The projected slowdown in the solar market for 2006 is mainly due to ongoing and severe shortages of polysilicon...

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The Financial Supervisory Com-mission said yesterday that it will investigate whether UMC employees were involved in any illegal trading activity

Displaychips Inc has launched an OLED driver chip (DC3100), which is said to integrate DC-DC converter for the first time in the world.

BMW Group, one of Germany's biggest automobile makers, has signed a cooperation agreement with Chongqing Loncin Motors Corp to produce motorcycles in China.

The companies said they were in talks to jointly produce next-generation system chips, a move seen as necessary to survive against industry giants such as Intel Corp.

UMC said it might delist from the Taiwan exchange because of a fine and criticism it had suffered for restating earnings under U.S. accounting rules.

NEC said within half a year it would map out a concrete strategy for business tie-ups on cellphones and would decide on potential joint production of microchips in the next 18 months.

The operating profit of its memory chip division had fallen by 1.9 trillion won in the first three quarters from 5.7 trillion won of a year ago, but the firm is expecting a rebound in the fourth quarter due to brisk sales in flash chips.

Toumaz Technology Limited has signed an agreement with Infineon to use Infineon？ advanced 130 nanometre RF CMOS process to manufacture Toumaz？ Generation 1 and Generation 2 Sensium chips

Force specializes in the design, manufacture, and marketing of advanced fiber optic-based signal transport equipment for a wide range of applications.

The high efficiency of Emcore's GaAs-based solar cells and a current shortage of the polysilicon used in more conventional solar panel designs will create a market opportunity for the US company next year.

Net income fell to $62.6 million, or 9 cents a share, from $154.9 million, or 23 cents, a year earlier, the Boise, Idaho- based company said today in a regulatory filing. Sales increased 8.1 percent to $1.36 billion in the period ended Dec. 1.

M-Systems sold its 2% stake in Saifun for $15 million in an off-floor transaction.

...floating-gate flash will need to be overhauled at the 32-nm node, coming in at the end of this decade.

Japan's third-biggest automaker, plans to build a 10 billion yen ($86 million) factory to produce solar batteries. The plant would initially have a capacity to produce about 30 megawatts worth of solar cells annually, enough for 10,000 households/yr.

The high efficiency of Emcore's GaAs-based solar cells and a current shortage of the polysilicon used in more conventional solar panel designs will create a market opportunity for the US company next year, say analysts.