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| FormFactor IPO heats up |
6/12/2003 |
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FormFactor Inc. increased the number of shares it plans to offer to 6 million, while raising the initial asking price to $11 to $13 per share.
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| SIA: DRAM will lead growth in 2004 |
6/12/2003 |
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DRAMs, nonvolatile memories, and digital signal processors (DSPs) are hot and expected to grow by more than 20 percent in 2004 over 2003
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| Toshiba and Sandisk developed new 4Gbits NAND flash |
6/12/2003 |
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Toshiba and SanDisk will produce the new NAND memory chips using 90nm processing at the joint venture FlashVision fab in Yokkaichi, Japan. Initial production is slated in the first half of 2004.
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| Intel brings out new Celeron and M series mobile MPU |
6/12/2003 |
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Intel Corp. Wednesday introduced a Mobile Pentium 4 family of processors with frequencies up to 3.06GHz and a new value-end Celeron series, both targeted for large transportable notebooks that are capable of replacing desktop PCs.
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| Transmeta push into European market |
6/11/2003 |
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IO Technologies, Marek Micro and Technology Rescue are European-based design companies providing a support infrastructure for designers using Transmeta’s processors. The three European companies are designing embedded platforms using Transmeta chips.
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| TSMC signed agreement to start fab in Shanghai |
6/11/2003 |
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The announcement was slipped into a June 8 SEC filing saying that the TSMC fab, using 0.25-micron and 0.35-micron process technologies, will be located in the Songjiang Science Park in Shanghai to provide foundry services in Mainland China.
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| "Proud Engineers" signed into law in Texas |
6/11/2003 |
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It would allow electronics engineers to call themselves engineers and put the word engineer on their business cards, without first having to pass a state licensing exam.
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| TI sales down due to SARS in China |
6/11/2003 |
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Customers in the key China market stayed home at the beginning of the quarter because of concerns over SARS and strong competition from local Chinese wireless handset manufacturers further eroded sales at both Motorola and Nokia, the companies said earlier this week.
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| First GDDR3 sample delivered |
6/11/2003 |
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Micron shipped its first GDDR3 samples to the two leading graphics processor vendors, ATI Technologies Inc., Markham, Ontario, and Nvidia Corp., Santa Clara, Calif.
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| Advances on processing technology allows smaller gates |
6/11/2003 |
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Toshiba replaced the conventional silicon dioxide gate dielectric material with nitridenitrided hafnium silicate (HfSiON). The company used the new high-k dielectric in its 65nm process to fabricate 50nm gates on a test LSI device.
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| Nanya see May revenue increased |
6/10/2003 |
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Most Taiwanese DRAM makers are currently maintaining a positive outlook over the future of the DRAM sector in the third quarter of this year and particularly in June. Analysts expecting the IT industry to recover from slump that lasted for more than one and half year ago.
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| Sun to put Java into handheld platforms |
6/10/2003 |
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The agreement calls for Sun to distribute to its more than 60 licensees an optimized version of its Java virtual machine platform, the Connected Limited Device Configuration HotSpot implementation, which is targeted at handsets, pagers and PDAs.
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| Taiwan fabs hit by 2nd quake on Tuesday |
6/10/2003 |
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Both quakes had little effect on the island's chip operations, including major foundries Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and United Microelectronics Corp. They both acknowledged that some wafers are lost in a minor quake.
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| Vitesse acquires Multilink for technology |
6/10/2003 |
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Multilink brings not only a highly experienced team of system mixed-signal and digital design engineers that have successfully developed products for OC-192 transport, Forward Error Correction, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and high speed backplanes, but also a family of products already in production which would cost Vitesse more than the purchase price to reproduce.
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| DRAM Price Alert ! |
6/10/2003 |
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256Mbit DDR in the volatile spot market jumped 15% from a week ago to an average $4.42. The spot price of 128Mbit DDR rose 5% to an average $3.49.
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| Rambus get favors from judge |
6/9/2003 |
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The FTC attorneys had sought to present evidence from notes and documents of discussions Rambus officials had with their attorneys regarding the filing of synchronous DRAM patents. But Judge Stephen McGuire in an oral ruling said the information was protected by attorney-client privilege and was inadmissible.
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| Concerns on the Hills about future US semi-industry |
6/9/2003 |
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"If this accelerating shift in semiconductor manufacturing overseas continues, the U.S. will lose the ability to reliably obtain high-end semiconductor integrated circuits from trusted sources," Lieberman warned.
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| JEDEC to cast vote for DDR400 with ECC |
6/6/2003 |
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JEDEC is expected to vote on adoption of the DDR400 SDRAM standard with ECC (Error Correction Coding) that would be perfect for the use in the servers as the current approved DDR400 specification does not come with such ECC capability, according to EBN.
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| National Semi posts loss due to restructuring |
6/6/2003 |
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National Semiconductor Corp. posted a quarterly loss of $4.4 millioin as it took a big restructuring charge related to a unit closing. A year ago, the company had a net income of $17.1 million
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