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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval today jointly called for the passage of a legislative proposal to accelerate the retirement of coal plants owned by NV Energy and to expand renewable energy development in Nevada in the coming years.

At PCIM Europe 2013 in Nuremberg, Infineon Technologies AG launched its new EconoDUAL 3 IGBT modules, which are fully qualified according to automotive standards.

's stock had its "overweight" rating reaffirmed by Barclays Capital in a research note issued on Monday, StockRatingsNetwork reports.

On Thursday, May 16th, Applied Materials, Inc. reported the results of what I believe to be a very strong second quarter.

STMicroelectronics NV plans to introduce phase-change memory as an embedded non-volatile memory option for use with its microcontrollers.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company leads the semiconductor foundry world, but now it is aiming to leapfrog ahead with home-grown super-chips that combine SoCs, memory, sensors and all the other chips you need to make a system into a single "super-chip": R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog Vice president of R&D and cheif technology officer Jack Sun ... (more)

The multinational initiative started by Alcatel Lucent's Bell Labs called GreenTouch is three years into its initial five-year remit and appears to be doing good work.

Vishay Intertechnology Inc. has broadened its optoelectronics portfolio with the introduction of two high-speed 850 nm and 940 nm infrared emitters and a package-matched high-speed silicon PIN photodiode with high radiant sensitivity from 780 nm to 1050 nm.

KEMET's KPS HT Series devices with an X8L dielectric utilize a proprietary lead-frame technology to vertically stack one or two Multilayer ceramic chip capacitors into a single compact surface mount package.

Europe's largest chip company STMicroelectronics NV laid out details of its corporate strategy to financial analysts here Thursday as it winds down ST-Ericsson, its failed joint venture in mobile processors.

Chomerics, a division of Parker Hannifin Corporation, has introduced StreamShield&#153 EMI shielding air vent panels with fire retardant coating.

NV Energy's plan to shut down coal plants in Nevada moved forward today with strong support from some of Nevada's most influential politicians and business interests.

Also helping things along were the better-than-expected readings for the Conference Board's index of leading economic indicators and this morning's preliminary University of Michigan consumer confidence survey data for the month of May.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the industry's first 45 nanometer embedded flash logic process development.

This is the object of study for Davide Sangalli of the Microelectronics and Microsystems Institute at the National Research Council , in Agrate Brianza, Italy, and colleagues.

You can do a lot with $1,000. In fact, we came up with 30 surprising ways to use a grand .

We have all heard the saying before, but "out with the old, in with the new" has never been more fitting than for the shares of AudioCodes .

American researcher Shane Todd was never involved in any sensitive or highly-confidential military and defence-related projects while working for Singapore's Institute of Microelectronics, his colleagues revealed.

Skyworks Solutions, Inc., an innovator of high performance analog semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, introduced groundbreaking RF switching technology that is enabling early adopters to implement carrier aggregation solutions.

TI Announces CC2538 System-on-Chip ZigBee Solution Aimed at Smart Energy Infrastructure, Home and Building Automation and Intelligent Lighting Systems TI delivers industry's most integrated ZigBee single-chip solution with an ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller for smart energy infrastructure, home and building automation, and intelligent lighting ... (more)