It’s been a week of big headlines in the technology field. The biggest story was the legal settlement reached between Advanced Micro Devices and Intel . These processor archrivals agreed to wrap up their legal disputes on business practices and patent issues, with Intel paying $1.25 billion to AMD. While Intel was spared further expense in an antitrust lawsuit that was scheduled to go to trial next year, its troubles over alleged anticompetitive behavior are not fully resolved . The... Read Full Story
Samsung Electronics Co ., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today that it has developed and validated the first 40-nanometer (nm) class DRAM chip and module.
This new 1-Gigabit DDR2 component (x8) and a corresponding 1-Gigabyte 800Mbps (Megabits per second) DDR2 SODIMM (small outline DRAM inline memory module) – both to be processed at 40-nm – have been certified in the Intel Platform Validation program for use with the Intel® GM45 series Express mobile... Read Full Story
Despite the economic slump that has battered the semiconductor business, a new player from the United States' Silicon Valley technology belt is investing billions of dollars in a bid to catch the next wave of growth. GlobalFoundries, formed in March, will focus on making next-generation chips, which it hopes will accelerate competition in a global foundry market dominated by Taiwanese and Singaporean firms. The company will spend 3.3 billion dollars to build a manufacturing plant in New... Read Full Story
Samsung Electronics Co. , the world’s largest maker of computer memory chips, said Wednesday it was replacing all heads of its overseas units as part of a reorganization aimed at coping with the deepening global economic slump.
what the company called the biggest-ever personnel reshuffle in its 40-year-old history, Samsung also reassigned 85 percent of the workforce at its Seoul headquarters, or some 1,200 employees, to production lines, sales operations or regional offices.
Only about... Read Full Story
In the 1950s, RCA first found the infrared radiation of gallium arsenide in other semiconductor alloys. LED is a luminescence component made of semiconductor materials. The component has two electrode terminals. Voltage is applied between the terminals and electricity is switched on. And after the combination of electricity and hole, the remaining power is released in form of light. Different materials have different wavelengths and thus send out lights of various colors. This is the basic... Read Full Story
In the 1950s, RCA first found the infrared radiation of gallium arsenide in other semiconductor alloys. LED is a luminescence component made of semiconductor materials. The component has two electrode terminals. Voltage is applied between the terminals and electricity is switched on. And after the combination of electricity and hole, the remaining power is released in form of light. Different materials have different wavelengths and thus send out lights of various colors. This is the basic... Read Full Story
Carleton S. Fiorina is in it to win it . The “it” the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard seeks is a US Senate seat from California. Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer has held the seat for three terms and is furiously raising money for re-election next year. Carly Fiorina made it official this month that she is a candidate for the Republican nomination to oppose Boxer. Her celebrity and wealth may not guarantee that she’ll get the nod, however. She faces Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, an Orange County... Read Full Story
I can’t claim to cover all sectors of the economy, being mostly confined to aerospace, electronics, industrial manufacturing, and transportation. Still, I’m here to report that there seem to be glimmers of hope (and change?) in the semiconductor capital equipment market, which is currently wandering through the economic desert. Semiconductor equipment could be seen as a “canary in a coal mine” kind of indicator. If equipment makers are seeing better business, that usually means chip makers... Read Full Story
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TAIPEI -- Top contract chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) said yesterday its October sales fell 10.6% from a year ago, as a slowdown in the global economy cut into demand for... Read Full Story
Mar
15
By Chuck
· 3:44 p.m. today · Print This Post
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An updated chart of the semiconductor index (SOX).
The ‘SOX’ index represents companies involved in semiconductor industries. The list of stocks this index follows are as follows:
Semiconductor Index (SOX) - Daily Chart
Altera (ALTR)
Applied Materials (AMAT)
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
Broadcom (BRCM)
Intel (INTC)
KLA-Tencor (KLAC)
Linear Technology (LLTC)
Marvell Technology (MRVL... Read Full Story
