The South Korean shipbuilding and shipping group dropped out amid global economic uncertainties and concerns over investments needed to keep the chipmaker competitive, STX said in a statement.

While many experts have expressed doubts about the ability of flash memory to scale and indicated the need for an alternative non-volatile memory technology, Hynix has just gone ahead and produced a 15nm NAND flash memory cell which it plans to unveil at this year's International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM).

No one knows who coined the phrase "a race against time, but that's precisely the situation many programmers and operators find themselves in.

Taiwan government will continue helping Taiwanese suppliers' efforts to get preferential treatment for panels via trade negotiations.

Both Sony and JVC announced the introduction of the first so-called "4K" projectors for the home theater market. Both systems were based on liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) imaging chips but that's where the similarities ended.

Then, this morning, I was reading some about a company called Visual Planet that can turn any surface into a touchscreen using a transparent, few-millimeter-thick nanowire film.

Cambridge based Visual Planet are working on a project, which will allow any surface to be transformed into a touchscreen. The thin multitouch film drivers can be used for massive installations, allowing for touchscreens up to 167 inches in size.

SMA Solar Technology AG, the world's biggest maker of solar inverters, slashed full-year targets only days after its chief executive called the outlook challenging, confirming fears the industry bellwether was not immune to falling demand.

Developers installed 69% more US solar power capacity in the second quarter than a year earlier, led by commercial and government projects.

After the iPhone and the iPad, Apple may be working on a full-size TV (possibly with no-glasses 3D) which could also give American customers the option of a cheaper service than the present expensive cable TV offerings.

Such technology could be useful in power-sucking data centers and handheld devices with limited batter life, such as smartphone sand tablets, obviously. It could also be used for processors that don't rely on electricity from the grid, according to Intel, scavenging power from light and motion in the environment around them.

Taiwanese PC maker Acer has launched an HD ready LED projector that it is marketing as portable because it is smaller than a magazine.

The widening adoption of capacitive touch panels in tablet PCs, mobile phones and 3D TVs is encouraging China manufacturers to boost output of the display component.

Stevie Wonder gave Steve Jobs a shout out last weekend for making touchscreen devices accessible to the blind and disabled.

As Microsoft says, Metro is "touch first." You can use it with a keyboard and mouse, but any Windows 8 PC that doesn't have a touchscreen is going to feel a tad retro.

The proposal's name refers to billionaire Warren Buffett, who has complained that wealthy Americans like himself pay less than their fair share in taxes under the current tax code.

GCT Semiconductor, a maker of mobile chips used in smartphones, wireless routers and other devices, plans to raise up to US$100 million in an initial public offering, according to documents filed on September 15.

"It's not about how many cores or how many gigabytes, it's how well you can optimise the system," said Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs... Was that a crack at Google's Android OS?

Infineon Technologies, flush with as much as US$3 billion in cash for acquisitions, is struggling to find an attractive target that would boost its most profitable business, power semiconductors.

With European Union officials making efforts to reduce electricity consumption and to eliminate traditional, inefficient incandescent light bulbs by 2012, European LED chip and luminaire maker Optogan says that it has entered a new market for solid-state lighting (SSL) luminaires in Romania.

China's solar power firms are emerging as the industry's dominant force after the collapse of foreign competitors, but the new market leaders are already struggling with low prices and overcapacity.

The beauty of these system-on-chip architectures is that they can be placed in very tight spaces. This obviously impacts case designs.

Maxim Integrated Products has unveiled several organization changes to better serve its customers.

Blackberry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) has seen its second-quarter profits more than halve, hurt by low demand for its older models.

STMicroelectronics is closing one of its semiconductor R&D groups in Longmont, Colo., and laying off 44 people, according to a report by a Colorado newspaper.

Witness testimony from a former Samsung manager during an insider trading trial has revealed that he leaked early information on the iPad to representatives from an "expert network" firm and a hedge fund.

Do you love the promise of 3D gaming but hate the headaches? Well then maybe Vuzix's approach to 3D gaming might appeal to you.

With the embedded DisplayPort 1.3 interface (eDP 1.3), VESA, the Video Standards Association behind DisplayPort, came up with a new idea, the Panel Self Refresh (PSR).

Consumers have been voting with their fingers since Apple first introduced the iPhone, rapidly driving up the popularity of touchscreen smartphones, and the tide shows no sign of turning.