Qualcomm MEMS Technologies Inc. took the wraps off its first multicolor displays at the Society for Information Display conference.

Software maker Mentor Graphics Corp. posted a quarterly loss, meeting Wall Street's lowered expectations, and said near-term results would continue to fall.

Renesas Technology Corp., the company formed fiver years ago by the merger of the semiconductor operations of Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Co. Ltd., has completed its planned exit from the stand-alone flash memory market.

The Indian government will announce plans for rolling out 3G wireless spectrum with the next two months, according to government official.

Semiconductor makers should take a hint from Mother Nature when pursuing photonic crystals for optical computing, according to University of Utah researchers studying the Brazilian beetle: this bug's eerie iridescence is evidence of its unique photonic lattice structure--called the "champion"

Investment firm Obrem Capital Management LLC (OCM), which owns a stake in the chip maker, claimed victory in a battle for control over Micrel.

An attendee survey conducted during Sematech's Litho Forum this week indicated that the future technology winners could be double-patterning and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography.

Efficient GaAs PAs will play a key part in proving the feasibility of the wireless communication standard in the trailblazing US network.

The Multicore Association is kicking off an effort to define best programming practices for embedded multicore processors, hoping within a year to define and create a guide to handling the thorniest problems in the growing arena of parallel software.

Arteris Inc., a supplier of networking-on-chip intellectual property, has raised $7.5 million in a Series C round of financing.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has opened an R&D center in Hertzliya, Israel, adding to the company's existing R&D campus in Haifa. In the next 12 months, 150 workers will be added, bringing the headcount across the two sites to 750.

Microvision will began shipping limited quantities of its picoprojector engine toward the end of this year.

Three DRAM makers are shipping parts using GDDR5, a new memory interface initially supporting data transfers at 4 Gbits/second per pin that will serve a new generation of graphics controllers expected from Advanced Micro Devices and archrival Nvidia as early

Spatial Corp., an operating division of Dassault Systmes specializing in 3D components for technical applications, has introduced what it claims to be the first integrated suite aimed at accelerating EDA 3D analysis development.

Epson emerged at the Society for Information Display conference as the latest in a string of E Ink Corp. licensees bringing e-paper products to market.

Intel Corp. is on track to ship its next generation of computer processors, code-named Nehalem, in the second half of this year, Chief Executive Paul Otellini said.