Intel’s fourth quarter sales and profit beat expectations and the company also delivered a better-than-expected forecast for the first quarter of this year.

Have you ever been on the receiving end of a flame war? Or have you ever instigated a flame war you subsequently grew to regret?

Tsinghua Unigroup’s recently disclosed d plans to build a $30 billion memory chip in Nanjing was unexpected – even by many China watchers. Unfolding are fierce battles over talent, manufacturing equipment and regional financing – among Xi’an, Wuhan and Nanjing.

There is tremendous potential for facial recognition technology, such as informing visually impaired persons if someone they know is approaching them.

Spin Transfer Technology’s delivery of fully functional devices is more momentum for emerging technology.

MediaTek, Qualcomm’s largest rival in the smartphone silicon business, is forecasting slow growth during the first quarter this year as the overall market remains in the doldrums.

Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest maker of smartphones and the second-largest chipmaker, said it expects strong memory sales this year as the balance between supply and demand tightens.

Qualcomm’s quarter profits fell as a result of a fine from the Korea government in one of now five cases alleging unfair patent licensing.

Basics like strain relief are critical to the long-term reliability of cables and connectors: Neglect it and you could have an unpleasant surprise; anticipate it and you could be a happy user.

A China-based memory chip called Sino King Technology, founded with ambitious goals by the former CEO of Elpida less than a year ago, has apparently ceased operations.