February 1, 2012 - Industry News
Shaky semi industry propped up by wireless boom
Despite low growth expected in the semiconductor industry, good performances in the wireless segment are helping drive sales. Analysts at IHS have made ...
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January 23, 2012 - Industry News
Chip industry is ready to bounce back
Doom and gloom may be prevailing through much of the world, but there is hope that the semiconductor industry could see a good bounce back this year ...
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January 20, 2012 - Industry News
Chip equipment maker ASML does well
ASML financials are important because it is an IT industry bellwether and when it does well it is a sign that everything else is going well. For ...
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January 20, 2012 - Industry News
Samsung mass produces multi-chip package memory
Samsung has started mass production of embedded multi-chip package (eMCP) memory for use in smartphones. The memory will be used in the cheap and ...
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January 5, 2012 - Industry News
Analysts mull chip sales drop
The Semiconductor Industry Association's (SIA) announcement that worldwide chip sales dropped 2.4% from October to November has sent analysts chugging ...
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December 21, 2011 - Industry News
Intel is the strongest it has ever been
Beancounters working for Gartner say that Chipzilla has its highest-ever market share of all time. By adding up the numbers and dividing by its ...
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December 16, 2011 - Industry News
Semiconductor outfits slumping
Analysts are looking at the figures for the semiconductor outfits and are tutting to themselves and generally sighing. Analyst Robert Castellino ...
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December 15, 2011 - Industry News
Apple is now better than Intel on chips
Never mind the fact it makes most of the world's chips, it has shedloads of top quality rivals who are doing the same thing, Intel's number one ...
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December 8, 2011 - Industry News
Semi industry worried about ever-smaller processes
With moves to ever-smaller semiconductor manufacturing processes, problems arise as engineers attempt to cram even more transistors onto chips. ...
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November 29, 2011 - Industry News
Globalfoundries gives up on Abu Dhabi fab
The main owner of GlobalFoundries has decided not to start construction of a new megafab in the deserts of Abu Dhabi after all. Advanced ...
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November 28, 2011 - Industry News
TSMC might not be ready for AMD
While pundits are jumping on good rumours which suggest AMD is moving away from GlobalFoundries and towards TSMC, no one has commented whether ...
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October 25, 2011 - Industry News
Intel turns into imaging expert
The International Imaging Industry Association – known better and certainly more conveniently as I3A said it has welded Intel, maker of ...
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October 7, 2011 - Industry News
Chip market may only grow by one percent in 2011
A combination of economic disruption and effects from this year's Japanese earthquake and tsunami have upset the semiconductor applecart ...
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October 5, 2011 - Industry News
Analyst claims semiconductor industry is in dire straits
The first speaker at this year's White Bull VC conference gave a gloomy prognosis on venture capital investments into the IT business, even ...
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September 30, 2011 - Industry News
Graphene nanoribbons could extend Moore's Law by 10 years
Researchers are developing a technique with everyone's favourite wonder material, graphene, that could potentially see Moore's Law extended by ...
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September 16, 2011 - Industry News
Moore's Law will just never go away
Intel's chief technology officer Justin Rattner said the introduction of tri-gate transistors meant the question of the death of the death of ...
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September 14, 2011 - Industry News
TSMC joins in on cutting-edge lithography development
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) has announced that it will be joining an industrial consortium to develop cutting edge lithography ...
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August 31, 2011 - Industry News
GloFo pulls Amkor into its semiconductor web
Amkor has become a founding member of GlobalFoundries' assembly alliance, the company announced. The partnership will work to create integrated ...
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August 23, 2011 - Top Story News
More Gloom for DRAM as Price Drop Continues
The DRAM market faces more doom and gloom as falling spot prices are compounded with testing and packaging firms shifting focus away. There has been little in the way of ...
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July 11, 2011 - Industry News
Chip suppliers reach record stockpile
Chip suppliers have reported an increase in semiconductor inventory levels for the seventh consecutive month as suppliers continue to rebuild stock ...
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July 7, 2011 - Industry News
TSMC challenges Intel to 3-D semis
TSMC should be able to match Intel when it comes to shipping semiconductors with 3-D interconnects. Despite Intel announcing the technology, it did ...
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July 5, 2011 - Industry News
MIT researchers claim breakthrough in e-beam lithography
E-beam lithography has promised a way out of the challenges of producing chips but its speed has prevented it being used as a mass production ...
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June 30, 2011 - Industry News
Forbes predicts bright future for AMD
Tarot readers and soothsayers working for Forbes are predicting that life for AMD will get much better for the fabless chipmaker. Forbes is ...
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June 8, 2011 - Industry News
Intel wipes the floor with Samsung
Intel has managed to extend its lead over nearest rival Samsung, according to a new report from beancounters at IC Insights. The report shows that ...
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May 13, 2011 - Industry News
Tablet cannabalisation of netbooks is a myth
Analyst outfit NPD has told the world to ignore the spin about tablets killing the PC market. While some analyst firms claim that Steve Job's ...
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