Brooks Automation said it now expects revenue for the quarter ended Sept. 30 to be about $64 million, up roughly 45 percent from the previous quarter.

Research in semiconductor technology will be featured at the 55th International Electron Devices Meeting and two trends stand out: challenges for creating ever-decreasing feature sizes in next-generation processing nodes and integration of application-specific devices.

There are some worrisome signs for flat-panel display makers--and LCD IC vendors.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s third quarter net loss narrowed slightly from the year-ago period and the company's overall performance improved strongly on a sequential basis as the chip vendor benefitted from debt buyback, rising demand for notebook computers and lower

Fairchild Semiconductor posted a third-quarter net income of $2.7 million on revenue of $331.8 million, topping analyst expectations.

Cypress Semiconductor became the latest chip company to top analyst expectations for the third quarter, reporting sales of $178.7 million for the period.

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The competitive environment for wire-bound telecommunication networks massively messed up the Q3 results for Finnish equipment vendor Nokia: The losses of Nokia Siemens Networks exploded, eliminating any profit in other segments.

The good times seems to be coming back at last for Europe's semiconductor industry, according to economic research firm e-forecasting.com (Durham. NH).

The CMX885 Marine VHF baseband processor from CML Microcircuits is designed to meet the'global requirements of low cost, highly integrated'marine VHF transceivers by offering complete audio processing with selectable audio processing order.

With the acceptance of chip manufacturing process giant Applied Materials the Taiwan-based Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) strengthens its efforts to mass-produce 3D stacked semiconductors.

LSI Corp. and Accton Technology Corp. announced the availability of a low-cost hardware and software platform that delivers IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) and next-generation, rich media applications over broadband access networks.

What worries ARM Holdings plc in terms of next-generation chip design?

OEMs could be scrambling for their supply of DRAMs for some time, as South Korean memory makers warned that shortages of DDR-based SDRAMs could last until the first quarter of next year.

Amid an upturn in business, Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc. remains in a holding pattern in regards to gaining a new majority shareholder.

Analog chip vendor Avago Technologies said it expects fourth-quarter revenue to be about $417 million, up 15 percent from the third quarter.

Programmable logic supplier Xilinx exceeded analyst estimates by reporting sales of $415 million for its most recent quarter. The company's chief executive said he was encouraged by a broad-based recovery in the firm's business.

There is no shortage of semiconductor research and development in Europe, as our recent visit to R&D centers in Belgian and the Netherlands attests.