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11/30/2007 -- WTO: Japan must fix illegal Hynix tariffs
November 30, 2007 - An appeal conducted by the World Trade Organization (WTO) has reiterated a July ruling that Japan's 27.2% tariffs levied against Korean DRAM chips (targeting Hynix) are illegal. -
11/28/2007 -- ASMI licenses ALD to Hitachi Kokusai
November 28, 2007 - Hitachi Kokusai Electric has agreed to license ASM International's patents for batch atomic layer deposition (ALD) technology, to bolster its own work in the technology. -
11/28/2007 -- Sharp improves ozone-water wafer cleaner
November 28, 2007 - Sharp Manufacturing Systems has created a wafer cleaning system that uses hot, concentrated ozone water with sustained high concentrations to more effectively dissolve and remove photoresist and other organic contaminants, according to the Nikkei Business Daily. -
11/27/2007 -- Hynix back in nonmemory biz with SiliconFile deal
November 27, 2007 - Four years after spinning off its original nonmemory business (now thriving as MagnaChip Semiconductor), Hynix Semiconductor Inc. is getting back into the sector through a partnership with CMOS image sensor designer SiliconFile Technologies. -
11/27/2007 -- Spansion makes diversity play with SONOS-based MirrorBit technology
Pure-play flash memory provider Spansion is gearing up to start manufacturing its 45nm MirrorBit ORNAND2 architecture, which uses a SONOS-like memory cell connected in a NAND memory array and is based on proprietary charge-trapping storage technology. Spansion president/CEO Bertrand Cambou talks with WaferNEWS about the cost advantages achieved with this NAND/NOR hybrid, as well as with the company's multisource manufacturing strategy. -
11/26/2007 -- Analysts: DRAM, NAND sectors still ailing
November 26, 2007 - Two Wall Street analysts are reissuing health warnings for both the DRAM and NAND memory sectors, diagnosed as suffering from acute inflammation of supplies, and the patients' conditions are expected to get worse before getting better. -
11/26/2007 -- SICAS: 3Q capacity & output up marginally, foundries still humming
November 26, 2007 - Worldwide semiconductor capacity and output both rose about 6% in 3Q07 vs. the prior quarter, but factory utilization stayed roughly flat, remaining just under the 90% level for the fifth straight quarter, according to data from Semiconductor International Capacity Statistics (SICAS). -
11/20/2007 -- Fab builder M+W Zander converting Italian backend semi site to PV
November 20, 2007 - M+W Zander says it has received an order from Solsonica SpA, a spinoff from backend semiconductor manufacturing services provider EEMS SpA, to partially retrofit an existing semiconductor manufacturing facility into a PV cell manufacturing plant. -
11/20/2007 -- HDDs vs. SSDs redux, at IDEMA breakfast panel
NAND flash memory manufacturers have made no secret about their rosy outlook for solid-state drives (SSDs) in consumer applications and notebook computers, as well as projected lower cost/GB and increasing densities. Such elation may be premature, however, according to remarks made at a recent IDEMA breakfast event (Nov. 7, Santa Clara, CA), where it was suggested that serious obstacles are still in the path of SSD adoption before the technology can make greater inroads into the computer sector. -
11/19/2007 -- Chinese fabless firm buying US CMOS RF firm
November 19, 2007 - Spreadtrum Communications Inc., a Chinese wireless baseband chipset provider, has agreed to acquire San Diego-based Quorum Systems Inc., a fabless developer of CMOS radio frequency (RF) transceivers, for $55M in cash and $15M in stock, plus an extra $6M in performance incentives over the next two years.
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