Electronics News

The trustees of Texas' public higher education endowment funds are recommending more than $3.3 million in performance bonuses for investment managers despite $2.6 billion in lost value over the past fiscal year.

Intel Corp Chief Executive Paul Otellini said on Tuesday the semiconductor industry may experience possible "pinch points" in the PC production chain as manufacturers ramp up to meet higher demand next year.

A CPA working for a Jersey City-based electronic component manufacturer with offices around the globe pleaded guilty to embezzling about $1 million in cash and stocks from the company today, officials said.

An Intel Corp. investor, frustrated that the chip maker has been hit with $2.7 billion in fines and settlement payments, has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Delaware against the company and its top executives.

Processor makers ARM and MIPS Technologies are both aiming to simplify and accelerate the use of netbooks, MIDs , set-top boxes and picture frames that run on Google's Android software platform.

Apple, Inc. has cleared the final hurdle to sell iPhones in South Korea. The approval is likely to bring increased competition from South Korea-based LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics.

Intel announced it will invest several million euros to create a new European lab to explore computers with a thousand times the performance of today's fastest supercomputers: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif, Intel Corporation and Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines have entered into an ...

Puget Sound Business Journal Microvision Inc. said it plans to sell 6.7 million shares of stock at $3 each in an effort to raise about $21.5 million.

The value of Intel Corp. stock and other chip companies fell Thursday after an analyst downgraded the rating on a number of companies in the sector.

American Superconductor Corp. reaffirmed its full-year outlook Thursday and said it expects its profit to double next fiscal year.

In this Feb. 12, 2009 file photo, flags with the company logo of Infineon Technologies are seen prior to the annual shareholders meeting in Munich , southern Germany.

Nov. 18 -- Steve Haber, president of Sony Electronics Inc. digital reading unit, talks with Bloomberg's Mark Crumpton and Julie Hyman about the electronic-reader market.

Exide Technologies said Wednesday that under a new supply agreement it will supply batteries for Toyota Motor Corp.'s Highlander crossover sport utility vehicles in the U.S. Exide shares jumped 42 cents, or 5.3 percent, in after-hours trading after finishing regular trading down 9 cents at $7.88. The Highlander is a crossover sport utility vehicle.

Semiconductor maker Semtech Corp. said Wednesday that it agreed to buy fellow chipmaker Sierra Monolithics Inc.

Itron Inc. announced that Alabama's largest distributor of natural gas, Alabama Gas Corporation , has signed a contract for deployment of Itron's mobile automated meter reading to 500,000 gas meters.

Keithley Instruments Inc., the Solon maker of electrical test instruments, said today it lost $4.4 million, or 28 cents a share, in its fourth quarter, which ended Sept.

Devens-based American Superconductor Corp. has received a $10 million order for wind turbine parts from a Chinese company.

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has said that rumours concerning a new HD-capable Wii are missing the bigger picture.

Wireless technology developer InterDigital Inc. said Tuesday it expects fourth-quarter revenue between $75 million and $76 million, which falls slightly below Wall Street's expectations.

Montreal-based CAE has sold two flight simulators worth $35 million to a Chinese client, the company announced Tuesday.