Struggling chip vendor Micronas (Zurich, Switzerland) has agreed with Trident Microsystems to sell several product lines of its consumer division. The company is in the process of winding this division down.

Toshiba Corp. said it would buy out its liquid crystal display (LCD) joint venture with Panasonic Corp for about 2 billion yen ($20.3 million), aiming to speed up decision-making and restructuring to turn around the loss-making venture.

An executive at Hitachi Ltd.'s display subsidiary has been charged with involvement in a conspiracy to fix prices of Thin Film Transistor-Liquid Crystal Display (TFT-LCD) panels sold to Dell Inc, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Three U.S. senators struck a compromise deal on patent reform including the controversial issue of patent infringement damages, but whether the rest of Congress—and the industry--will back it remains to be seen.

Hit hard by the downturn, Integrated Device Technology Inc. (IDT) is taking steps to reduce operating expenses.

Microcontroller and analog chip vendor Microchip Technology was presented the award for "Company of the Year," one of 11 winners of the 2009 EE Times ACE Awards. Morris Chang, founding chairman of TSMC, was honored with a "Lifetime Achievement Award."

Amid the downturn and ongoing losses, fab tool maker FSI International Inc. plans to take several cost-cutting measures, including layoffs.

Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. has implemented a reduction of approximately 12 percent of its worldwide workforce.

Kenneth Mattingly recalled the Apollo spirit of cooperation in the rescue of the Apollo 13 mission and encouraged engineers at the Embedded Systems Conference to apply the same determination to the current hard times.

Malware known as Conficker 2.0 is poised to strike on Wednesday, April Fools Day, security experts warn.

IMEC is now licensing its impressive low-power multicore development tools.

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