About 72 percent of adult mobile phone users send text messages with their phones, according to a report released Thursday from the Pew Research Center. That's up from 65 percent just a year ago.

IBM has announced details of what it claims is the world's fastest computer chip - the microprocessor in a new version of the IBM mainframe that begins shipping to customers on September 10.

China Power Investment Corp has won bids for seven of the thirteen solar concession projects, China Securities Journal reported, without saying where it got the information.

Globalfoundries and Freescale Semiconductor have jointly announced plans to bring a new class of thin film storage (TFS) flash memory products to market on 90nm technology.

"Markets are broadly interpreting this as an improvement in the economy, but overall consumer confidence is still very, very bad," said Tim Quinlan, an economist with Wells Fargo. "We went from being severely depressed about the outlook, to just being depressed about the outlook."

Many high-technology companies have run afoul of the US' Export Control System, which regulates the overseas sales of items that can be put to use for military or intelligence-gathering purposes.

Sematech has announced the completion of its 300mm 3D IC pilot line. Operating at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering's (CNSE) Albany NanoTech Complex, the pilot line includes all processes and test vehicles necessary to demonstrate the viability of the via-mid technology in conjunction with advanced CMOS.

Mobile phone customers will have to present ID when purchasing a phone number from Wednesday, in the latest campaign by the government to curb the global scourge of spam, pornographic messages and fraud on cellular phones.

"Any company with a telecoms network should be accessible," an Indian Home Ministry official told the BBC. "It could be Google or Skype, but anyone operating in India will have to provide data."

CEO Nordberg said that Sony Ericsson is unlikely to create its own tablet-style personal computer. Sony is likely to produce any tablet that Sony Ericsson sells in the future, he added.

GCL-Poly, in which China's sovereign wealth fund holds a stake, signed an agreement with DelSolar to supply 664MW of wafers to the Taiwanese solar-cell maker.

Rather than install racking systems to hold heavy glass-covered solar panels, the company's PowerFlex BIPV modules can be adhered onto a roof or built right into roofing materials. The modules are quicker to installer, lighter, and don't require any penetrations into the roof, according to the company.

"Never stop thinking" - the Infineon claim that employees once revised to "Never stop shrinking." That was five years ago, when Infineon spun off memory-chip unit Qimonda.

Unlike its rivals, Samsung doesn't have another flagship phone planned for the crucial holiday season, and will rely solely on its Galaxy S lineup and the upcoming Galaxy Tab tablet, which analysts say could hurt its ability to get carrier support.

But analysts called the measures too timid in the face of the problems plaguing Japan's export-oriented economy.

There appears to be a sudden slowdown in the cell-phone, LCD, LED, PC and other product segments - a trend that impacts chipmakers. And chip inventories are on the rise. Still, VLSI Research has raised its chip and fab tool forecasts for 2010.

A "lost decade" in US employment reflects a change in the structure of the nation's labor market, according to Mohamed El-Erian, CEO at Pacific Investment Management Co.

Two Russian tech companies, preparing to launch domestic microchip production in partnership with STMicroelectronics, are lobbying the state to ban imports of similar products, according to local newspapers.

It looks like we should expect frequencies introduced at 2,133MHz and it will scale to over 4.2GHz with DDR4.

As analyst Simon Dong-je Woo notes in a research report, TLC NAND pricing is down about 20% already in the current quarter. And he also reports that SanDisk has more exposure to TLC NAND than other players in the sector, accounting for 65% of the company's overall NAND chip sales.

STATS ChipPAC also indicated it is actively developing next-generation eWLB technology to enable larger package sizes, higher I/O density and 3D PoP solutions to address a wider application market.

If true, this would be one very big acquisition.

Shares of OmniVision Technologies jumped on August 27, a day after the maker of image sensor devices for digital cameras, mobile phones, computer Webcams and other consumer electronics posted a strong outlook for the current quarter, which ends in October.