Saifun Semiconductors Ltd., an Israeli designer of nitride-read-only memory technology, said on Wednesday it swung to a 4Q profit, helped by a 77% jump in licensing and service revenue.

Applied Materials on Wednesday reported a lower quarterly net profit due in part to restructuring costs, but the world's top supplier of equipment for making microchips still topped expectations as sales rose.

Silicon wafer area shipments in 2005 totaled 6,645 million square inches (MSI), up from the 6,262 million square inches shipped during 2004. Revenues grew to $7.9 billion from $7.3 billion posted in 2004.

The credit profile for Taiwan's leading dedicated integrated circuit foundries ("DICF") continues to be stable in 2006 as market conditions for the technology sector are expected to be manageable.

The combination of Spansion's MirrorBit ORNAND flash technology with M-Systems' MegaSIM platform is set to target high-density SIM cards

Under terms of the agreement, the Japanese company will license Saifun's NROM technology for use with its SiP (System in Package) in addition to embedded NVM products...

...Increasing adoption of solar energy initiatives worldwide, particularly in China and Spain, drove strong demand for our solar cell and module products in the fourth quarter," said Dr. Zhengrong Shi...

...the STw8009 and STw8019 provide a high-quality TV-Out feature for portable applications such as mobile phones, digital cameras, video players and PDAs....

As competition in the memory-chip sector heats up, Japanese companies are increasingly heading to the courtroom to protect their hard-won patents.

The MC511DA operates at 15 frames per second (fps) at full-resolution and up to 30 fps at VGA resolution....