World Market

3.1.	The Semiconductor Industry Association reports an increase in the global market for semiconductors of 28 percent in November 2000, but notices evidence of weaker growth in the following months.
	Chip revenues decline significantly as key customers of the semiconductor industry decide to reduce their excessively large inventories.

Semiconductor Industry

16.2.	Telecommunications provider Nortel Networks reports an expected fall in profits and announces lay-offs.
20.2.	Electronics multinational NEC revises its previous forecasts and projects a drop in profits of 33 percent. The reasons: weak demand for PCs and declining DRAM prices.
26.3.	Communications chip manufacturers PMC-Sierra and Conexant Systems adjust their original profit expectations downwards and announce job cuts.

Infineon Technologies

22.1.	Infineon demonstrates first samples of 1-Gigabyte DDR modules, which are already validated for AMD-based platforms.
26.1.	Infineon's collaboration with IMEC, one of the world's leading independent research and development centers in the field of microelectronics, with headquarters in Brussels, is extended in the area of microelectronic technologies as well as design and system-oriented research.
31.1.	Infineon announces an 8 percent increase in first quarter revenues with growth in all non-memory businesses, reporting a 61 percent decline in its memory products business. EBIT is down 45 percent in comparison to the record quarter posted in the period July to September 2000.
5.2.	Infineon produces the world's first power semiconductors with silicon carbide schottky diodes, which enable compact switch mode power supplies with low switching losses.
20.2.	An innovative baseband IC solution developed by Infineon for GPRS and EDGE mobile phones supports the transition from the second to the third generation of mobile communications.
15.3.	Infineon introduces the first chipset to integrate voice and full-rate ADSL Internet services on a single linecard.
19.3.	At CeBIT, Infineon presents the first system-on-a-chip solution for multibeam DVD/CD drives.

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