"... Soitech’s stretched work force is still struggling to keep up with the orders coming in...shortage of employees has not been this acute since the technology boom years at the start of this decade..."

"... it's about media gateways, voice over the Internet and applications in control and robotics...remains strong in two basic sectors: DSPs and analog..."

""...The judge overseeing the AMD-Intel antitrust case has given Intel 30 days to figure out which e-mails it failed to preserve as part of a lapse in document retention

"...AMD is hurting from a brutal price competition with Intel...company CEO said the company overestimated the demand from the PC and server makers that now provide the bulk of AMD's business"

"...Toshiba had planned to increase 56-nanometer production so it equalled half of the company's 135,000 wafer per month output by the end of this year but now Toshiba is planning to meet that point in September..."

"...Kyocera to invest 40-50 bln yen to double output capacity for solar cells to around 500mw by fiscal 2010..."