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Techs Bullish About China Market
News Eighty percent of our semiconductors get imported from outside," said Dai Haibo, chief executive of Shanghai Zhangjiang High-Tech Park Development Corporation, an industrial park catering to semiconductor manufacturing that counts Applied...
[July 10, 2002, 7:57]
The Fight Against Tech Pollution
News There are hundreds of different chemicals that are used in semiconductor manufacturing, many of which are highly toxic individually, and when you mix them together it creates a toxic cocktail that has never been even superficially studied.
[April 26, 2002, 11:24]
Applied Materials Starts VC Fund
News Applied Materials' Ventures 1 fund will focus on companies on the "leading edge of scientific and technical breakthroughs that can positively impact the semiconductor industry," the company said. Applied Materials makes the equipment that...
[October 26, 2001, 15:30]
Oracle Shop Floor Management Provides Silterra With A Clear View Of Its Real Time Production Information
White Papers Bhd.a full-service provider of semiconductor manufacturing solutions, time is truly of the essence. Oracle, through the rich functionality that it has put into Release 11i, particularly OSFM, is clearly committed to addressing the needs of the high...
[September 8, 2005, 0:00]
On Challenging China With A Tariff
News The union points to a study that showed the growing US trade deficit with China displaced 1.5 million jobs between 1989 and 2003, including more than 46,200 positions in semiconductor manufacturing. A tariff indeed could trigger Chinese retaliation...
[June 15, 2005, 14:55]
India Ramps Up Semiconductor Production
News According to Gartner, semiconductor manufacturing in India is currently limited, and although there are no operational wafer fab plants in the country right now, five fab plants have been proposed, with approved ones targeted to go live between...
[June 14, 2007, 12:10]
Transmeta To Keep 'em Coming
News Meanwhile, sources said that Transmeta will soon announce that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing is manufacturing its upcoming Crusoe TM 5800. See Chips Central for the latest on processors and the semiconductor industry.
[June 25, 2001, 9:18]
IBM Faces Cancer Victims In Court
News Longstanding critics of the semiconductor industry's manufacturing process hope that the trial pushes companies a little harder. There is a can of worms here, which this could open up and spread around," said Roger Kay, an IDC analyst who follows...
[November 4, 2003, 8:20]
SARS Illness Disrupts Asian Business Plans
News That would mean nuclear winter to the semiconductor and electronics industry. Intel's decision to cancel its conferences is not the first example of the contagious disease throwing a wrench in the plans of tech companies, which have extensive...
[April 3, 2003, 10:04]
Group Aims For Quicker Chipmaking Fixes
News A group of companies including chipmaker AMD is mounting a new effort to create smarter semiconductor-manufacturing equipment. The trade group Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) will oversee the three-year project, which has...
[December 24, 2001, 11:13]
Tackling The Problem Of High-tech Trash
News There are different legacy issues in terms of manufacturing, too, such as looking back to the 1970s and 1980s, when a lot of semiconductor manufacturers started in a big way. Most people don't spend much time thinking about the ins and outs of...
[July 7, 2006, 12:35]
HP Introduces New Chip Mould
News HP and Nanolithosolutions say they have a machine that will let semiconductor manufacturers produce chips sporting wires measuring a few atoms wide. Many semiconductor makers, however, remain sceptical.
[May 2, 2007, 10:38]
Why Migration Doesn't Mean Brain Drain
News There are large numbers of people in China, especially in Shanghai, who started in the US semiconductor industry, but who are now doing chip design or manufacturing business here. Min Wu, who came and worked first at Intel and then various...
[September 8, 2006, 12:55]
IBM Licenses 45nm Technology In China
News IBM has licensed its next-generation technology for manufacturing processors to Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, the largest chipmaker in China, the companies said on Wednesday. The partnership spotlights the growing technical...
[December 27, 2007, 11:08]
US Report: IBM Could Put Phones In Almost Anything
News Silicon germanium is a semiconductor that is more efficient than the CMOS technology used in producing today's computer chips. IBM estimates that communications chips made from the semiconductor will use one-third to one-fourth the power of other...
[October 13, 1998, 10:23]
China In WTO Will Shake Up Tech Sector
News Taiwanese companies should actively participate [in] and assist the development of the semiconductor industry in mainland China," Morris Chang, chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing -- the world's largest chip foundry -- said in a speech...
[September 19, 2001, 8:30]
Next Crusoe Chip Bogged Down In Testing
News The problems with the chip stem, in part, from the difficulty involved in manufacturing it, said a representative of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. We're not having a problem with our (manufacturing) process.
[October 10, 2001, 9:45]
New IBM Unit Switches On Electronics
News Technology outsourcing with IBM running the semiconductor fabrication operation services. Business process services to manage intellectual assets and manufacturing consulting. More enterprise IT news in ZDNet UK's Tech Update Channel.
[October 7, 2002, 16:53]
Consumer Demand Calls For More Flash Memory
News The Semiconductor Industry Association, which follows sales trends, recently predicted that sales of NAND flash memory will grow 15.9 percent to $21bn in 2006. NAND flash memory is becoming so popular that it's already outpaced its cousin NOR flash...
[November 22, 2005, 14:10]
IBM To Share Chip Intelligence
News Although he declined to discuss specifics, Bijan Davari, vice president of semiconductor development at IBM Microelectronics, said Cell chips would be "optimized for high-speed video as well as various other communication to the Internet.
[April 2, 2002, 15:27]
