Finland may not be the most obvious place to stick millions of the world's computer servers. But the country now wants to become home to the world's computing power.

Hynix, IMEC, Intel, Samsung, Toshiba and possibly TSMC are the initial customers for ASML's "pre-production" extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography tool, according to an analyst.

Acer has issued a voluntary recall for some of its Aspire laptops manufactured before September 15th 2009 which are experiencing an overheat of the microphone cable after "repeated" and "extreme" pressure is applied to the left palm rest. Affected models include the AS3410, AS3810T, AS3810TG, AS3810TZ and AS3810TZG.

Samsung sees size and power benefits in phase-change memory (PCM), a memory type that is being pushed as a replacement for memory that goes into devices like mobile phones today.

If you thought that quality among DRAM DIMMs was evenly distributed, or that most DRAM errors are not due to hardware problems, Google has proven you wrong.

Despite a report from Digitimes stating Acer will delay the launch of its Android netbook until October, Acer said it remains on track to launch a version of its Aspire One netbook with Google's Android mobile operating system in the third quarter of this year.

Microsoft has announced Office Starter 2010, a reduced-functionality and ad-supported version that includes only Word and Excel. It is meant as a replacement for Microsoft Works and will only be available on new PCs sold by OEMs.

IMEC's revenues will be down only about 5% this year, compared to drops of 20% generally among electronics vendors. "R&D is the last part to cut because they need to continue to innovate," said company CEO Van den hove.

"People are printing money, gold is going up," according to investor Jim Rogers in an interview on Bloomberg Television.