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Chip Sales Up Again
News Global chip sales posted a third consecutive monthly increase in May, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported on Monday. Worldwide chip sales totalled $12.5bn (£7.57bn) in May 2003 -- up 2 percent from the $12.26bn in revenue reported in...
[June 30, 2003, 13:49]
Chip Implants Aim To Save Lives
News If your ageing father had Alzheimer's, would you plant a chip in his back to keep him safe? The grain-of-rice-size chip will contain a unique verification number that will be tied to a database of personal information including allergies and other...
[May 10, 2002, 10:30]
Chip Giants Go Their Own Ways
News The giants of the microprocessor industry are marching into next-generation technologies with such conflicting strategies that users may no longer be assured that software written for an Intel chip will work well with rival AMD processors.
[October 7, 1999, 10:50]
Chip Sales Continue Slow Recovery
News The figures are good news for the hard-hit chip industry, which has seen sales slide dramatically this year due to the global economic slowdown and particularly to sluggish consumer demand. He reiterated earlier forecasts that the worldwide chip...
[December 3, 2001, 17:05]
Chip Giants Go Their Own Ways (Part 3)
News Compaq said it will work to improve performance of its Alpha processor, adding a new processor core and multithread processing capabilities to its Alpha EV8 chip, due next year. The chip will scale to 2GHz.
[October 7, 1999, 10:59]
Chip Giants Go Their Own Ways (Part 2)
News The chip maker this week made public an aggressive plan to follow Intel into the 64-bit processor market in 2001. The rival Itanium chip from Intel will be 64-bit, but it will also include 32-bit "emulation" for non-64-bit optimised applications.
[October 7, 1999, 10:56]
Chip Sales Up In 2003, Forecast Improves
News The technology research firm predicted that the global chip market would grow 8.3 percent with a total revenue of $168bn (£102.5bn) in 2003, compared with a total revenue of $155bn (£94.5bn) in 2002. The total revenue for the global chip market for...
[May 21, 2003, 8:53]
Chip Equipment Stocks Enjoy Intel-inspired Rally
News Despite a gloomy outlook for chip and PC sales through the first half of 2001, chip equipment stocks have quietly rallied, helping boost the Nasdaq Composite Index more than 10 percent this year. Keep in mind chip equipment sales jumped more than...
[January 19, 2001, 14:22]
Chip Sales Remain Solid
News Global chip sales in August increased 14 percent from August 2001 and 2 percent sequentially from July 2002, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). The SIA, which maintains a three-month average of chip sales, said global sales...
[October 1, 2002, 15:36]
Chip Equipment Makers Feel Intel Aftershocks
News The outlook for next year is relatively bleak," said Eric Chen, a chip equipment analyst at Chase Hambrecht & Quist. This is by no means the first sign of bad news for the chip equipment sector. In August, chip-assembly equipment maker Kulicke...
[December 8, 2000, 11:21]
Chip Designers Paint A Brighter Picture
News Chip designers bucked the semiconductor slump of 2001, increasing revenues from sales of technology such as processor cores by 25 percent, according to a new report from market researcher Gartner. Chip designers, including companies such as ARM...
[May 1, 2002, 7:31]
Chip Sales Show Positive Trend
News After a huge drop last year, the global chip market should regain positive ground in 2002, according to the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics. The worldwide chip market should grow 2.3 percent in 2002 to $142bn, the industry group said on Tuesday.
[October 29, 2002, 14:43]
Chip Pioneer Caught Up In Bluetooth Patent Case
News CSR developed the BlueCore — a silicon chip with an in-built Bluetooth radio transmitter. Previously, such a device would not work because radio waves given out by the silicon chip would effectively deafen the Bluetooth radio.
[January 3, 2007, 12:08]
Chip Firm Predicts Dramatic Recovery For 2002
News A US semiconductor research group is predicting the world chip market will grow 21 percent in 2002, more than triple the estimates of most analysts. In the meantime, delays in new chip fabrication plants and the elimination of this year's inventory...
[November 19, 2001, 13:55]
Chip Glut Weighs On Semiconductor Makers
News Industry leaders and analysts have been giving optimistic signs about a recovery in the computer chip industry over the past few days, but a new report finds that there is still a massive semiconductor glut that could linger into the middle of...
[August 14, 2001, 17:16]
Chip Equipment Orders Rise Again
News Semiconductor equipment orders outpaced shipments again in April, another sign that the chip market may be on the road to recovery. The Semiconductor Industry Association, another trade group, expects chip sales to increase slightly from $139bn in...
[May 19, 2002, 7:31]
Report: Chip Market To Grow, But Slowly
News According to a report by the Semiconductor Industry Association, chip sales will grow 1.8 percent to $141bn (about £90bn) this year, and then increase 19.8 percent year-on-year to $169bn in 2003. Chip sales to the Asia-Pacific region (which does...
[November 7, 2002, 8:14]
Chip-and-bin Plan Launched
News Head of environmental services Richard Thompson said the overall aim of the chip-and-bin pilot is to build up a picture of recycling rates at ward level. While their chip-and-bin scheme may well have wound up in the waste paper basket at other...
[September 19, 2005, 9:35]
Chip Market Heats Up In July
News In a sign of continued growth in the chip industry, global sales of semiconductors rose to $12.9bn (£8.21bn) in July, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. The increase in chip sales comes amid other hopeful news for the information...
[September 3, 2003, 15:55]
A Year Ago: Chip Firms Compete To Push Limits
News Following IBM's announcement last week of new insulated substrate technology, working in conjunction with copper interconnects to improve chip performance, AMD, Texas Instruments and Samsung have revealed more details of their innovations.
[April 16, 2001, 6:07]
