01/08/2004  January 8, 2004 - Texas Instruments has signed deals with South Korean firm DongbuAnam and Amkor Technology Inc. to increase production of its digital light processing (DLP) chips.

01/07/2004  January 7, 2004 - Infineon Technologies, Munich, Germany, has entered the flash market with the introduction of a NAND-compatible 512Mbit flash chip based in its TwinFlash technology.

01/06/2004  January 6, 2004 - Worldwide semiconductor sales continued to report solid gains in November 2003, posting growth for the ninth consecutive month and a solid double-digit increase from a year ago, according to data from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).

01/05/2004  January 5, 2004 - South Korea's imports of semiconductor products in 2003 grew 22.1% to $20.77 billion, outpacing a 16.7% increase in exports to $18.82 billion.

12/29/2003  December 23, 2003 - For its new 32-bit processor which will replace its Xeon processor trend, Intel Corp.'s development center in Bangalore is doing end-to-end development, not just design -- a trend that's gaining momentum in India.

12/26/2003  December 26, 2003 - Renesas, the JV of Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric, plans to invest another 33 billion yen ($307.7 million) to help boost monthly production capacity of AG-AND flash memory.

12/19/2003  December 19, 2003 - STMicroelectronics has acquired Synad Technologies Ltd., a UK startup developing wireless LAN technologies.

12/15/2003  December 15, 2003 - Cree Inc., Durham, NC, says it has developed new gallium nitride power transistors with much higher power densities than previously achieved.

12/15/2003  December 15, 2003 - Inotera Memories Inc., a JV between Taiwan's Nanya Technology Corp. and Germany's Infineon Technologies AG, plans to invest $2.2 billion over the next three years to build up its 300mm wafer plant, used primarily for DRAM chips.

12/10/2003  December 10, 2003 - -- FASL LLC, Sunnyvale, CA, plans to ramp manufacturing capacity for Spansion Flash memory products in 2004 to meet demand from AMD and Fujitsu for wireless products.

12/10/2003  December 10, 2003 - The past week has been busy for high-k materials, with three separate announcements from companies and organizations detailing the progress of their research.

12/10/2003  Texas Instruments Inc. is working with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne on a chip combining standard semiconductor and single-electron transistors (SET) that could shrink the size and power consumption of computing devices, according to a news release.

12/09/2003  Chuck Black and Kathryn Guarini demonstrated their nanotech breakthrough with strands of pipe-cleaner wire. In a preview of today's announcement, the two IBM researchers explained how they coaxed two different polymers – stringy molecules they represented with different-colored pipe cleaners – to assemble themselves into a honeycombed template of 20-nanometer holes.

12/04/2003  December 4, 2003 - Toshiba Corp. and SanDisk reportedly plan to build a facility for producing NAND flash memory chips by 2005

12/04/2003  November 26, 2003 - Toshiba Corp. reportedly plans to invest up to 12 billion yen to boost output at its facilities in Oita, Japan.

12/04/2003  November 17, 2003 - At its annual analyst meeting, AMD, Sunnyvale, CA, said it expects to report higher 4Q sales for both chips and flash memory, thanks to increased consumer and corporate spending.

12/04/2003  Worldwide semiconductor sales rose 6.5% in September to $14.4 billion, up 5.9% from $13.56 billion in August -- the seventh consecutive monthly increase and the biggest monthly percentage change in over a decade, according to data from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).

12/04/2003  Intel Corp. has presented results of its high-k/metal gate transistor development aimed at reducing current leakage as device dimensions shrink and transistor gate dielectrics become thinner.

12/04/2003  South Korea's semiconductor trade deficit was slashed by 93% in the third quarter thanks to rising DRAM ASPs and a general global IT recovery, according to industry sources.

11/25/2003  (November 25, 2003) Tokyo, Japan—Toshiba Corp. today announced a boost in its semiconductor business capital expenditure that will expand memory production at Oita Operations in Kyushu.