For the first quarter of fiscal year 2013 Infineon expects a revenue decline of up to 10% relative to the fourth quarter of the 2012 fiscal year. The management board will define and implement measures to improve profitability beyond the first quarter of the 2013 fiscal year.

"Samsung's 2013 semiconductor capex will be conducted in a very conservative way. Opinions are gathering into a significant cut in facility investment next year," a senior official at Samsung was quoted as saying.

Over in India there's an extremely cheap Android tablet being deployed by the government to families, schools and more.

Many companies including Nokia and Research in Motion have been struggling to compete with Apple and manufacturers of devices running Google's Android software. That shows in some of the earnings reports released so far for the latest quarter.

Google started selling its Nexus 7 tablet in Japan, deepening the competition with Sony, the Japanese hardware maker whose tablets also run on the world's number one search engine's operating system.

AU Optronics (AUO), one of Taiwan's leading flat panel makers, is expected to incur NT$1.28 (US$0.04) in losses per share for the third quarter, as the company will have to make provisions to cover a financial penalty in a price-fixing case, according to Daiwa Securities.

Struggling Sharp plans to slash a total of 10,966 employees in Japan and overseas, while selling its assets to generate JPY213.1 billion by the end of March next year, according to the company's restructuring plan obtained by Kyodo News on Tuesday.

The Delhi environment department has identified 25 government schools and 10 government hospitals that will get independent solar power systems.

A tiny solar company named SoloPower will flip the switch on production at a US.= factory Thursday, a major step toward allowing it to tap a US$197 million government loan guarantee awarded under the same controversial program that supported failed panel maker Solyndra.

Benefiting from the increasing demand from China's October 1 holiday, certain LED manufacturers have been receiving more backlight orders.

Taiwan's HTC recently launched two smartphones powered by Microsoft's Windows 8 software, but the new models might not be greatly appealing to consumers, Japanese brokerage Nomura Holdings said recently.

Apple is scaling back its purchase of tablet LCD displays from Samsung's display wing, in what looks like another clear sign that Cupertino wants to reduce its dependence on the Korean giant in the wake of their recent acrimonious patent battles.

Wal-Mart Stores will no longer sell Amazon's Kindle eReaders and tablets, severing its relationship with a major competitor and placing a bet that consumers are more interested in Apple's iPad and other gadgets.

UMC has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Allegro for Allegro to utilize UMC for foundry technology and production for power management chips.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has announced the availability of its 1.2-volt low-power embedded EEPROM platform, which is fully compatible with its 0.13-micron low-leakage (LL) process.

Arctic sea ice has reached its minimum extent for the year, setting a record for the lowest summer cover since satellite data collection began.

Intel is talking to Cisco about becoming its foundry, says investment bank Piper Jaffray.

On one side, there's 4K: four times the resolution of your current TV. LG, Sony, JVC, and others have all announced or shown upcoming 4K displays.

Global TV shipments declined the second straight quarter, falling 8% on year in the second quarter of 2012, according to DisplaySearch.

Shares of AU Optronics (AUO), one of Taiwan's leading flat panel makers, staged a rebound Friday morning after a court in the U.S. handed down a smaller-than-expected fine to the company for price fixing, dealers said.

Total second-quarter shipments at the top 17 solar-module manufacturers rebounded 21% on quarter to 4.4GW following declines of 20% in the first quarter -- with Yingli Green Energy jumping to the top of the charts year-to-date.

At midnight, registration for Italy's first photovoltaic register under the Conto Energia V expired. GSE is scheduled to publish the list of projects eligible for a feed-in tariff (FIT) in October.