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Hot Off Wire: Texas Instruments income jumps; Juniper stock gets upgrade; Ex-Starent exec joins Infinera board

Semiconductor Research Corp. launches $5M clean energy program

IBM, energy giant ABB and five other firms provide financial support for new Energy Research Initiative by RTP-based private sector and university consortium.

Intel, FTC are in talks to settle antitrust case

Updated timeline tracks Intel's antitrust tangles over the years.

Hot off Wire: Google, Apple battle over mobile ads; TiVo loses a patent battle; Samsung to invest $3.6B in Texas plant

IBM partners to form new open source semicondcutor venture

The not-for-profit company, called Linaro, will focus on open source projects. Other partners include ARM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson, Texas Instruments and ARM.

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Record chip sales signal continuing high-tech sector rebound

First-quarter semiconductor sales soar 58 percent higher than a year ago, Semiconductor Industry Association reports. “Variety of market segments” show growth, SIA says. Group projects double-digit growth this year.

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Semiconductor firm Nitronex raises more than $16M

The company, which focuses on high-speed wireless and broadband technology for use in missile defense, radar and other applications, also is stepping up its sales efforts.

Semiconductor Research Corp. invests in new chip research center

University of North Texas will host semiconductor center that will focus on chips using plasma technology. Three-year commitment tops $2.5 million.

Nano-scale imaging of a chip

How truly safe are PCs? Key encryption chip is hacked

"You've trusted this chip to hold your secrets, but your secrets aren't that safe," says Christopher Tarnovsky, 38, who runs the Flylogic security consultancy and demonstrated his hack last week at the Black Hat security conference. "It's sort of doing the impossible," says conference founder.

Chris Tarnovsky does the "impossible" hack. (AP)