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| Editor's Note |
| Following strong results from Texas Instruments on Monday, both ARM and TSMC reported stellar quarters of their own. ARM reported its highest ever unit shipments in the first quarter, resulting in record royalty revenue, profit and net cash generation. Meanwhile, all TSMC did was post year-to-year gains in revenue and net income of 133.4 percent and more than 2,000 percent, respectively. The latest strong results by some of the semiconductor industry's leading companies continue a roll that has seen many of their peers report similar success. On the whole, this is shaping up to be the strongest earnings season for the sector in years.
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| Top Stories |
ARM posts record results in Q1
Processor IP licensor ARM Holdings plc turned in record financial results for its first quarter of 2010 with revenues at $143.3 million up 19 percent on the revenue in the first quarter of 2009. The quarter saw ARM achieve its highest ever unit shipments leading to record royalty revenues, profits and net cash generation.
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TSMC's Q1 sales rose 133%
Leading semiconductor foundry TSMC posted a net income of NT$33.66 billion ($1.1 billion) on revenue of NT$92.19 billion ($2.9 billion), the company said.
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| Semiconductor News |
Chip makers 'flying blind'
Semiconductor companies can improve their supply chain visibility and extract additional value from the operations by increasing sales force effectiveness, boosting integration with external value chain partners, and optimizing planning and fulfillment processes.
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Teradyne gets testy in test
Teradyne Inc. was the ATE share leader in 2009, according to a report from Barclays Capital, which cited Gartner Inc. as its source.
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TI to expand 300-mm analog fab
Texas Instruments Inc. is expanding its 300-mm analog fab amid an upturn in the market.
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Lam Research: The etch king
Lam Research Corp. remained the king in the overall etch equipment market in 2009, according to a report from Barclays Capital, which cited Gartner Inc. as its source.
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Group claims EUV light source record
Technology consortium Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography System Development Association (EUVA) of Japan claims to have achieved the world's highest output for an EUV light source: 104 Watts.
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300-mm wafers drive silicon recovery
Global demand for silicon used in semiconductor manufacturing is expected to rebound robustly in 2010, led by shipments of cutting-edge 300mm wafers.
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| Business News |
SMIC says sales declined 21% in 2009
Chinese chip foundry SMIC posted sales of $1.1 billion 2009, down 21 percent compared to 2008, the company said.
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Large LCD TV market sweeps March ratings
Large-area TFT-LCD panel shipment increased 23.8 percent month-to-month this past March to 56.87 milllion units—all time high, as revenue also increased 22.7 percent month-to-month to $7.23 billion.
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| From ESC |
ESC: Wind River rolls integrated package for telecom
Wind River Systems is rolling out at the Embedded Systems Conference its Network Acceleration Platform for telecom system designers, the first of a family of integrated software development packages that bundles multiple operating systems and tools and the first of a set of algorithms Wind River is developing for higher-level features.
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Green Hills forges alliances with Freescale, Cavium
Increased processor support, including multicore, is added to Integrity OS, IDE, debugging tools.
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| Design News |
Intel to invest $177M in Guadalajara Design Center
Intel said it would invest $177 million over three years to expand its design center in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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