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| AMD to launch fastest processor for laptop |
11/11/2002 |
AMD today , introduced its fastest-yet processor designed for laptop computers as the company seeks to take a larger piece of one of the more profitable parts of the PC industry
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| Nvidia report loss due to flat sale |
11/11/2002 |
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Nvidia Corp reported sales of $430.3 million for the third quarter of 2002, roughly flat from $427.3 million in the previous quarter but up 18% from $365.0 million in the like period a year ago
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| Infineon reports wider loss for 4th Q |
11/11/2002 |
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Infineon Technologies has announced its fiscal year results, the fourth quarter net loss amounted to about $511 million compared to a net loss of about $77 million in the previous quarter
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| IBM introduce New Unix - Server |
11/11/2002 |
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IBM introduced a new Unix-based server, build around a new, 0.13-micron version of its 64-bit microprocessor line
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| Acer announces notebook/tablet PC convertable |
11/8/2002 |
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The TravelMate C100 is an ultra-portable notebook PC that can be easily converted into tablet mode, and provides the choice to input data by typing, writing or speech. Its design takes into full consideration of people's most natural and practical computing needs.
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| Does export law inhibit semiconductor recovery? |
11/8/2002 |
The ailing U.S. semiconductor industry may be salivating over the prospect of huge opportunities in the Chinese markets, but the biggest impediments to accessing those markets may be the U.S. government.
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| TI bets on FRAM for future mobile electronics |
11/8/2002 |
TI, said the chip demonstrates that FRAM provides better cost and a lower-power alternative to other potential next-generation non-volatile memories such as magnetic RAM (MRAM) or Ovonyx Unified Memory.
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| Microsoft launches tablet PC OS |
11/8/2002 |
"Only the bravest will implement tablet PCs widely toward the end of 2003," said Leslie Fiering, an analyst at Gartner Dataquest, citing price premiums of $200 to $400 over thin-and-light notebook PCs as a barrier.
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| More R&D Centers to be established in Taiwan |
11/7/2002 |
"The cost for running an R&D center in Taiwan is only one-third that in the U.S." Taiwan has been actively wooing big international companies to set up R&D centers on the island, an essential part of the island's "2008 National Development Plan.
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| DataQuest predicts slow start for tablet PC |
11/7/2002 |
The researcher said it expects a six- to nine-month evaluation period before any volume purchases are made, even within vertical industries. This slow adoption rate is disappointing news for the 20-plus PC hardware vendors who are expected to release tablet PCs within the next year.
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| Sales increased at TSMC |
11/7/2002 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. today announced that net sales for October skyrocketed more than 47 percent year-over-year and more than 19 percent from September's results.
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| Intel to include Wi-Fi in next notebook platform |
11/7/2002 |
"There is a convergence around 802.11 and . . . it's going to be even more rapid" than that experienced by Ethernet. Intel believes that 90 percent of mobile PCs will have wireless functionality by 2004.
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| Nanya having a ball on DDR chip sales |
11/6/2002 |
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Nanya Technologies, Taiwan's largest memory-chip maker, reported its October sale's reached NT$3.3 billion, up by 400 percent compared to same period of last year at NT$ 661.6 million.
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| Lexar brings Toshiba to court on Flash technologies |
11/6/2002 |
Since its inception in 1996, when Toshiba was represented on Lexar’s board of directors, Toshiba had access to and was presented with details of Lexar’s methods of achieving high performance flash devices that Toshiba has now incorporated into its flash chips and flash systems.
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| IBM to push new interface technologies for PC |
11/6/2002 |
"Our entire ThinkVantage strategy is to provide the experience for users to use the technology in a transparent matter," Morris said. "The underlying technology base will be there, but it should be transparent to the average user."
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| DataQuest predicts slow recovery in 2003 |
11/6/2002 |
"2003 is forecast to be a transition year, as a phased recovery in end markets gradually works its way back to fuel incremental semiconductor sales growth."
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| Labor agreement reached at longshore |
11/6/2002 |
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union and Pacific Maritime Association reached a tentative agreement Friday on technology issues. How technology will be rolled out at the docks to automate tasks has put the two sides at loggerheads for months.
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| VIA reports increase revenue |
11/5/2002 |
VIA Technologies, today announced net sales for October 2002 of NT$ 2.53 billion. On a sequential basis, this monthly sales revenue represents a 19.90% increase over September's figure of NT$ 2.11 billion.
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| Semiconductor Industry blue not over yet |
11/5/2002 |
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After several weeks of speculation among the investment and financial analyst community, Applied Materials Inc. today said it is cutting about 1,750 jobs, or about 11 percent of its workforce.
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| First DSL Set-Top-Box to deploy in Japan |
11/5/2002 |
Samsung received an initial $30 million contract for its SMT-F240 set-top boxes from Softbank Broadmedia, which is launching the service first in Tokyo and later will expand it throughout the country.
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| Anti-dumping allegation goes on |
11/5/2002 |
Hynix counter-charged in a company statement that Micron itself "has received substantial subsidies from the Italian government and the Singapore government to upgrade Micron facilities in these countries."
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| SST to use NEC China Fab for Flash |
11/4/2002 |
Flash memory technology developer Silicon Storage Technology Inc. has inked its second foundry supplier deal in China, saying Monday that it would use Shanghai Hua Hong NEC Electronics Co. Ltd. to manufacture chips with embedded flash memory.
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