ST Microelectronics (ST) plans to build a US$500 million chip testing, marking and packing (TMP)

The NSR-S609B, an ArF immersion scanner with the industry's first hyper-NA projection lens of NA 1.07, shipped in January to a major IC manufacturer

orth American-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.26 billion in orders in January 2006 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.97

..TES brings both hardware and software component libraries to the application. The hardware acceleration component consists of the Display Controller and Accelerated Vector Engine (D/AVE) providing increased hardware graphics display performance. ..

ISi last month announced AMD as a new customer, with AMD contracting to purchase a Z-RAM embedded memory full technology license for potential use in its future microprocessor products....

.It's harder for them to gain share internationally, and that's the slowest growing market right now...

The PC, server and printer businesses all turned in operating margins in the first quarter at the high end of the ranges H-P set for 2007...

Merrill Lynch upgraded shares of ATI Technologies to "buy" from "neutral" and said the recent launch of the R580 bolsters the graphics chipmaker's high-performance lineup just as shares of rival Nvidia appear to be losing steam....

Sony China issued a statement saying two LCD rear projection TV and three LCD TV models, all manufactured between August and November in its Shanghai factory, had a timing problem...

It blamed a 50 percent jump in the price of silicon, the main ingredient in solar panels used to generate electricity, and forecast further rises of 15 to 20 percent in 2006...

Hollywood movie studios are insisting that such protection be included in all drives. Without AACS, high-resolution movies can't be played back.

...The technique manipulates light energy and wave patterns to reveal subtle behavior, such as correlated oscillations of two objects....

...This funding will provide long-term financial support for ongoing process and product development, as we continue to execute upon our strategy of partnering with leading global materials, printing and product application companies."

Chinese consumers will purchase 30 million computer units each year by 2008. However competition will get more heated, leading to falling prices and profit margins.

Sales in the automotive, industrial and multimarket unit will rise in the year ending in September, and the ``operative profit margin'' will ``be at least at the level of the previous year or even better, Infineon said.

Cheap TV sets illegally imported from China have been flooding the domestic market as local users can easily afford the low prices and flock to buy these goods. But this has caused disorder in the market because of uncontrolled prices and quality.