The blueprint for proposed merger/joint venture plan has fingerprints of Japan’s bureaucrats at Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (MEITI) all over it. Practically speaking, such business engineering makes little sense.

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Romley server boards coming from Intel in March will accelerate the growth of 10 Gbit Ethernet and attack AMD at the high-end, two of many data center shifts ahead.

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Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins has announced the first class of recruits for its engineering internship program, which aims to place selected students in Kleiner-funded startups over the summer for work experience and mentoring.

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Japan's Nikkei reported that Renesas, Fujitsu and Panasonic are in negotiations to merge their system chip businesses in a deal that would sharply remake the Japanese semiconductor landscape.

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Vendors are rapidly preparing the LTE technology to meet operator demand as witnessed by 17 manufacturers adopting the APIs for their upcoming LTE products, according to the Femto Forum.

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Rightware Oy, a 2009 startup that has developed a licensable 3-D graphical user interface called Kanzi, has announced the availability of Basemark CL, a benchmarking system for OpenCL-related software and hardware.

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Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. has completed the acquisition of privately held U.K.-based Picochip Ltd., rounding out its offering as a small cell wireless technology provider.

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Transphorm Inc., a startup specializing in gallium nitride power ICs, has announced its first products, power diodes based on its patented, gallium-nitride technology rated at 600-V.

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A research team working under Andrew Flewitt at the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge has developed a novel form of hafnium oxide with a dielectric constant higher than 30.

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Seemingly putting to rest any rumored “no poaching” agreement between Silicon Valley’s tech giants, Google has hired away a senior Apple director for work on a secret project.

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