Around the web news tagged Semiconductors

" to invest about $9.0 million in Swiss company VHF Technologies ...to build an industrial production line in Yverdon with an annual production capacity of 2-megawatts"

NOR flash vastly improves write speed (Jul 4)

Big Korean firms put their money into China (July 3)

Cree claims new white LED benchmark; buys semiconductor firm (Jule 3)

May semi sales up 9.4% (Jul 3)

Fairchild's new plan (July 3)

ATI receives DDR3 SO-DIMMs from Qimonda (Jul 4)

Toshiba licenses Staktek chip-stacking methods for NAND flash memory (Jun 30)

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ChipMOS special committee recommends retaining chairman and CEO despite indictment (Jun 30)

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Alliance Semiconductor gets delisting notice from Nasdaq (Jun 30)

Sanyo platinum engine brings HDTV home movies home (Jul issue)

Broadcom launches secure RFID (Jun 30)

Soloman Systech introduces low power and low cost timing controller for LCD monitor (Jun 30)

Solomon Systech introduces mini-RGB interface system solution with single chip TFT LCD driver for mobile applications (Jun 30)

Polysilicon shortages seen curbing semi growth (Jun 29)

"...total polysilicon production was 30,000 tons last year...polysilicon production will reach 40,000 tons in 2007...polysilicon demand by the solar-cell industry is slated to double to nearly 20,000 tons..."

Stakek in license deal with Toshiba (Jun 30)

Tower completes $31 million fundraising (Jun 29)

"...this fundraising will enable Tower to further grow our Fab2 capacity..."

Apple: Stock options possibly mishandled (Jun 30)

"... its own internal investigation had uncovered "irregularities" in employee stock options issued between 1997 and 2001... threatens to raise questions about the accuracy of past financial statements..."

Samsung pleased by rosy results (Jun 22)

Chips stock jump (Jun 29)

N. American semiconductor equipment industry posts May 2006 B/B ratio of 1.02 (Jun)

Windows Vista better, but not a breakthrough (Jun 29)

Nanosys to expand flash memory collaboration With Intel and Micron (Jun 29)

ATI swings to profit (Jun 29)

Wacker Chemie invests 300 mln eur in expanding polysilicon production (Jun 28)

Renesas to establish R&D center in Vietnam (Jun 29)

Lumileds claims LED luminance records (Jun 29)

Fixing Apple's "sweatshop" woes (Jun 29)

Micron beats earnings estimates (Jun 28)

TI tries to revive stalled DLP chip sales (Jun 27)

Xilinx issues Spartan-3 recall (Jun 28)

"...the recall pertains specifically to parts marked with date codes between 0537 and 0617...the root cause is packaging/assembly, not silicon, and that only one customer has confirmed failure..."

Altera and Xilinx slip on downgrades (Jun 28)

No royalty cut, Qualcomm says (Jun 28)

SMIC announces 12-inch fab construction at Wuhan (Jun 28)

Infineon claims its automotive electronics business grows faster than the market (Jun 28)

Philips Lumileds SuperFlux LEDs in red, red-orange and amber available as RoHS compliant, lead-free parts (Jun 27)

Pentagon fears enemies could tamper with chips (Jun 27)

Is Intel showing some much-needed business savvy in its XScale sale? (Jun 28)

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