Spansion sees profits in flash memory's future
News In these arrangements, Spansion will make the chips requiring the most advanced processes, while the foundries will make chips on manufacturing equipment that is one generation older. Charge trapping, moreover, can be used in NOR flash chips, a...
[November 29, 2007, 14:05]
Spansion redevelops mobile phone chip architecture
News Spansion, a former collaborative venture between Fujitsu and AMD, told ZDNet UK that phones using the MirrorBit Eclipse architecture, which combines several existing types of flash memory onto one die, will appear in the first half of next year.
[April 3, 2007, 12:25]
Four-bit-per-cell Flash memory demoed
News Spansion, the memory products manufacturer, has demonstrated four-bit-per-cell Flash memory for the first time. Spansion's nitride-based MirrorBit technology, coupled with the industry-tested MLC approach to multiplying Flash density, promises to...
[September 27, 2006, 14:05]
AMD spurred on by flash
News The company has continued to grow by taking customers away from Intel, in part by keeping costs lower, said Bertrand Cambou, chief executive of Spansion. When AMD took over Spansion, which started life as a joint venture between the chipmaker and...
[June 14, 2004, 9:00]
AMD beats expectations
News That figure includes sales of flash memory up until the final five days of the quarter, when AMD's Spansion joint venture offered shares to the public. This includes the one-time effect of reducing the chipmaker's ownership stake in Spansion to...
[January 19, 2006, 10:45]
AMD posts stellar growth
News The $780m recorded last year did not include $447m from Spansion, AMD's former flash memory venture that was spun off from the company in December. Last year, AMD lost $17m in the first quarter, based on a poor performance by Spansion.
[April 13, 2006, 9:10]
Intel climbs flash rankings
News Spansion, a joint venture between AMD and Fujitsu, meanwhile, saw sales sink. Spansion's market share dropped to 13.5 percent. Last week, Bertrand Cambou, chief executive of Spansion, attributed the losses to excess inventory, adding that the...
[November 17, 2004, 14:25]
Chipmaker meets expectations
News We achieved record Spansion flash memory sales in the second quarter and more than tripled operating income, from $14m to $45m," Robert J. AMD's Memory Group, which gains its revenue from AMD's Spansion joint venture with Fujitsu, achieved record...
[July 15, 2004, 14:35]
Hybrid drive to extend notebook battery life
News Samsung primarily produces NAND while Intel and Spansion produce NOR. Similarly, Intel and Spansion are concocting hybrid products. Microsoft and Samsung showed off a prototype hard drive on Monday that can record data while idling, a twist that...
[April 26, 2005, 12:15]
AMD denies executive rumours
News The memo clarified the roles of some groups under Dirk Meyer, who was promoted to president and chief operating officer of AMD in April of last year after the company spun off its Spansion flash memory division.
[April 10, 2006, 8:50]
Samsung shows off hard-drive based mobile
News Meanwhile, other manufacturers have begun to integrate telescopic zoom lenses into their phones, said Bertrand Cambou, CEO of Spansion, the flash memory joint venture between AMD and Fujitsu. In South Korea, a cell phone does it all.
[December 7, 2004, 8:50]
Renamed Philips Semi wins US passport contract
News AMD transformed its flash unit into Spansion, while Infineon's flash unit became Qimonda. Philips Semiconductor is now NXP, and one of its first notable deals is a contract to supply chips for e-passports to the US Government.
[September 1, 2006, 9:25]
Infineon turns to flash
News Aside from Samsung, the chipmaker will face competition from Toshiba, the second-largest NAND player, as well as from NOR flash makers, such as Advanced Micro Devices' and Fujitsu's Spansion joint venture, and Intel.
[January 7, 2004, 15:45]
AMD exposes flash plans
News Spansion, the flash memory division of AMD, will come out with new chips next year that could allow it to expand into wider markets. The company announced on Monday that in the first quarter of next year it will come out with the Ornand family of...
[November 9, 2004, 9:38]
AMD suffers in price war
News Spansion, the flash memory division, separated from the company in December through an initial public offering. As expected, AMD's second-quarter results came in below the company's targets, as it bore the brunt of a price war.
[July 21, 2006, 9:35]
