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Financial crisis will cost Semi market more than $25B in 2009

One week after projecting a "long, dark season" for OEMs, Gartner Inc today estimated that the current financial crisis will remove more than $25 billion from the semiconductor market in 2009.

Test Houses 2009: Mergers and Partnerships on the way?

UMC and ASE willing to seek partnerships in 2009 while TSMC, PTI and SPIL have no merger plans.

TSMC CEO: Semi industry to decline 5-9% in 2009

Semiconductor industry sales will stay flat in 2008 and decline 5-9% next year, with wafer OEMs seeing even steeper declines.

ASE posts Q3, sees gloomy Q4

Amkor, STATS ChipPAC, and other subcontractors see a gloomy outlook for Q4. Add Taiwan's Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (ASE) to the list.

Teradyne/Teseda position solution against Verigy/Inovys

Teseda software to be integrated with IG-XL™. Is Envision and Openstar Open Architecture far behind?

TSMC, SMIC, UMC all cut CapEx

The foundries hold back on 2009 capacity expansion on cloudy visibility of end customer demands.

Advantest "places" OpenStar T2000 at University

Compact test head, air cooling (sorry Verigy!) and open specification makes a good fit for University.

Verigy establishes office in Isreal

Hmm, calling on Intel perhaps???

Motley "CAST" of ATE characters form new organization

STC is dead. Long list "CAST" and STIX. Intel, Qualcomm, ATE vendors form IC test group

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