Merck KGaA and DELO Industrial Adhesives announced today that they have formed a strategic partnership in the field of OLED technology.

New electronic chemicals developed by chemists could pave the way for the development of OLEDs that promise more efficient energy savings and could render todays incandescent light bulbs and fluorescent bulbs obsolete.

The EU-supported project OLLA , backed with EUR 12 million in financing, may have come to an end, but the consortium has announced an extended collaboration via the OLED100.eu project. The partnership forged between leading European companies will tackle OLED lighting technology. The project's aim is to improve the efficiency, lifetime and size of the light-emitting diodes.

Austin, Texas-based Nuventix, which makes low cost, energy-efficient cooling technology for LEDs and consumer electronics, has received $14 million in third round funding led by Advanced Technology Ventures. Braemar Energy Ventures also joined the round.

Lumex announces the launch of two new high-power LED technologies, TitanBrite and SuperBeam that provide bright, intense light with low power consumption.

The money will be split between three projects related to chip nanotechnologies, IBM said. They are updating its manufacturing plant in East Fishkill, New York; expanding its operations at the University of Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, a creating a new center for research into chip packaging at a location to be determined in Upstate New York. IBM didn't say how much money was going to each.

"We are opting either to combine it with an envisioned joint venture with Samsung SDI on AM OLED displays or send the mobile LCD unit to Samsung SDI's Mobile Display Business Unit," a high-ranking Samsung Electronics official told The Korea Times.

Semiconductor-based lighting could cut the energy used by lighting in half, says the U.S. Department of Energy. Because lighting accounts for about one-fifth of all electricity used in the United States, that could add up to some US$98B in energy savings by 2020. DOE figures just replacing the country's 60W bulbs with 10W LEDs would save enough electricity to power all of Las Vegas for a year – twice. Indeed, the government is so keen on the idea it is offering up to US$20M in prize money to developers of viable commercial fixtures.

Sony surprised some at the annual E3 conference on Tuesday by reducing the price of its high end PlayStation 3 (PS3) console, following Microsoft earlier move to reduce the price of its Xbox 360.

MEC and JSR Corporation have collaborated on using only one etch step to reduce the cost of double patterning. 32nm lines and spaces were printed with a double exposure/single etch process, effectively freezing the resist after the first exposure. The freezing of the resist after the first exposure prevents the resist from expanding or shrinking, maintaining good CD control. When the second resist layer is added, the two do not interact.

...Initial products at launch in Baltimore were confirmed to include embedded WiMAX laptops using Intel chipsets, the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet WiMAX Edition, a Samsung PC Card, a ZTE USB dongle and a ZyXEL CPE modem. Other vendors and products are expected to be approved by Sprint for use on the network and enter commercial availability in the future...