"...detailed plans on the non-memory chip business will be disclosed after October. But company confirmed that Hynix does not consider any other business apart from semiconductor with possibility of M&A with companies with high manufacturing capacity or venture firms with excellent technological prowess..."

Motorola announced Anthony J Vinciquerra, the president and chief executive officer of Fox Networks Group, and Greg Brown, president and chief operating officer of Motorola, have been elected to Motorola's board of directors.

Toshiba and NEC recently extended their cooperation on development of the current generation of 45nm chips, so a move to 32nm development would appear to be a natural progression. An NEC spokeswoman said the company is considering its options and there are a variety of choices.

Reports are that Quanta`s cellphone unit is researching and developing the smart cellphones to meet Dell`s special requirements, although the order amount has not been confirmed. Both Dell and Quanta have no comments on the release of the orders. Over the past several years, Quanta`s cellphone unit has not performed as well as expected. The company shipped only 1.7 million units of cellphones last year, less than the targeted goal.

"...PG&E said it has agreed to buy solar power that would come from a Solel-built facility planned for the Mojave Desert. Solel, the U.S. unit of Israel-based Solel Solar Systems, plans to build the solar site that would provide about 553MW of solar power for PG&E....the plant is slated to begin operation in 2011, covering a solar site of r 6,000 acres of desert..."

China TechFaith and Arasor International Group said in a joint statement that they have entered into a partnership to jointly develop wireless handsets for emerging markets.

Creative Technology announced that it has extended the date for voluntarily delisting its Ordinary Shares from NASDAQ, with August 31, 2007 as the last day of trading on NASDAQ.

All things being equal, a CMOS sensor costs somewhere between 5 and 15 percent less to build than a CCD sensor, but Kodak is interested in the CMOS market more because it also can incorporate some processing tasks, said Michael DeLuca, Kodak's marketing manager for image sensors. For example, it can incorporate circuitry for basic sensor functions such as analog-to-digital conversion or chip timing, he said. And in the longer run, it could house circuitry for reconstructing full-color images from sensors using Kodak's new color filter patterns

The joint venture, expected to begin operations later this year, is to provide integrated circuit packaging and testing services, the spokesman said.

The latest ruling in the legal battle will prevent Lumileds attempts to stop the import of Epistar's LEDs for up to 30 days.

"...executive vp of sales at Novellus said in 2008, 17 new fab buildings will start accepting equipment, and 55 total fabs will be adding capacity. The outlook is for an additional 700,000 300mm wafers starts next year, which is a 30% increase in the number of 300 mm wafer starts next year..." At the same time, memory manufacturers are retiring 200 mm fabs, taking 600,000 wafer starts per month offline this year, he said.

Using a novel technology that adds multiple innovations to a very high-performance crystalline silicon solar cell platform, a consortium led by the University of Delaware has achieved a record-breaking combined solar cell efficiency of 42.8 percent from sunlight at standard terrestrial conditions.

Chinese authorities and the FBI broke up the world's largest piracy syndicate, which produced counterfeit Symantec and Microsoft software. In China, some 290,000 discs were seized, worth US$500 million, as well as US$7 million in other assets, the FBI said. In the US, the agency's Los Angeles office confiscated $2 million in counterfeit software, plus US$700,000 in other assets.

On July 19, Verizon Wireless struck a licensing pact with Broadcom, the victor in a patent-infringement suit against Qualcomm that has led to an import ban on all new phone models containing Qualcomm's next-generation wireless chips. Under the deal, Verizon Wireless agreed to pay Broadcom a US$6-per-device licensing fee, subject to certain caps, to bypass the ban and continue importing new phones. The arrangement is unprecedented. No wireless chipmaker has ever charged a service provider for royalties on phones containing its components.

The One Laptop Per Child Foundation's chief technology officer, Mary Lou Jepsen, said on Monday that the computer could sell initially for about $350, or twice its production cost, although the group is also considering a higher price tag. Its entry to the commercial market would be a challenge to traditional PC industry companies, including Microsoft, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo

The laptop will be manufactured in Shanghai by Quanta. The production line will be turned on in August for testing procedures, and the first mass-produced laptops for use in schools will be made in October. The XO laptop, which OLPC plans to sell eventually for $100 per machine, is designed to improve the educational opportunities of children in the developing world. The costs of manufacture are currently estimated by OLPC at $175 per laptop.

Vendor cuts LCD monitors lines to focus on higher end, specialist display and security products.