Recently formed Cherrypal (Palo Alto, Calif. and Hong Kong, China) has launched a netbook computer priced at $99 that, according to reports, is powered by a processor from Ingenic Semiconductor Co. Ltd. (Beijing, China).

Biometrics in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) earned 216.1 million euro in 2008 (about $300 million) and is anticipated to reach 1,058.0 million euro by 2015 (about $1.5 billion), according to market research firm Frost & Sullivan.

The SANITAS research project launched under the management of Infineon includes nine partners, research institutes and companies from the semiconductor, automotive and industrial automation sectors.

iSuppli estimates about 62.3 million consumers will have Internet access in their cars by 2016, up from 970,000 at the end of 2009.

Rood Testhouse International N.V. (RoodMicrotec) has signed a collaboration agreement with analog/mixed-signal foundry, X-FAB.

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The Organic Electronics Association (OE-A) has just released a 80-page roadmap for organic and printed electronics, available for download from the OE-A homepage.

Broadcom Corp. is sampling its first 40 nm chip, a cellphone media processor capable of recording full 1080-progressive high definition video, the company said at its annual meeting with Wall Street analysts where it positioned itself as poised for a

Comneon GmbH (Nuremburg, Germany), a subsidiary of Infineon Technologies AG, has announced a protocol stack supporting GSM, GPRS, EDGE and EDGE Evolution as well as FDD WCDMA with HSDPA, HSUPA and HSPA+.

By announcing in-house testing capabilities, Nemotek Technologie brings wafer-level cameras (WLCs) design, manufacturing and now testing under one roof, simplifying the supply chain process and costs for image sensor and camera module makers.

EVE SA (Palaiseau, France) said it has enhanced its ZeBu-Server emulation system by supporting up to 25 users concurrently, with automatic allocation of available resources.

In 2009 machine-to-machine (M2M) calls accounted for 1.4 percent of mobile network connections worldwide, according to analysis firm Berg Insight AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

Wireless chip company ST-Ericsson NV (Geneva, Switzerland) has demonstrated handover between LTE and HSPA networks using multimode LTE/HSPA silicon.

Toshiba Corp. has a launched a 64-Gbyte NAND flash memory module that complies with the e-MMC standard. Presented By:

EDA group CoWare Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) has become a participating partner of the ARM Solution Center for Android, a collaborative resource for designers and developers of ARM technology-based products running on Android, the open source platform from the Open

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announced modular bipolar, CMOS DMOS (BCD) process technologies targeting high voltage integrated LED driver devices.

Library characterization startup Altos Design Automation Inc. has introduced Variety MX that it claims is a fast and accurate statistical timing model generator for embedded memories.

Tronics Microsystems and Thales have signed a strategic supply agreement within the field of navigation systems, whereby Tronics will produce high-performance, vacuum-packaged inertial MEMS-sensing elements based on two design concepts that Thales invented.

NEC Electronics Corp. and Renesas Technology Corp. have moved their merger agreement forward by signing a deal to integrate business operations at NEC Electronics and Renesas on April 1, 2010.