The economy stinks. Rank-and-file engineers are feeling the pain. What about technology CEOs? We crunched the numbers buried in corporate financial statements to find out. Here's what we found.

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) is changing its leadership amid a shakeup in the group and a plan to expand its efforts in Washington, D.C.

Federal authorities have charged 14 individuals arising out of their ongoing investigation of insider trading at hedge funds and stock trading firms.The case has implicated individuals from AMD, IBM, Intel, GlobalFoundries, and now, Atheros.

RF Micro Devices, Inc. has released the industry's first "green" gallium nitride (GaN) based CATV amplifier modules: the D10040200PL1 and D10040230PL1.

The SFH 5712 from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors is a low-voltage digital ambient light sensor that converts light intensity to digital signal output capable of direct I2C interface.

The board of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) elected John Daane, president, chief executive, and chairman of the board of Altera Corp., as its 2010 chairman.

CEA-Liten, France-based Laboratory for Innovation in New Energy Technologies and Nanomaterials, has licensed TechModeler behavioral modeling tool suite from Infiniscale SA for its organic electronic devices modeling needs.

Thanks to a rebound in DRAMs, Japan's Elpida Memory Inc. posted improved results and raised its capital spending forecast.

Malcolm Penn, chief executive of market analysis firm Future Horizons (Sevenoaks, England), is looking forward to strong growth in the global chip market in 2010 after a 10 percent contraction in 2009.

The Chinese IC design sector was worth 23.52 billion yuan (about $3.44 billion) in 2008, and threw up some changes in the top ten ranking, according a report by Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute.

A secret side project for a Hewlett-Packard engineer has quietly spawned an ultra-sensitive accelerometer that the PC giant hopes to leverage to propel it into sensor networks, an emerging market it sees as the next big wave of computing.

The Semiconductor Industry Association said improvements in the global economy is spurring demand for chips and now projects a smaller decline in sales for 2009 with the market returning to positive growth in 2010.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has announced that a recently-formed semiconductor R&D center has begun work on advanced process development for use in foundry manufacturing.

Maxim Integrated Products has introduced a 1.8 A, synchronous, fixed-frequency, DC-DC step-down converter in a 4 mm2 wafer-level package (WLP).

Infineon Technologies AG and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) are extending their development and production partnership to a 65nanometer embedded flash process technology.

Linear Technology Corporation has introduced a low minimum on-time wide input voltage range synchronous step-down DC/DC switching regulator controller that drives all N-channel power MOSFET stages.

Contract design company Moto Development Group (San Francisco) has announced a family of three reference platforms for the Google Android operating system aimed at giving OEMs a leg up on hardware engineering based on Moto's enhancements to the Texas Instruments

The electronics industry is recovering, but there is still some uncertainty in the market. So what's in store for the rest of this year and 2010?