"...Elpida can charge as much as 30% more by selling chips directly to customers...the company said its business model allows us to report a profit even amid severe price declines for memory used in PCs..."

"...the new memory would pack a hundred bits of data on a single nanowire, could potentially store 10-100 times more data than flash...because it's solid-state memory, it would be far sturdier than magnetic hard drives...the devices could also be more compact and cheaper than conventional solid-state memory..."

"...PC makers are likely to order double the number of chips they actually need...issues around overcapacity and the risk of double ordering will drive fundamentals and the stocks over the next 6-12 months..."

Using Omniscient Code Generation (OCG) technology, the compiler examines all program modules prior to compilation, optimizing pointers, registers and stack allocation, as well as eliminating redundant code. The compiler also frees up SRAM and reduces contention for the PSoC device's index register by compiling directly addressable, optimized function stacks for all non-recursive and non-re-entrant code. Since small code size executes in fewer cycles, the new compiler also increases PSoC device performance.

The new LSI is used for six new models of Panasonic's new DIGA-series HD video recorders, including Blu-ray disc recorders with a hard disc drive (HDD) and HDD/DVD recorders, scheduled for release in November 2007. The new-generation UniPhier integrates 250 million transistors onto an LSI chip and uses the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 codec.

Broadcom announced sampling of a low power multimedia processor for cellphones and portable media players that enables high definition (HD) video camcorder and playback functions in addition to support of up to a 12-megapixel resolution digital camera.

The 45/300 project was approved recently by the Investment Committee at the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and recommended to be submitted to the government, according to the report. The report estimated that Sitronic would have to spend more than 58 billion rubles (about US$2.3 billion) on building a production facility. However, there was no discussion of how the process technology would be sourced.

The case was originally brought by LG Electronics, which manufactures a part for use in Intel-based communications equipment. LG holds a US patent on that part, which was expressly designed to be used with Intel chips; and Intel sells those chips under license from LG. One of Intel's customers is Quanta, a Taiwan-based computer manufacturer and the original defendant in this case. Quanta wanted to be able to purchase parts from Intel, but use them in its own designs - which may involve parts from suppliers other than Intel.

"...If that chipset is accepted by cellphone makers such as Sony's JV with Ericsson, Sony could start placing large volume orders for the chips with TSMC..."

"...The firms will work together to standardise biochips for medical diagnoses and food safety checks, eyeing a market they expect to grow to 100 billion yen in 2010 in Japan..."

"...Toshiba can only meet 70% of its order demand...NAND flash bit growth is expected to jump 120% in 2008 and 115% in 2009...Toshiba is in the planning stages for the next fab (Fab 5)...but it has not been decided where the company will build the fab..."

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) will increasingly be used to form the gate insulation layers for flash memories and logic chips, presenting a rapidly growing market opportunity, executives said at the recent SEMICON Taiwan 2007. ALD may be applied for tunneling oxide deposition. However, Rao said extremely thin tunnel oxide layers are influenced by the silicon crystal orientation. In trench or stacked capacitor cells, the crystal orientation of a horizontal plane is different from that of a vertical plane, leading to different film thicknesses