Double Data Rate 3 SDRAM, the state of the art in commodity memory technology, is expected to rise to dominance by the second quarter of 2010, according to new projections from market research firm iSuppli.

Here are the top five online stories for the week beginning Sunday, Nov. 15, as ranked by EE Times readers, up to and including Friday, Nov. 20. The ranking is based on the number of reader "views" or "hits" on

As reported, Applied Materials Inc. and Semitool Inc. this week announced a definitive agreement for Applied to acquire the outstanding shares of Semitool for $11 per share in an all-cash tender offer.

In between takes of guest appearances on TV's "30 Rock," Nobel prize winner and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore swept into Silicon Valley Thursday to stump for the smart electric grid and help hand out awards to technologists honored

The number of millionaires in China continued to rise while many world economies are a deep recession, a private research group said.

It has not evolved into a full blown revolt yet. But engineers in so-called low-cost Asian locations are sending strong signals to high-tech companies that they do not like the huge gulf between what they earn annually and compensations paid

Angry workers at Atmel Corp.'s fab in Rousset, France, have gone on an unlimited strike.

Globalfoundries needs to attract more customers to get its huge Fab1 (and subsequent fabs) utilized. In order to demonstrate its chip-making muscles, the company allowed a handful of journalists to visit their Dresden clean room. Our visual impressions can be

Fabless chip vendors Qualcomm and MediaTek have agreed to let each other utilize technology covered by their respective patent portfolios.

BofA Merrill Lynch's downgrade of the semiconductor industry is baseless, according to the editor of a technology and semiconductor investment newsletter.

Google announced the open-sourcing of code for Chrome OS, the cloud-based operating system the company is developing to power netbooks.

Boston University startup Sand 9 propels micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) into high-precision mainstream computing applications like 3G, 4G, GPS and WiFi.

Infineon has managed to conclude a profitable quarter, but this does not mean the company is out of the woods now. EE Times explains which challenges the company has to master in the year ahead.

Having returned to profitability in its Q4, Infineon explained how it hopes it will remain profitable in the mid-term. Basically, growth will come from Asia, and acquisitions cannot be ruled out, explained Infineon CEO Peter Bauer.

Altis Semiconductor will have to make its money as an independent foundry services provider after it will be sold to a private investor. At the opportunity of its 2009 figures announcement, officials of parent company Infineon acknowledged that the sales

Nano ePrint Ltd., a spin off from the University of Manchester in England, has secured a grant to help it develop and demonstrate a printed programmable logic device.

Tanner EDA, a division of Tanner Research Inc. (Monrovia, Calif.), and Tower Semiconductor Ltd., which trades as TowerJazz, have joined forces to meet analog/mixed signal customers' needs for high quality power management ICs.

Intel's first joint lab in Europe focused exclusively on "exascale" computers that are able to process 1 trillion instructions per second.

Avnet Embedded has expanded its distribution agreement with Cinterion Wireless Modules.