Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou has met China's senior envoy to the island in the highest level contact since 1949. The brief meeting was brought forward five hours to avoid continuing protests by Taiwanese pro-independence groups. Ma defended his agreements with Beijing, saying they did not damage Taiwan's sovereignty.

SanDisk has released details of its new flash management technology, ExtremeFFS (Extreme Flash File System) which has the potential to extend endurance and accelerate SSD random write speeds by as much as 100 times compared with existing systems.

Struggling chip maker AMD said Wednesday it is cutting 500 workers, or 3% of its global staff, to help the company return to profitability. The cuts are AMD's second big round of layoffs this year.

New LCD panel comes with the big boast of being "world's fastest"

A new nanocoating developed by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute gives most run-of-the-mill solar panels the ability to capture 96.2% of the sun's rays from any angle.

...Yeung said that "given the dramatic declines in chip stocks in the past 12 months, and in light of our analysis in this report, we believe the risk/reward has now become favorable to be long selective chip names...

Taiwan's currency rose, extending its biggest weekly gain in eight months, as a rebound in Asian stocks helped damp risk aversion. Bonds fell. The currency strengthened against the US dollar as the benchmark TAIEX share index climbed for a fifth day. China's top Taiwan envoy Chen Yunlin (陳雲林) arrived in Taipei today to discuss trade links, becoming the highest-ranking bureaucrat to set foot on the island in six decades.The nation’s currency rose 0.3 percent to NT$32.898 against the greenback at the 4pm close, Taipei Forex Inc said.

The CS-2000A is capable of measuring ultra-low luminance levels of various light-emitting devices and flat-screen televisions such as LCDs, plasma displays, organic EL displays, LEDs, etc. as well as performing high-accuracy measurements corresponding to scotopic relative luminosity.