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The Australian (Free subscription) | yesterday
... net $US162 million write-down of Intel's investment in Numonyx, a flash-memory joint venture with STMicroelectronics NV, after tax benefits. The prior-year quarter's results included $US125 million in restructuring and asset-impairment charges. Revenue rose 1.3 per cent to $US10.22 billion. In July, Intel predicted revenue of $US10 billion to $US10.6 billion. Analysts' estimates were for...
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EE Times (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Replisaurus Technologies AB (Kista, Sweden), a developer of a metallization technology for integrated passives, copper pillars and 3D integration, has appointed Mike Thompson, former deputy chief technology officer for STMicroelectronics NV, as chief operating officer.
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EE Times (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
BERLIN — Russia's JSC Sitronics has some ambitious plans: It wants to leapfrog generations of semiconductor technology and spark activity that will launch Russia's modern chip industry. Driving those plans is Mikron, a former Soviet-era fab now in Sitronics' microelectronics unit that recently upgraded to 0.18-micron manufacturing process technology with the help of Europe's leading IDM STMicroelectronics...
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EE Times (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
... Freescale Inc., Infineon Technologies AG, NEC Electronics Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., STMicroelectronics N.V. and Toshiba Corp. This week, IBM claimed to make a big breakthrough in 22-nm. Amid probable delays with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, IBM plans to extend 193-nm immersion and move towards ''computational scaling'' technology for the 22-nm node and perhaps...
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EE Times (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
A strange thing happened to STMicroelectronics N.V. on Monday (Sept. 15.) The Geneva, Switzerland-based company's stock price closed higher on the New York Exchange, rising a tiny 2 cents, or less than one-fifth of a percent to $12.23 per American Depositary Receipt. The increase in ST's share price was negligible but in some odd way it was also extraordinary, giving the company a boasting...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
NXP, the former chipmaking arm of Royal Philips Electronics NV, said it is responding to "a challenging economic environment, a weak U.S. dollar" and its own decision to sell most of its wireless chip manufacturing operations to STMicroelectronics NV in April.
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
NXP, the former chipmaking arm of Royal Philips Electronics NV, said it is responding to "a challenging economic environment, a weak U.S. dollar" and its own decision to sell most of its wireless chip manufacturing operations to STMicroelectronics NV in April.
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
NXP Semiconductors BV says it will close or sell four plants including one in Fishkill, New York, and three in Europe and cut 4,500 jobs. NXP is the former chipmaking arm of Royal Philips Electronics NV that was bought by a group of private equity investors...
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Examiner (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
NXP Semiconductors to cut 4,500 staffSep 12, 2008 6:47 AM (1 hr ago) AP 1 hr ago: NXP Semiconductors to cut 4,500 staff878AMSTERDAM, Netherlands) - NXP Semiconductors BV says it will close or sell four plants including one in Fishkill, New York, and three in Europe and cut 4,500 jobs.NXP is the former chipmaking arm of Royal Philips Electronics NV that was bought by a group of private equity investors...
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The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
It says it is responding to "a challenging economic environment, a weak U.S. dollar" and its own decision to sell most of its wireless chip manufacturing operations to STMicroelectronics NV in April.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Last updated September 12, 2008 3:47 a.m. PTNXP Semiconductors to cut 4,500 staffTHE ASSOCIATED PRESSAMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- NXP Semiconductors BV says it will close or sell four plants including one in Fishkill, New York, and three in Europe and cut 4,500 jobs.NXP is the former chipmaking arm of Royal Philips Electronics NV that was bought by a group of private equity investors in 2006.The company...
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EE Times (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
... the reduction in size of the company after moving its wireless business into a joint venture with STMicroelectronics NV, van Houten said. Some of the background to NXP's restructuring was last week. Van Houten said NXP plans to close a fab in East Fishkill, New York in 2009 and close the ICN5 portion of Nijmegen and the ICH part of NXP's Hamburg facility in 2010. In addition NXP plans to...
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EE Times (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
... Ltd., Freescale Semiconductor Inc., Infineon Technologies AG, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., STMicroelectronics NV and Toshiba Corp. in the Common Platform Alliance. NEC Electronics will be the eighth major semiconductor manufacturer represented in the IBM joint development alliance aimed to further advance performance and power improvements for next generation silicon technologies. "As the...
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[MobileRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
... also fell sharply. U.K.-based CSR PLC fell 18% before closing down 7%, while Switzerland-based STMicroelectronics NV fell almost 6%. Nokia said the overall mobile-phone sector is being hit by weaker consumer confidence in several markets. It also attributed its lower forecast to its decision to refrain from cutting prices as some rivals have been doing, as well as the temporary impact of...
