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1. Micron, Intel develop three bit per cell NAND flash

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 11 August 2009

   The joint venture created by Intel and Micron said that it has developed a three bit per cell multi level NAND chip, aimed at the flash card and USB market.The joint venture created by Intel and Micron ...

2. Semi market stutters all the way through this year

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 11 August 2009

   ... players like TSMC. Rank Company CEO 1 Intel Corporation Paul Otellini 2 Samsung Electronics Kim-Hee Lee 3 Toshiba Semiconductors Shozo Saito 4 Texas Instruments ...

3. IBM sued over DRAM patents

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 17 July 2009

   ... alleging that IBM has breached a number of patents relating to dynamic random access memory (DRAM). The suit, filed on the 13th of July, by Mosaid, a Canadian intellectual property company which has a ...

4. NAND memory goes Flash, bang, wallop

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 12 May 2009

   ... 36 percent of the market. Toshiba has 35.5 percent share, Micron sold $200 million worth, while Hynix dropped to fourth place with revenues of $171 million.  Intel's revenues in the first calendar ...

5. Nanya hopes for DRAM rebound

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 30 April 2009

   ... wants the government of Taiwan to chip in to the extra share offering, according to the Taipei Times. There is some evidence that the situation in the semiconductor market is improving. Intel said there ...

6. Report: Flash memory heading toward price decline

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 03 February 2009

   ... Baird expects SanDisk to lose its cost leadership against Intel/Micron later this year, which would indicate substantial price drops in the market. 2009 was predicted by most flash manufacturers as the ...

7. International merger between Micron, Nanya and Inotera expected soon

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

   Monday, 19 January 2009

   ... - namely that DRAM-related intellectual property be transferred to Taiwan's DRAM industry players directly - without which, any bailout efforts would be futile. The companies are looking strongly to ...

8. Report: NAND, DDR2 memory prices heading back up

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 19 January 2009

   ... "siblings" approach to the alliance's power structure. Qualcomm is expecting 15 companies to launch Snapdragon-based netbooks before the end of June, 2009. Intel is currently planning to launch a new ...

9. Micron looking to build three-five DRAM alliance

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

   Thursday, 15 January 2009

   ... to bailout its ailing DRAM makers, though the current plan calls for buying up intellectual property and transferring it to Taiwan. The government believes without this plan for long-term revenue assurance, ...

10. Taiwan government says DRAM maker bailout will only work with IP base

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 07 January 2009

    ... would only work if there was a sufficient intellectual property (IP) base to build future revenues on. Without IP, any bailout efforts are essentially futile. Chen Chao-Yih, MOEA administrator, said ...

11. Scientists create transparent memory chip

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 11 December 2008

      A group of scientists at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) claims it has created an “almost completely clear” transparent resistive random access memory (TRRAM). We have ...

12. Micron promises supercharged 1 GB/s SSD

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 25 November 2008

    ... eight-core Intel Xeon PC with two SSDs The difference to your average SSD is that these drives are not connected via a PATA or SATA interface and therefore are not limited to the bandwidth limit of 300 ...

13. Intel, Micron go after Samsung with 34 nm flash

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 24 November 2008

      Leading in flash production technology is a big advantage in cutting losses and perhaps even see a profit in the troubled NAND flash segment. Micron’s and Intel’s joint venture IM Flash Technologies (IMFT) ...

14. Seagate SSD release date slips into 2009

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 10 October 2008

    ... is a range of new competitors, most importantly Intel, that are offering SSDs and aren’t likely to settle for second place by default. While SSDs are still expensive, 64 GB media have just undercut the ...

15. Timeline: How AMD changed over the past 39 years

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 07 October 2008

    ... chips. 1970: AMD introduces the Am2501 logic counter, its first proprietary device. 1972: AMD goes public. 1975: AMD enters the RAM chip business, reverse-engineers the Intel 8080 microprocessor and ...

16. UPDATE - Nextfest: Toyota shows off 36 mph chair

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 29 September 2008

    ... and make independent decisions. Inventor David Hanson claims that his “animated persona is designed to someday surpass human levels of intelligence.” But as said, he was not working when we were there ...

17. Bargain hunting: Samsung offers $5.8 billion for Sandisk

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 16 September 2008

    ... even industry giants such as Hynix and Intel-Micron have a hard time to keep the pace. Companies such as Sandisk, whose business depends on stable flash prices, were hit especially hard over the past ...

18. NAND flash makers extend their presence to USB memory drives

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 26 August 2008

    Sluggish NAND flash demand and demand from OEM customers has prompted chipmakers to extend their presences beyond chip production. Among major NAND flash makers, Intel, Micron Technology and Samsung ...

19. Intel tests mass storage waters with new SSDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 19 August 2008

    ... into a new business segment that promises a virtually endless business opportunity: Intel is the latest company to jump into the solid state disk (SSD) market that still promises high margins, but grows increasingly ...

20. Intel prepping SSDs with up to 160 GB capacity

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 14 August 2008

      Intel is expected to unveil new products within its solid state disk (SSD) drive family. Following its joint venture partner Micron, which recently introduced new RealSSD drives, Intel-branded ...

21. Apple orders 50 million 8 GB NAND flash chips

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 03 July 2008

    ... 40% of its NAND Flash memory output for Apple's iPod products in November 2005. That year, Apple announced that it had reached a long-term supply agreement with flash memory makers (Hynix, Intel, Micron, ...

22. Intel and Micron announce new flash chips: 1000 songs on your fingernail

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 29 May 2008

      Despite continuing pricing pressure in the global flash industry, manufacturers are pushing hard to drive the technology further along: Intel and Micron are first to announce 34 nm NAND flash ...

23. Intel takes aim at AMD’s cash cow

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 15 April 2008

      Intel today announced what it called a “solid start” into the new year. But the company can’t hide that it was a mixed bag of good news and bad news overall, with higher revenue but less profit, ...

24. Terahertz computing may not be dead after all

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 15 April 2008

      The Gigahertz race was probably one of the most ill-fated ideas in the microprocessor industry in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Intel was almost brought down to its knees by the enormous power ...

25. Micron, Samsung, Qimonda announce DDR3 notebook memory

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 02 April 2008

    Micron, Samsung and Qimonda said that Intel has validated their DDR3 SO-DIMMs for the upcoming Centrino 2 platform, previously code-named Montevina. It appears that all three companies have been sampling ...

26. Apple cuts flash forecast, iPod sales growth may slow

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 20 February 2008

    ... revenue. The only companies to achieve a sequential gain in revenue were Intel and Micron, which produce NAND through their joint venture, IM Flash Technologies (IMFT).  ...

27. Intel, Micron sample 200 MB/s flash memory

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 01 February 2008

    Intel and Micron are first to announce NAND flash memory chips using the new high-speed interface specified by the Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI) group: The new memory promises five times the read/write ...

28. Intel may exit Flash business – analyst

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 17 January 2008

    Intel was the first company to heavily invest into flash production and it may become one of the first big names to leave this market behind. In-Stat believes that Intel may be dropping its NAND flash ...

29. Intel pads MID launch with tiny solid state drives

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 17 December 2007

    We have no doubt, the Mobile Internet Device will turn out to be what the UMPC was intended to become – a mass market pocket computing platform. And Intel finally develops the components such a ...

30. Hynix, Micron and Intel deliver flashy performances in Q3 NAND flash market, says iSuppli

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 30 November 2007

    Amid strong growth in global NAND flash memory sales in the third quarter, Hynix Semiconductor, Micron Technology and Intel impressively outperformed the competition, according to a preliminary ranking ...

31. Intel and Micron aggressively bidding NAND flash orders from Taiwan customers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 27 November 2007

    While memory module houses in Taiwan have seen a lessen of NAND flash supply from Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor recently, strengthening ties with Intel and Micron Technology are observed ...

32. Tech Tour Intel: Gainestown spotted in the microsurgery silicon debug lab

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 06 November 2007

    While on-site at Intel's Jones Farm campus last week, TG Daily editor Rick Hodgin had the opportunity to tour one of the microsurgery silicon debug labs.  In this article, we'll present a ...

33. Samsung dominates a growing NAND flash market

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 14 August 2007

    ... with sales of $440 million and a share of 14.6%. The joint venture formed by Intel and Micron achieved a combined $230 million and a share of 7.7%, while both companies were listed separately as Intel ...

34. Micron 2 Gbit DDR3 ready to go, but demand not there

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 06 June 2007

    With Intel's DDR3-supporting Bearlake chipsets now officially launched, players in the DRAM market will begin their transitions to DDR3 production. Like many other DRAM makers, Micron Technology is ...

35. Computex 2007

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    Sunday, 03 June 2007

    Coverage from Computex 2007 (Taipei, Taiwan, June 5-9, 2007).   Computex 2007 Taipei, Taiwan   June 5-9     Top Story Intel releases ...

36. Dell, Intel and Microsoft to promote flash memory for PC platforms

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 30 May 2007

    Dell, Intel and Microsoft today announced the formation of the Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface (NVMHCI) working group to develop a standard software programming interface for PC-based NAND ...

37. Intel sets up joint partnership with STMicro

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 22 May 2007

    Intel announced today that it has struck an agreement with STMicroelectronics to create a new company dedicated to manufacturing flash memory. Santa Clara (CA) - Intel announced today that it has struck ...

38. Intel validates DDR3 memory from Elpida, Micron, Samsung

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 14 May 2007

    As the release of Intel’s 3-series chipsets and FSB1333 Core 2 Duo processors approaches, more system memory suppliers have been validated buy Intel to provide memory for its platform code-named ...

39. TSMC to ramp up production of Intel Wi-Fi chips in 3Q

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 09 May 2007

    Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to ramp up its production of Intel's 802.11n Wi-Fi chips at 0.13-micron in the third quarter, according to industry sources.TSMC is already ...

40. Intel could be dropping NOR flash business, analyst suggests

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 03 April 2007

    Once the leading NOR flash manufacturer, Intel may actually be on its way out of building this type of flash memory - and favor the faster growing NAND flash type instead.Scottsdale (AZ) – Once the ...

41. Spansion displaces Intel as largest NOR Flash supplier

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 09 February 2007

    ... has finished the 2006 calendar year as the world's largest NOR Flash memory manufacturer. According to iSuppli, the company increased its revenues by 25% year over year, while Intel saw its revenues ...

42. Core rings Intel's cash registers in Q4

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 16 January 2007

    Intel today reported fourth quarter 2006 revenues of $9.7 billion, down about 5% from last year. Net earnings came in at 1.5 billion, down a dramatic 39% from $2.5 billion in Q4 2005. But Intel appears ...

43. IBM leads 2006 patent list

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 11 January 2007

    ...  Other notable U.S. entries are Intel in position 6 (1962), Micron in 10 (1612), Microsoft in 12 (1463), General Electric in 14 (1051), Texas Instruments in 18 (884) and Sun in 21 (776). The top-25 list ...

44. IBM slows flow of light to accelerate silicon chips

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 26 December 2006

    ... revealed photonic research include Intel's hybrid silicon laser chip, a chip that combines traditional electrical and future optical technologies. The company claims that the device announced in September ...

45. Disappointing flash memory revenues could point to drop in iPod sales

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 14 November 2006

    ... flash joint venture with Intel, gave up 8% year-over-year, while Intel is listed on #6 as a new competitor in the list. Samsung still leads the ranking with 43.1% market share, followed by Toshiba (27.8%), ...

46. Texas Instruments introduces first DDR3 memory register

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 07 November 2006

    ... platforms taking advantage of DDR3 memory will be Intel's 3-series chipsets, currently code-named "Bearlake", which will be introduced in the second quarter of 2007 as P35 and G33 models. An enthusiast ...

47. Intel and Micron to build 50 nm flash fab

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 06 November 2006

    IM Flash Technologies, a joint venture between Intel and Micron, today announced that it will break ground on a fourth flash manufacturing facility in the first half of next year. The factory will initially ...

48. New Catalyst driver accelerates Intel 965 Crossfire configurations

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 31 October 2006

    ... in your graphics card: A supercomputer? ATI to use third graphics card to run physics processing Clearspeed updates 50 GFlops accelerator board Multi-core processors may replace physics cards, says Intel ...

49. Intel Q3 profits take a 35% hit

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 17 October 2006

    The successful introduction of Intel's Core microarchitecture wasn't enough to save the company's third quarter result. Compared to the same period of 2005, revenues were down about 12% from $9.7 billion ...

50. Micron samples DDR3 memory

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 25 September 2006

    ... will be the final stage of mainstream devices as the next DDR generation is appearing on the Horizon. Following the announcements of Samsung's prototypes and Elpida's sample shipments to Intel, Micron ...