Dell customers may have to wait until October for some of their new machines to be delivered, thanks to supply chain problems and trouble perfecting new paint jobs at the struggling computer maker.

Companies that want to bid in the FCC's upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction had better be prepared to pay up. The agency has just released a first draft of its detailed auction rules, which include reserve prices that must be met before the auction becomes valid. The coveted C block licenses (which feature the new open access conditions) will require bidders to meet a US$4.6 billion reserve; for all licenses combined, the reserve is US$10 billion.

Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks animation gave HD-DVD a boost in the race to become the dominant home entertainment format, announcing they would release all their new titles in HD-DVD.

Sources within AT&T claim that the outfit has killed off the GPS functionality in its upcoming BlackBerry 8820 to prop up its Iphone sales.

China Mobile said its net new subscribers in July totaled 5.6 million, taking its total subscriber numbers as of the end of July to 337.97 million.

Nine executives at Inventec Appliances could face jail time for failing to reveal plans by Apple to reduce iPod orders to the company in a timely manner.

"...This groundbreaking is in line with the company's publicly announced plans to complete construction and reach a production capacity of up to 6,000 metric tons of polysilicon by the end of 2008 and 15,000 metric tons by the end of 2009. The Company has also indicated that it plans to commence volume production by the end of 2008..."

Seoul Semiconductor announced that a Taiwan Intellectual Property Office has ruled that the invalidation action brought by Advanced Optoelectronic Technology against Seoul Semiconductor's white LED patent in Taiwan is not sustained.

LG Electronics said the utilization ratio of its PDP lines in the company’s factory in the southeastern city of Gumi exceeded 90% in August, up nearly 40% from a month earlier.

According to news agency AFX, Intel is looking at getting into the solar wafer manufacturing game via an acquisition or two, though real details seem very slim. That said, Samsung is also said to be looking at doing the same and that also makes sense. Solar wafer or thin-film panel production would be a great cleanroom filler, which is also what Intel may need to do or close all of its 200mm fabs in the near future.

The complaint is a new front in a dispute between Nokia and Qualcomm, the world's second-biggest maker of phone chips. They are at odds over how much Qualcomm should receive in royalties for 3G phones that allow faster Internet access. Nokia wants lower fees after a cross-licensing deal expired on April 9, arguing Qualcomm has less intellectual property in the newest technology than in older products.

"...Micron said Litho has been behind NAND for the last couple of years...For example, Micron developed 50nm NAND devices -- even before the scanners were ready...Current 193nm immersion scanners are projected to run out of gas at the 45nm node."

Business is weak for Photronics in both semiconductors and flat panel, but the majority of the short fall can be traced to the flat panel display market.

With new ink technology in hand, designers are investigating high-speed presses to print millions of throwaway electronic components at a fraction of the cost of silicon-based circuitry.

CCID Consulting recently announced sales for China's flat-panel TV market in 2Q07.

Businesspeople and others who use their phones regularly for text messaging are likely to experience lots of frustration in using the Apple iPhone, at least in the short term, a research firm said Thursday.

Today we are looking at Gigabyte's first DDR3 offering for the high-end market. Under the Dual Quad 6 series brand, the P35T-DQ6 is designed to carry on from the P35-DQ6. The big difference? Let's have a look and find out.