"... As DRAM pricing will shortly begin to bottom, customers demand has been improving..."

"...Construction is expected to start in the second half of 2007, with initial production in the second half of 2008...With an expected investment of $1 billion over ten years..."

"... demand environment for some of our semiconductor customers is improving compared to a soft first quarter, the wafer inventory recovery seems to be lagging..."

"...The industry continued to work through the excess inventory coupled with the usual seasonal slowness in the first quarter..."

"...Advantest sales have slowed as major clients such as Intel pushed back plans to buy machines..."

"...Applied Materials retained the top spot while Tokyo Electron and ASML remained in second and third spots respectively - the fifth consecutive year all three leading suppliers retained their positions..."

"...TSMC insists the aim of its internal IP efforts is to help its customers bring their chip products to market more rapidly. But some observers suggested another motive, noting that the foundry provider is focusing on proprietary physical-level "hard" IP, which cannot be ported to competitive foundries. Thus, customers of TSMC's IP could be locked into its fabs..."

Motorola says it will buy video-chip maker Terayon for US$140 million in cash.

"...In addition to investment in Rexchip, Elpida will spend 130 billion yen for process migration to 70nm at E300 Fab.... PC DRAM prices are expected to remain at low levels in 1H07. In response , Elpida plans to accelerate the shift in process technology from 90nm to 70nm...."

"...PH150XP probe cards have already been shipped to leading memory manufacturers for evaluation...PH150XP is a more costeffective solution for testing smaller-sized, smaller density DRAM devices (512MB and below) where tester resources mandate four or more touchdowns per wafer..."