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SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc. , a leading provider of GPS-enabled location technology, today announced its flagship SiRFstarIII architecture is being used by Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd.

SHELTON, Conn. -- TranSwitch Corporation , a leading provider of high-speed semiconductor solutions for voice, data and video communications, today announced that Green versions of its Envoy -CE2 and Envoy-CE4 ...

A group of immigrant workers from Fremont are on their way to the District Attorney office after a press conference outside the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland Wednesday afternoon.

Citigroup called shares of Aliso Viejo-based QLogic Corp. a "buy," saying Tuesday's 6% drop in the stock was "backward-looking." Earlier this week, QLogic said it planned to sell its slumping unit that makes ...

The time is right for biotech investing as healthcare spending is set to double over the next 10 years.

SIRF Technology Holdings Inc. surged 14.5% Wednesday after it won a deal to supply chips to Garmin Ltd.

West Nile Virus , a mosquito-borne disease, had found its way into California in 2004 and was expected to surge this year.

SiRF Technology Holdings Inc. stock rose Wednesday after Garmin Ltd., the maker of GPS gadgets, said it would use SiRF's technology in some products.3.2

KEMET Corporation announced today the introduction of eight new low ESR options in the T495 low ... KEMET is an ISO 9001:2000 and ISO/TS 16949:2002 certified company.2.7

Creative Technology has secured a US patent for a key interface used in portable MP3 players including arch rival Apple's iPod, the Singapore digital entertainment products maker said.2.7

Rabbit releases TCP/IP-based embedded system control module Continuing its focus on bringing more connectivity options to developers of Z80-type based MCU designs, Rabbit has just released its RCM3750 ...2.7

THREE MEMBERS of the Oakland Fire Department - Capt. Tony Perez, left, J.P. Troy and Ryan Meineke, right - load their search and rescue unitOs inflatable raft onto a truck bed Tuesday at Travis Air Force Base.2.7

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Allaying recent rumors about plans to spin off its memory unit, Infineon Technologies AG defended the business despite a lackluster outllook for the sector.3.1

LSI Logic today announced that it is now providing major OEM customers with samples of the LSI 3Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI 28-port and 36-port expander ICs.2.7

The Military Mutual Aid Association, the group that manages the military's pension investment fund, announced its intention to participate in the bidding for Hynix Semiconductor Inc.2.7

U.S. stocks were little changed, with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index headed for its biggest monthly drop since January, on concern record oil prices in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina may slow economic ...2.7

Akustica Inc., a start-up developing acoustic components in silicon using MEMS manufacturing processes, has said it is collaborating with mixed-signal semiconductor supplier SigmaTel Inc.2.7

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SRS Labs, Inc. , one of the world's leading providers of audio technology solutions, today announced that Philips, a leading provider of automotive DSPs, has selected SRS Circle Surround Automotive surround ...2.7

Otis is the first elevator company ever to receive a Green Product Award from the China Environmental Protection Foundation.2.7

Micrel Inc., , an industry leader in IC analog, high bandwidth and Ethernet solutions, today added to its family of high-current protected power switches.2.7

Citigroup called shares of Aliso Viejo-based QLogic Corp. a "buy," saying Tuesday's 6% drop in the stock was "backward-looking." Earlier this week, QLogic said it planned to sell its slumping unit that makes ...2.7

John W. Gamble Jr. has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer of Lexmark International Inc., the Lexington-based printer maker announced yesterday.2.7

A lot of college students rush fraternities. But only a few will ever start their own.2.7

If you did nothing but read headlines from the last year of the Daily, it would be very difficult to look at NT President Norval Pohl's reign as anything but a disaster.

TDK Corporation was established in 1935 as the world's first company to commercialize a magnetic material called ferrite.

The former owner of the defunct North Valley Lumber and Truss Co. of Oroville, who pleaded guilty this April to multiple counts of fraud, died of an apparent heart attack Thursday while serving his prison ...2.7

Looking to extend its handset chip product lineup, chip design house Mediatek announced it will acquire the remaining stake of its subsidiary, Pericom Semiconductor.2.7

So Intel's CEO Paul Otellini says that the company is chasing a new goal: instead of striving for ever-faster chips, it will seek to optimize performance per watt - in other words to make them faster and more ...2.9

Integrated Device Technology Inc. introduced a hardware/software development kit for its 3-port, 24-lane PRECISE PCI Express switching solution, which the company is currently sampling.2.7

Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average slipped after oil prices climbed for a third day and a report showed industrial production dropped twice as much as economists expected.2.7

The breakneck pace at which the computer industry demands new graphics cards may be ATI Technologies Inc.'s biggest source of financial frustration, and its best chance for redemption.2.7

MADISON, Wis. International Business Machines Corporation is the latest company to settle charges of infringing a patent owned by the University of Wisconsin's research arm in making computer chips.1.6

System-on-chip supplier Pixelworks Inc. has collaborated with AMD Inc. to co-design the Sailfish II platform, a reference design based on the Pixelworks PWBSP-16 broadband signal processor IC and the AMD ...2.7