03/07/2006 March 6, 2006 - Toshiba Corp. plans to spend 500 billion yen (roughly US $4.3 billion) to build a fourth plant at its Yokkaichi facility to make NAND flash memory chips.
03/06/2006 JDSU introduced three new optical communications products under its Agile Optical Network (AON) strategy, which is intended to address the need for more agile, dynamically reconfigurable networks for consumer and business services.
03/03/2006 March 3, 2006 - Four sales & marketing executives from Hynix Semiconductor have pleaded guilty and accepted jail times and fines for their roles in a DRAM price-fixing conspiracy.
03/03/2006 Shanghai, China — FPD China 2006, to take place March 28–30, 2006, at the Shanghai Mart in Shanghai, China, targets the global supply chain for the flat panel display (FPD) industry in China, and will showcase product and technology exhibits, business and technical seminars, and industry standards meetings.
03/03/2006 NeoPhotonics announced a planar lightwave circuit (PLC) triplexer module in a standard 2 x 2-inch package. Triplexer transceiver modules, located in customer equipment known as optical network terminals, are components of "fiber-to-the-home" networks.
03/02/2006 San Diego, CA — Fujitsu Ltd. has become the latest global system manufacturer to purchase a license to use intellectual property protected by the Moore Microprocessor Patent Portfolio. Patriot and the TPL Group are co-owners of the MMP Portfolio, which is being exclusively managed by Alliacense, a TPL Group enterprise, and this license represents a settlement of patent disputes between Fujitsu and the owners of the MMP Portfolio.
03/02/2006 San Jose, CA — Worldwide semiconductor sales in January 2006 hit $19.66 billion — 7% percent higher than the $18.38 billion in January 2005, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). However, January 2006 sales reflected a 1.5% sequential decline from the $19.95 billion reported in December 2005. SIA notes that global semiconductor sales in January historically show a 2.2% average sequential decline following the seasonally strong fourth quarter.
03/02/2006 Lightconnect, a supplier of MEMS optical components, announced a new variable optical attenuator with polarization maintaining fiber for power control and receiver protection in next generation optical networks.
03/01/2006 March 2, 2006 - Global semiconductor manufacturers increased their addition of both capacity and actual usage in 4Q06, signs that the industry continues to gain momentum during the normally slow post-holiday seasonal period, according to new data from Semiconductor International Capacity Statistics (SICAS).
03/01/2006 The performance of any cleanroom and its ability to achieve and maintain the designed cleanliness class are critically dependent on the performance of the air filters used in its construction.
