Samsung has made no secret of the fact that it provides a number of the key components inside Apple's flagship iPhone and iPad devices, even while actively competing against them with its own Galaxy line of Android competitors. A major change in that relationship has now been reported out of Korea, however, where the Chosun Ilbo says Samsung has increased the price of manufacturing Apple's application processor by nearly 20%.

The maker of wireless chips posts quarterly results much better than it anticipated, and the numbers stand in stark contrast to those of other companies, such as Intel.

In a presentation beamed to Panasonic offices around the world last week, Kazuhiro Tsuga, the company's president, stunned middle managers with the blunt message that their bonuses would be cut more than a third.

If you were thinking of picking up a cellular-enabled tablet, you might consider dropping by an AT&T store (online or in person).

Lenovo expects the growing market for 7-inch tablets to compete with large-screen smartphones, not PCs.

US International Trade Commission (ITC) unanimously confirmed the imposition of anti-dumping and countervailing duties between 24% and 255% on imports of crystalline silicon solar photovoltaic (PV) cells from China, and modules made from those cells.

China-based producers on Thursday protested the US latest decision to slash trade duties on solar energy products from China.

The European Union launched an investigation on Thursday into alleged state subsidies for China-based solar panel manufacturers, intensifying a trade war between the two centered on the multi-billion dollar solar power market.

It won't be long now until Google launches its Nexus 10. The company plans to offer the 16GB tablet on November 13 for US$399 in its Google Play store.

Shares of small-cap OLED manufacturer Universal Display Corporation lost around 43% of their value on Wednesday.

Sharp recently warned investors that it was on the verge of collapse after doubling its full-year net loss forecast to $5.6 billion, citing a "worse than expected drop" in LCD TV sales in Japan and China.

With Thanksgiving now just about two weeks away, it's no surprise that we're starting to see more Black Friday deals leaked.

Microsoft's instant messaging and video chat are set for a major shake-up, with Microsoft announcing today that the Windows Live Messenger brand and client will be retired in the first quarter of 2013. They'll be replaced by the Skype client and Skype name everywhere, except for China, which will retain the Messenger naming.

The collaboration will focus on the carbon-nanotube-based memory developed by Nantero, NRAM, and its application in high-density next-generation memories with a size under 20nm. NRAM arrays will be manufactured, tested and characterized in imec's advanced nanoelectronics facilities.

Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers (as well as III-V epiwafers through its Picogiga International division), has more than doubled production of bonded silicon-on-sapphire (BSOS) substrates to meet increased demand from strategic partner Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego,US.

President Barack Obama handily defeated Gov. Mitt Romney and won himself a second term Tuesday after a bitter and historically expensive race that was primarily fought in just a handful of battleground states. Obama beat Romney after nabbing the crucial state of Ohio.

Online voting is taking off in local elections, particularly overseas. But Americans shouldn't expect to vote for the president on their laptop or iPad anytime soon.

ARM is part of a consortium buying the rights to MIPS' portfolio of 580 patents, contributing US$167.5 million to the total US$350 million purchase price. As for ARM itself and its consortium colleagues, its part of the deal will reduce the risk of any infringement of MIPS' patents.

MIPS Technologies has entered into separate definitive agreements with Bridge Crossing, an acquisition vehicle of Allied Security Trust, and Imagination Technologies with net proceeds of approximately US$7.31 per share in cash to each holder of MIPS common stock. The total value of the transaction represents a 40% premium to the closing price on April 11, 2012, the day prior to the first public rumor of a potential sale of MIPS.

Booming sales in Asia have helped German car firm BMW shrug off the gloom in Europe to report a record third quarter pre-tax profit.

Asian shares were mixed on Tuesday ahead of the U.S. Presidential election, while investors in Australia were anticipating the results of the Reserve Bank of Australia's latest rate-setting meeting.

The result of the upcoming US presidential election is unlikely to impact triangular relations between Taiwan, China and the US, academics said yesterday, but urged Taiwan to take a proactive approach in maximizing its role in the US' pivot to Asia.

Whether Barack Obama keeps his job after Tuesday or Mitt Romney starts measuring for new White House drapes, gridlock is likely to continue in Washington, according to the president and CEO of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).

With the election approaching, we asked some folks we admire: What does this election mean to Silicon Valley? Between now and the election on Nov. 6, we'll be running the responses we received. Today, Congressman Michael Honda weighs on.

In this Oct. 20, 2010 photo, a working wind mill turns with a background of wind turbines from the Smoky Hills Wind Farm near Ellsworth, Kan. President Obama wants America to get 80 percent of its electricity from clean energy sources by 2035.

Microsoft was touting touch today at its Build conference. And that means for plain old laptops too.

The iPad mini has finally arrived-Apple's much anticipated response to the incredibly successful 7-inch tablets pioneered by Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and more recently by Google with its Nexus 7.

Monitors will grow by about half an inch in 2013, but there's be no sales bulge for resellers according to Taiwanese market-watcher WitsView.