"...Following our meeting with Nanya, we believe that it is highly likely that Micron will purchase Qimonda's stake at Inotera following the recent JV establishment between Nanya and Micron, according to id Daniel Amir, an analyst with Lazard Capital Markets... "

"...Intel said they are ramping the fab up as fast as they can...Intel started powering up the plant and checking its machinery on Friday and output resumed on Sunday..."

"....company chief executive Halla cautioned that the technology, dubbed Solar Magic was just beginning field trials and was six months away from certification..."

Craig Barratt, the chief executive of wireless chip maker Atheros, presented this afternoon at the JP Morgan technology conference, along with CFO Jack Lazar, and sent some skeptical vibes in the direction of the broadband wireless networking technology known as Wimax, which is being promoted heavily by Sprint, Intel, Google, and US cable operators.

Intel announced a 50 million ringgit (US$15.3 million) investment in Green Packet, the parent company of Malaysian WiMax operator Packet One Networks. The funds invested by Intel will be used to support Green Packet's WiMax business, the Malaysian company said in a statement.

Plans for high-speed wireless Internet will benefit Intel – an investor in the Sprint Nextel-Clearwire WiMax venture – and analysts expect other chip makers to gain from Intel's position and increased spending on similar networks.

Nichia Corp has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the UK against Korean LED maker Seoul Semiconductor Co Ltd and its UK distributor Avnet EMG Ltd

"...A Lehman Brothers analyst said if assuming that around 30% of monthly capacity was affected by the power outage, this may affect around 3-4% of monthly global DRAM supply for the coming one or two months..."

DUSSELDORF, Germany replacing1 7,000 or so gas lamps with LEDs.

ZURICH, Switzerland! Brothers Gerard and Anton Philips founded the company now known as Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. in 1891. That company largely made its fortune making incandescent light bulbs before moving into vacuum tubes, semiconductors, consumer electronics and medical equipment. And now Frans Otten and Warner Philips, great grandsons of Anton Philips, are hoping that Lemnis Lighting BV, which is being incubated by their company, Tendris Holding, will create another fortune with a solid-state light bulb that uses LED.

Henry Samueli, Broadcom's chairman of the board and chief technical officer, and David A. Dull, senior vice president and general counsel, will take leaves of absence from the company due to a civil complaint filed against them Wednesday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission related to the company's stock option granting practices.

BrightSource, a developer of utility-scale solar energy projects, has secured a total of US$115 million in additional corporate funding from its Series C round of financing. This brings the total capitalization to over US$160 million for BrightSource (Oakland, Calif.).