adding capacity incrementally, ordering one or two tools or a handful at best.
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| M-Systems announce disk-on-chip upgrade |
7/21/2003 |
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The new products will feature increases in performance, reliability and security over existing flash disks thanks to a redesigned ASIC on the flash module, said Noam Kedem, a vice president of marketing for M-Systems (Newark, Calif.).
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| VLSI see uptick on semi equipment shipment |
7/21/2003 |
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VLSI Research originally predicted that the chip-equipment industry would grow 5.6 percent to $31.3 billion in 2003 over 2002. In its new forecast, the research firm projects that the fab-tool market will grow 6.4 percent to $31.5 billion.
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| Embedded Ferro-RAM gaining momentum |
7/21/2003 |
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Though in production for years, FRAM has yet to be adopted widely enough to be cost-competitive with mainstream non-volatile memories. However, embedded in SoCs, there is an opportunity to add value and justify a small price premium.
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| Strong DDR400 drive seen on market |
7/21/2003 |
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The majority of DDR400 output is being snapped up under contract by major OEM buyers, industry sources said, leaving smaller quantities available for the spot market.
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