Chipmaker says tech transitions on track for 2005, 2006
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Following a year of execution missteps, Intel&#39;s two top executives sought to reassure analysts on Tuesday that the world&#39;s largest chipmaker can successfully navigate the tricky and costly processes of making smaller, faster
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The chipmaker is upbeat about growth prospects in Asia, but is also watching the economic developments in the U.S.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) - Growth in global chip sales is likely to halve in 2005, Samsung Electronics said on Monday, according to reports.
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The manufacturing technology can result in faster chips without increasing power requirements, say the companies. By Darrell Dunn.
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AMD and IBM said Monday that they had developed a new strained-silicon process that offers more performance at the same power levels, a technology that will enter production in mid-2005.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) plans to build security and virtualization features into its server processors by 2006, the company said Friday during its annual analyst event.
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Siding with chipmakers, the software giant says it won't charge double for dual-core chips when they come to market next year.
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But chip production costs won't fall as much as planned
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The top executive at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC), the world&#39;s biggest contract chipmaker, offered a mixed message Thursday about prospects for the global chip industry in 2008.Speaking at the company&#39;s third quarter investor conference, President and CEO Rick Tsai predicted that the chip industry will strengthen in 2008, but he also said TSMC will spend &quot;significantly less&quot; on new plants and equipment next year.TSMC announced net sales of NT$88.96 billion&#160;(US$2.73 billion) for the July to September period, up nearly 8 percent over the same time last year. Its net profit fell 6.5 percent to NT$30.37 billion, nearly in line with analyst&#39;s expectations.&quot;The third quarter was better than expected, not just for TSMC, but for the whole electronics industry,&quot; Tsai said. Sales of chips to the PC sector, mobile phone segment and consumer electronics products group were all brisk, he said.But many analysts considered TSMC&#39;s forecast to be more important than its third-quarter results. That&#39;s because of&#160;uncertainty about economic growth in the U.S.&#160;due to the housing loan problems there, high oil prices, and other troubles that could ultimately impact spending on electronics.TSMC is considered a&#160;bellwether for the tech industry&#160;because of the wide range of chips it manufactures, which end up in products including Xbox 360s, iPhones, PCs, and automobiles.&quot;We&#39;re expecting 2008 to be a better year than 2007 for the semiconductor industry,&quot; Tsai said. The chip industry will grow by a mid-to-high single digit percentage in 2008, the company forecast, compared to expected growth of 4 percent in 2007.Despite the rosy outlook, TSMC will reduce its 2008 capital spending from the expected US$2.6 billion in 2007. Spending cuts often indicate that a company isn&#39;t very bullish about business prospects, but TSMC said it wants to reduce spending next year because it spent heavily on production lines in 2007 that won&#39;t begin producing chips until next year.The change in spending plans is significant, said Eric Chen, research director at BNP Paribas Securities (Taiwan). If TSMC&#39;s capital spending drops by about 30 percent, as many analysts have predicted, it won&#39;t be a surprise, he said. But if the company reduces spending by a lot more, it suggests that TSMC may be more concerned about future economic growth than it is letting on.Tsai said TSMC hasn&#39;t determined a specific figure yet for its 2008 capital spending.BNP believes Europe and the U.S. may both face slowing economic growth next year.
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The chip maker, a closely watched indicator of the overall health of the technology industry, reported net income of $1.3 billion, on revenue of $8.7 billion in the second quarter.
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Chip maker says it will use methods other than clock speed to improve processor performance.
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Company denies the chip has been delayed, but many had expected it sooner.
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Taking stock. As 2004 winds down, Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) management isn&#39;t likely to grow nostalgic: The year saw a series of production glitches and delivery delays at the chip maker, and it
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A long-awaited microprocessor developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba will go into early production next year and start appearing in video game consoles, high-definition TVs and home servers in 2006, the companies said Monday.
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Dual-core processors to be considered single chip, company says.
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Notebook chips will likely support location-based services by 2006, Intel says.
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BOSTON - The semiconductor industry remains on track to record a significant increase in revenue during 2004, according to Gartner Inc.'s latest forecast for the year released Tuesday. After that, however, the outlook takes a turn for the worse.