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The EETimes US site has listed "10 companies in trouble" or, as I prefer to call it... the top 10 to fail before 2010.

AS EETimes puts it,the companies listed are "in particular danger of continuing to spill red ink, being acquired, seeking bankruptcy protection or just not being around in current form a year from now."

The list can be found here. And amongst the names are Freescale, NXP and Renesas. Are the… Continue

Gartner has today announced that worldwide semiconductor revenue is forecast to reach $198 billion in 2009. That's a 22.4 percent decline from 2008 revenue of $255 billion. On the positive side, this outlook is better (just) than the first quarter projections - which had a predicted decline of 24.1 percent.

Not looking good really. Unless you're in solar. This sector has been removed from Gartner's figures because it's growth is skewing the overall picture. So the insider tip, put your money he… Continue

...Germany.

Where as the UK has received the wooden spoon and title of Worst WEEE offender ever. Yes, it sounds more like a comment from The Simpson's eponymous character, Comic Book Guy. The proclamation comes from a Dell survey of 5,000 people in across five Eur… Continue

What are the sweetest phrases in the English language? This pizza makes you thinner and more attractive has a good ring to it. But so does, this memory will hold four times as much data as flash currently can and do it 10 times as fast.

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As many will now have seen, Intel has been handed a €1bn fine by those regulating EU competition.

The verdict, that Intel had abused its dominance and bullied its customers to hopefully rid the market of its rival, AMD.

On the vedict, Neelie Kroes, the European Competition Comm… Continue