"The ratio was above the 1.0 mark for the second straight month with sales up 2.1% on month and 5% on year."

"Samsung will spend US$774.4 million to upgrade and expand lines for dynamic random access memory and flash chips, aiming to aims to boost its chip sales by more than three-fold to $61 billion by 2012. "

It sure is hard to imagine Jobs & Co. putting the chipmaker's ubiquitous logo on their gleaming machines -- or in their ads

...the Indian chip market is worth approximately $800 million and is slated to grow in the coming years. Industry officials have said that India has a chance of competing with China and Taiwan to get a share of the global US$220 billion chip market.

The nonvolatile semiconductor storage elements can be programmed at a power supply voltage of 1.5V and a low current of 100渙

South Korean chemicals giant DC Chemical Co. Ltd. has acquired a majority stake in Sodiff Advanced Materials Co. Ltd. The move could propel Korea into the polysilicon materials market for use in making silicon wafers and solar cells.

Ibiden Philippines is scheduled to invest 3.8 billion yen to increase capacity of semiconductor package substrates for personal computers. The new production capacity is 14 million pieces.

The supply agreement with PowerLight, a globalsolar systems provider, calls for the delivery of $330 million ofsolar panels from 2005-2009. A significant product to be supplied is a panel used for roof integrated systems for new home construction.

Royal Philips Electronics today announced its first TV-on-mobile solution for the US market, three months after launching its European solution.

TEL has high exposure to domestic chip makers, which are weaker than the foreign competitors. In addition, LCD equipment margins are below average.

Based in Wuxi, Suntech claims it took only 3 yrs to boost annual capacity for polycrystalline silicon wafers by 50-megawatt. However, its goal is to develop multicrystalline silicon solar cells conversion efficiency rate of as much as 16%.

TDK said it has developed multilayer chip EMI filter arrays, the world's first noise countermeasure products for use in mobile terminals that can receive terrestrial digital broadcasts.

Dow Corning is the majority owner of Hemlock Semiconductor Corp., the world's largest provider of polycrystalline silicon. The Michigan-based concern last month announced plans for a $400 million-500 million expansion in capacity.