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| Mosaid gets royalty on their DRAM technology |
4/28/2003 |
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"This agreement is an important achievement for Mosaid since Winbond Electronics is our first running royalty term licensee, as well as the first Taiwanese company to license our patents,"
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| UMC strengthening design capability |
4/25/2003 |
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This means the company may no longer be able to accept certain new IC designers that may be competing with its existing clients. It is part of UMC's strategy to invest in IC design houses in Taiwan and overseas to secure orders.
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| IDC projects Hyper Transport to take hold |
4/25/2003 |
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Vernon Turner, IDC group vice president, said the 2003 projections are based on actual parts counts ot items shipped and silicon starts and products already committed to production by the end of 2002.
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| Samsung to upgrade Austin plant to 90nm |
4/25/2003 |
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First opened in 1998, the Samsung Austin DRAM fab will be updated from 130-nm technology to 90-nm design rules, with a 40,000 sq. ft. addition to the existing clean room. The facility upgrade will start next month.
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| Combining ASIC with FPGA on a die |
4/25/2003 |
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The technology would let Samsung's ASIC customers design a single device that could be used across multiple product lines. Samsung may also design its own standard products in this way, officials said.
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| ST profit improved |
4/25/2003 |
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The Geneva-based company said it earned $79 million, or 9 cents per share, in the quarter ended March 29, up 140% from $33 million, or 4 cents a share in the first quarter of 2002.
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| United Arab Emirates to build new silicon park |
4/24/2003 |
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The park is scheduled for construction next year, and will be located in Nad Al Shiba on 6.5-million square meters. It is intended to complement -- rather than compete with -- Dubai Internet City, a functioning IT and telecommunications center inside the free trade zone.
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| Analyst said equipment recovery is real |
4/24/2003 |
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Robert N. Castellano, president of TIN, said that based on good Q1 results, the semiconductor equipment market has begun its much anticipated recovery.
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| STMicro and Hynix to team up in NAND flash market |
4/24/2003 |
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Under the terms of the agreement, STMicro of Geneva and Hynix of Seoul will jointly develop and introduce a full NAND product portfolio, beginning with a 512-megabit device to be introduced in the second half of 2003. The products will be marketed by both companies.
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| Tower to start shipping from new 8" fab |
4/24/2003 |
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Tower will make 4-megabit asynchronous SRAMs in the plant, based on its 0.18-micron process technology. Tower expects to begin commercial shipments of the product in mid-2003.
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| FedEx to offer Ocean-Ground shipping service |
4/24/2003 |
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FedEx claims customers can "cut multiple days from their overall transit times using FedEx Trade Networks Ocean-Ground Distribution service compared to traditional Asia-U.S. ocean ground transit times."
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| EC set 33% duty on Hynix DRAM |
4/24/2003 |
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The 33% duty levied against Hynix DRAM exports to Europe follows a 57.37% preliminary countervailing duty imposed by the U.S. Commerce Department April 1 for what Commerce said were similar illegal government subsidies to the Korean chipmaker.
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| AMD named new executives |
4/23/2003 |
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"These promotions are part of AMD's continued efforts to focus the entire organization on building strong bonds with strategic customers,"
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| Justice Department pushes MS to open server protocols |
4/23/2003 |
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Microsoft is expected to post on its web site "within the next several days" details of a revised process which is expected to be less restrictive, complex and costly than the program the Windows giant rolled out in August last year.
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| Major distributor to support AMD 64bit system customization |
4/23/2003 |
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Avnet Applied Computing (AAC), the Phoenix-based division of Avnet Inc. focused on enterprise solutions, launched a service to allow systems builders to quickly customize and validate whitebox servers based on the Opteron processor introduced today by Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
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| Two majors to provide Opteron chipset |
4/23/2003 |
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Nvidia Corp. Tuesday introduced a single-chip core-logic device dubbed nForce 3 to support the 32-/64-bit Opteron processor. At the same time, Via Technologies Inc. unveiled its K8T400M chipset for the Opteron, AMD's first high-end MPU for the server/wokstation market.
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| Taiwanese notebook makers move more production to China |
4/21/2003 |
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Taiwanese notebook companies reportedly said about 70% to 80% of their notebook shipments could come from China this year, in a move to take advantage of the low production cost in China and increase competitiveness, according to sources.
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| Nokia's earnings climb 13 percent |
4/21/2003 |
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Nokia's first quarter profit climbs 13 percent due to surging sales of its Oyj's low-cost mobile phones. The Finnish company with its U.S. headquarters in Irving earned $1.1 billion, or 22 cents a share, on revenue of $7.4 billion. That compares with a profit of $938 million, or 20 cents, on revenue of $7.6 billion for the same period last year.
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| 3M's profits up 11 percent |
4/21/2003 |
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3M's net income rose to $502 million, or $1.27 a share, compared with $452 million, or $1.14 a share, a year ago. Sales increased 11 percent to $4.32 billion, with unit volume up 5.4 percent.
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| Sony spends 1.6 billions on new chip plant |
4/21/2003 |
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Sony reportedly invests 1.6 billions to build a new fab for its upcoming "Cell" chip for the upcoming Playstation 2 game console. The "Cell" is said to be a thousand times more powerful than the processor in a Playstation 2. The new plant will be built in the Nagasaki Prefecture
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| Intel cuts microprocessor prices |
4/21/2003 |
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Intel will cut the prices of its fastest CPU for desktop and laptop PCs by as much as 38 percent to make ways for its upcoming faster models.
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