Nexeon Ltd. (Abingdon, England), a company formed in 2006 to commercialize battery research conducted at Imperial College in London, is getting ready to license its silicon-anode technology for use with lithium-ion batteries. Presented By:

Contrary to one report, the foundry business is hot, as Taiwan vendors are sold out and leading-edge yields are improving, according to an analyst.

After the worst ever annual decline in the semiconductor equipment market, the industry's trade organization is predicting two years of booming growth.

MindTree Ltd. has unveiled a real-time video stitching algorithm as part of a video surveillance product.

Semefab (Glenrothes, Scotland) has started building its CMOS3 wafer fab to support front end processing of MEMS structures.

Bruce Diesen, analyst with Carnegie ASA (Oslo, Norway), has raised his forecast for the 2009 chip market, for the second month in a row. Carnegie asserts the market will still be down but the shrink will be less than Carnegie

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has begun volume production of 3-bit, multi-level-cell NAND flash chips using a 30-nm manufacturing process technology.

The European and Americas regions grew fastest according to the October three-month average chip sales released by the Semiconductor Industry Association on Monday (Nov. 30), when compared with the previous month. Presented By:

Product design and development firm Cambridge Consultants launched Suma, a uniquely intuitive and very low-cost squeezable user-interface technology aimed at 3D content interaction.

X-FAB Silicon Foundries Group and Swindon-based Plus Semi have agreed on the sale of X-FAB's wafer fabrication plant in Plymouth, UK, to Plus Semi. A technology license agreement ensures the continuation of the existing operation.

Giesecke & Devrient (Munich, Germany) has become the sole shareholder in Venyon Oy (Helsinki, Finland) by acquiring the minority stake of shares held by Nokia (Espoo, Finland). Presented By:

At the Semicon Japan trade show this week, Applied, Axcelis, KLA-Tencor and others have rolled out new products.

IBM succeeds in simulating a human brain with as many neurons as a cat brain in its Synapse project for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, for which it recently received $16.1 million in federal funding.

The first pilot osmotic electricity generation plant built in Norway by Statkraft was enabled by the pressure exchanger inventions of Energy Recovery.

Firing back at a competitor, analog IC vendor Inphi said it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Netlist in U.S. District Court.

Altera raised its sales target for the fourth quarter, saying it now expects revenue to improve by 15 to 18 percent compared to the third quarter.

Design & Reuse SA, a global collaboration network for sharing system-on-chip design resources, announced a configurable documentation platform as part of its Enterprise Intranet Platform.

Real estate firm Binswanger has been named exclusive agent by IBM Corp. for the lease of two fabs and industrial space located in East Fishkill, N.Y.