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SRS Chief Technology Officer, Alan Kraemer to Present Keynote Speech at the SINOCES Consumer Electronics Forum - Industry Summit SANTA ANA, Calif., July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SRS Labs , the industry leader in surround sound, audio, and voice technologies, announced today that it has been honored with two awards at the 2009 China ...

Maxim Integrated Products introduced the MAX15027-MAX15030 low-dropout linear regulators that operate from a 1.425 to 3.6V input voltage and deliver up to 1A or 500mA of output current.

Microtune Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Auvitek International Ltd.

Intel Corporation today announced that the initial offer period for its tender offer through its subsidiary, APC II Acquisition Corporation , for all outstanding shares of common stock, including rights to purchase shares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, of Wind River Systems Inc.

Only a few days after Infineon has announced the sale of its wireline business to a financial investor, Infineon has announced another coup, and a bigger one: By means of a capital increase, the ailing chip vendor hopes to receive a massive capital injection from investor Apollo Global Management LLC.

SMSC today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Tallika Corporation , a team of approximately 50 highly skilled engineers located in design centers in Chennai, India and Phoenix, Arizona.

NEC Electronics today announced the availability of 15 new 32-bit All Flash V850 microcontrollers for inverter control and motor control applications such as air conditioners, washing machines, dryers, factory automation equipment, and photovoltaic power systems.

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.

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 said Thursday morning that it has withdrawn its unsolicited takeover offer for Emulex Corp., which had earlier rejected the $909 million offer as inadequate.

In a move to cut costs, Photronics Inc. is closing its photomask manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China.

Strengthening its line up of portable 1.8a hard drives for external storage markets, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

OKI Data Corporation and Renesas Technology Corp . today announced the conclusion of a basic agreement under which OKI Digital Imaging Corporation will acquire the land, buildings, and utilities of the former semiconductor front-end process line of the Gunma Development Design and Device Division of Renesas Eastern Japan Semiconductor, Inc.

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.

Intel Corp's former chief executive and chairman, Craig Barrett, said on Thursday it would take "a few years" to see whether Intel's technology partnership with Nokia succeeds.

Google is developing an open-source operating system targeted at Internet-centric computers such as netbooks and will release it later this year, the company said Wednesday.

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.

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.

Computer chip maker Infineon Technologies AG said Tuesday that it is selling its wirelines communications unit to an affiliate of U.S. investor Golden Gate Capital in a A 250 million deal that will allow it to focus on core businesses.

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.