Chinese foundry vendor Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) is ramping up a new and previously-announced 300-mm fab in Wuhan, China. The Wuhan government owns the fab and SMIC runs it....

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Sep 26, 2008 02:50 PM in Semiconductors

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Next week, I'll be providing a tongue-in-cheek "Modest Proposal" in the print and EDGE editions of EE Times, suggesting that Congressional negotiators consider limits on profit margins for futures and...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Sep 25, 2008 01:23 PM in Communications

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Look out below! The sky is falling! First, demand at leading silicon foundries has suddenly fallen off the cliff--an ominous sign for the entire IC industry....

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Posted by Mark LaPedus on Sep 23, 2008 02:21 PM in Semiconductors

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Another battle flared in the war for multi-core supremacy today as Intel announced its first dual-core Atom processor and AMD kicked off a marketing campaign for its 2009 Fusion CPUs....

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Sep 22, 2008 03:35 PM in Computing

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Four years ago, EE Times asked the question: with most manufacturing and even significant portions of design outsourced to other players, what was the mission of Nortel Networks? Following the...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Sep 19, 2008 11:12 AM in Communications

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When Applied Microcircuits Corp. released its Pemaquid Ethernet/Sonet processor in February, the company figured it had a hit on its hands. The mapper is intended for metro Ethernet markets moving...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Sep 15, 2008 10:58 AM in Communications

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Chinese foundry provider Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (ASMC) is in deep trouble and is reportedly being taken over by another China chip maker--Shanghai Belling, according to reports. ASMC has really...

Posted by Mark LaPedus on Sep 12, 2008 03:12 PM in Semiconductors

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American Technology Research analyst Doug Freedman downgraded the following chip stocks: ADI, CY, INTC, LLTC, MU, MXIM, NVDA, SMTC, and SNDK to ''NEUTRAL.'' ''A shift to lower-priced items, while good...

Posted by Mark LaPedus on Sep 12, 2008 03:04 PM in Semiconductors

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Recently, the EU and the U.S. separately removed DRAM duties from Hynix. Japan lowered its duties from Hynix' DRAMs to 9.1 percent. But Hynix is still not happy about it....

Posted by Mark LaPedus on Sep 10, 2008 07:55 PM in Semiconductors

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Japan's Fujitsu Ltd. recently spun-out its chip unit. Then, its top semi exec resigned. What's next? The group is looking for new partners, according to Reuters. The story can be...

Posted by Mark LaPedus on Sep 10, 2008 07:47 PM in Semiconductors

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After years (well, two, really) of wandering in the desert, the trade-show-formerly-known-as-Supercomm is back, with its old name and one of its old locations, Chicago. The squabbles between Telecommunications Industry...

Posted by Loring Wirbel on Sep 10, 2008 09:16 AM in Communications

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Based on the recent reports, SanDisk must be up for sale. Seagate could buy them, according to some rumors. Samsung could too. But one analyst on the Seeking Alpha Web...

Posted by Mark LaPedus on Sep 8, 2008 07:49 PM in Semiconductors

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All year long, I've been biting my tongue while the pundits and pontificators tried to minimize the impacts of an economic downturn, often performing rationalization gymnastics that seemed to...

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Posted by Loring Wirbel on Sep 4, 2008 11:33 AM in Communications

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The release of Google's Chrome has less to do with starting Browser Wars 2.0 with Microsoft and more about a battle over which language will rule for next-gen Web apps,...

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Posted by Rick Merritt on Sep 3, 2008 07:22 PM in Computing

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