The cuts will not come from among the employees acquired along with Elpida, Micron said.

Foxconn Technology Group, best known for assembling Apple's iPhones, will decide by year-end whether to branch off into unconventional new territory: making solar panels in China.

"Windows remains committed to the ARM platform," a Microsoft spokesman told CNET. "We are looking forward to new ARM-based Windows devices that will launch later this year."

China's economy could be stabilising, the latest set of economic figures from the country has suggested.

Toshiba's new chief executive said he won't pull the plug on the company's unprofitable television and personal-computer operations, shunning the "easy option" of exiting cutthroat competition for a chance to reclaim its former prominence in the businesses.

A Taiwan government venture capital fund will sell more than 170 million shares in TSMC in 2014 to help fund Taiwan's budget, a source with direct knowledge of the sale said on Thursday.

Desktops, notebooks, tablets: Just five years ago, those three words defined three distinct classes of products. But now consumers are being asked to choose among all-in-ones, two-in-ones, convertibles, mini-tablets, ultraportables, and phablets. With Intel's new "Bay Trail" Atom chip, due this fall, you can expect the market to diversify even more.

When Amazon unveiled the unique display panel of its Paperwhite Kindle e-reader, it revealed two impressive facts: The first is that Amazon's internal hardware engineering team is more sophisticated than Amazon's line of decent but not so revolutionary tablets and e-readers would suggest.

The Tokyo-based company will build a 1-megawatt station in Fukushima prefecture and a 4-megawatt plant in Akita, both in northern Japan, it said in a statement today. No financial terms were disclosed.

A new type of solar cell, made from a material that is dramatically cheaper to obtain and use than silicon, could generate as much power as today's commodity solar cells.

NerdWallet have compiled the top 5 states in the US for residential solar energy, according to four specific criteria. Top of the pile was California, thanks to a sunny location, the pioneering of solar leasing, and great cash-back incentives. Filling out the top 5 were Hawaii, Arizona, Maryland, and Delaware.

The European Union decided against imposing preliminary anti-subsidy tariffs on Chinese solar panels, opting to wait another four months to assess whether the levies are warranted in the biggest EU trade fight of its kind.

Ben Kunz wanted to do "the green thing" and save on his electric bill without paying a lot of money up front. So instead of buying a solar system for his house in Cheshire, Connecticut, he leased one.

High-level executives of ChiMei Lighting Technology Corp. (憟？??？？) are reported to have quit en masse, leaving behind US$1.87 million in debt and worrying employees and a banking syndicate about what will come next.

A group of banks yesterday said LED chip manufacturer Chi Mei Lighting Technology Corp (憟？??？？) must repay up to NT$6 billion (US$200 million) in loans, but the company's major shareholders have responded that they do not have any obligation to cover the troubled firm's debts.

Nokia has completed the acquisition of Siemens' stake in Nokia Siemens Networks. The transaction was originally announced on July 1, 2013.

Patent documents filed by Samsung have revealed details - for the first time - about what the South Korean tech behemoth's R&D department have been working on over the last few months: a smartwatch.

Silicon wafer maker SunEdison Inc said it expects a recovery in solar power installations during the current quarter to reverse a slump in sales that contributed to a bigger-than-expected loss in the three months ended June.

The company says it will start mass-producing its eighth-generation glass-cutting technology the second half of 2014.

Siemens AG (SIE), Europe's biggest engineering company, expects Japan to almost double its capacity of renewable energy by 2030, while continuing with nuclear power generation even after the Fukushima disaster.

Japan's Renesas Electronics said Friday it will close a plant that makes system LSI chips for Nintendo's game consoles and other consumer electronics after failing to find a buyer for the facility in Tsuruoka in northern Japan.

Ericsson and STMicroelectronics today announced the closing of the transaction for the split up of ST-Ericsson.

Despite rapid growth in the solar industry over the past several years, there is one sobering statistic for the Valley of the Sun.

A surge in commercial and residential construction projects across the Gulf will provide the solar energy sector with huge opportunities for growth and innovation, according to industry experts.

Approaching the latter part of 2013, continued investment in flat panel LCD technology has produced a crop of LED TVs which sacrifice little in terms of performance to their Plasma counterparts.

Microsoft is discounting its Surface Pro tablet this weekend, following heavy reductions to its Surface RT costs recently.