"...Advantest sales have slowed as major clients such as Intel pushed back plans to buy machines..."

"...Applied Materials retained the top spot while Tokyo Electron and ASML remained in second and third spots respectively - the fifth consecutive year all three leading suppliers retained their positions..."

"...TSMC insists the aim of its internal IP efforts is to help its customers bring their chip products to market more rapidly. But some observers suggested another motive, noting that the foundry provider is focusing on proprietary physical-level "hard" IP, which cannot be ported to competitive foundries. Thus, customers of TSMC's IP could be locked into its fabs..."

Motorola says it will buy video-chip maker Terayon for US$140 million in cash.

"...In addition to investment in Rexchip, Elpida will spend 130 billion yen for process migration to 70nm at E300 Fab.... PC DRAM prices are expected to remain at low levels in 1H07. In response , Elpida plans to accelerate the shift in process technology from 90nm to 70nm...."

"...PH150XP probe cards have already been shipped to leading memory manufacturers for evaluation...PH150XP is a more costeffective solution for testing smaller-sized, smaller density DRAM devices (512MB and below) where tester resources mandate four or more touchdowns per wafer..."

Trident Microsystems recently announced that six leading Chinese TV OEMs -- Changhong, Haier, HiSense, Konka, Skyworth, and Xoceco -- have begun production of new models with Trident's SVP WX ten-bit video processor.

"...a noteworthy achievement that Taipei followed through on its promise to allow Taiwan chipmakers to transfer 0.18-micron technology to China, but this step really should have been taken a year ago....Taiwan needs to find ways to reduce the heavy political rhetoric surrounding..."

"...The Marvell 88W8686 WLAN processor draws less than 400mW - and the smallest total WLAN footprint available – less than 50 mm2..."

"TI declared a 100% increase in its regular quarterly cash dividend to US$0.08 per quarter, resulting in annual dividend payments of $0.32 per share..."

"...Worldwide semiconductor revenue is projected to grow 7.9% in 2007 to US$267.3 billion...The industry should surpass US$300 billion in revenues in 2010..."

"...profit surged because of lower production costs had helped Intel withstand another round in a fierce price battle with AMD..."

"...The results paint a picture of dynamic markets in the Asia-Pacific region, notably China and India; a rebound in Europe, with the big German market especially strong; a continuing recovery in Japan; and sluggishness in the US..." "

"...Toshiba is saying to its competitors that NAND demand may continue to grow for many years, but it will be the lower cost producers that make any decent returns. The capital being spent at Fab 4 is returned with low but acceptable margins due the immense scale of the facility...Are the others matching this?... No!..."

"...Among those contacted are private equity groups Blackstone, Carlyle; semiconductor makers Elpida, Renesas, Rohm, Hynix and Infineon..."

"... a gain of 697 million euros from the sale of the holding in TSMC...Philips said it made ``strong progress'' toward meeting its targets...Philips now owns 12.8 percent in Taiwan Semiconductor, the world's largest maker of custom-made chips, and said in March it plans to have sold the rest by 2010 after selling a majority stake in its chip unit to a group of buyout firms last year..."