Earnings dropped as Intel fended off Advanced Micro with price cuts and started manufacturing new chips to win back orders. Chief Financial Officer Andy Bryant forecast gross margin will narrow to about 50 percent this year...

But mobile phone workers, who for two consecutive years enjoyed lavish bonuses equivalent to half their annual pay, will see their bonuses drop to around 40 percent of their salary due to a fall in revenues and profits from the previous year.

The laboratory, which is the fourth operating base of NEC Electronics worldwide, will explore engine controls, transmission and body control systems using the new and applied technology. It aims to provide reliable, economic car systems.

"...AMD may have slashed server processor prices 40%, given that its quarterly processor revenue grew only 3%... it may take several months before the new AMD chips translate into fresh share gains..."

The Hynix computer-chip plant in west Eugene is asking to nearly triple the annual amount of one hazardous air pollutant it emits.

...solar stocks did well across the board even with Crude Oil dropping another 5.38%. This compared to last week when we saw the solar stocks decline across the board with Crude Oil dropping 7.76%...

Bluetooth chip maker CSR is acquiring two major players in the GPS technology sector and plans to incorporate their software to make GPS and PND devices a much cheaper and better performance option for handset makers.

"...The plant will make 65-nanometre multi-core processors...the new plant would total a "couple billion" dollars...."

"...Samsung said its 4Q profit fell 8% amid price declines for key products including flash and LCDs...we expect the business climate to be better this year..."

"...Toshiba claims Hynix is infringing two patents related to NAND flash...decisions are subject to review by the full commission... "

"...expected revenues from solar cells to rise 18 percent to 235 billion yen next year as it competes with Sanyo Electric and Kyocera..."

"...Apple is an Intel flash customer and there will be Intel flash in the i- Phone...Intel will make them with Micron...."

The SiI5733 gives HDTV, digital video recorder (DVR), set-top box and PC motherboard manufacturers a cost-effective storage solution that is simple, scalable, reliable and secure.

Arthur O. Whipple, vice president of finance, CFO and secretary, submitted his resignation on January 4, 2007. Whipple is expected to remain at the company until February and will assist in the release of the company's financial results for the year

"...Most MP3 gear suppliers in Greater China plan to lower prices this year as the cost of flash memory falls..."

"...'If TSMC is really planning to build a new plant overseas, it will do so on its own instead of through SSMC, which is an independent entity..."