NVIDIA Corp., has announced its new NVIDIA Optimus technology for notebook PCs, that chooses the best graphics processor for running a given application and automatically routes the workload to either an NVIDIA discrete GPU or Intel integrated graphics - delivering great performance while also providing greater battery life.

Micron Technology says it plans to buy fellow memory chip maker Numonyx in an all-stock transaction the companies value at $1.27 billion.

Vishay Intertechnology said Tuesday it reversed a fourth-quarter loss, booking smaller one-time expenses and climbing revenue on computer chip sales.

Rambus has brought out a mobile version of its XDR memory interface which delivers throughput up to 4.3Gbps allowing SOCs capable of 17GBytes per second.

Intel's Tukwila has arrived in the form of the new Itanium 9300 processor series.

Broadcom Corporation , a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced a new single-chip HSPA baseband processor and a radio frequency transceiver solution that integrates all of the key 3G cellular and mobile technologies for powering the 3G smartphone and smart feature phone product segments.

Former Intel Corp. executive Rajiv Goel is expected to appear in Manhattan federal court Monday after prosecutors filed papers last week that would pave the way for a guilty plea.

Trident Microsystems Inc. said Monday that its quarterly loss widened as the company took a big inventory write-off. The company, which makes chips for digital televisions, said its net loss was $23.4 million, or 34 cents per share, in the last three months of 2009.

Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans.

Signing Sandeep Vij as its new CEO may turn out to be just what MIPS Technologies needed, as the world's number two processor IP company struggles to steal the spotlight back from ARM -- both in media attention and the industry's mindshare.

SunEdison, North America's largest solar energy services provider and a subsidiary of MEMC Electronic Materials , has activated the first phase of its 16-megawatt solar farm in Davidson County, N.C. "This first phase represents a major milestone in our overall plan to develop 16 megawatts of solar energy at this site" The first phase of the project ...

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, today announced the Samsung S2 Portable, a fully transportable external hard drive, pre-loaded with the movie 'Michael Jackson's THIS IS IT'. Timed with the DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of 'Michael Jackson's THIS IS IT', the pre-loaded external ...

Fidelity National Information Services Inc. reported a fourth-quarter loss on Thursday, taking charges for an acquisition and other one-time expenses.

RightNow Technologies Inc.'s quarterly profit nearly quadrupled as sales of its customer-management software leaped.

Intel Corporation: WHEN: Sometime during Super Bowl XLIV, kickoff at 3:25 p.m. PST Sunday, Feb.

Power management semiconductor solutions company, Dialog Semiconductor plc has purchased power management technology through an asset transaction from Diodes Zetex GmbH.

AMD today announced the introduction of the ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics card, the latest addition to the award-winning line-up of ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series graphics cards.

KEMET LAUNCHES A NEW HIGH TEMPERATURE C0G DIELECTRIC PLATFORM Greenville, South Carolina - KEMET Corporation , a leading manufacturer of tantalum, multilayer ceramic, solid aluminum, plastic film, paper and electrolytic capacitors, today announced the release of a new high temperature C0G dielectric platform.

Actel Corp. on Thursday said that John East will retire as president and chief executive of the FPGA house and as a member of the board.

ARM Holdings plc plans to launch three additions to its Cortex family of processor cores during 2010.