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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]
Combo chips to upsize Wi-Fi
News Sychip and other Wi-Fi semiconductor manufacturers are trying to woo customers by integrating radio functions into a single chip or package, company executives said at the Micro Ventures conference taking place this week.
[December 11, 2003, 9:10]
UK chip sales sag
News European chip sales in July stayed in the doldrums, despite encouraging figures for the industry globally, according to the European Electronic Component Manufacturers Association (EECA) and the European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA).
[September 3, 2003, 18:15]
Chip market grows in Europe
News Worldwide semiconductor sales for the month rose 2.9 percent from June to $11.35bn (£7.26bn), according to new statistics from World Semiconductor Trade Statistics and the European Electronic Component Manufacturers Association.
[September 3, 2002, 16:00]
Chip industry looks to 2GHz in 2001
News Microprocessor manufacturers will crack the 2GHz speed barrier and 3G devices will spur on the semiconductor industry in 2001, leading analysts predicted Thursday. New semiconductor fabrication technologies, including a spray-on polymer and...
[January 19, 2001, 11:56]
Rambus launches more antitrust action
News US and European regulators are investigating semiconductor manufacturers, including Infineon and Micron Technology, over potential price-fixing in the memory market. The suit, which also names Hynix Semiconductor and Infineon Technologies, alleges...
[May 6, 2004, 10:00]
Transistor houses two independent gates
News Dual- and triple-gate transistors are one of the many design concepts that semiconductor manufacturers hope to integrate into chips in the next decade. Most multiple-gate transistors are being proposed as a way to offload the drive current, which...
[November 11, 2003, 9:30]
Chipmakers' directory to combat counterfeiting
News It's not just the semiconductor manufacturers that suffer from counterfeit goods, the association claimed, but also consumers, who do not get what they pay for. According to Curt Gerrish, founder of Rochester Electronics, electronic goods...
[April 25, 2008, 11:05]
Demand for chip gear keeps surging
News Chip-gear manufacturers reported orders worth $1.1bn (£0.61bn) in December, according to the data released by Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) on Thursday. The December data support the positive outlook for strong growth...
[January 21, 2004, 15:45]
Semiconductors set for healthy 2004
News IDC expects these emerging Chinese semiconductor companies will play a key role in shaking up the competitive ranks among original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), original design manufacturers (ODMs), and semiconductor suppliers over the next five...
[December 31, 2003, 10:00]
Mac drive makers patch FireWire flaw
News Apple is working with Oxford Semiconductor and affected drive manufacturers to resolve this issue, which resides in the Oxford 922 chipset," the company said in a statement. In the interim, Oxford Semiconductor released a statement saying it is...
[November 3, 2003, 16:10]
UK leads Europe in chip design
News Other European countries still have world-class semiconductor manufacturers, including ST Microelectronics, the result of a French-Italian merger, which is headquartered in Geneva; Infineon, in Germany; and Phillips in the Netherlands.
[August 6, 2002, 15:09]
IBM teams up with Singapore's Chartered
News Instead of building factories on their own, companies are teaming up with other semiconductor manufacturers to build plants or are outsourcing production entirely to foundries. It is becoming almost impossible for the small semiconductor makers to...
[November 27, 2002, 9:15]
AMD and IBM deepen chip commitment
News The deal highlights how semiconductor manufacturers and designers are increasingly entering into alliances to survive. Still, IBM's semiconductor unit has found profits difficult to come by. A foundry that could benefit from the deal is Singapore's...
[September 22, 2004, 8:30]
Driving PowerPC forward
News Just ask Michel Mayer, chief executive of Freescale Semiconductor. Recently, Freescale signed a multiyear electronics design partnership with Cadence Design Systems and also acquired CommASIC, a fabless semiconductor company based in San Diego that...
[December 8, 2005, 13:45]
US aims to bring down China's regulatory wall
News In the 80s, Japanese and US semiconductor manufacturers sparred constantly. Recently, The Bush administration slightly relaxed its stance on the exportation of 130-nanometre semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China and will let companies...
[March 19, 2004, 14:45]
'Tennis-shoe glue' sticks circuits to chips
News If the process can eventually be used in mass production, it could help solve one of the significant problems facing semiconductor manufacturers: the cost and complexity of lithography. Semiconductor manufacturers also use a variety of polymers in...
[December 8, 2003, 7:55]
Irish chip designer makes positive noises
News The semiconductor market has been under the cosh for well over a year, with manufacturers cutting production and slashing jobs in an attempt to survive the downturn. Irish semiconductor designer Parthus pleased investors on Wednesday morning by...
[July 17, 2002, 13:27]
Dataquest Predicts: Intel puts its money behind Rambus
News Gordon believes Siemen's sell-off of Infineon will be positive and keep the semiconductor company in the top 5 manufacturers. Two months ago, Siemens spun off its semiconductor division in order to float Infineon Technologies on the stock market.
[June 8, 1999, 11:25]
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]
