Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) aims to ship 26 million desktop-use processors in the second half of this year, bringing its projected shipments of desktop CPUs for all of 2006 to about 46 million units, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers familiar with AMD's product roadmap.
In the months after the SCO Group's Linux-related lawsuit against IBM was filed nearly three and a half years ago, the tiny Utah software company saw its stock soar tenfold.
Excess stockpiles of PC microprocessors and core logic chipsets caused surplus semiconductor inventories in the global electronics supply chain to rise more than expected in the second quarter, according to research firm iSuppli.
Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) may give up constructing a sixth-generation (6G) LCD plant amid slow panel demand and rapid growth of panels for over-40" TVs, according to the Chinese-language Commercial Times.
Toshiba and Sandisk today announced that they begin construction of 12" fab Fab 4 for NAND flash production, following the companies' agreement that was announced in April 2006.
Google has struck a deal with American satellite radio company XM Satellite to allow the search engine's Adwords advertisers to automatically place ads on XM's non-music radio channels.
With prices for 19" widescreen monitors having increased, panel makers said they are seeing a stronger-than-expected demand for panels of the segment but are still evaluating whether they should launch a price increase, according to sources.
Strategic Marketing Associates (SMA) forecasts 35 new wafer fabs will begin to ramp the industry's monthly capacity to a new high in 2007 as most of the new fabs that began construction from 2004 will come online in 2007, and they will be joined by 8 of the 11 fabs that just began construction in the second quarter of 2006.
Foxconn International Holdings (FIH), the Hong Kong-listed handset subsidiary of Foxconn Electronics, is expected to see revenues grow by over 50% on year to $10 billion in 2006, according to market sources.
Hewlett-Packard (HP), in response to questions raised by Taiwan-based makers of optical disc drives (ODD) regarding the global adoption of its Lightscribe direct disc labeling technology, recently claimed it has won 25 new licensees, including Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and TEAC, raising the total number of licensees to above 70, according to industry sources in Taiwan.
Supply of 32" LCD TV panels will run short of demand by 10-15% in September, as large-scale US-based electronics retailers such as BestBuy and Circuit City have released orders for LCD TVs for the upcoming hot season, according to TFT LCD makers.
A potential partnership between Realtek and Intel whereby Realtek Semiconductor physical (PHY) interface technology is licensed for wireless USB solutions should lead to increased gross margins and net profits for the IC design house, industry sources indicated.
Qualcomm announced a strategic agreement with Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), whereby SMIC will provide integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing services to Qualcomm using a specialized BiCMOS process technology at its Tianjin, China facility.
Dell notebooks have appeared in several retail stores in China, according to sources at notebook manufacturers, who suspect that the leading notebook vendor may finally be adopting channel-marketing in the region.
Taiwan-based WLAN-equipment makers were caught off-guard by recent reports stating that sales of pre-N (802.11n draft 1.0) devices in the US channel have been slower than expected, with some brand vendors preparing to postpone, reduce, or even cancel, their third-quarter orders placed with Taiwan makers, according to sources at manufacturers.
Global revenues from mobile data services surpassed $100 billion for the first time, in 2005, at $102.1 billion, according to Informa Telecoms & Media.
Optodisc Technology and Prodisc Technology, both second-tier producers of optical discs in Taiwan, are facing financial pressures and are eagerly competing for orders of 8x DVD+R/-R discs by lowering OEM quotations from $0.15 to $0.12 per disc, according to industry sources.
