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| SIS offers WLAN chipset |
3/24/2003 |
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SiS announced the SiS160 media access controller (MAC) that conforms to the IEEE 802.11b WLAN standard
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| Solectron to further reduce staff |
3/21/2003 |
Solectron Corp. today said it intends to take restructuring charges of about $300 million over the next several quarters to consolidate facilities and reduce the workforce in Europe and North America.
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| Cebit attendance down while Semicon China is up |
3/21/2003 |
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The economy and war didn't keep the industry away from Semicon China, however. The official registered attendance for the show, held March 12 through March 14, was 14,179, up considerably from the previous year's attendance.
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| Micron reports loss |
3/21/2003 |
The second quarter operating results include charges of $197 million for the write-down of work in process and finished goods inventories to their estimated market values, and restructure and other charges of $116 million.
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| Dell see that Corporate will lead PC rebounce |
3/20/2003 |
Dell Computer Corp is one of the world's largest direct dealers of personal computers. This year the company is planning to break the tradition by targeting the corporate users to increase its sales.
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| Hi-Tech job market down 10% |
3/20/2003 |
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The Washington-based American Electronics Association (AEA), said the hardest hit sectors were high-tech manufacturing, which fell by 415,000 jobs over the period, and communications services, which dropped by 135,000.
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| Asian Semi Market grew in contrary |
3/20/2003 |
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The booming Asia-Pacific market stands in contrast to the rest of the world still languishing under difficult economic conditions and uncertainty ahead of an almost certain military conflict in Iraq.
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| Al Gore elected into Apple board |
3/20/2003 |
Al Gore has joined Apple Computer's board of directors, the computer maker said Wednesday (March 19). Steve Jobs called Gore an “avid Mac user.”
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| Cadence bailing out of OrCAD? |
3/20/2003 |
Coupled with a downsizing earlier this year of OrCAD's staff, the move has opened the door for competitors to claim that Cadence is abandoning or neglecting the shrink wrapped PCB tools market.
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| Micron samples highest density DIMM |
3/20/2003 |
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Micron said the 4Gbyte DIMM was delivered to Intel Corp. for system development, with validation testing of the module to follow. The part is sampling now and production is expected in Q4 '03.
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| ProMos claims legal right to use Infineon technology |
3/20/2003 |
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Late last year, Munich-based Infineon cut ties with ProMos, a joint venture with Mosel Vitelic Inc. of Taiwan. Infineon has terminated its DRAM procurement contracts, begun divesting itself of ProMos stocks, and ended its agreement to license the 0.11 micron process technology.
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| Taiwan to offer lowest cost notebook |
3/19/2003 |
The notebook, equipped with Transmeta’s Crusoe CPU, will command the lowest price in the market to date, sources said. Unlike ECS’s DeskNote mobile PCs, the low-price notebook will come with a battery.
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| China SMIC to build 300mm Fab in Beijing |
3/19/2003 |
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., one of China’s two native foundries, is building a 0.13-micron fab outside of Beijing that sources say could produce 300mm wafers.
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| NextFlash to produce at Winbond fab |
3/19/2003 |
NexFlash, which is partially owned by Winbond and has a memory partnership in place with Sharp Corp., will introduce a new line of serial flash memories in the second half of the year to be manufactured at Winbond's fab.
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| SEMI book-to-bill on the bounce |
3/19/2003 |
"While the bookings outlook appears sluggish, over 20 new fabs are expected to begin production in the next two years."
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| Sluggish demand force ProMos to cut CAPEX |
3/19/2003 |
"Global DRAM supply has been reduced this year because of the weak economy, so the problem right now is whether demand will pick up," said Albert Lin. "It seems that a recovery in demand won't come soon."
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| A new outlook on Asia Semi Design Industry |
3/18/2003 |
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China still provides the biggest opportunity in the short-term, but the overall electronics market is robust in India and Singapore and is expected to rebound in Japan over the next few years.
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| Germany tighten IT staff immigration laws |
3/18/2003 |
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Germany will suspend the issuance of green cards for IT professionals beginning July 31. The German government began issuing 20,000 green cards a year in August 2000 to speed the processing of visa applications.
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