Freescale charts future of flash by switching from split-gate and 1-T architectures in nanocrystal development.

Long-time analyst of semiconductor market statistics Mike Cowan has revised his 2009 semiconductor annual market estimate to $183.99 billion, equivalent to a market contraction of 26 percent, a slight improvement on his previous forecast that year-on-year decline in shipments would be 26.8 percent.

Automotive chip vendor Elmos AG (Dortmund, Germany) and semiconductor test system provider Advantest have announced to cooperate. With the move, Advantest gains a foothold in the automotive semiconductor market.

The European Commission is set to rule next Thursday (May 13) that Intel Corp. breached anti-trust rules in its selling of microprocessors and to implement a massive fine, according to a Reuters report.

Via Licensing Corp. is looking to administer a patent pool for companies and research institutes claiming to have Intellectual Property for the emerging fast date rate cellular technology Long Term Evolution (LTE).

TSMC and UMC, the world's two biggest contract chipmakers, on Friday posted rising sales growth for April on a monthly basis, driven by growing demand for computers and other consumer gadgets.

Japan's Toshiba Corp. said it would raise up to 493 billion yen ($5.0 billion) in capital to shore up its finances, battered by a sharp downturn in the semiconductor sector.

Chinese wireless communication system equipment vendor ZTE Corp. will purchase at least $50 million worth of components from RF chip supplier TriQuint Semiconductor in 2009 under the terms of an agreement between the two companies.

ARC's announcement of the resignation of its former CEO Carl Schlachte was taken positively by the market. But the survival of ARC remains in precarious balance, as new CEO Geoff Bristow seeks ways to bring ARC back to profitability.

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