Researchers will detail impressive achievements in SRAM memory cell developments in two technical papers at this year's IEDM.

The MEMS market has been flat since 2007, from $7.1 billion in 2007, to $6.8 billion in 2008 to an estimated $6.9 billion in 2009. A restart of the net growth is, however, expected after 2010, according to French market

Eighteen million homes—13 percent of all U.S. households--will get smart electric meters within three years as part of $3.4 billion in U.S. government grants to upgrade the country's aging electric grid announced by President Barack Obama in remarks at one

Toshiba Corp. revised Tuesday its first-half operating profit forecast to be 2.0 billion yen, against an earlier prediction for a loss of 30 billion yen, attributing it to exceeded business results in areas such as semiconductors, digital media and power

In Q3, fabless mixed-signal chip vendor Dialog Semiconductor has continued its turn-around. The company reiterated its revenue and profitability targets which it had raised in mid-October.

Chip and solar manufacturing equipment vendor Veeco Instruments reported a third-quarter net income of $1.3 million on revenue of $98.9 million, well above consensus analyst expectations.

Third quarter shipments of graphics processors jumped 21.2 percent compared to the second quarter, signaling that the holiday season will be robust for PCs and the industry in general, according to market research firm Jon Peddie Research.

Sony's U.S. subsidiary, Sony Optiarc America, received a subpoena from the U.S. Justice Department's Antitrust Division seeking information about its optical disk drive business.

NOR flash vendor Spansion acknowledged that the company cut an undisclosed number of jobs as it continues restructuring under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Applied Materials has opened a solar research and demonstration facility in X'an, China, described as the largest non-government solar energy research facility in the world.

Qualcomm Inc. announced Monday it has set up a separate wholly-owned subsidiary to work on open source software for mobile systems, the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. with a dedicated group of engineers led by Rob Chandhok, senior vice president of

Freescale Semiconductor Inc. and Synopsys, Inc. announced they have expanded their multi-year verification collaboration.

Marvell Technology Group boosted its sales target for the quarter ending Oct. 31, saying the company now expects revenue to be up 19 to 21 percent compared with the previous quarter.

Qspeed Semiconductor has appointed Mike Heitzman president and chief executive officer. He was formerly vice president of marketing for the company.

A three-axis gyroscope chip developed by InvenSense Inc. combines separate MEMs resonators for motion tracking.

The trial against former Infineon CEO Ulrich Schumacher for alleged corruption has been closed after the prosecutor has dropped his charges. A formal acquittal is expected for later this week.