Finnish operator Elisa and Nokia Siemens Networks have successfully demonstrated a new technology that allows operators to simply and cost effectively increase voice capacity of their 3G networks, potentially up to 100%.

AMD's spun-off manufacturing arm, Globalfoundries, reportedly has convinced Subramani Kengeri to join its team. Kengeri comes from manufacturing giant TSMC and was one of the key people behind the recently announced TSMC/Intel deal.

Semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials swung to a loss in the fiscal second-quarter as sales plunged a less-than-feared 53% in a tough environment for the chip sector.

Australia's government will invest A$4.5 billion ($3.4 billion) in the development of infrastructure to generate energy from clean sources such as solar and wind power and to reduce carbon emissions.

After a massive capex splurge on its semiconductor division over the last three years, Toshiba is radically cutting back its chip investments over the coming year.

The pace of Taiwan's economic decline has slowed down, but a much-anticipated rebound is still far way, the chairman of one of Taiwan's biggest companies said Monday.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke defended Monday the central bank's recent stress tests of the nation's most important banks, and mounted an unusual defense of the US dollar.

The two biggest producers, Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor, won larger shares of the shrinking market in DRAM chips in the first quarter, industry research firm DRAMeXchange said on Monday.

The LCD maker wants to utilize its display experience to create a 3G smartphone, but analysts are skeptical of its chances to knock off Nokia or Samsung.

Worldwide, the rate of software piracy rose from 38% to 41%, because of the increase of Internet users in high-piracy locations such as China and India, the report found. Software piracy within the US, meanwhile, has remained flat.

Blu-ray player sales in the first quarter of 2009 jumped 72 percent over sales in the first quarter of 2008, according to market research firm NPD Group.

China's exports in April were down 22.6% from a year ago, the sixth successive month of decline. But other data released on Tuesday suggest that Chinese government efforts to stimulate the economy are pushing up investment levels in the country.

The world's largest maker of solar cells reported a net profit of 19.8 million euros (US$27.0 million) for the first quarter of 2009, better than expected. But it slashed its 2009 sales outlook for the third time since December.

China's contract chipmakers, battered by a sharp downturn in demand for semiconductors, will survive the recession and become increasingly competitive over time, according to an Accenture executive.

China's consumer prices fell by 1.5% in the year to April, figures show, the third consecutive month of declines.

MIPS Technologies on May 8 announced Synopsys has acquired its Analog Business Group in an all-cash transaction for US$22 million.

CHIA Song Hwee's upbeat tone when he spoke to BT after Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing's first-quarter results announcement might seem discordant at other times.

The Torqx SSD line is one of Patriot's latest releases designed with Patriot's new cutting-edge technology that adds 64MB of DRAM cache in conjunction with its current equipped NAND technology.