A Samsung official said the companies will debut the Samsung-Armani mobile phone in November, and an LCD TV in January next year.

"...If that chipset is accepted by cellphone makers such as Sony's JV with Ericsson, Sony could start placing large volume orders for the chips with TSMC..."

"...The firms will work together to standardise biochips for medical diagnoses and food safety checks, eyeing a market they expect to grow to 100 billion yen in 2010 in Japan..."

"...Toshiba can only meet 70% of its order demand...NAND flash bit growth is expected to jump 120% in 2008 and 115% in 2009...Toshiba is in the planning stages for the next fab (Fab 5)...but it has not been decided where the company will build the fab..."

Sharp plans to launch a Blu-ray Disc recorder with one terabyte of storage space, enough for over 125 hours of high definition video.

CyberLink recently released its latest version of MakeDisc, which enables authoring of video and photos, and the burning of data and music files on Blu-ray Discs and DVDs.

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) will increasingly be used to form the gate insulation layers for flash memories and logic chips, presenting a rapidly growing market opportunity, executives said at the recent SEMICON Taiwan 2007. ALD may be applied for tunneling oxide deposition. However, Rao said extremely thin tunnel oxide layers are influenced by the silicon crystal orientation. In trench or stacked capacitor cells, the crystal orientation of a horizontal plane is different from that of a vertical plane, leading to different film thicknesses

Dell has announced that it will partner with Chinese retailer Gome. The company plans to deploy Dell products and services in 50 Gome major metropolitan locations, followed by significant expansion early next year. With nearly 1,000 stores across China, Gome is one of the company's largest retailers.

BitTorrent has established a wholly owned subsidiary headquartered in Tokyo.

Microsoft's heavily hyped first-person shooter Halo 3 was officially released at 12am this morning, and the wait in line for some customers was not just anticipatory, but also apprehensive.

In recent months, Google's mobile aspirations have generated headlines aplenty. But out of the limelight, another major Internet player, AOL, is preparing to flex its mobile muscles as well.

Iomega is turning its attention to Mac users with an expanded line of external storage products it unveiled at Apple Expo in Paris this week.

Alcatel-Lucent and Kyocera Wireless announced that the two companies have signed a joint development agreement under which they will collaborate on the development of end-to-end wireless broadband solutions based on Universal WiMAX technology.

Broadcom announced its first single-chip global positioning system (GPS) solution.