Samsung recently raised eyebrows by beefing up its team of Texas-based chip designers, including those whose backgrounds pointed to an interest in chips for server systems. Now one of the most prominent of those recruits has left the South Korean company for Apple.

STMicroelectronics and Ericsson , joint owners of ST-Ericsson, said they had hired an adviser to help deal with the chipmaker.

Williams Financial analyst Cody Acree told MarketWatch that the gains apparently were due to "more talk of Apple moving away from Samsung as a foundry" which has also led to speculation that either Intel or TSMC may be tapped to manufacture chips for Apple.

Dutch semiconductor-manufacturing equipment maker ASML said Wednesday it sees weak demand in memory chips, and adjusted its second half net sales guidance to the lower end of its earlier EUR2.2 billion-EUR2.4 billion range.

I put on a pair of goggles as I walk into a secured lab. In one room a 3-D printer churns out a mock-up of the back cover. In another room a laser printer spits out a sample layout of the Touch Cover keyboard.

Samsung is blurring the line between tablets and laptops just as Apple shrinks the size of its market-leading tablet in a nod to the smartphone.

Sharp wowed crowds at IFA 2012 with its IGZO displays, and the firm has now announced the Aquos Pad SHT 21 as the first tablet to use the technology.

Debt-laden JA Solar Holdings Co Ltd said it received a warning from the Nasdaq that it could be delisted, making it the second solar company in less than a month to be put on notice by an exchange for failing to meet minimum share-price requirements.

An investigation by Taiwan's government has concluded that two former executives with display maker AU Optronics allegedly stole technology from the company and supplied it to rival Chinese firm TCL.

Microsoft's Surface RT tablet is gorgeous. It's innovative. It's without exaggeration the most exciting new gadget to come along in years. And if you buy one today, you're a fool.

Economics Minister Shih Yen-shiang said Tuesday that the Cabinet has proposed giving heavier penalties for the crime of leaking business secrets in the wake of an alleged leak of a Taiwan-based panel maker's research secrets to Chinese rivals.

Two former execs from Taiwanese flat panel-maker and Apple supplier AU Optronics have been arrested on suspicion of carrying out industrial espionage for their new employer, Chinese electronics firm TCL.

French telecom vendor Alcatel-Lucent will cut about 1,000 jobs in India as part of its global restructuring effort to cope with dwindling demand for network equipment among telcos in the country.

The takeover of the number three mobile carrier in the US will make Softbank one of the world's three biggest mobile phone operators, with 96 million users.

The report continues, quoting an anonymous Samsung official speaking about the A6 chip. "Apple did all the design and we are just producing the chips on a foundry basis." That's a change from the past, when Apple worked with Samsung on chip development and/or design.

Amazon.Com is in advanced talks to buy the supplier of processors for its Kindle tablet computer, Israeli financial newspaper Calcalist reported on Monday, a step toward vertical integration that could portend a push into smartphones.

Taiwan's AU Optronics(AUO) is well-positioned to challenge leading display suppliers of tablet computers, given its improved relationship with brand customers, US research firm NPD DisplaySearch said recently in a report.

Reports are claiming that Apple is set to launch its iPad mini on Tuesday 23 October, days before Microsoft's launch of Windows 8 and its Surface tablet.

Kindle Paperwhite does not have audio or Text-to-Speech. This makes the device smaller and lighter than it would otherwise be.

How's this for honesty? Amazon took it upon itself to post a note today on its site listing the limitations of its newest e-reader, the Kindle Paperwhite.

Solyndra, the bankrupt solar- panel maker that received a US$535 million US government loan guarantee, accused Suntech Power Holdings and other China-based panel makers of driving it out of business by running an illegal cartel.