"Huge new opportunties seen" for 40/100 GigE devices
Google and Amazon have a "desperate need" for 100G connections. Smells like component/ATE opportunity...Semi market won't recover until 2012...
The global semi industry will experience negative growth in '09, but will start to rebound at an annual growth rate of 4-5% from next year, according to Morris Chang.Semi market is now, "more predictabile?"
Intel's Otellini says business is, "more predictable." But also, "I'm not saying we know where the bottom is or that we've hit bottom." Er, isn't a steep downward slide also "predictable?"MoSys Selects Advantest's T5781ES
Selected for design and debug of its next generation 500Mhz embedded memory technologies. MoSys' products incorporate its patented 1T-Sram technologies.LTX-Credence Secures $40 Million credit
A 2-year, $40 million revolving line of credit to, "continue building market share." Huh?Fab tool book-to-bill falls to 0.10, says VLSI
How low can it go? The worldwide fab tool book-to-bill hit a staggering 0.10 ratio in January, its lowest point in recent memory, according to VLSI Research Inc.Advantest warns of record loss. Cuts 1,200 jobs
Advantest said it would cut more than a quarter of its workforce and warned it faces a record $804 million annual loss.Taiwan fab revenues fell off a cliff in January
The two major Taiwanese semiconductor chip foundries saw their revenues decline almost 60 per cent last month from a year ago.High-End Chip Developers Prefer TSMC over UMC
A report says that clients making chips using the most advanced fabrication processes turn to TSMC, not its arch-rival United Microelectronics Corp.More Articles...
- Chip firm Spansion to cut about 3,000 jobs
- Realtek Selects Teradyne UltraWave 12G for Wireless Test
- TSMC seems weak 40nm orders
- Research firm cuts IC forecast, sees recovery
- Verigy Q1 loses $64 million
- Semi growth "bytes" the dust ...
- Dreams of Indian fabs fading away
- Samsung to cut capex by 35 % in 09
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