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Chip sales down 30 pct in March: SIA

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created May 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Global semiconductor sales fell nearly 30 percent in March compared with a year ago but improved slightly over the previous month, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said Friday.


'Collapse' in semiconductor demand hits ASML

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Dutch computer chip equipment maker ASML on Wednesday announced net losses for the first quarter after a collapse in sales, but said it saw signs of improving market conditions.


National Semi CEO shifts from gadgets to megatrends

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created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Founded in 1959, Santa Clara, Calif.-based National Semiconductor is one the oldest and best-established technology companies in Silicon Valley. But it's going through a big change under the leadership of its outspoken chairman ...


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Semiconductor sales down 28.6 pct in January: SIA

Technology / Semiconductors

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Worldwide semiconductor sales declined 28.6 percent in January from a year ago as the global recession continued to take a big bite out of the computer chip industry, an industry tracker said Monday.





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Rambus says FTC has dropped antitrust claims

Technology / Business

created May 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Rambus Inc. said Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission has dropped its claim that the memory chip company violated antitrust laws in patenting technologies that were eventually incorporated into industry standards.


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Intel Microchip Packs Two Billion Transistors

Electronics / Hardware

created Feb 04, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (64) | comments 1

Intel has just announced the first microchip that contains more than two billion transistors - tiny switches that together perform the calculations in computers. The chip, known as Tukwila, marks a milestone ...


New 167-processor chip is super-fast, ultra energy-efficient

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 4

A new, extremely energy-efficient processor chip that provides breakthrough speeds for a variety of computing tasks has been designed by a group at the University of California, Davis. The chip, dubbed AsAP, is ultra-small, ...


Infineon said it had managed to limit its quarterly loss but warned that full-year asset writedowns would be larger

Chip maker Infineon trims loss, sees larger writedowns

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created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Troubled German semi-conductor maker Infineon said Wednesday that it had managed to limit its quarterly loss but warned that full-year asset writedowns would be larger than expected.


Rambus settles EU antitrust probe, avoids fines

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created Jun 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Memory chip company Rambus Inc. said Friday that European Union antitrust regulators had provisionally agreed to drop a probe and any fines if the company reduced its royalty rates for DRAM memory chip patents.


Taiwan Memory Company is set to form a partnership with Japan's Elpida Memory Inc

Taiwan's TMC to team up with Elpida of Japan

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Taiwan Memory Company (TMC), a new government-backed firm set up to consolidate the island's memory-chip industry, said Wednesday it will form a partnership with Japan's Elpida Memory Inc.


ARM Announces 45nm SOI Test Chip Results That Demonstrate 40 Percent Power Savings Over Bulk Process

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2

ARM announced at the IEEE SOI Conference, Foster City, Calif., the results from a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) 45nm test chip that demonstrate potential power savings of up to 40 percent over traditional bulk process for manufacturing ...


Taiwan's chip makers, powerful drivers of growth on the island, still face risky times.

Taiwan's chip makers still face dangers: analysts

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Taiwan's chip makers, powerful drivers of growth on the island, may have survived their worst crisis ever, but lacklustre sales and new rivals still make these risky times.


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Scientists Develop First Chip-Scale Thermoelectric Cooler

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- As computer chips become more powerful, they also become hotter. Nearly all the power that flows into a chip comes out of it as waste heat, and that heat hurts the performance of the chip. ...


AMD, Partners Produce Test Chip Using EUV Lithography

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 26, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (22) | comments 4

AMD, working together with its research partner, IBM, announced it has produced a working test chip utilizing Extreme Ultra-Violet (EUV) lithography for the critical first layer of metal connections across the entire chip. ...



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