Samsung Electronics, the global digital technology innovator, today launched the world's first 3Gigabyte-HDD (hard disk drive) embedded music smartphone, the SGH-i300, in Middle East.

Asian chip stocks such as Samsung Electronics and Toshiba eased on Wednesday following a broker downgrade of the sector, keeping a lid on regional markets.

Hynix said Tuesday it has no plan to raise $1 billion in the equity markets as reported by the Financial Times earlier in the day.

ASML has won support from its unionized workforce for 24-hour, seven days-a-week production during market peaks as a result of a flexible labor model centered around a three-year time bank for employees.

The legal war between Rambus and the rest of the chip industry flared up again Tuesday, when the company was accused of intentionally shredding documents that cast doubts on the validity of some of its patents.

Epson has started patent infringement proceedings in the English High Court against Medea International Limited in respect of patents belonging to Epson.

Thin sheets capable of receiving remote data signals are off the drawing board and hitting the streets.

Hynix Semiconductor Inc., the world's second-biggest maker of memory chips, may sell new shares to fund future capital expenditure although it has no firm plan yet, company officials said on Tuesday.

In a move designed to accelerate its participation in the global hard disk drive (HDD) market, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has unveiled a new mega-manufacturing center in Shenzhen, China.

IBM scientists claim the smallest, high-quality line patterns ever made using deep-ultraviolet (DUV, 193nm) optical lithography - immersion-style, of course, but with a high index liquid rather than water.

DE&T announced on February 17th that it has signed an agreement with Samsung Electronics to supply LCD manufacturing equipment worth 1.5 billion won (approximately $1.549 million).