Alcatel-Lucent on Tuesday said its first-quarter loss widened significantly as operators around the world curbed spending on non-essential upgrades of their networks.

The manufacturing sector in the US continues to shrink ?X but could the renewable-energy rush spur a manufacturing revival?

Confidence is beginning to return to UK and mainland European businesses but it has still not reached levels seen in the autumn last year, according to a quarterly business survey released on Tuesday.

Cypress Semiconductor has announced it is sampling SRAM devices on 65nm linewidth. The new 72-Mbit QDR2 and DDRII memories leverage process technology developed with foundry partner UMC.