Bitmicro announced the coming a 2.5-inch, flash-based solid state SATA drive capable of storing up to 416GB of data and sustaining transfer rates of up to 100MB/sec.

Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, and Hisense Communication announced a collaboration slated to bring to market in 2008 mobile phones with Qualcomm MEMS displays.

"...Samsung said it decides to expand investment in the semiconductor business by 25% for the rest of the year, although he expected the oversupply problem to continue...Hynix has announced plans to re-enter the non-memory business to find another income source while trying to accelerate its move to lower the portion of DRAM..."

"...The results were stronger than expected and came in spite of a slowdown in the rate of growth in sales of the iPod..."

Qualcomm said on Friday that a judge had recommended ending a US International Trade Commission investigation of a complaint Nokia had brought against Qualcomm.

Recent theoretical studies suggest that a coaxial nanowire would have a higher efficiency than a single bulk crystal as a solar cell for generating electricity. In addition to the higher efficiency, such a material has the added benefit of being able to be used as a wire in a device. Wires of this type could lead to nanoscale devices that can operate in the absence of an external power source.

"...Total MB sold in 3Q up 248% Y/Y and 54% Q/Q but ASP/MB declined 61% Y/Y and 16% Q/Q..."

Broadcom announced a new single-chip HSPA processor that integrates all of the key 3G cellular and mobile technologies on an extremely low power, single 65 nanometer CMOS die.

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