"...Intel said they are ramping the fab up as fast as they can...Intel started powering up the plant and checking its machinery on Friday and output resumed on Sunday..."

"....company chief executive Halla cautioned that the technology, dubbed Solar Magic was just beginning field trials and was six months away from certification..."

Plans for high-speed wireless Internet will benefit Intel – an investor in the Sprint Nextel-Clearwire WiMax venture – and analysts expect other chip makers to gain from Intel's position and increased spending on similar networks.

"...A Lehman Brothers analyst said if assuming that around 30% of monthly capacity was affected by the power outage, this may affect around 3-4% of monthly global DRAM supply for the coming one or two months..."

Henry Samueli, Broadcom's chairman of the board and chief technical officer, and David A. Dull, senior vice president and general counsel, will take leaves of absence from the company due to a civil complaint filed against them Wednesday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission related to the company's stock option granting practices.

BrightSource, a developer of utility-scale solar energy projects, has secured a total of US$115 million in additional corporate funding from its Series C round of financing. This brings the total capitalization to over US$160 million for BrightSource (Oakland, Calif.).

Some of the world's top solar power companies have teamed up to launch the first large-scale recycling system for solar panels in Europe, to stay one step ahead of regulators by showing an industry-led scheme can work. The goal is to set up a voluntary take-back system for solar modules by the end of 2008, the group handling the project said.

"...Yun's departure and Lee's appointment were two parts of today's bigger management shakeup. Samsung also announced the replacement of President Hwang Chang Gyu, head of the semiconductor division, with Kwon Oh Hyun, who has been running the non-memory chip business. Hwang will become the new CTO..." "

"... ASE and ProMOS are being wooed by mainland Chinese officials to build a 300mm wafer fab onshore...Authorities in China are said to be opening wallets to spend up to $20B for three 300mm fabs in Chongqing..."

"...The assembly test facility is running under backup power as local power and water have been disconnected pending a full seismic assessment. As a result employees have been sent home until Wednesday...said Nick Jacobs, an Intel spokesman in Singapore...."