Spansion Statement on ITC Institutes Investigation on Certain Flash Memory Chips and Products.
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The International Trade Commission (ITC) issued its decision to institute an investigation on certain Flash memory chips and products based on a complaint filed by Spansion Inc. on November 17, 2008. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060118/SFW077LOGO) This decree is commensurate with the...

Graphene to be used as next-generation computer memory.
A 10-atom-thick strip of graphene can be broken with a shock of electric current and repaired with another in a continuous manner, forming a switch, according to a team of US researchers at the Rice University, based in Houston, Texas. This strip of graphene could serve as the basic...

ASM International N.V. and SAFC Hitech(TM) Sign Certified Manufacturer and Partnership Agreement.
Deal Paves Way For Use of ALD Ultra High-k Insulators; Marks Transition to 3x nm Memory Nodes ALMERE, The Netherlands and ST. LOUIS, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ASM International N.V. (Nasdaq: ASMI; Euronext Exchange in Amsterdam: ASM) and SAFC Hitech(TM), a business segment within SAFC(R), a member...

Samsung Partners with Sandbridge to Develop Next-Gen LTE-capable Platform.
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. and SUWON, South Korea, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Sandbridge announced today it has partnered with Samsung to develop an LTE capable platform based on Sandbridge's cutting-edge technology. Specifically, Samsung will showcase several LTE devices, including Sandbridge's platform at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona February 16-19. The...

Samsung Electronics to Release DivX Certified Digital Televisions to Global Market.
Device Enables High-Quality Playback of DivX Video Following Multi-year Licensing Agreement between Two Companies SAN DIEGO and SEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DivX, Inc. , a digital media company, and Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd, a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, today announced...

THE MONTH IN BUSINESS.
Byline: blue chip Hynix announces its Eugene memory chip plant will be closed Hynix Semiconductor said July 23 it plans to shut down its chip plant in west Eugene in the next two months, amid a poor market and low prices for computer memory chips....

BRIEFLY.
Byline: The Register-Guard Hynix could face sales ban or royalties on DRAM chips In an ongoing legal dispute with Rambus Inc., a California designer and licensor of memory chips, Hynix Semiconductor Inc. could be barred from selling dynamic random access memorychips in the United States,...

Hynix chip plant to shut.
Byline: Sherri Buri McDonald The Register-Guard Amid a lousy market and low prices for computer memory chips, Hynix Semiconductor plans to close its west Eugene factory and lay off 1,113 employees in the next two months, company officials said Wednesday. Hynix's public statement came after...

Market drove Hynix closure.
Byline: Sherri Buri McDonald The Register-Guard Hynix officials said on Wednesday that they decided to close the Korean company's only plant in the United States because of plunging computer memory chip prices and the industry's rapid move away from the dimension of silicon wafers used at the...

Hynix always a good citizen of the community.
Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Jack Roberts For The Register-Guard The announcement by Hynix Semiconductor Manufacturing that the company will be closing its Eugene computer chip fabrication plant is obviously disappointing news for people in Lane County and all over Oregon. Not only will about 1,000 local workers...