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Brobdingnagian arms company Lockheed yesterday passed on a million of its government greenbacks in a subcontract aimed at helping it achieve a new standard in interface tech.

Press release; Meiling Chen, DIGITIMES [Thursday 9 July 2009] MIPS Technologies and EE Solutions, an ASIC and SoC design solution provider in Taiwan, have announced they are teaming to provide semiconductor companies in China and Taiwan with access to MIPS' industry-standard technology.

Name of Product: Intermatic Model ST01 and EI600 In-wall Electronic Timers Units: About 240,000 Manufacturer: Intermatic Inc., of Spring Grove, Ill.

U.S. company Aehr Test Systems has received a contract to support complex logic reliability testing for military and aerospace applications.

Broadcom Corp. said Thursday morning that it has withdrawn its unsolicited takeover offer for Emulex Corp., which had earlier rejected the $909 million offer as inadequate.

Recyclable single-journey contactless tickets based on technology from RFID chip developer STMicroelectronics is expected to save Seoul, South Korea about $2.4 million a year because it won't have to print 450 million paper tickets.

Despite -- or, more accurately, because of -- the auto industry's current dismal condition, innovations in the automotive sector are a high priority for technology suppliers like Linear Technology, an analog semiconductor company.

Component distributor Premier Farnell plc is offering 12 scholarships worth $2,500 each for students of electronic engineering.

In this product image provided by Sony Electronics Inc., VAIO W series "netbooks" are shown.

Oregon Scientific has rolled out its latest device from the new line of energy-conserving electronics, known as the +ECO Clima Control Weather Station.

Struggling German chip group Infineon Technologies AG is selling its wireline communications operation to an affiliate of U.S. based private equity firm Golden Gate Capital for Euros 250 million .

United Microelectronics Corp. Tuesday denied a report that it experienced yield problems on its 65-nm process and said some isolated problems in meeting customer requirements were the result of tight capacity due to customer rush orders.

MKS Instruments, Inc. , a global provider of technologies that enable advanced processes and improve productivity, today announced that it will release second quarter 2009 financial results prior to market opening on Wednesday, July 22, 2009.

Corning Inc. announced today that its Gorilla glass was selected as the protective cover glass for Samsung UltraTOUCH mobile phones.

The two leading suppliers of power amplifiers for the mobile communications sector, Skyworks and RFMD, ended last year with close to one-third of the market, but Skyworks has for the first time edged slightly ahead of RFMD, according to market trackers Strategy Analytics.Best Selling Plasma TV Stands

SAN DIEGO & SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA-- -- Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation, a leading supplier of high-performance RF CMOS and mixed-signal communications ICs, and MagnaChip Semiconductor Ltd., a leading Asia-based designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products for high volume consumer applications, today, announced that ...

MediaTek, the fast-growing Taiwanese group developing SoCs for wireless communications devices, has become the latest to take a license on ARM's Mali-400 MP multicore graphics processing unit for its system-on-chips. ARM is seeing fast growing traction for the Mali graphics processor IP for use in wireless communications, high-definition TVs, DVD ...

A Chicago private equity firm has once again increased the value of a tender offer to acquire the outstanding shares of MathStar Inc., the programmable logic vendor that ceased operations last year after failing to find a buyer.

In the latest semi-annual ranking of the world's TOP500 Supercomputer Sites : , the SGIA AltixA ICE : cluster at the U.S. Army Research Lab was heralded as the industrya s a oegreenesta supercomputer, as measured by performance efficiency.

Oclaro Inc. said Monday that Newport Corp. acquired its advanced photonics division in exchange for Newport's high-power laser diodes business and $3 million in cash.