"...Although the higher demand is expected to help shore up average selling prices, a strong pricing recovery may not occur until the end of 2007 at the earliest and perhaps not until 2008..."

"...Intel's so-called Turbo Memory appears to be having trouble getting up to speed... It's pretty fair to say that the whole flash-enhanced [PC] performance ... story has lost a lot of momentum..."

"...Toshiba plans to speed up its flash memory expansion plans and boost production capacity by 70% by June 2008, six months ahead of schedule...its total monthly capacity would hit 260,000 wafers a month by June 2008..."

"...STATS ChipPAC will transfer assembly and test assets used to manufacture discrete power packages to Mingxin which is located in Ningbo city, Zhejiang province in China...Transitioning out of the discrete power market will enable STATS ChipPAC to better focus resources on strategic advanced products..."