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Via sets date for Pentium 4 chipset launch
News The Taiwan semiconductor manufacturer, the second largest chipset maker after Intel, is using both the S3 and Via brands on the new chipsets in an attempt to dodge legal trouble with Intel, motherboard makers have said.
[August 13, 2001, 15:56]
Motorola posts first loss in 15 years
News First Call consensus pegged the semiconductor and wireless telephone handset maker for a loss of only 7 cents a share on sales of $7.96bn. Motorola's semiconductor sales fell 22 percent from the year-ago quarter to $1.5 billion.
[April 11, 2001, 9:13]
Update: Acer signs IBM and promises more
News And Acer is also widely expected to sell up to 30 per cent of memory-chip maker Acer Semiconductor to microchip foundry leader Taiwan Semiconductor. Also in March, IBM and corporate data storage equipment maker EMC agreed on a $3 billion computer...
[June 7, 1999, 14:56]
Aftermath unclear from S3-Diamond merger
News Three years ago, S3 attempted to diversify its semiconductor products. This could definitely work," said Mike Feibus, principal analyst at semiconductor watcher Mercury Research Inc.listing the possible strengths each company brings to the deal...
[June 23, 1999, 9:08]
Deal sends tremors through DRAM biz
News The Nampa, Idaho-based DRAM (dynamic random access memory) manufacturer announced on Tuesday that it has inked a deal to acquire Toshiba's Dominion Semiconductor subsidiary. Hynix Semiconductor, the struggling Korean giant, could also be affected.
[December 19, 2001, 12:09]
Merger approval paves way for faster chips
News ASML is the world's second largest maker of scanners and steppers, machines which map out semiconductor circuitry on silicon wafers. The US government has approved the acquisition of Silicon Valley Group by the Netherlands' ASM Lithography, a deal...
[May 3, 2001, 13:06]
Bluetooth snags a new backer
News The Bluetooth semiconductor market could grow to $2.6bn (£1.6bn) in 2006 from $76.6m last year, the market research firm predicted. Via got into the microprocessor market in 1999 when it acquired the microprocessor divisions of National...
[October 2, 2002, 7:51]
Despite growth, semiconductor sector falters
News Investors hammered semiconductor stocks Monday, even as experts were predicting the industry would see strong growth for several more quarters. Analysts said the market jitters come down to several factors, such as a perceived slowdown in PC demand...
[October 10, 2000, 14:00]
Texas Instruments sees losses ahead
News Engibous added that it seems that the rate of sequential decline for the company's semiconductor orders has slowed. He also suggested there was evidence that revenue from semiconductor sales is nearing a bottom.
[July 24, 2001, 11:53]
The Day Ahead: Dell tries Wall St. balancing act
News The company blamed "a slower-than-expected rebound in sales to corporate and institutional customers related to the Y2K rollover" and an "inconsistent flow of key semiconductor components" for its problems.
[January 27, 2000, 11:47]
Memory makers ride out downturn
News VLSI Research, which tracks the semiconductor industry, says that all of the top DRAM producers have trimmed production, hoping to get close to a supply/demand balance. But analysts believe it's unlikely any of the larger players, including Samsung...
[August 8, 2001, 9:09]
Memory prices plunge amid market-share scramble
News A few bad apples seem to be hurting the semiconductor industry, according to its trade organisation. The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) initially thought revenue would grow about 10 percent this year.
[June 15, 2007, 8:43]
Nat Semi announces PC-on-a-chip
News But the development of the Geode SC1400, as it is called, may be a pyrrhic victory for National Semiconductor's chief executive officer, Brian Halla, and his chief lieutenant on the project, Israeli engineer Sidi Yomtov.
[July 16, 1999, 9:31]
UK markets near year lows
News Warnings after-hours on slowing fourth quarter sales from two industry leaders, semiconductor maker Altera and personal computer maker Gateway knocked four percent off Nasdaq at the open. Other semiconductor firms pummelled by the US warnings...
[November 30, 2000, 15:03]
Carbon nanotubes rise up food chain
News A large semiconductor maker has signed a deal with Nantero to use its technology for making memory with carbon nanotubes, in the second licensing agreement for the nanotechnology start-up. It is a company with a fab," or semiconductor fabrication...
[July 2, 2004, 9:10]
Samsung bets on controversial memory standard
News The Korean semiconductor maker said late last week that it had released DDR400 samples to chipset makers Via Technologies, Nvidia and Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS), and said the SDRAMs are available in 128-megabit and 256-megabit densities.
[March 19, 2002, 17:22]
US clears way for semiconductor merger
News Dutch semiconductor manufacturing equipment maker ASM Lithography said on Thursday it had received approval from the US government to buy California-based Silicon Valley Group (SVG). The deal will create the largest semiconductor equipment provider.
[May 3, 2001, 11:01]
Micron Electronics doubles Q4 estimates
News Much of the company's upside surprise was derived from sales growth in its SpecTek semiconductor unit. First Call consensus pegged the PC maker for a profit of 7 cents a share this time around. Micron Electronics stormed past analysts' estimates in...
[September 28, 1999, 9:13]
IBM adds 'trusted' chip to PCs
News IBM will be the first computer maker to use National Semiconductor's SafeKeeper Trusted I/O Device, which stores a computer's identity in silicon, making it harder for outsiders to access. IBM plans to start shipping its PCs with a new chip...
[September 16, 2004, 10:00]
Freescale joins IBM in semiconductor alliance
News Other chipmakers that have lined up with IBM include AMD, Sony, Toshiba, German memory maker Infineon and Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor. Freescale Semiconductor, formerly Motorola's chip group, will join a semiconductor technology alliance...
[January 23, 2007, 8:31]
