SAN FRANCISCO—With its proposed acquisition by Oracle Corp. being delayed by regulators, Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to cut 3,000 jobs across several regions over the next 12 ...
SAN FRANCISCO—NOR flash vendor Spansion Inc. acknowledged that the company cut an undisclosed number of jobs Monday (Oct. 26).
A Spansion spokesperson said through a prepared ...
LONDON — The Americas region achieved actual sales of $3.22 billion in August 2009, up 7.6 percent from the same month a year before, according to "actual" data from the World ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Texas Instruments Inc. plans to open a 300-mm analog semiconductor fab in Richardson, Texas, the company said Tuesday (Sept. 29). TI expects to begin equipping the ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Uncles Sam wants a few smart power engineers—quite a few in fact.
Steven Chu, U.S. Secretary of Energy, put out a $100 million down payment last week to ...
LEUVEN, Belgium — "The way to get out of the downturn is to innovate," said Luc Van den hove, chief executive of IMEC (Leuven, Belgium), opening an annual press forum for the R&D ...
PARIS — At last, Intel Corp. has confirmed that it is hiring a team of 53 3G system integration engineers from Freescale's Cellular Products Group based in Toulouse, in the South ...
WASHINGTON — Roughly seven months after launching a new energy research agency, the Obama administration has nominated a top engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- IBM Corp. has cut nearly 10,000 jobs this year, according to reports, although Big Blue still refuses to fess up to most of the layoffs.
The Alliance@IBM/CWA ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Total worldwide fab spending is expected to grow 64 percent in 2010 to reach $24 billion, thanks largely to about $14 billion in planned spending from six chip ...
BANGALORE, India — Freescale Semconductor's CEO declared the recession over and said the global semiconductor industry has reached the upside of its cycle entering the second half ...
In the new economy, IT professionals need all the help they can get securing their current positions and/or finding new ones. The technology sector is particularly vulnerable to ...
Dell Inc. said it will pay $3.6 billion for Perot Systems Corp. in a bid to boost its IT services offering and make the division more competitive against consulting rivals IBM ...
BANGALORE, India — Based on recent market data, leading edge fabs may have little or no excess capacity by the end of 2009, a sign that the semiconductor industry is recovering, ...
PARIS — The European Union spent 229 billion euros on research and development in 2007, representing 1.85 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and said it aims to achieve ...
PARIS — Franco-US telecom equipment provider Alcatel-Lucent (Paris, France) announced it has slightly revised downwards the number of job cuts in France.
At the end of July, ...
WASHINGTON — The Energy Department will fund LED and organic LED research with funds from the economic stimulus package approved by Congress in February.
The Energy Department ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Silicon supplier MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. will close two U.S. manufacturing facilities and cut about 540 jobs in order to cut costs.
MEMC said it would ...
Washington Mutual's failure last September marked a precipitous moment of this recession. But for JPMorgan Chase, it was an opportunity. And for Guy Chiarello, JPMorgan Chase's ...
Small and midsize businesses can save time and money by leaving social media marketing to the pros.
Between blogging, tweeting, Facebooking and updating a LinkedIn profile, ...
