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The blog is written by Semiconductor Fabtech's Editor-in-Chief, Mark Osborne. Mark is also the Senior News Editor for Photovoltaics International and the PV-Tech website. He has launched multiple technology titles in print and online covering manufacturing in the automotive, shipping, semiconductor and solar sectors in a publishing career spanning three decades. Mark started blogging in 2005, the first technology editor to do so and has worked online since 1996. A veteran manufacturing technology journalist and editor, Mark as been responsible for a series of innovative formats for delivering technical content to an engineering-based audience. Saifun a snap
08 October 2007
Spansion's acquisition of Saifun has been spun as some kind of
perfect partnership that will produce $ profits where Saifun failed on
its own as an IP standalone entity.
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CapEx conundrum for 2008
04 October 2007
There is a murky grey mist covering most of the UK at the moment and
visibility is rather poor. The revised Gartner CapEx spending forecast
may be accurate from the point of view of what has happened this year,
but there remains a considerable lack of clear visibility over the
revised projections for 2008.
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Hynix in home run!
01 October 2007
According to Korean newspaper ET News, Hynix Semiconductor is
planning to start placing equipment orders this month for its M11 fab
currently under construction.
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Spot the memory
27 September 2007
DRAM prices are diving again, especially on the spot market,
according to Hynix, who has pulled out of selling approximately 15
percent of its DRAM in that manner. The problem is that spot prices
have fallen below production cost values once again as memory
manufacturers continue to ramp fabs aggressively.
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Say sayonara to Sanyo Semiconductor
23 September 2007
If news stories coming out of Japan are correct, then Sanyo is selling
its semiconductor division to a Japanese private equity firm, Advantage
Partners, for something close to ¥100 billion.
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Hacked off!
20 September 2007
I would like to apologise to our many readers that we have been
experiencing server problems this week and some stories and pages could
not be viewed all of the time. The problem is due to some “unknowns”
trying to hack into our server and we are dealing with these issues as
best we can.
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Spansion: NOR no bore anymore!
19 September 2007
Spansion has officially announced that it has started production at
its first 300mm fab, SP1. This is an important milestone for the NOR
flash memory producer within its first year of becoming a public
company.
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Spin wins with Intel’s Fab 68
10 September 2007
Intel Corp. may have announced groundbreaking at its first front-end
300mm fab in Asia (Dalian, China) but more specifically, according to
Intel in its press release; this symbolises Intel's manufacturing
leadership, ability to cultivate engineering talent, acceleration of
the growth of the IT ecosystem as well as Intel's culture of
environmental leadership.
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Applied Materials v Oerlikon Solar - with a twist!
07 September 2007
Applied Materials' entry to the solar equipment manufacturing market
just over a year ago is starting to make that market very interesting
to watch and also to write about!
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AMD fab ramp update
06 September 2007
It has been some time since we covered manufacturing activity at AMD,
with much of the news focused on the company's financial problems and
delayed products.
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