MicroEmissive Displays plc (MED) is expanding its sales management team in Asia to provide strategic support to its customers and distributors in the region.

...Eventually the industry will need an entirely new technology, and SanDisk believes it has the solution in 3D memory, the technology it gained through the January 2006 acquisition of Matrix Semiconductor. The concept behind 3D memory is that you can simply stack arrays of cells vertically to increase storage density rather than increasing the size (and cost) of the chip. It’s like building a skyscraper rather than expanding the footprint of a building. SanDisk says it has more than 200 patents around 3D memory...

China attacking the IC marketplace has kind of been a failure," said Bill McClean, president of chip market research firm IC Insights. "You don't hear them talking about semiconductor manufacturing as much as they were five years ago."

...Taiwan, Sweden, and Denmark, which moved into the top five this year and are quickly closing in on the United States, according to the study, which compares the IT industry environments of 66 economies to determine the extent to which they enable IT sector competitiveness.

Taiwan said it will not drop its trade litigation against the EU over the its alleged violation of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) by imposing duties on some high-tech exports from the island that should be duty-free. The decision, announced by a senior official of Taiwan's Office of Trade Negotiations (OTN), came despite the EU's proposal Monday to expand the list of IT products exempt from customs duties. "The EU's new initiative will not influence our position to solve the case through the WTO, said the official.