Shares of O2Micro International, a maker of power management chips, surged Tuesday after the company said it settled a patent infringement lawsuit with Sony of America and Sony Electronics.

"...Samples of the first SMIC NAND flash product based on the 90 nm process technology have already been shipped and the product is expected to reach the market later this year...SMIC said it sees great potential with NROM technology... "

"...IBM already has a plant in Shenzhen for servers, and early this year senior management discussed whether they could make chips instead of importing them into China to put into their servers..."

"...Although the higher demand is expected to help shore up average selling prices, a strong pricing recovery may not occur until the end of 2007 at the earliest and perhaps not until 2008..."

"...Intel's so-called Turbo Memory appears to be having trouble getting up to speed... It's pretty fair to say that the whole flash-enhanced [PC] performance ... story has lost a lot of momentum..."