August 21, 2008 - Top Story News
Orders for semi equipment at lowest level since Nov. 2003, SEMI reports
Reflecting the pronounced cutback in capital expenditures this year, North America-based semiconductor manufacturing equipment providers ...
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August 21, 2008 - Industry News
Moto clings to 3rd place, handset IC industry consolidates, Jha settles in: Signs of Qualcomm, Moto mobile merger?
When Sanjay Jah left Qualcomm to join Motorola as Co-CEO and CEO of its mobile devices business earlier this month, you knew more executive ...
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August 20, 2008 - Industry News
SRC urges lawmakers to prioritize government, industry collaboration to boost American competitiveness
With the aim of improving the return on investment in federal research and to increase the pool of future scientists and engineers, the ...
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August 18, 2008 - Top Story News
Vishay offers $1.6B for International Rectifier in unsolicited bid
Malvern, Pa-based discrete and passive semiconductor company Vishay Intertechnology Inc said today it has made a non-binding bid to ...
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August 14, 2008 - Technology News
Stanford, Korean nanofab center, Oregon-based semi startup claim 3D IC breakthrough
To allow low-cost memories and high-performance logic products with large embedded memory blocks, Stanford University’s Nanofabrication Facility ...
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August 13, 2008 - Industry News
Gartner ‘surprised’ by semiconductor market’s robust 1H
While remaining cautious and warning of a coming widespread slowdown in the electronics sector, Gartner this week shared its view of the ...
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August 11, 2008 - Industry News
Elpida, Qimonda may set up joint manufacturing activities
Following Tokyo-based DRAM player Elpida Memory Inc’s announcement Wednesday that it plans to set up a 300-mm wafer fab in China with a ...
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August 8, 2008 - Industry News
Amkor cuts 600 jobs
Amkor Technology Inc will lay off more than 600 employees as it slows capital spending and looks to recover from a less-than stellar Q2 ...
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August 8, 2008 - Technology News
Revisiting electronic ink
When EDN looked at electronic ink seven years ago, there were two visible commercial approaches to delivering display information. E Ink's ...
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August 7, 2008 - Industry News
Semtech plant impacted by fire, MEMC polysilicon operations impacted by storm
A fire and tropical story separately impacted two semiconductor industry players this week. Sematech Corp, a supplier of analog and mixed- ...
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August 7, 2008 - Industry News
Siemens exiting Fujitsu PC partnership: Mobile phones more promising than PCs?
Fujitsu-Siemens Computers may soon lose one of its parent companies. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Germany-based Siemens has advised ...
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August 7, 2008 - Industry News
Elpida, Chinese venture group to spend up to $5B on China DRAM plant
To meet the growing demand for DRAM in the Chinese market, Tokyo-based DRAM giant Elpida Memory Inc and China-based Suzhou Venture Group Co ...
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August 6, 2008 - Industry News
Will new ideas dim the future of FPGAs? Structured ASICs and microcontrollers renew the debate
There is a long-standing debate in the industry over the future of FPGAs. The FPGA vendors have argued for years that their destiny is to ...
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August 6, 2008 - Technology News
VLSI Standards opens solar cell calibration lab
San Jose-based semiconductor metrology-based services provider VLSI Standards Inc has announced that it has reached completion of its ...
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August 6, 2008 - Industry News
Second half foundry biz to slow, Gartner reports
In the last week of July, the four largest dedicated foundries released their Q2 earnings results with TSMC, UMC and Chartered Semiconductor ...
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August 4, 2008 - Industry News
This week in gEEk: Manufacturing drama; solar shines; SOI sluggish
Oh, the soap opera that is manufacturing. If it isn’t a question of whether AMD will sell its fabs or layoffs like those that could soon ...
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August 1, 2008 - Top Story News
Worlds top foundries to feel pinch of economic uncertainty in Q3
In spite of a weakening global macroeconomic environment, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan-based Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) today ...
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July 31, 2008 - Industry News
ST selling 8-inch Phoenix fab to Chartered?
Last year at about this time STMicroelectronics disclosed that it would close three of its manufacturing operations over the next two to three ...
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July 31, 2008 - Technology News
HP’s $40 20b Business Calculator based on standard 32-bit Atmel Microcontroller
Time was, back in the early 1970s, calculator chips were the ultimate proof of semiconductor manufacturing prowess. Many 4-banger (add, ...
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July 31, 2008 - Industry News
Economists, mathematics, and where the semiconductor industry is headed this year
A snide person might observe that if circuit designers were equipped with the same formidable mathematical skills as economists, we would all be ...
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July 31, 2008 - Industry News
Oki transfers 95% of semiconductor business to Rohm
Further shaking up Japan's chip industry, Kyoto-based Rohm Co Ltd will take control of Tokyo-based Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd's semiconductor...
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July 30, 2008 - Industry News
Where is the semiconductor industry going? A panel discusses
A panel discussion sponsored by a global technology interest group, Monte Jade, explored the future of the semiconductor industry last week, by ...
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July 30, 2008 - Industry News
Intel makes third solar move with investment in thin-film materials supplier
Marking its third foray into the solar energy arena this year, chip giant Intel Corp through its Intel Capital investment arm has invested $12.5 ...
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July 29, 2008 - Top Story News
Will AMD separate manufacturing and design?
The verdict is still out, with some industry experts for a fab spin off and some against it. Either way, AMD admits its recent promotion of ...
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July 29, 2008 - Industry News
UMC, Sematech partner to propel 300-mm technology
The two parties believe UMC is a natural partner for Sematech given its large-scale 300-mm production for 90- and 65-nm foundry products. In ...
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