A propaganda war has broken out between the leading FPGA vendors after recent admissions by Xilinx that problems with the Silk low-k material at foundry IBM have caused it to make changes to its process technology.

ATI launches the Mobility Radeon 9600 family at CeBIT - first chip to support DDRII-M memory, a new memory that operates at a lower voltage (consuming less power) and higher frequency than current VRAM.

Nvidia rolls out the GeForce FX Go5600 and Go5200 at CeBIT - retail availability expected by April.

Philips to lay off 520 in San Antonio on Sept. 30

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At the opening of SEMICON China on Tuesday

While leading-edge technology will remain tight in 2003, newly added capacity from new foundries is expected to cause a glut of trailing-edge capacity and pricing pressures in the marketplace, said UMC vice chairman Peter Chang

Flexing its muscle as the world's largest chipmaker, Intel is poised on Wednesday to show how its industry arm-twisting could make connecting to the Internet via wireless networks a standard feature on mobile computers within a year.