Cornice fires back with countersuit against Seagate
Hard-disk maker Cornice has filed a countersuit in response to a patent infringement lawsuit filed in June by rival hard-disk maker Seagate Technology.
Stories by Sumner Lemon
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Hynix to build chip plant in China
South Korean memory-chip maker Hynix Semiconductor announced Wednesday that it reached an agreement to construct a wafer fabrication plant (fab) to manufacture chips in Wuxi, China.
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AMD begins shipments of Oakville mobile chips
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has begun shipping commercial versions of its Athlon 64 processors made using a 90-nanometer process, marking another step forward in the company's transition to the more advanced manufacturing technology.
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Flexible future in store for flat-panel displays
The quickening pace of innovations in flat-panel display technology will make possible the development of flexible displays sooner rather than later, but users will still have to wait for nearly a decade before large, full-color flexible displays become commercially available, according to researchers at Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).
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AMD announces two new mobile processors
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Monday announced two additions to its line of mobile processors, the Mobile Athlon 64 3400+ and the Mobile Athlon XP-M 2200+.
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Microsoft in global tie-up with Chinese distributor
Microsoft has teamed up with China's largest distributor of IT products, Digital China Holdings, in a global deal that will bring the two companies closer together in several key areas.
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China's SMIC reports Q2 profit on higher sales
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC), China's largest chip maker, reported a net income of US$34.2 million on sharply higher sales during the second quarter.
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Gamer Fatal1ty leads to high-end hardware
Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel wants to be like Michael Jordan.
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Freescale outlines path to 1Gbps UWB
Motorola subsidiary Freescale Semiconductor outlined a product roadmap on Monday that will take its line of UWB (Ultra-Wideband) chipsets from 114M bps (bits per second) to 1G bps over the next year.
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Windows Media 9 headed for consumer electronics
Microsoft has teamed up with STMicroelectronics (STMicro) to develop a series of chips for consumer electronics devices that support Windows Media 9.
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Consumer electronics to drive chip demand
Rising demand for products that blur the lines between consumer electronics devices and computers has become one of the most important sources of demand for semiconductors, but this presents a host of challenges for chip makers, according to the chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).
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Via's Chen maps PC industry changes
The blurring lines between consumer electronics and computing is changing the way that the PC industry works, according to Wenchi Chen, the president and chief executive officer of Via Technologies Inc.
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Grantsdale, Alderwood headed for June 21 launch
Intel plans to launch its Grantsdale and Alderwood chipsets for Pentium 4 processors on June 21, according to several motherboard makers at the Computex 2004 exhibition. But while the chipsets will soon be available to users, they may not become widely adopted by users until early next year.
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Intel chips to support location-based services
Intel is developing support for location-based services in its mobile processor line that will allow computers to access information based on their location.
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Acer dresses up new notebooks
Taipei: In an announcement on Monday that was heavy on style but light on technical details, Taiwan's Acer introduced the latest additions to its notebook computer lines, the Aspire 1800 and TravelMate 3200.
