China's pledge to reduce pollution after air-quality in Beijing hit hazardous levels on 20 days last month has cut financing costs for the world's biggest maker of solar wafers to a four-month low.

One in five China-based LED lighting companies may fail this year as falling prices and oversupply batter an industry that Beijing bankrolled to try to build an energy-efficient future.

In yet another wrinkle in the solar trade war with China, a consortium of European manufacturers filed an anti-dumping complaint with the European Commission against solar glass from China.

As part of its broader restructuring measures, Fujitsu said it will cut 5,000 jobs, including 3,000 workers in Japan and 2,000 overseas, partly through early retirement offers. Fujitsu currently has about 170,000 workers world-wide.

Cymer and ASML continue to expect the transaction to close in the first half of 2013.

Globalfoundries has announced a partnership with Adapteva to offer the company's Epiphany IV microarchitecture to customers using Globalfoundries' leading-edge 28nm-SLP process technology.

In yet another indication that self-published writers are gaining ground with readers and retailers, Apple on Tuesday launched a new section on its iBookstore called Breakout Books, featuring only self-published works.

Opera Software continues to broaden the reach of its Opera TV Store when it agreed to integrate the platform into MediaTek's chipsets for smart TVs.

Appeals have been filed against the US Department of Commerce's recent ruling that Chinese photovoltaic manufacturers may assemble and ship modules to the US using solar cells produced in countries outside of China without incurring tariffs.

For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other employees.

Samsung said it was 99% sure that the phone wasn't one of theirs, adding: "It looks more like an HTC model."

Fujitsu and Panasonic are in the final stage of talks to go ahead with a merger of their large-scale integrated chip (LSI) operations into a new company, NHK reported Friday.

Toshiba has subsequently brought this high level performance to its original microcontrollers and to ARM core-based microcontrollers. The newly-developed NANO Flash-100 achieves a zero-wait cycle during random access at 100MHz operation.

ARM, the designer of chips for leading smartphones, beat analyst expectations with full-year profits up 20%. A presentation to investors by CEO Warren East was dominated by talk of the 'post-PC' era, in which the market for Internet-enabled devices will spread into areas such as security and healthcare.

A source familiar with the situation tells me that the software giant was worried about other customers thinking that Microsoft had incentive to value one over another, so it chose not to take an equity position.

It's clear Samsung is serious about expanding its footprint in Silicon Valley. In December the Korean company announced it is building a 1.1-million-square-foot R&D center in San Jose and an incubator in Palo Alto. This week it also unveiled a "Strategy and Innovation Center" in Menlo Park, which Sohn oversees.

Apple's press release for the new 128GB iPad contains an unusual concession from the company: the word "multitouch."

Japan-based company Toray managed to impress us a couple of times last year by producing two different, yet equally useful touchscreen films.

Designers can stretch the operating battery life of handheld devices through judicious management of the operational states. Touchscreens, which are now nearly ubiquitous, make a good example.

E Ink, the parent company of Hydis, appeared to have no concrete plans on how to run Hydis, a local manufacturer of LCDs.

Recent technology advances and a growing role for automotive Internet connections have auto makers giving a new look at windshield projection technologies that could one day replace dashboard displays.

The contraction of manufacturing across the eurozone slowed in January amid signs that the worst may be over, according to a survey.

Smart phones primarily use two types of displays: the active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) and the liquid crystal display (LCD).

At CES Sharp made its new IGZO technology a centerpiece of the company's presentation on Press Day that will transform displays by moving from amorphous silicon (A-Si) material to the Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide with far superior electron mobility and much smaller TFTs (thin film transistors) that significantly boost the pixel aperture ratio.

The EU launched a new ??1.2-million 3-year project called Flex-o-Fab that aims to help commercialize flexible OLEDs within six years. The project partners will create a a pilot-scale modular yet integrated manufacturing chain for flexible OLEDs, and use it to develop reliable fabrication / production processes.