AMD plans to launch its first desktop and laptop processors by the middle of the year that support DDR2

Intel sees current flash memory technology sustaining until the end of the decade, pushing out the need for ''universal memory" until 2010, according to Greg Komoto, manager of strategic planning for Intel's flash memory group.

SMIC said its testing and packaging facility in western China will begin operations in 2Q06 and the foundry expects to increase capacity by a third to 200,000 wafers per month by the end of 2006