Semiconductor News

MOAPA, Nev. -- Half of all the electricity produced in North America is from coal, and about a third of all the power consumed in the Las Vegas Valley comes from one coal-fired plant north of town.

Professional Community Management of California and Associa promoted Michelle Thomson to regional director of West Coast Associa Services .

Tempe-based Amtech , which makes equipment for the semiconductor and solar industries, reported a loss of $876,000, or 9 cents per share, for its first fiscal quarter ended Dec.

From there, he'd zip through the hills and down into Beaverton where he'd pedal the final leg of his journey to his job at Electro Scientific Industries .

BOISE the National Traffic Safety Board has released their preliminary report on the plane crash that killed Micron CEO Steve Appleton.

Micron Technology Inc. President Mark Adams said prices of computer memory have probably hit their lowest after a slump that caused losses at three of the four largest companies in the industry.

Foundry chipmaker United Microelectronics Corp. is sampling a customer with a 28-nm application processor amid indications that the roll out of the leading-edge process technology is going better than expected, according to analysts at financial services firm Nomura Equities Research.

It's been six days since a tragic plane crash took the life of Micron CEO Steve Appleton at the Boise Airport.

The top after-market NASDAQ Losers Wednesday were: Diamond Foods, iRobot Corp, Groupon, Array BioPharma, TripAdvisor, Celldex Therapeutics, TriQuint Semiconductor, Neurocrine Biosciences, Perceptron and Affymetrix.

Sean Riley, Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Infrastructure Business, and Doug Hunter, Chief of Staff and Vice President, Corporate Marketing, will be presenting.

ON Semiconductor 's stock had its "buy" rating reaffirmed by equities research analysts at Canaccord Genuity in a research note issued to investors on Thursday.

On Semiconductor Corp. posted record revenue in 2011, but the company saw only a slight profit for the year and a loss for the fourth quarter as it integrated its purchase of Sanyo's semiconductor unit.

Cisco Systems Inc. : The biggest maker of networking equipment reported profit and sales that exceeded analysts' estimates, signaling that corporate-network revenue helped make up for slower spending by phone and cable companies.

FEI Co. , the Hillsboro maker of electron microscopes, reported record quarterly revenue and profits Wednesday, closing a record-setting year.

The company's shares rose 9 percent in pre-market trading following the announcement.

The chairman and CEO of flash memory manufacturer Micron died on Feb. 3 in a small plane crash in Idaho.A Steve Appleton was only 51.

Feb. 7, 2012 -- MoSys, Inc., , a provider of serial chip-to-chip communications solutions that deliver unparalleled bandwidth performance for next generation networking systems and advanced system-on-chip designs, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2011.

United Microelectronics Corporation has announced operating profits declined 45.3% sequentially to NT$840 million in the fourth quarter of 2011 with revenues sliding 3% on quarter.

Samsung Electronics Co, the world's top television manufacturer, has seen TV sales firming up so far this year and plans to introduce cheaper TVs, as demand for lower-end models increase, the head of its TV business said on Wednesday.

Mack left Alta Communications in June of last year, an official said. The firm now has five partners, according to its website.