Qimonda to pull plug on memory chip production in Dresden: sources
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Qimonda, a unit of German semi-conductors giant Infineon, plans to cease production of memory chips at its oldest factory in Dresden, east Germany, from next October.
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(InfoWorld) - Samsung Electronics held onto its title as the world's largest producer of DRAMÂ memory chips in 2006 despite a late charge by Hynix Semiconductor, according to a study released Thursday. Hynix leapfrogged Qimonda, jumping into second place by posting a 31 percent increase in DRAM bit shipments from the third to fourth quarter, while the market as a whole grew by only 14 percent in that time, according to iSuppli. In 2006, Samsung claimed DRAM revenues of $9.5 billion, 28 percent of the entire $33.9 billion market, iSuppli said. Hynix followed with 16.6 percent market share, leading Qimonda's 15.9 percent, Micron's 11 percent, and Elpida's 10.4 percent. All other producers were in single digits. Hardware vendors use DRAM semiconductor memory in a vast range of products, including PCs, printers, hard disk drives, mobile phones, digital cameras, televisions, and game consoles. Although demand will keep growing, iSuppli says slumping prices in 2007 will take the wind out of those sails, pushing revenue down despite rising sales. The vendors are more optimistic. Qimonda predicts that demand could rise in 2007 because of Microsoft's launch of its newÂ Windows Vista OS as well as other communication and consumer applications, according to the company's Jan. 23 earnings report. Likewise, Samsung predicts that a strong consumer electronics market will push demand for DRAM used in 2.5G and 3G handsets and in game consoles. DRAM vendors also hope to continue momentum by relying on technology advances, planning to shrink their chip architecture from 90 nanometers to 80nm and below in the short term and toÂ upgrade from current DDR2 design to DDR3 in coming years. Despite its dominant position, Samsung suffered in December asÂ one of its executives agreed to serve jail time and pay a large fineÂ as the result of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice into price-fixing practices in the industry. The plea was the fifth from a Samsung executive and marked the 18th person from four vendors indicted since December 2003. The other companies charged were Hynix, Elpida, and Infineon (which has since spun off its DRAM division as Qimonda). Â
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(InfoWorld) - South Korean memory chip giant Hynix SemiconductorÂ on Wednesday denied local media reports that it planned to move its operations to China. A problem finding land in South Korea for a new factory to make chips on 12-inch (300 millimeter) wafers apparently turned into speculation that the company, frustrated, would simply move to China, where it already operates a joint venture chip factory. A South Korean newspaper cited local politicians saying Hynix would make the move. But the DRAM (dynamic RAM) maker says it's not going anywhere, and the rumor had been blown so far out of proportion that it put out a statement to clarify the issue. "There were some local news reports that we're planning to move our operation to China. ... Hynix is not reviewing that option," said Kim Mi-Young, a Hynix representative. The company started looking for a new site for the planned factory after South Korea's environmental protection agency turned down a request to build it near its Ichon complex in Kyonggi Province, for fear it might contaminate a nearby river. Hynix considered another location, Chongju, where it already owns a piece of land, but ran into further trouble. Its land there is too small for the planned facility, and the constant press coverage over the environmental issue caused landowners in Chongju to speculate Hynix might come calling, and raise their prices accordingly. Now, the company says Chongju is too expensive. It still does not know where it might build the new factory.
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Semiconductor maker Infineon Technologies AG said Friday that it has reduced its stake in Qimonda AG, the memory unit it listed in 2006, raising about $272 million.
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Blog: The graphics chipmaker has a new lineup of chips that can be plugged into servers or workstations to boost the performance of scientific computing applications.
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German electronic chipmaker Infineon will invest $1 billion to build a new plant in Malaysia making non-memory chips, it said on Wednesday, as it bets it can make more profits with chips used in cars and ...
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Memory was little help to Munich, Germanyâs Infineon Technologies AG in its now closed fiscal Q4. The company reported Q4 revenues of $2.
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Infineon, Europe&#39;s second-largest chipmaker, yesterday announced that it would invest $1bn in a new plant in Malaysia in a move to boost its capacities for making chips used in the automotive industry.
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Ziff Davis - IBM next month will start powering its blade servers with Intel Corp.'s low-voltage version of its "Nocona" processor.
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Nearly three years after Matrix Semiconductor first announced plans to offer write-once memory chips based on a 3D design technology, the chips are in volume production.
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The Swiss chip maker STMicroelectronics said it would close manufacturing plants in Texas, Arizona and Morocco, cutting 4,000 jobs. The company employs more than 50,000 people, its Web site says. The factories in Carrollton, Tex.; Phoenix; and Ain Sebaa, Morocco, are being phased out over two to three years.
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BERLIN  - German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG said Tuesday it would cut jobs and undertake a large overhaul of its money-losing fibre-optic operations following a failed attempt to sell the unit.
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MUNICH, Germany  - Fujitsu-Siemens Computers will  start selling laptops with flash memory instead of hard drives  this summer, bringing faster, lighter and more energy-efficient  computers to the European mass market.
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U.S. government antitrust regulators have asked Intel Corp. and STMicroelectronics NV to provide more information about theirÂ plan to spin off their flash memory unit into a new company, the vendors said Thursday.
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AMD e IBM hanno rilasciato congiuntamente un comunicato stampa, con il quale annunciano lo sviluppo di nuove tecniche di produzione per transistor strained silicon, che beneficia di una migliore gestione del consumo a paritÃ  di frequenza di clock.
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Infineon Technologies, the second-largest chip maker in Europe, said Wednesday that it planned 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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Its memory-chip breakthrough could lead to new products.