Chip firm predicts dramatic recovery for 2002
News In its November newsletter, Semico Research says that the semiconductor market has gradually improved over the last few months, and will bottom out in the fourth quarter of this year. The improving prices on integrated circuits, along with other...
[November 19, 2001, 13:55]
Deal sends tremors through DRAM biz
News Semico Research shows that Samsung was the top DRAM maker in 2000, with 23 percent of the market. Sherry Garber, a vice president at Semico Research, described the deal as a win for Micron, but just one of what will become several moves toward...
[December 19, 2001, 12:09]
Tessera aims to wrap up IPO
News Packaging is a $7bn industry, but it will grow to $12bn in 2007, a faster growth rate than that of the chip industry as a whole, according to Semico Research. In the early days of the semiconductor market, a chip package might contain two or four...
[October 30, 2003, 14:45]
Intel's latest memory chip flashes by
News In addition, "not only are the total number of handsets going up, but the (memory) content of each handset is going up dramatically," said Rich Wawryzniak, a research director with Semico Research, a Phoenix-based marketing and engineering...
[April 17, 2002, 15:38]
Consumer demand calls for more flash memory
News NAND sales in 2005 are expected to top $10.2bn this year, according to Semico. NOR flash is expected to pull in $7.6bn in the same time frame, Semico said. That number is expected to rise to an estimated $35bn in 2009, according to Semico.
[November 22, 2005, 14:10]
Drive makers ally to push portable data
News Even so, the number of USB flash drives shipped worldwide is expected to jump from about 5 million last year to roughly 30 million this year, and to 250 million in 2007, according to market research firm Semico Research.
[December 8, 2003, 8:05]
Flash USB drives take off
News The market for flash memory-based USB storage devices is expected to grow rapidly over the new few years, reaching $3.8bn (£2.4bn) in revenue by 2006, according to a report released Monday by Semico Research.
[November 12, 2002, 8:25]
Three dots mean the fabless chips are up
News Two dots are a better indicator, but it takes at least three dots to indicate the start of a trend," said Jim Feldhan, president and co-founder of Semico Research. The big established players will control most of the growth that's expected this...
[April 10, 2003, 11:00]
Start-up to release 3D chips
News Rich Wawrzyniak, an analyst at Semico Research, said that although Matrix will have to prove it can mass-produce these chips, the concepts are intriguing. Matrix's technique, though, is more than just a research trick.
[December 5, 2001, 13:08]
AMD spurred on by flash
News The potential to upstage NAND memory with its MirrorBit flash presents a big opportunity for AMD, said Jim Handy, an analyst at Semico Research. In 2004, the research company estimates that AMD will be at 28 percent and Intel at 17 percent.
[June 14, 2004, 9:00]
AMD and Fujitsu combine flash operations
News The most significant impact of the deal could be on how pricing is affected, said Jim Handy, an analyst at Semico Research. In 2002, however, AMD dropped down to No.in terms of revenue, according to research firm iSuppli.
[April 1, 2003, 7:54]
IBM, Infineon show off next-gen memory progress
News MRAM "shows an awful lot of promise", said Jim Handy, a memory analyst at Semico Research. Intel, AMD and others will present papers at the conference this week, one of the major, annual semiconductor research conferences.
[June 10, 2003, 7:38]
Chip market to grow 23 percent next year
News The semiconductor market will grow 23 percent next year, buoyed by this year's inventory slashing and renewed consumer demand, according to US technology market forecaster Semico Research. After a flat first quarter next year, the market will grow...
[September 10, 2001, 16:19]
Intel shrinks flash memory for phones
News From a manufacturing point of view, it is.much more effective," said Rich Wawrzyniak, an analyst at Semico Research. Intel on Tuesday will announce technology that will shrink the size of its flash memory chips by roughly 50 percent in the first...
[October 24, 2001, 7:31]
Infineon admits to DRAM price fixing
News Computer makers negotiate prices for DRAM with the various vendors, said Sherry Garber, an analyst with research firm Semico. Infineon Technologies will plead guilty to taking part in an international DRAM price-fixing conspiracy, which affected...
[September 16, 2004, 9:20]
Flash memory begins to fade
News Industry estimates forecast that flash revenue will hit $13bn (£8.29bn) this year, up from $7.7bn in 2002, according to Jim Handy, a memory services executive with Semico Research. Revenue from flash came to $7.3 billion in 2001, and will hit $13.9...
[March 27, 2003, 16:17]
Magnetic memory chips come to market
News With the commercialisation of MRAM, Freescale is the first to market with a technology of tremendous possibilities and profound implications," Bob Merritt, of research firm Semico Research, said in a statement.
[July 11, 2006, 8:20]
Four-bit-per-cell Flash memory demoed
News The implementation of four-bit-per-cell technology will open up new avenues of applications," said Jim Handy, an analyst with Semico Research, in a statement released by the company. Spansion, the memory products manufacturer, has demonstrated four...
[September 27, 2006, 14:05]
Sony gets out its big Stick
News Semico Research analyst Jim Handy agreed. As expected, Sony announced at the US Consumer Electronics Show last week a new high-speed removable memory card format and a new feature for its already existing card format, the Memory Stick.
[January 13, 2003, 9:40]
Microsoft and Samsung: We'll undercut Palm
News Semico analyst Tony Massimini said that reference designs give manufacturers a starting point when it comes to building a device. Shipments for handhelds dipped 2.4 percent worldwide in the third quarter, according to research firm Dataquest.
[November 12, 2002, 7:57]
