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“Digital was supposed to change our lives. It hasn't happened yet”

The race is on: A consortium of 32 companies has joined a classic battle for primacy with their demonstration of mobile phones to compete with devices that will run Google Inc.'s fledgling Android operating ... via KEPR 19

“Finally they are able to get a physics engine accelerated into a very large population of gamers”

If you have been wondering how Ageia's PhysX SDK fits into Nvidia's product range , the answer is actually very simple: The PhysX SDK will be translated into CUDA and, as a result, PhysX will be compliant with ... via TG Daily

“This is a very big traumatic experience for all of us.”

Prosecutors filed a charge of murder with hate-crime and firearm-use enhancements Thursday against a 14-year-old boy who will be tried as an adult in the school shooting of a classmate who has been declared brain dead but remains on a ventilator.

The charge against Brandon David McInerney was upgraded from attempted murder after authorities learned that victim Lawrence King's condition was not survivable.

"When we got confirmation that he in fact was brain dead, there's state law in California that says that's good enough," said Ventura County Senior Deputy District Attorney Maeve Fox. Read more

“It is not like we are saying, 'Hey, we're picking Android over Microsoft,'”

Google Inc.'s profile was relatively low as the World Mobile Congress opened, but chip makers eager to help develop the first phones using Google's Android operating system were not so quiet. via The State

“We executed well in a challenging global chip equipment market”

Applied Materials Inc on Tuesday posted a quarterly profit that beat analysts' expectations as revenue declined 8 percent amid a slump in the semiconductor equipment manufacturing industry. via Reuters

“We see no signs yet of material business weakness that would dramatically alter the company's cash flow story.”

Qwest Communications International Inc. said Tuesday its fourth-quarter earnings rose 89 percent as sales of data and Internet products offset a decline in traditional phone service. via Journal Gazette

“Although we are not recession-proof, we have not seen any signs of a slowdown in our businesses, except in our heavy-duty diesel business, which has been impacted by a decline in the U.S. trucking industry”

CORNING, New York : Corning Inc. reaffirmed expectations Friday of strong first-quarter demand for glass used in flat-screen televisions and computers. via International Herald Tribune

Cree Inc. has agreed to pay up to $103.4 million in cash and stock to acquire LED Lighting Fixtures Inc., the chip maker said Friday. via Manufacturing.net

“Corning's bendable optical fiber cable is particularly valuable in the tight spaces typical of these sorts of buildings.”

CORNING -- Verizon Communications has become the first major telecom company to order Corning Inc.'s ClearCurve bendable optical fiber and cable. via Star-Gazette

“The technology of the UW-Madison researchers has been widely recognized in the field of computer architecture as a pioneering invention”

The University of Wisconsin-Madison's research arm has sued computer chip maker Intel claiming the company violated the university's patents in making the popular Core 2 Duo processor.

The federal lawsuit, filed Tuesday, alleges technology used in the processor to increase its speed and efficiency was created by researchers at the university and Intel should have obtained a licensing agreement to use it.

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, a private, nonprofit patent management organization that supports research and controls the university's patents, filed the lawsuit. It claims the computer chip's microarchitecture infringes on a 1998 patent based on work by four researchers including Gurindar S. Sohi, chair of the computer science department. Read more

Infineon Technologies AG, the German maker of semiconductors, said Thursday that a downturn at its Qimonda computer memory chip subsidiary pushed it to a loss in the first quarter of its fiscal year as chip prices fell.

The company also reduced its outlook for demand for its products used by cell phone makers, and its shares tumbled 12.5 percent in Frankfurt to 5.86 euros ($8.57) by midday.

The Neubiberg-based company posted a loss of 396 million euros ($578.9 million) in the October-December period _ its fourth consecutive quarterly loss _ compared with a profit of 120 million euros a year earlier. Still, the results were still better than the loss of 445 million euros ($650.6 million) that analysts polled by Dow Jones Newswires had forecast. Read more

Intel Corp. has built a new chip packed with a record 2 billion transistors, more than doubling the processing power of a line of its chips for supercomputers, the company said. via KEPR 19

“The SigmaTel acquisition enhances the long-term, strategic value we can deliver to our customers”

Freescale Semiconductor Inc. said it has agreed to purchase SigmaTel Inc. for about $110 million to secure complementary analog ICs as it diversifies sales into the digital and consumer electronics markets. via EETimes

Intel Corp. has built a new chip packed with a record 2 billion transistors, more than doubling the processing power of a line of its chips for supercomputers, the company said. via Montana Standard

Gennum Corp. , a Burlington, Ont.-based microelectronics manufacturer, posted a net loss of about $429,000 in the fourth quarter as restructuring charges helped reverse a profit of nearly $2.8 million for the ... via Sympatico Finance

“The industry will remain challenging in the first quarter of this year as weak pricing may persist”

Hynix Semiconductor Inc. posted its worst quarterly performance in four years Friday due to falling chip prices in an oversaturated market. via Chicago Tribune

“As more and more of today's popular consumer electronic and computing devices continue to move to silicon for storage, it is essential that we improve how data is accessed and transferred in NAND”

Boise , Feb 1 : Micron Technology, Inc. today announced that it is the first company to sample an eight gigabit single-level cell high speed NAND product. via Daily India