"...TSMC would make 45nm processors on a foundry basis for AMD, with volume ramp in 2Q08...could end up working with both TSMC and IBM's technology alliance on the processor front..."

To the dismay of the German photovoltaic industry, Germany’s Environment Ministry on Thursday recommended a shift in subsidies from solar energy installations to offshore wind farms. However, analysts seemed relieved the cuts weren’t more severe.... the subsidy could have easily been cut significantly or eliminated, wrote Piper Jaffray.

"...commencing with establishing a 20MW manufacturing line by mid-2008 and continue to expand to its full 60MW annual capacity by 2010...Thin film amorphous silicon technology uses 3-5 times less energy and use less than 1% of silicon than the traditional crystalline technology,"

"...two patents at issue in the lawsuit both entitled compact ISA-bus interface...complaint alleges that Advanced Micro Devices, Atmel Corporation, Broadcom, Renesas, SST, SMSC, STMicroelectronics and VIA..."

Shares of O2Micro International, a maker of power management chips, surged Tuesday after the company said it settled a patent infringement lawsuit with Sony of America and Sony Electronics.

"...Samples of the first SMIC NAND flash product based on the 90 nm process technology have already been shipped and the product is expected to reach the market later this year...SMIC said it sees great potential with NROM technology... "

"...IBM already has a plant in Shenzhen for servers, and early this year senior management discussed whether they could make chips instead of importing them into China to put into their servers..."