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.

An experiment by researchers at the University of Maryland's Centre for Superconductivity Research and at the University of Toronto provides the first clear evidence that electrons in high-temperature superconductors behave differently than electrons in any other material.

Research engineers at Purdue University are developing tiny, quiet fans that wiggle back and forth to help cool future laptop computers and other portable electronic gear.

Scientists have found evidence of the long-suspected phenomenon that tiny electrical currents are produced when molecules interact with metal surfaces.

Cahners In-Stat predicts that shipments of Bluetooth chips will push 13 million this year, and reach 750 million by 2005. Excellent shipment results for this year, the firm says, will help further cement the fact that Bluetooth is here to stay.

Hi-tech research firm, Cahners In-Stat Group anticipates that the total market for optical amplifiers used as linear amplifiers on long haul and metropolitan area network (MAN) applications will increase from approximately $6.6 billion in 2001 to $9.4 billion in 2006.

For the first time, a data link between satellites was established using a laser beam as signal carrier.

IBM is to cut just under 5%, or 1,000 jobs, of its workforce in its microelectronics division due to decreased demand for semiconductors.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is taking Dell to the Federal Court on 7 February 2002, alleging that Dell failed to include the price of delivery in its recent advertising.