Japanese electronics firm Toshiba said it had been subpoenaed by the US Department of Justice about its flash memory business in the key US market. That comes after Toshiba's partner, SanDisk Corp said on Friday it and its CEO had received grand jury subpoenas indicating a government probe into possible price-fixing in the NAND flash memory industry.

Freescale Semiconductor has licensed for use with its cellphone chips the 2D and 3D graphics technology of the ATI division of Advanced Micro Devices. Freescale will incorporate AMD's OpenGL ES 2.0 and OpenVG 1.0 graphics core technologies in its i.MX applications processors.

"...the company secures stable supplies of polysilicon, it will boost the plant's annual production to one million kilowatts in the hope of winning 10 pct of the global market for the wafers in 2010."

"...Heavily hit by inventory adjustments in the first and second quarters, TSMC can't expect large earnings growth compared with last year..."

"...From 2008 through 2010, Philips aims to achieve at least 6 percent annual average sales growth excluding currency effects, acquisitions and divestments...The profit margin will exceed 10 percent by 2010 thanks to the reorganization, contributions from recent acquisitions and an improved product mix, the company said.."

"...NXP said legitimate customers are not the only ones with access to the chips. Phones can be created without semiconductor companies' even being aware of the existence of the illegal handset manufacturer until the day they start buying from a distributor...CEC Telecom's Q130, a fake Apple iPhone , is not included in black-market tallies. Rather, it is viewed as a local OEM product..."