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Japanese companies may form a super-foundry
News The semiconductor business is growing, but the increasing cost to build chip factories, also called fabs, means all but a few chipmakers are relying on partnerships instead of in-house manufacturing. Hitachi, Toshiba and Renesas are considering...
[December 29, 2005, 9:55]
Barrett: Chips with everything
News The conversion -- which will give Intel five 300mm fabs when completed in 2005 -- will cost about $2bn but will pay dividends in higher productivity. Intel this year will focus on what it does best: crank out chips and expand factory capacity.
[February 19, 2003, 11:25]
Panasonic to shed 15,000 jobs
News Panasonic's UK fabs include a factory in Newport that employs 500. Japanese electronics manufacturer Panasonic is to lay off about 15,000 staff because of the global recession, the company has announced.
[February 4, 2009, 13:23]
Intel and AMD face yo-yoing chip market
News Due to their complexity, chip makers must begin building new manufacturing plants, known as fabs, up to two years in advance of forecasted demand. Is the sky falling in on the chip market? With chip giants Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD...
[July 17, 2000, 14:17]
Datquest Predicts: Semiconductor firms must adapt or die
News In the next three to four years it will be difficult for those companies in the bottom half of the top ten to build fabs by themselves," he said. Speaking at Dataquest's Predicts '99 conference in Paris this week, leading chip analyst Joe D'Elia...
[June 8, 1999, 13:24]
Toshiba, SanDisk to cut Nand flash production
News There are four fabs at Yokkaichi — two producing Nand flash on 200mm wafers, and two on 300mm wafers. Toshiba and SanDisk, who share a Nand flash manufacturing plant in Japan, have said they are to reduce production from the start of 2009, as a...
[December 16, 2008, 13:21]
Freescale joins IBM in semiconductor alliance
News For most chipmakers, alliances are a part of life, thanks to the rapid pace of Moore's Law, the complexity of contemporary chips, and the cost of building fabrication facilities, or fabs. The IBM chip federation just got larger.
[January 23, 2007, 8:31]
ATI nonplussed by Intel, plans low-cost chip
News They have the fabs and the manufacturing and will definitely impact the graphics business overall, but I think companies like S3, Matrox and Cirrus Logic are more vulnerable. The graphics chip maker has shipped two million AGP parts and owns about...
[February 13, 1998, 10:42]
AMD posts loss as PC sales dwindle
News We don't have any sloppy businesses or old fabs we can shut down anymore. A slowdown in PC buying resulted in a sizable loss and a large decline in revenue for chipmaker AMD. AMD's revenue for the second quarter, ended 30 June, came to $600m (£392m...
[July 18, 2002, 9:04]
Intel In Slide
Leader Intel's operating costs are static and do not change much no matter how many chips it makes or does not make, so it can't scale back on production and feel the benefits -- at least, not unless it starts hacking at capacity by closing fabs down.
[October 19, 2004, 12:00]
Concern over semiconductor slowdown
News There will be plenty more fabs [manufacturing plants] required over the next months and years," Gordon said. New figures from the semiconductor industry underscore a potential slowdown in the chip industry, though observers say it is too early to...
[October 26, 2000, 9:57]
Intel faces delays to 0.13 micron move
News Two of Intel's fabs are due to begin 0.13-micron production at around midyear, and Intel said it is still on schedule. Intel's upcoming move to a more advanced manufacturing process could be thrown off by the delay of a critical piece of...
[April 30, 2001, 13:08]
Time running out for tardy AMD
News AMD's solution: Convert its fabs, where the chips are made, to make a smaller version. Observers say AMD (AMD) needs to release a zippy new version of its K6 processor before Intel Corp.s Pentium II becomes widely established, or risk losing any...
[March 13, 1998, 9:14]
Dataquest Predicts: Biometric chips pioneer growth
News Europe's close contact with the communications and automative industries should be enough for new fabs in Europe," he said. Speaking at the Dataquest Predicts '99 conference in Paris today, Bauer was upbeat about the recovery of the industry, which...
[June 7, 1999, 12:30]
Chipmakers join forces on nano research
News Next year, development will move to Singapore, where UMC already has struck separate deals with AMD and Infineon to build large wafer fabs. Chipmakers AMD and Infineon Technologies, together with Taiwan's UMC, are collaborating to create faster...
[July 30, 2002, 13:14]
Intel: Caught with its PIIIs down
News Intel has five fabrication plants producing chips with the .18-micron process, and plans to increase that number to eight fabs by year end. In fact, demand for PCs has been so strong, it's been the root of Intel's problems in delivering enough...
[April 28, 2000, 9:49]
IBM vs Intel: Whose research gets results?
News It works to prove out an idea, develop it into a manufacturing process and, finally, conduct test manufacturing before the technology is deployed in IBM chip fabs. But are those patents a measure of success?
[July 25, 2000, 14:28]
Intel may start making chips in China
News Still, as recently as 2004, Intel chairman Craig Barrett was very pessimistic about building fabs in China. Intel is almost ready to announce an expansion of its manufacturing empire into China, according to reports.
[March 14, 2007, 9:07]
Intel to serve up metal chips
News The gate dielectric on chips coming out of Intel’s fabs next year will only be four to five atoms thick, David said. The chipmaker is looking at revamping two fundamental elements of its transistors -- the transistor gate and the gate dielectric...
[November 5, 2003, 7:50]
Microsoft chips in for Xbox Next
News These companies -- without their own chip-fabrication factories, or "fabs" -- design their processors but outsource manufacturing to foundry companies. Chartered Semiconductor, a Singapore-based foundry, is redesigning some of its fabs with IBM's...
[November 10, 2003, 12:20]
