11/17/2005  November 17, 2005 - The SIA has projected in its annual forecast of global semiconductor sales a CAGR of nearly 10% for 2005 through 2008. Worldwide sales of microchips will reach $309B.

11/16/2005  November 16, 2005 - President George W. Bush announced that IBM has been awarded the 2004 National Medal of Technology by the US Department of Commerce and the Technology Administration in recognition of more than four decades of innovation in semiconductor technology.

11/10/2005  November 10, 2005 - Elpida Memory Inc. has begun on-site production of hydrogen gas necessary for production of DRAM chips at its Higashi Hiroshima main plant, reports the Nikkei English News.

11/09/2005  November 9, 2005 - Toshiba Corp., Tokyo, Japan, and NEC Electronics Corp. have entered into an agreement to co-develop 45nm CMOS logic process technology, allowing the companies to "share burdens and accelerate development, while raising system LSI performance and quality," according to a joint statement.

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11/03/2005  November 3, 2005 - Wafer foundry Tower Semiconductor has begun manufacturing 2.0 and 1.3-megapixel CMOS system on a chip (SoC) image sensors for Biomorphic Microsystems Corp., reported the Israel Business Arena.

11/01/2005  A Heat-Management Solution

10/19/2005  October 19, 2005 - European R&D consortium IMEC and chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG have developed a new profiling technique for extracting charge profiles in nitride-based nonvolatile flash memory (NVM), which will allow the technology to compete broadly against traditional flash memory for standalone code and data storage, as well as in embedded applications.

10/18/2005  October 18, 2005 - European R&D consortium IMEC has added an RF-CMOS arm to its industrial affiliation program for researching sub-45nm CMOS technologies, expanding its efforts from an earlier 90nm program.

10/17/2005  October 17, 2005 - Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, has unveiled the development of a gallium nitride high electron-mobility transistor (GaN-HEMT) formed on a silicon substrate.

10/14/2005  October 14, 2005 - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has agreed to pay a $300 million fine to the US Department of Justice regarding a single charge related to price-fixing allegations...

10/11/2005  October 11, 2005 - Samsung Electronics could be on the verge of naming Austin, TX, as the home for its new $3.3 billion 300mm chip manufacturing site in the US.

10/11/2005  October 11, 2005 - Samsung Electronics may face scrutiny from South Korea's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) for an alleged sweetheart deal to supply NAND flash memory to Apple Computer for its iPod nano.

10/07/2005  October 7, 2005 - Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. has announced the development of SOI (Silicon on Insulator)-CMOS, a new device structure for super low off-leakage current. While maintaining the speed of performance of previous devices, this transistor reduces the standby consumption current (off-leak current) by over 90% compared to previous transistors. Oki claims to be the first company to develop a fully depleted SOI transistor using a non-doped body and non-overlap type SOI structure.

10/03/2005  San Jose, Calif. — August's Worldwide semiconductor sales made a sharp increase to $18.6 billion, a 3.2% increase from the $18.0 billion reported in July and a 1.7% increase from the $18.3 billion reported in August 2004, reports the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). Year-to-date semiconductor sales through August, at $144.4 billion, are up by 5.8% over the same period of 2004 when total sales amounted to $136.5 billion, according to the SIA.

10/01/2005 

09/29/2005  September 29, 2005 - Infineon Technologies AG and Taiwan's Nanya Technology Corp. have expanded their existing 90-70nm/300mm DRAM technology development agreement to include 60nm process technologies.

09/29/2005  September 29, 2005 - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has joined the SEMATECH semiconductor consortium to address next-generation semiconductor technologies, including lithography and materials, both of which are crucial to future semiconductor transistor development. Officials for both companies announced the decision yesterday, following the signing of a formal member participation agreement in Giheung.

09/22/2005  September 22, 2005 - Apple's new iPod nano music player includes some "surprising" choices in its semiconductor components, and its heavy use of NAND flash will "radically change the market dynamics of both thememory market and the MP3 player," according to iSuppli Corp.

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