PDP TV makers such as Matsushita and Pioneerare likely to report weak results, having lost dominance of the market for large TVs to the more popular LCD.

"...LDK expects that following installation of this equipment, the Company will have polysilicon production capacity of up to 6,000 metric tons in 2008 and 15,000 metric tons in 2009..."

"...Intel threw down the gauntlet at a panel of automated test equipment (ATE) executives, stating that ATE vendors need to become more proactive in working with chip and EDA vendors...Seth urged ATE vendors to monitor chip development and roll out next-generation test equipment when future chips are ready for production..."

okia launched on Thursday a service that it said will cut the time a GPS-enabled cell phone takes to pinpoint its whereabouts. Nokia hopes the service, available for people who own its flagship N95 smart phones, will cut the start-up time to one minute, from up to three minutes currently. The slowness has so far hampered interest in cell phone navigation.

Motorola posted its second straight quarterly loss after customers bought phones from Samsung Electronics, which stripped the company of its rank as the world's second-largest maker of mobile phones. Phone shipments slumped by about a third as Chief Executive Officer Ed Zander failed to introduce a device to compete with Apple Inc.'s iPhone, which debuted June 29, and new BlackBerrys from Research In Motion.

"Our inventory is extremely low, and orders from our customers have far exceeded our supply... ASP declined 46% QoQ in the second quarter but predicted prices would rise in 2H07..."

"...ATmega48P/88P/168P/328P devices have 4, 8, 16 and 32 Kbytes of flash memory, respectively. These devices consume as little as 340 uA in active mode at 1.8V running from the internal RC oscillator at 1 MHz, 650 nA in power-save mode with real time counter running, and 100 nA in power-down mode. picoPower AVRs are pin-, performance-, and code-compatible with existing AVR microcontrollers..."

"...Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed onto flexible plastic sheets...home users might eventually be able to print their own solar cells with inexpensive inkjet printers... Unlike traditional solar cells, which are made from purified silicon, these cells are made from organic compounds..."