The electronics chain puts out the "For Sale" sign, hiring Goldman Sachs to assist on a deal, most likely with Blockbuster.

Microsoft began, in April, farming out production of 65nm graphics chips and northbridge chips for its latest version of Xbox 360 game consoles to Taiwan-based foundries Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing(TSMC), Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Nanya PCB.

Under the deal, LDK Solar will deliver roughly 540 megawatts of solar wafers to Qimonda or its new joint venture with Centrosolar from 2009 through 2013.

Are chip makers building electronic trapdoors in key military hardware? The Pentagon is making its biggest effort yet to find out.