CHIP

Texas Instruments Inc reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter chip sales as customers in a broad array of industries replenished depleted inventories.

Texas Instruments Inc reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter chip sales as customers in a broad array of industries replenished depleted inventories.

Texas Instruments Inc reported higher-than-expected fourth-quarter revenue on Monday as demand improved faster than expected because customers did not have enough chips in stock, signaling the end of an inventory correction.

Oregon coach Chip Kelly has decided to remain a college coach after coming extremely close to accepting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers offer to become a NFL head coach.

The launch of the iBooks 2 app further substantiates expectations that Apple may put a quad-core chipset in the iPad 3, which is expected to be launched in the first quarter of 2012.

Oregon head coach Chip Kelly is close to becoming the next Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach, according to a report.

Samsung Electronics Co said on Monday its U.S. operation plans to sell around $1 billion in bonds, its first major overseas debt sale in more than a decade, to fund its chip plant operations.

Intel, the world’s biggest chipmaker, plans to scale up production of its new Ultrabook chips, with as many as 75 consumer products available by the second quarter and more to come, said Mooly Eden, VP and general manager for the consumer client group.

The fabless semiconductor company GreenPeak Technologies, has unveiled its new GP570 chip that will allow the development of low cost motion-enabled remote controls.

South Korea said on Wednesday it had approved a plan by Samsung Electronics Co to build a flash memory chip plant in China seen costing some $4 billion, as a boom in smartphones and tablet computers fuels the chip industry's growth.

South Korea said on Wednesday it had approved a plan by Samsung Electronics Co to build a flash memory chip plant in China seen costing some $4 billion, as a boom in smartphones and tablet computers fuels the chip industry's growth.

Avago Technologies believes a correction in inventories of industrial chips is bottoming out and expects more complicated smartphones to drive demand for its filters and power amplifiers, its chief financial officer said on Tuesday.

SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Inc is famous for relying on low-cost Asian manufacturers to both source and assemble its popular gadgets, but the consumer device giant recently started receiving a critical component in its iPad and iPhones from closer to home - Texas.

Apple Inc is famous for relying on low-cost Asian manufacturers to both source and assemble its popular gadgets, but the consumer device giant recently started receiving a critical component in its iPad and iPhones from closer to home - Texas.

Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday it plans to build a flash memory chip plant in China, seen costing some $4 billion, as a boom in smartphones and tablet computers is set to fuel the $22 billion chip industry's growth next year.

Samsung Electronics, the world's top memory chip maker, said on Tuesday it had decided to build a plant in China to start production of flash memory chips from 2013 as it seeks to ride a boom in smartphones and tablet computers.

Short lead times from manufacturing customers are making it tough to predict end demand for microchips and hard to say whether an inventory correction is bottoming out, the chief executive of Maxim Integrated Products said.

Toshiba Corp said on Wednesday it would close three of its six discrete chip-making facilities in Japan and also trim output of certain types of chips over the year-end as demand for PCs and TVs slides in Europe and the United States.

Hewlett-Packard, the No. 1 computer company, will phase out an older Intel chip on high-end servers in favor of a newer one. Besides offering more power, another goal could be to battle rival Oracle.

The semiconductor industry is looking at first signs of recovery as it struggles to clear inventories of unsold chips stemming from a slowdown in consumer spending, industry executives said on Thursday.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has unveiled the world's first 16-core x86 Opteron 6200 server chip, formerly code-named Interlagos. The chip maker also launched its 8-core 4200 Series processors, code-named Valencia.