A year after its official inception, Numonyx Inc. continues to move full speed ahead with its charter despite the current memory downturn and chaos in the supply chain.

Fab gear vendor KLA-Tencor will reduce its global workforce by about 10 percent as part of a series of cost-saving measures, the company said.

Intel Corp. formally rolls out server versions of its 45-nm Nehalem processors, the Xeon 5500 chips that integrate memory controllers and a high-speed interconnect, taking a page from archrival Advanced Micro Devices which pioneered the approach in x86 chips.

Altera will collaborate with National Semiconductor to develop graphics interconnect solutions to address the growing use of digital video in automotive infotainment and driver-assistance applications, the companies said.

QuickLogic said it is developing new platforms tailored for Qualcomm's latest Mobile Station Modem MSM7xxx-series and MSM8xxx-series mobile processors, including Qualcomm's Snapdragon family of mobile computing processors.

QuickLogic said it is developing new platforms tailored for Qualcomm's latest Mobile Station Modem MSM7xxx-series and MSM8xxx-series mobile processors, including Qualcomm's Snapdragon family of mobile computing processors.

The three-month moving average of global chip sales is expected to come in at $14.2 billion, down from the $15.1 billion achieved in January, according to Carnegie Group. This would down by 30 percent year-on-year and similar to the 30 percent fall shown in January.

Market research firm Gartner Inc. has lowered its forecast for the Asia-Pacific chip market.

Expanding its efforts in 3-D chips, Applied Materials Inc. has formed a joint effort with Disco Corp. to develop wafer thinning processes for fabricating through-silicon vias (TSVs).

Emphasizing low cost, small size, low power and flexibility, Microchip's GS Series digital signal controllers is its effort to increase its share of a digital power market that it believes is going mainstream and will grow at a compound annual rate of 40 percent.

The move to merged data center networks takes a step forward as QLogic Corp. formally announces new chips and cards designed for the Fibre Channel over Ethernet standard with rivals Emulex and Intel Corp. expected to announce competing products soon.

Mobile phone chip joint venture ST-Ericsson NV has announced that it is sampling an audio quality digital-to-analog converter (DAC) for use in the mobile music market.

Hewbrew University of Jerusalem has agreed an R&D collaboration between Merck and QLight Nanotech Ltd., for the joint development of semiconductor nanoparticle technology for displays.

ASIC design starts are expected to drop by 22 percent in 2009 as the economy causes firms to push out and--in some cases--cancel designs, accordng to market research firm Gartner.

A group of 38 companies and academic groups have signed on to a so-called Open Cloud Manifesto calling for open standards for cloud computing.

Seeking to expand its market opportunities, SpectraLinear Inc. has rolled out what it claims is the industry's first non-volatile programmable, PC clock chip family.

A new type of MEMS-based user interface enables 12 different device control functions while also eliminating expensive touch screens.