Autron and Royal Philips Electronics' subsidiary Assembléon have announced a partnership formed with the aim of growing their Asia-Pacific business.

Multimedia will be the application that will eventually bring the mass market onto home networks, according to Cahners In-Stat.

The Directors of KAZ Computer Services have announced that KAZ has agreed to acquire Aspect Computing, one of Australia's leading IT companies.

Worldwide sales of semiconductors in the fourth quarter 2001 were unchanged from the third quarter at $60 billion, ending three quarters of double digit declines.

Inphi Corporation has announced that it has demonstrated demultiplexers running at a data rate of greater than 80 gigabits per second (Gbps).

Hyper-threading is something of a mystery, and Intel are still unsure how to release it successfully to the industry.

Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that silicon wafers can be easily made into tiny explosives that could be used to chemically analyse samples in the field or serve as power sources for tiny electronic sensors the size of a speck of dust.

Using light beams in place of metal wires, engineers at Johns Hopkins University, US, have devised a cost-effective method to speed up the way microchips talk to each other.

The PC market in the Asia-Pacific region, excluding Japan, showed encouraging growth from the third quarter to the fourth quarter of 2001, indicating that the worst may be over for the region's markets, according to IDC.

The Asia-Pacific region has eclipsed the Americas as the greatest source of revenue for Intel.

Intel have just announced seven new mobile processors built on Intel's industry leading 0.13-micron fabrication process.

A microchain that closely resembles a bicycle chain, except that each link could rest comfortably atop a human hair, has been fabricated at the US Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories.

Gartner Dataquest analysts believe 2002 will be the transition year to recovery, with the most likely scenario of a sustainable recovery for the semiconductor device and capital equipment industries occurring in the second half of this year.

The crisis of confidence in Australian business circles may be over with demand for executive employees in December rising for the first time in five months, according to the E.L Executive Demand index.

Worldwide revenues for high-complexity, cell-based designs, containing at least one or more blocks of embedded flash, are forecast to experience a compound annual growth rate of 26% from 2000 to 2005, according to Cahners In-Stat.