China Electronic Design Awards to Honor Outstanding Semiconductor Firms for Innovation and Quality -- Nominations Now Open
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HONG KONG, Sept. 6 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nominations are now open for the first Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) awards in mainland China.
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By Ken Dey, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 23--A Boise company was among 49 companies recognized this month in  the Wall Street Journal's 2006 Technology Innovation Awards contest.
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(InfoWorld) - In the most significant easing of investment regulations for Taiwan's technology industry to date, the island's government will allow two chip makers to build factories in China and one more to invest in a Chinese rival, a high level official said Tuesday. Memory chip makers Powerchip Semiconductor and ProMOS Technologies will both be allowed to build chip factories in China, while Advanced Semiconductor EngineeringÂ (ASE) will receive approvalÂ for a plan toÂ buy a low-end chip assembly companyÂ based in Shanghai. ASE is the world's largest chip assembly company. "An official announcement will be made on Wednesday," said Joseph Wu, chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council, Taiwan's official governing body for China relations. A group of government agencies agreed to the easing Monday during a committee meeting. The final step in making the decision formal is for the Taiwan Investment Commission, which is in charge of vetting China-bound investment applications, to give its stamp of approval and publicly announce the new measures. The easing is seen as a major breakthrough for Taiwan and China. For China, it could reinvigorate a chip industry that has slowed over the past few years as major chip makers such as Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) posted a string of money-losing quarters. It also represents a token of goodwill by Taiwan to political enemy China. Taiwan and China remain enemies after splitting in 1949 amid civil war. The island fears China could use chip technology to bolster its military capabilities against Taiwan. Despite the strained relationship and tough investment rules, China remains by far the favored destination for Taiwanese investment due to their shared language and culture, and China's lower costs and huge potential market. The formal announcement expected Wednesday will likely fall short of hopes held by Taiwanese chip makers. Companies have been lobbying the government for years to allow them to transfer 0.18 micron chip production technology to China, but such an opening will have to wait, Wu said. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has made a strong push on the 0.18 micron issue, in part because Chinese rivals such as SMIC are already using the technology, and are able to win over customers because of it. Taiwanese regulations currently only allow its chip makers to use 0.25 micron technology in China. ASE's board of directors approved a plan to last month to invest $60 million in Global Advanced Packaging Technology, a Shanghai company.
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New Japanese research into silicon carbide growth could revolutionise the electronics industry. A team of scientists has developed a method of making near-perfect silicon carbide crystals.
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China&#39;s consumer electronics market will grow by almost 90 percent to $94 billion by 2007 as manufacturers shift to high-end digital products and away from more basic items like toys and watches, an industry publication forecasts.
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A breakthrough in the way scientists make crystals could lead to a replacement for silicon in chips for devices.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 9 December: Winners of China's annual "Green Chinese" award were announced at a grand ceremony Saturday night [9 December].
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Chipmaker to focus on technology and features instead of megahertz.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. ,  the world's number two maker of microchips for personal  computers, will supply China's second-largest PC maker with  chips, scoring its latest victory in a market share battle with  bigger rival Intel .
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A breakthrough in the way scientists make crystals could lead to a replacement for silicon as the basis for making chips in electronic devices.
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HONG KONG, March 5 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Texas Instruments, NXP and Apexone were among the 24 semiconductor companies that won Global Sources'  Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards in mainland China.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50016)  has announced the addition of "Computer  Hardware in China" to their offering.
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A new faster version &#39;strained silicon&#39; has been developed by IBM and AMD. The companies are claiming that the resulting transistors are up to 24 per cent faster than existing processes.
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Chartered Semiconductor's process validated, sources claim Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor looks set to continue its foundry partnership with AMD into the 65nm era, if industry-insider claims that the chip maker has validated Chartered's 65nm production facility.â¦
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TORRANCE, Calif., Jan. 31  /PRNewswire/ -- The Technology Council of Southern California, http://www.tcosc.org/, today extended its deadline for nominations for the organization's thirteenth annual Technology Industry Awards.  The nominations must be received by Friday, February 9, 2007.
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The chipmaker appears to have met its most recent deadline for production of the smaller-featured chips.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC), of Hsinchu, Taiwan, has expanded its patent-infringement fight against rival contract chip maker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) by filing a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).