The EDA Consortium Market Statistics Service said that the electronic design automation (EDA) industry revenue for the fourth quarter of 2007 grew 6.7 percent to $1.603 billion, versus $1.502 billion in the like period a year ago.

A downturn in the NAND flash market is forcing many vendors to cut production or delay their fabs.

Mobius Microsystems offers its CMOS Harmonic Oscillator as an alternative to quartz crystals and phase locked loops.

The industry is just starting to address what's being called a software gap between a rising tide of multicore processors and a lack of parallel programming tools and techniques to make use of them.

Japan's Sony Corp., the maker of PlayStation game gear and Vaio PCs, said on Thursday it wouldcut costs and attract more orders to offset the negative impact of the yen's strength on its profit.

Version 2.0 will introduce voice-enabled searches for Windows Mobile and BlackBerry devices that deliver more information to queries than just links.

Among the top 10 companies having H-1B visa petitions approved for fiscal 2007 are eight Indian firms and two U.S. companies, Microsoft and Intel.

Data service revenue in 2007 rose to more than $23 billion from $15.2 billion in 2006.

Semiconductor metrology specialist Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel) has confirmed that it is laying off 6 percent of its 288 employees.

Dell Inc. plans to cut more jobs than the 8,800 it earlier targeted and has already eliminated 5,500 positions, Chief Executive Michael Dell said Thursday.

Due to a production glitch at a polysilicon plant, MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. lowered its first-quarter financial targets.

Big-time electronics and semiconductor manufacturers here are looking to work with the Indian government to pull together proposals for establishing a chip fab, an LCD plant and solar manufacturing facilities.

Industry executives and analysts all agree there are too many players in the memory semiconductor market and that the current pricing weakness and demand/supply imbalance would disappear once one or more major suppliers exit the sector but none of the

Vendors like Intel, Motorola, Microsoft, and Nokia provided a peek at the mobile Web of the future, but they couldn't say when it would be available.

Praxair Inc. plans to raise prices for silane in the range of 20-to-30 percent, effective immediately or as contracts permit.

Hohhot, China, Apr 3, 2008 - (ACN Newswire) - Dalu Group and their marketing partner, Kunical International Group, Ltd., have signed a long-term polysilicon supply contract with Space Energy Corporation of Tokyo, Japan, who will buy polysilicon produced at Dalu's

Dell says it will offer laptops with internal Qualcomm Gobi wireless technology, meaning it can access wireless networks regardless of carrier or location.

Intel Corp. is rolling out five new Atom microprocessors and a collection of chips designed for portable gadgets that access the Internet and for other uses, as the world's largest chipmaker uses its marketing muscle to help create a new