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Featured Story: What to watch for in the second half

Sunday, 22 June 2008 19:00

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As the first half of the year comes to a close, the IC industry is still reeling from an eventful and turbulent first six months highlighted by joint ventures, reduced capex spending, high wafer fab utilization rate, a 450-mm wafer venture, and the rising price of oil, noted Scottsdale, Ariz.-based market research firm IC Insights Inc.

The market research company called attention to a number of significant events of the first half of the year including the formation of several joint ventures, particularly between memory suppliers -- Micron-Nanya and Intel-STMicroelectronics – that were forced to take drastic measures to survive the cut-throat pricing environment that continued to characterize the DRAM and flash memory markets in the first half.