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Apple Sews Up Flash Market
News Intel will own 49 percent of the new company, IM Flash Technologies, with the remaining controlling stake held by Micron. IM Flash Technologies will produce NAND chips exclusively for the use of Intel and Micron, rather than serve as a foundry for...
[November 22, 2005, 8:55]
Infineon Boosts Memory Chip Output
News The consolidation, which most recently saw Toshiba sell its DRAM operation to Micron Technologies, will leave fewer players than before the market turned down at the end of 2000. The deal also girds Infineon for the potential impact of the long...
[March 11, 2002, 15:48]
Pre-emptive Strike: Micron Sues Rambus
News Micron argues that Rambus violated antitrust laws by applying for patents on SDRAM technologies without first informing the Joint Electronic Device Engineering Council (Jedec). Mindful that the best defence is often a good offence, Micron...
[August 30, 2000, 9:18]
Intel's Portable Timna To Debut At 700MHz, (Part II)
News The processor core is based on Intel's Katmai core, which was used for the original Pentium III chips (up to 600MHz) manufactured using a 0.25 micron process. However, Timna will be manufactured using Intel's current, 0.18 micron process.
[September 8, 2000, 13:18]
Legal Woes, Stock Drop Mar Rambus' Future
News Analysts say the company's aggressive pursuit of royalties from manufacturers of SDRAM (synchronous dynamic random access memory) and the resulting legal battles with Micron Technologies and Infineon have hurt its ability to establish its own...
[July 13, 2001, 15:14]
Intel's Coppermine Onslaught
News For example, Intel announced three mobile Pentium III 0.18-micron processors running at 500 MHz, 450 MHz, and 400 MHz. At an announcement today in San Jose, California, Intel executives Paul Otellini and Pat Gelsinger unveiled Pentium III...
[October 27, 1999, 14:07]
Rambus Settles SDRAM Patent Dispute
News Rambus sued Infineon, along with Micron Technology, Hyundai Electronics Industries (now Hynix Semiconductor) and others, over allegations they infringed on Rambus patents by manufacturing SDRAM, the most common memory chip used today in computers...
[March 22, 2005, 8:35]
Peregrine Optical Chips Ready To Fly
News Plant upgrades, beginning early next year, will move the chips from a 0.5-micron manufacturing process to 0.25-micron next year and 0.13-micron in early 2003. Peregrine employs a silicon-on-sapphire manufacturing process, developed in part by...
[March 13, 2001, 8:07]
Is There Life Left For Low-cost Chips?
News Chips made with the new process, which shrinks "interrupts" -- or the spaces between transistors -- in the chip from 0.25 to 0.18 micron, should ship early next year. The latest version of the chip, a PE 366, is available in limited quantities on a...
[October 12, 1999, 8:53]
Infineon Admits To DRAM Price Fixing
News Censullo, a Micron Technology regional sales manager, pleaded guilty to a charge of withholding information and altering documents concerning a grand jury subpoena served on Micron in June 2002. The Justice Department investigation is focusing on...
[September 16, 2004, 9:20]
New Processors Talked Up At WinHEC
News AMD officials would not say when K7 will be available for use in servers; a mobile version of the chip will not be available until the company moves to a .18 micron manufacturing process. The chip will be manufactured initially using a .25 micron...
[April 12, 1999, 8:35]
Micron Shows Off DDR PIII Chipset
News Copperhead demonstrates Micron's commitment to provide our customers with resources to develop system-level products taking advantage of emerging DRAM technologies," said Jeff Mailloux, Micron's director of computing and consumer, in a statement.
[February 27, 2001, 13:10]
Memory Market Edges Up
News Micron Technology followed with $705m in revenue, giving it 19 percent of the market. If Micron or Infineon was thinking these tariffs would cut Hynix out of the market, they're going to be disappointed.
[August 15, 2003, 16:50]
Hynix Edges Up Memory Makers' Rankings
News Hynix Semiconductor passed Micron Technologies to take over the No.spot in the market for dynamic random access memory during the second quarter, Gartner Dataquest reported on Thursday. To wrest the second position from Micron, Hynix improved its...
[July 30, 2004, 14:55]
Via Enters 0.13-micron Race
News VIA Technologies jumped on the 0.13-micron processor bandwagon Tuesday. The Taiwan-based chip and chip set maker announced plans to base a future generation of VIA Cyrix processors, expected next year, on a new 0.13-micron process from its...
[December 13, 2000, 8:13]
Risks And Opportunities In ASIC Design
White Papers In creating these ASICs, the demanding requirements of networking and communication applications typically require the use of 0.18- or 0.13-micron process technologies. Standard parts help to reduce product development and manufacturing costs and...
[September 16, 2007, 0:00]
FixedTiming: Overview Of Magma's FixedTiming™ Methodology
White Papers This backgrounder puts the technology and ideas behind Magma's FixedTiming approach into the perspective of the challenges posed by deep sub-micron (0.25, 0.18 and smaller process technologies). Magma Design Automation's new Blast Fusion™ physical...
[March 17, 2004, 23:00]
Cyrix 6x86MX .25 Micron First For Nat Semi Plant
News By going to .25 micron design, National and Cyrix have achieved a major breakthrough over previous technologies, reducing the chip size from 150mm square to just 88mm square. Cyrix is upping the stakes in the increasingly competitive semiconductor...
[January 13, 1998, 15:47]
Intel Faces Delays To 0.13 Micron Move
News Intel is said to be relying on the Micrascan V to transition its chips from their current 0.18-micron process to 0.13-microns -- a move that will make them faster, more power-efficient and cheaper to manufacture.
[April 30, 2001, 13:08]
Deal Sends Tremors Through DRAM Biz
News With a single stroke of a pen, Micron Technologies has changed the face of the DRAM business. Micron said it will continue to make memory at the Dominion plant and will refurbish it -- once the recession fades -- to match the processes found in...
[December 19, 2001, 12:09]
