Around the web news tagged Semiconductors

Phoenix will integrate the McAfee Personal Firewall Plus online managed service into the Phoenix Core Managed Environment (cME) Console for worldwide distribution later this quarter.

MediaTek licenses HDMI technology from Silicon Image (Feb 10)

Sony and Toshiba to extend cooperation to 45nm process technologies for next-generation system LSI (Feb 12)

VIA announces KT880 dual-channel chipset for AMD Athlon XP processor (Feb 12)

Billionton Systems to use SiS552LV SoC in consumer products (Feb 10)

Intel wins Intergraph appeal (Feb 11)

Infiniband standard prepares for leap to 100-Gbit/s (Feb 11)

Patriot sues Intel over processor clocking patent (Feb 11)

Foundry Watch: TSMC cycle times hurt Nvidia's margins (Feb 11)

Broadcom buys storage patent portfolio from Cirrus Logic (Feb 11)

Infineon, Staktek settle in memory stacking suit (Feb 11)

Next cycle more 'dangerous,' Altera CEO predicts (Feb 11)

Applied's 1Q order rates to exceed projections (Feb 11)

FSA, VSIA garner support for quality IP metric (Feb 10)

FSA: Fabless funding increased 23% in 4Q (Feb 11)

Four firms form Structured ASIC Association, launch website (Feb 11)

Xilinx in talks with IBM to revive foundry deal (Feb 11)

SanDisk unveils Shoot and Store memory card (Feb 11)

AMD board names Ruiz as chairman elect (Feb 11)

Intel silicon optical modulator reaches 1GHz (Feb 11)

NEC again selects Genesis for LCD monitor controller chips

STATS, ChipPAC merger may lead to lower 2004 capex

Taiwan exports rise 17.5% on sales to China

Philips back in the black

ST denies Powerchip will make its flash memory (Feb 10)

Taiwan Business News on Monday reported that Powerchip is planning to use 13% of its 12-inch wafer plant capacity in 2004 to produce mobile phone flash chips for ST and Renesas Technology.

TI releases new digital processor for cameras (Feb 10)

VIA Eden ESP processors now fanless at speeds up to 1GHz (Feb 10)

Nikon says chip stepper sales to rise 23% in 04/05 (Feb 9)

Samsung introduces industry's fastest GDDR3 graphics memory device (Feb 9)

Fake AMD chips seized in Asia (Feb 9)

Update - STATS buys ChipPAC for US$1.6 billion (Feb 10)

TSMC's US foundry unit WaferTech boosts capex, plans to add jobs (Feb 10)

STATS: No comment on any ChipPAC deal (Feb 10)

The Wall Street Journal said STATS is in talks to buy ChipPAC for US$1.5 billion in stock

Samsung Electronics to invest 286.5 billion won in memory line (Feb 10)

In a Feb 3 article, Dow Jones said Samsung's board approved investing 359.7 billion won to upgrade DRAM production technology at its Hwasung and Giheung facilities.

Synopsys to distribute TSMC'S libraries through DesignWare Library (Feb 9)

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