Dan Nystedt

Two more Taiwanese companies will offer notebook computers containing Turion 64-bit mobile processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), making Asia the strongest base of support for the AMD chips. Notebook computers have been hot sellers this year, making it important for AMD to get Turions on the market.

Thanks to a tip from an unidentified caller, South Korean police have arrested seven men suspected of stealing flash memory technology from Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and planning to use it in their own factory in China.

An industry standards group that includes chip makers Intel Corp. and STMicroelectronics NV has published a document detailing the requirements a fuel cell technology would need to power a mobile PC, the group said.

As the battle rages between the two main kinds of flash memory, NAND and NOR, Intel Corp. said it has already sent samples of its latest NOR flash chip to mobile phone makers. The chip, code-named Sibley, is Intel's first 512M-bit device made using a 90-nanometer production technology, which helped it to double reading speeds, triple writing speeds and quadruple erase speed compared to its previous NOR chips.

The world's biggest telecommunications equipment provider has teamed up with popular Internet music service Napster LLC to make it simpler for mobile phone operators to open up online music stores for their customers. The two companies have developed a music downloading system that operators can use to deliver full songs to their customers' mobile phones, Ericsson and Napster said.

The global semiconductor industry appears to be well on the mend after several months in the doldrums, with some major companies raising their forecasts for the current quarter, mainly because people are buying more notebook computers and mobile phones.

A government-funded Taiwanese research group plans to show off its prowess in flexible display technology by developing a wearable and flexible electronic device by the end of October, an official said Thursday.

Richard Stallman, one of the main forces behind the GNU/Linux operating system and the free software movement, is in Taiwan fighting on a new front -- to get the island's PC makers to...