Around the web news tagged Semiconductors

"In October of this year Asia/Pacific ?Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore ?accounted for 31 percent of wafer starts, Tracy observed, citing Strategic Marketing Associates data."

ON Semi to close back-end assembly in Czech Republic

SST and Sanyo pool resources to expand flash technology partnership into China (Nov 20)

Zeevo ships millionth Bluetooth SOC (Nov 20)

Intel looks beyond silicon (Nov 20)

Intel CEO sees rebound in corporate buying (Nov 20)

RF Micro Devices' Beijing facility receives ISO 14001:1996 certification (Nov 20)

Skyworks' RF subsystem powering BenQ's next generation GPRS handsets (Nov 20)

ESS announces 1.1 megapixel CMOS camera phone sensor module (Nov 20)

"We believe the D1210 is the industry's smallest 1/3" format 1.1 megapixel CMOS camera sensor module, measuring 9.1 x 9.5 x 7.2 millimeters,"

Jenoptik's M+W Zander to build AMD's new Dresden fab (Nov 20)

TSMC, facing IBM threat, invests in chip services (Nov 20)

A little background with brief mention of Omnivision JV towards end, implies TSMC's venture into packaging and testing will continue to grow.

UMC sells five million MediaTek shares, 77.1 million Teco shares (Nov 20)

AMD breaks ground on 300mm fab in Dresden, Germany (Nov 20)

Report: Tech employment dips, but rate slowing

iSuppli: Samsung unseats Intel as top flash vendor (Nov 20)

High fab utilization rates now shows chip industry running out of capacity, says VLSI Research

Amkor expands legal battle with Malaysia's Carsem (Nov 19)

Susquehanna Financial: NAND flash shortages to continue (Nov 19)

US Senate approves US$3.7 billion for nanotechnology R&D (Nov 19)

SEMI's book-to-bill reaches parity in October (Nov 19)

VLSI Research raises chip-equipment forecast for 2003, 2004 (Nov 19)

TSMC and OmniVision to establish joint venture VisEra

Amkor eyeballs memory card market

IBM to offer 64-bit PowerPC 970 in new blade server

Samsung readies next-generation network-DRAM line

Germany clears way for AMD chip plant in Dresden

Broadcom eyes Israeli Emblaze's chip unit -paper

Xilinx delivers Virtex-II Pro X FPGAS

Hynix files suit against EU over import duties on chips (Nov 19)

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Foundries to get more involved in design, says Chartered (Nov 18)

AMD says it will shift entirely to 64-bit chips by 2005 (Nov 18)

New technology seen stabilizing IC package sector

Renesas releases 256Mbit flash chip

Amkor files trade complaint against Malaysia's Carsem

Macronix board approves GDR issue (Nov 17)

Agilent posts small profit vs loss as sales slip (Nov 17)

Nvidia GeForce FX Go5700 GPU adopted by leading notebook makers (Nov 17)

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