"...spin-off of Intel's and ST Microelectronics' NOR flash businesses into a combined new entity...The other partner in the NOR flash business is Hynix, the announcement of which is expected soon."

Surging demand for LCD TVs and mobile phones has prompted TDK to make a massive investment in a new production center. TDK will invest 50 billion yen in a new ceramic capacitor plant, the business daily Nikkei reported Sunday.

"...iSuppli's Kim said that he believed DRAM price would hit the US$15 level...analyst warning that Hynix, newly reborn into the DRAM first tier, would defend its new-found market share at just about any price..."

"... As DRAM pricing will shortly begin to bottom, customers demand has been improving..."

"...Construction is expected to start in the second half of 2007, with initial production in the second half of 2008...With an expected investment of $1 billion over ten years..."

"... demand environment for some of our semiconductor customers is improving compared to a soft first quarter, the wafer inventory recovery seems to be lagging..."

"...The industry continued to work through the excess inventory coupled with the usual seasonal slowness in the first quarter..."