05/10/2004  May 7, 2004 -- Leuven, Belgium -- Expanding a 12-year relationship with IMEC, Texas Instruments Inc. is becoming a core member of the sub-45nm CMOS research program, the company reported.

05/06/2004  Technology exports were up more than 42% in April to $5.88 billion, but South Korea's electronics industry could be facing "huge challenges" over the next couple of years, according to an analyst.

04/29/2004  It’s not every day that the 80s new wave act Dead or Alive’s song "You Spin Me Round" highlights a press conference dedicated to topics like pulsed laser deposition and qubit decoherence. But when the underlying theme is spintronics, and one of the people involved says one of the fundamental laws of physics could get turned on its head, perhaps one can forgive the pun.

04/23/2004  The nanotech community has been waiting for this. Forget the 1997 debut of Nanophase Technologies. Or last week’s Immunicon initial public offering. No, this is the big one. This is, of course, Nanosys Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif.-based developer of inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals and the nascent nanotech sector’s de facto poster child. After months of rumors buzzing about an IPO, Nanosys came out of the lab closet Thursday.

04/22/2004  April 22, 2004 - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Sunnyvale, CA, posted sales of $1.236 billion in 1Q04 and a net income of $45 million, "solid results in a seasonally down quarter," but warned of foggy visibility into future quarters.

04/22/2004  April 22, 2004 - South Korea's Samsung reported record sales and earnings in 1Q04, due to demand for flash memory, rising DRAM prices, and more advanced shrink technologies.

04/16/2004  APRIL 16--SUZHOU, China--Advanced Micro Devices today confirmed it would build a $100 million test, mark and pack facility here.

04/16/2004  Capital investments by chipmakers will grow 42% this year to $43.6 million, nearly an all-time high, but the most aggressive spenders are to be found in the foundry sector, according to a recent report from Strategic Marketing Associates (SMA), Santa Cruz, CA.

04/15/2004  April 15, 2004 - Intel and AMD are beginning new construction projects in China to bring testing and packaging facilities online by next year.

04/15/2004  April 15, 2004 - Renesas Technology Corp., the JV between Hitachi and Mitsubishi, plans a 6x increase in capacity of AND-type flash memory by the end of March 2006, a move that would more than double its market share to 15%

04/15/2004  April 14, 2004 - Toshiba Corp. and SanDisk Corp. plan to invest 270 billion yen to build a 300mm memory chip plant at Toshiba's operations in Yokkaichi, Japan.

04/15/2004  Japan’s nanotechnology budget for fiscal 2004, which began April 1, rose 3.1 percent to $875 million. Meanwhile, the two main government ministries responsible for about 90 percent of the country’s nanotechnology research programs are both seeing their budgets increased. The Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry's overall science and technology budget designates nanotechnology and related materials research one of four top-priority areas.

04/13/2004  April 13, 2004 - Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC), San Diego, CA, has agreed to purchase IP and assets associated with IBM's 400 series of embedded PowerPC products for $227 million in cash.

04/13/2004  April 13, 2004 - TSMC has realigned its process technologies into two classes of "technology platforms" in order to add other features and services, and claims to have produced the industry's first fully-functional 65nm SRAM module.

04/12/2004  April 12, 2004 - A power outage hitting the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park on April 10, did not take a serious toll on some of its semiconductor occupants, but nevertheless it may boost retail prices of DRAM chips made there.

04/08/2004  April 9, 2004 - Micron Technology Inc., Boise, ID, is poised to achieve profitability in 2004 -- and stay there, according to CEO Steve Appleton.

04/07/2004  April 7, 2004 - Starting later this year, Intel Corp. will eliminate approximately 95% of the lead used in its processors and chipsets,

04/05/2004  April 5, 2004 - Infineon Technologies AG reportedly plans to shift capacity away from its DRAM operations in order to focus on production of logic chips.

03/31/2004  March 31, 2004 - Samsung has unveiled new embedded flash technology based on 0.13-micron CMOS, for system-on-a-chip and ASIC designs.

03/23/2004  March 23, 2004 - Lattice Semiconductor Corp., Hillsboro, OR, and Fujitsu have signed a deal that will bring up to $200 million into Fujitsu's planned $1.5 billion 300mm fab in Mie Prefecture.