 The blog is written by Semiconductor Fabtech's Editor-in-Chief, Mark Osborne. He has been covering the semiconductor industry for over ten years. This area is intended to provide insight into topical stories of the time in a more informal manner.
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Sep 30, 2005 at 05:30 PM |
Micron Technology has struggled to wean its self off
producing nothing more than commodity DRAM in the last 18 months. However,
yesterday the Boise Idaho, based chip manufacturer caught many financial
analysts by surprise by producing a clear profit of the quarter instead of an
estimated $100 million loss.
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Sep 30, 2005 at 03:07 PM |
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A story posted by Mike Magee at theenquirer.net jogged my
memory concerning the exact same thing several years ago. Mike claims
its 2001, so I will go with flow on that one. Basically "Editor Magee"
has requested confirmation over what microprocessors Intel now uses
within its fabs to handle all of the production manufacturing execution
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Sep 29, 2005 at 08:35 PM |
News stories have been circulating all week about SMIC
blaming its shortfall in revenue projections due to late delivery of processing
tools. I found that highly unlikely as the foundry purchases the majority of
tools from major equipment suppliers who all can turn around orders within a
quarter.
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Sep 29, 2005 at 06:01 PM |
Samsung has announced a $33 billion dollar capex plan
through to 2012 that includes eight 300mm fabs and one new nano-capable R&D
facility. That's a big hand dealt at a time when 300mm fabs announcements are
few and far between.
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Sep 27, 2005 at 05:49 PM |
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SOI substrates
have been proved in volume manufacturing at chip manufacturers such as IBM,
Freescale and AMD. To further improve the inherent performance and/or low power
consumption properties of SOI wafers, Soitec has been developing a
layer-transfer strained SOI substrate that uses a silicon germanium alloy layer
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Sep 27, 2005 at 04:09 PM |
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Intel is still keeping quite over whether it will or will not build a
new 300mm fab in Israel. The chip giant teased us recently with
capacity expansions at two 200mm fabs in North America, that also
followed on from a new 300mm fab announced for Arizona.Write Comment (0 comments) |
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Sep 22, 2005 at 07:34 PM |
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Painful indeed
as Sony Corp outlined its new direction in the coming years, just as the last
new direction comes to an end. Jobs and factories will go. Jobs are going to
the tune of 10,000 (6,000 overseas & 4,000 in Japan) as well as cutting
manufacturing sites by 11, leaving Sony with 54 worldwide. Sony stated that
they had identified 15 business categories that would be downsizing, making
alliances with other companies or will be disposed of. The company is
re-organising itself in an effort to create about 5 percent operating profit
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Sep 21, 2005 at 04:06 PM |
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Intel Corporation is well known to journalist for its
minimalist information on just about everything it does as a company. But in
the field of process technology it reigns supreme in telling us just about zilch!Write Comment (0 comments) |
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Sep 19, 2005 at 07:10 PM |
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Two buddies got
together in very brief press release today that said SanDisk relies on Tower
Semiconductor and Tower says it is ready willing and able for SanDisk to rely
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Sep 19, 2005 at 07:09 PM |
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Texas Instruments is
to migrate "SmartReflex" leakage power technologies to 65nm devices, the
company said in a press statement. Some of the technology was first introduced
for some of TI's 90nm devices in the last 18 months and was positioned then as
a work around for leakage issues experienced at that node.Write Comment (0 comments) |
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