STMicroelectronics' fab utilization rate amounted to 84 percent in the first quarter and is likely to increase slightly in the second quarter of 2008, according to Alain Dutheil, ST's chief operating officer and vice chairman of the corporate executive committee.
Alcatel-Lucent is bracing itself for a drop in full-year sales at current exchange rates due to the weak U.S. dollar and possible customer spending delays for its telecoms equipment, sending its shares down.
3Com Corp. Tuesday named a new CEO who will be based in China, after it failed to win U.S. government approval to sell a minority stake to China's biggest telecom gear maker Huawei Technologies Co.Ltd.
Ethernet switch chip developer Fulcrum Microsystems Inc. announced an effort to provide open-source methods for developing protocol middleware for LAN switching.
Scientists at the University of Tel Aviv in Israel claim they have found a way to construct efficient photovoltaic cells costing at least a hundred times less than conventional silicon based devices, and with similar or better energy conversion efficiency.
Taiwan's Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (ASE), the world's largest provider of IC packaging and testing services, reported net revenues of NT$24.7 billion ($811.3 million) for the first quarter of 2008, up 17 percent year-over-year and down 15 percent sequentially.
Invensense, a startup specializing in single-chip devices based on MEMS technology for motion sensing applications, has secured $19 million in a Series C round of financing.
Against the background of problems with its consumer business and encouraged by substantial success in its automotive division, Swiss chip maker Micronas eyes to industrial markets.
While silicon microphones and RF switches based on microelectromechanical systems have rapidly penetrated handsets, industry analysts are divided over MEMS accelerometers' near-term prospects for volume uptake in cell phones.
HP Labs' Stanley Williams has invented the world's first memristor, the 'missing link' in circuit theory--a fourth passive-device type after resistors, capacitors and inductors--as predicted by University of California at Berkeley professor, Leon Chua.
Cellot Ltd. (Netanya, Israel) is developing a programmable logic and memory architecture dubbed Field Programmable Cell Logic (FPCL), which is based on a recursive, fractal-like, structure.
In its second major layoff this year, National Semiconductor Corp. said it would eliminate approximately 130 positions, primarily in product line and support functions.
Memory chip technology developer Rambus Inc. said that a U.S. appeals court sided with the company in a long-running lawsuit that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. had filed against Rambus.
