Texas Instruments Plans Investment
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US-based chipmaker Texas Instruments Inc. said it will spend about US$300 million (euro 240 million) over the next three years to increase output at its facilities in the northern Philippines.
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Top European semiconductor maker STMicroelectronics (ST) plans to invest an additional 1.2 billion US dollars over the next two years in Singapore.
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(InfoWorld) - The world's largest contract chip maker plans to invest up to NT$5.55 billion (US$168.3 million) in a smaller partner to strengthen their alliance and continue to farm out orders for certain chips to the company. The deal will see Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. increase its stake in Vanguard International Semiconductor Corp. by up to 11 percent in coming weeks. TSMC currently holds a 26.8 percent share of the company, but has no intention of merging with Vanguard, it said in a statement. TSMC will continue to depend on Vanguard to handle certain chip-related work done in older 8-inch chip plants. TSMC has focused its new factory investment on 12-inch factories, which use larger, 12-inch silicon wafers during production. The company still invests in upgrades for its 8-inch plants, but has tried to avoid buying new production lines for the technology, which is slowly going out of use. Vanguard has put its 8-inch plants to use making specialty chips, including contact image sensors (CIS) and driver chips used in LCD (liquid crystal display) products such as monitors and LCD TVs. In March, Vanguard agreed to buy two 8-inch chip factories from Winbond Electronics Corp. with total production of 40,000 wafers per month. Hundreds of chips can be made on a single 8-inch wafer. By expanding its production, Vanguard can continue to take some orders from TSMC clients as well as increase its overall business. The two companies enjoy a close working relationship. TSMC may also be buying the stake because a Taiwan government investment fund, the Executive Yuan's Development Fund, wants to sell, according to Warren Lau, a chip analyst at Macquarie Research Equities in Hong Kong. The Development Fund still holds a 26.5 percent stake in Vanguard, and Lau believes that TSMC plans to buy a large portion of the government stake to raise its holding in Vanguard to as much as 50 percent. And it's a good investment: VIS may be the most profitable contract chip maker in the business, Lau said.
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(InfoWorld) - Qualcomm and Samsung Investment VentureÂ have each invested $8 million in Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Co. (AMEC), a Chinese company that plans to develop and sell equipment used to manufacture semiconductors. The investments were part of $43 million raised by AMEC in recent months. In October 2006, the company announced it had raised $35 million from several investors, including Goldman Sachs. AMEC plans to develop semiconductor manufacturing equipment for 65nm and 45nm production processes, hoping to tap China's growing semiconductor manufacturing industry. AMEC is led by Chairman and CEO Gerald Yin, a Chinese semiconductor executive who formerly worked for chip equipment supplier Applied Materials.
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A private equity group led by Appaloosa  Management LP and Cerberus Capital Management LP will invest up  to $3.4 billion in bankrupt auto parts maker Delphi Corp.  , giving the investors a large stake when the company  emerges from bankruptcy, Delphi said on Monday.
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Texas Instruments ha rivisto al ribasso utili trimestre
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By David Koenig  Texas Instruments (TI) will show off its technology that enables cell phones to record TV shows as the chip maker bumps heads with rival Qualcomm Inc. in a market that analysts say holds huge potential.
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Advanced Micro DevicesÂ is investing $7.5 million in energy-efficient chip company Transmeta, which has beenÂ battling falling revenueÂ and widening losses.
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Texas Instruments Inc. said Thursday that it has begun work on a chip that would allow users to receive digital television broadcasts on mobile phones in time for the technology&#39;s rollout in 2007.
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AMD said Friday that it would invest $7.5 million in Transmeta in order to support its work in developing efficiency technology for microprocessors. In turn for cash infusion, AMD would receive preferred stock in the company.
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Texas Instruments Inc.  kept  the midpoints of its quarterly profit and revenue forecast  unchanged on Monday, disappointing investors who had hoped for  an improvement in the chipmaker&#39;s outlook.
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NEW YORK - Texas Instruments Inc. expects to roll out cellphones capable of showing live high-definition television in the US by 2007, Chief Executive Rich Templeton said Thursday in an interview on CNBC.
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Taiwanese chip assembler Advanced Semiconductor EngineeringÂ (ASE) plans to invest $60 million in a low-end chip assembly company based in China.
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DALLAS, Oct 21, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Texas Instruments unveiled plans Thursday for the industry&#39;s first cell phone capable of receiving high definition TV broadcast signals.
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U.S. stocks were set for a steady start on Friday with a billion dollar share buyback plan at Texas Instruments  lending some backbone to the technology sector.
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Infineon Technologies AG, Europe&#39;s second-largest maker of semiconductors, plans to invest about $1 billion in a new factory in Malaysia to expand its automotive chip business and be closer to customers in the region.
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Texas Instruments Inc. , the world's largest maker of chips for cell phones, on Tuesday said it expects fourth-quarter revenue and earnings per share at the mid range of its previous estimates, as order trends remain soft.