"...Infineon had also received lower orders than expected for an unnamed project to supply HSDPA chips for high-speed Internet phones, leading analysts to speculate Apple's new iPhone would launch at lower volumes..."

"...The committee under the Ministry of Knowledge Economy that includes 10 experts from the government, academia and the industry, said that the plan does not pose a serious threat to national security..."

Four consumer electronics companies, including Sony and Sanyo Electric, have settled a complaint that they were infringing a patent on semiconductors related to LEDs and laser diodes used in products such as mobile phones, billboards, Blu-ray disc players and data storage devices.

"...the adjustments would mostly affect higher-end chips, but would not say how big they would be or when they would occur...The industry is still healthy but we face some structural profit pressure. In the short term we also face pressure from inflation and oil prices..."

"...Who is to say it will be Intel taking market share from ARM and not the other way? Intel will probably always be able to make a microprocessor that runs faster, but ARM can do one that uses less power. We are still a long way ahead in that..."

"...Sony hasn't decided whether it will commercialize the product...The battery's sensitized solar cells have an energy-conversion efficiency of 10%, which is said to a practical application standard..."

Qualcomm MEMS Technologies's Mirasol MEMS displays, based on a movable membrane technology called interferometric modulation. The displays are reflective devices that offer two advantages over LEDs and OLEDs: they consume very little power and are readable under outdoor ambient lighting conditions.

"... Infineon plans to sell its own shares via a capital increase to KKR in a deal that would make the private equity firm the largest investor in the German chipmaker with a 40-50% stake..."

"...Toshiba senior VP said NAND flash prices will either be flat or go up a bit in July-September...demand for Toshiba's high-capacity flash memory chips was strong, adding that the company was currently receiving orders for about 5% more than it could supply..."

Samsung has demonstrated an LCD with a field emission backlight (FEB) - achieving a claimed 300,000:1 contrast ratio. The key to this astonishingly high contrast - using an LCD panel, where 1,500:1 is generally the limit - is to make a backlight of a course array of pixels, and to turn off the pixels behind dark areas of the screen.