Top 30 chip suppliers of 2002, according to iSuppli
Soltek announces SL-85FRV-R on P4X600 chipset
New ECS DeskNote in 2003
Top 30 chip suppliers of 2002, according to iSuppli
2002 is ending and, like a year ago, iSuppli, the marketing company, posted its rating of the world-top 30 semiconductor suppliers. The rating contains not only the chip makers like Infineon, Micron, or Samsung, but also the suppliers, selling chips under their brands, including those without own production like NVIDIA, Qualcomm, etc. As the Q4 is not finished yet, the results are compiled, using the provisional forecasts.Well, nobody doubted that Intel was to remain on top. It’s interesting that, besides staying on the first place, the company could keep the sales on the level of 2001. Samsung showed the highest sales growth rate in 2002, having occupied the second place from the former fourth. Who could believe that a company can double the sales volumes in a hard year! The third STMicroelectronics remained on the same position, and the following Texas Instruments went one place up. It’s interesting that DRAM makers with all their complaints about the low market prices have significantly improved their businesses, achieving higher rating places. Micron Technology had time to increase the sales volumes by almost one third in this year. NVIDIA and Qualcomm continue to achieve high sales volumes growth rate, at that not having any own facilities. Positions of Toshiba, Agere, LSI Logic, Atmel, and Fujitsu got worse. AMD lost four places at once, its sales volumes might reduce by $1 billion or almost 1/3 this year.
Chip suppliers 2002: Top 30 | 2002 | 2001 | Company | Sales in 2002, billions | Sales in 2001, billions | Change, % | | 1 | 1 | Intel | $23.47 | $23.54 | -0.3% | | 2 | 4 | Samsung | $9.18 | $6.14 | 49.5% | | 3 | 3 | ST Micro | $6.31 | $6.36 | -0.9% | | 4 | 5 | TI | $6.20 | $6.05 | 2.5% | | 5 | 2 | Toshiba | $6.19 | $6.54 | -5.5% | | 6 | 8 | Infineon | $5.36 | $4.56 | 17.5% | | 7 | 6 | NEC | $5.26 | $5.30 | -0.8% | | 8 | 7 | Motorola | $4.73 | $4.83 | -2.0% | | 9 | 9 | Philips | $4.36 | $4.41 | -1.1% | | 10 | 10 | Hitachi | $4.05 | $4.24 | -4.6% | | 11 | 11 | Mitsubishi | $3.62 | $3.87 | -6.4% | | 12 | 14 | IBM | $3.39 | $3.56 | -4.7% | | 13 | 16 | Matsushita | $3.28 | $3.01 | 9.1% | | 14 | 13 | Fujitsu | $3.24 | $3.73 | -13.3% | | 15 | 18 | Micron | $3.22 | $2.45 | 31.2% | | 16 | 12 | AMD | $2.61 | $3.79 | -31.2% | | 17 | 19 | Hynix | $2.57 | $2.34 | 8.3% | | 18 | 17 | Sony | $2.50 | $2.47 | 1.1% | | 19 | 21 | Rohm | $2.39 | $2.21 | 8.3% | | 20 | 20 | Sharp | $2.36 | $3.36 | 0% | | 21 | 22 | Sanyo | $2.10 | $2.03 | 3.6% | | 22 | 15 | Agere | $2.03 | $3.14 | -35.5% | | 23 | 23 | Analog Devices | $1.94 | $1.93 | 0.6% | | 24 | 28 | Qualcomm | $1.85 | $1.39 | 32.8% | | 25 | 30 | NVIDIA | $1.80 | $1.29 | 39.6% | | 26 | 24 | Agilent | $1.60 | $1.53 | -3.2% | | 27 | 26 | National | $1.57 | $1.51 | 4.1% | | 28 | 25 | LSI Logic | $1.51 | $1.56 | -3.5% | | 29 | 29 | Fairchild | $1.35 | $1.34 | 1.1% | | 30 | 27 | Atmel | $1.21 | $1.48 | -18.5% | | — | — | Other | $34.14 | $33.95 | -0.6% | | — | — | Total | $155.35 | $153.06 | 1.5% | | Source: iSuppli Corp. | Source: Silicon Strategies
Soltek announces SL-85FRV-R on P4X600 chipset
According to the provisional data, later this year Soltek is to start sales of SL-85FRV-R motherboard on the VIA P4X600 (VT8763) + VT8235 chipset bundle. Currently the VIA P4X600 chipset is not officially announced and thus much rumoured. For example, Chinese GZeasy believes that after the New Year, before the P4X800 apears, we might see the P4X600A, supporting P4 with 800MHz FSB. As for the new Soltek SL-85FRV-R mobo, it will support Pentium 4 with 400/533MHz FSB, as promised before.
The board has ATX design, 4 DIMM slots (up to 4Gb DDR333), AGP 8x slot, 5 PCI slots, RAID ATA 133 IDE (Promise PDC20276, RAID 0 Striping or RAID 1 Mirroring), 5.1-ch. AC97 codec, 2 x Serial ATA (RAID), 6 USB 2.0 ports.
Perhaps, we’ll see another P4X600-based Soltek motherboard – cheaper SL-85FRV without RAID controllers.
Source: GZeasy
New ECS DeskNote in 2003
Looking back at the year passed since the so-called desknotes (notebooks on the desktop components) have appeared, I can state the certain commercial success of this product line. Having emerged as an alternative to notebooks based on far more expensive processors and other components, desknotes became the good buy for many users due to the compact design and the desktop performance and price.
Elitegroup, one of the most consistent players on the desknote market, plans to update its product line in 2003. DeskNote A900 and A901, accoridng to the provisional data, will be replaced by A907 and A980 with up-to-date components, higher upgrade compatibility and lower price.
Entry-level (about $600) DeskNote i-Buddie A907 will replace A900 (on 733MHz VIA C3) and A901 (Intel Celeron), and will become the first DeskNote models on integrated Transmeta Crusoe TM5600 with 512Kb L2 cache, intergrated memory controller (PC133 SDRAM), with 400-500MHz Pentium III performance. The first A907 model will feature the 533MHz chip, the following — 600, 633, and 667MHz CPUs. A907 bottom price is promised to be about $560 and even lower (speaking of barebones without memory, HDD, etc.) The complete A907 specifications are here.
Unlike A907, lacking the CPU upgrade capability, the DeskNote i-Buddie A980 serie enables to install 2.26, 2.53, 2.8GHz Pentium 4 with 533MHz FSB, and the A929 serie (i-Buddie XP; specifications here) — Athlon XP. The A980 serie will feature the SiS651 chipset with SiS315-based graphics (16-64Mb of system memory) and also the models on NVIDIA GeForce4Go 420 with "own" 32Mb DDR. In addition DeskNote models utilize usual memory modules instead of SO-DIMM, but, unlike the A907 serie supporting the 168-pin PC133 SDRAM, the high-end A980 supports 2.5V 184-pin DDR33 SDRAM. A928 and A929 series (i-Buddie4 on Pentium 4 with 400MHz FSB; specifications here) also support the 184-pin DDR SDRAMm however only with PC2100.
Another interesting feature of the A980 serie is the opportunity of purchasing a model with brighter 15" TTL LCD, previously mainly used in LCD monitors. Naturally, this will affect the weight and depth and will reduce the operation time. Though the A980 serie will feature models with 15" LVDS panels as well. In general, Elitegroup plans to expand the list of larger-display models in 2003.
The new DeskNote products still feature the 2.5" hard drives, however, they can be replaced by unscrewing two screws and mounting the drive into the special bay. Other standard features include the V.90 56Kbps modem, 10/100Mbps LAN and USB ports. Floppy drives and PCMCIA slots are becoming the past, the high-end A928, A929, A980 feature USB 2.0 and IEEE1394.
As the desktop CPUs are still the main DeskNote feature, the company positions battery only as an option.
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ECS DeskNote (i-Buddie) series, 2003
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i-Buddie A907 |
i-Buddie4 A928 |
i-Buddie XP A929 |
i-Buddie4 A980 |
| CPU |
Transmeta Crusoe TM5600 500-667MHz | Pentium4 1.6-2.4GHz |
Athlon XP 1500+ — 2600+ |
Pentium4 2.26-2.8GHz |
| Display, inches |
13.3 / 14.1, LCD |
14.1 / 15, LCD |
14.1 / 15, LCD |
15, TTL / LVDS, LCD |
| Resolution |
1024 x 768 (XGA) |
1024 x 768 (XGA) |
1024 x 768 (XGA) |
1024 x 768 (XGA) |
| Chipset |
ALi M1535 |
SiS650 + SiS961 |
SiS740 + SiS961 |
SiS651 + SiS962 |
| Graphics |
SiS305 |
SiS315 |
SiS315E |
SiS315 (GeForce4 Go420) |
| Peripherals |
COM, VGA, RJ-11, RJ-45 LAN, 4 õ
USB 1.1 | S-video (TV), VGA, RJ-11, RJ-45
LAN, 4 õ USB 2.0, IEEE1394 | S-video (TV), VGA, RJ-11, RJ-45
LAN, 4 õ USB 2.0, 2 õ IEEE 1394, graphics card slot |
| Memory |
128/256Mb SDRAM |
256Mb DDR SDRAM |
256Mb DDR SDRAM |
| Weight |
2.2 kg |
3.18 kg |
3.25 (LVDS), 4.2 kg (TFT) |
Source: The DigiTimes
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