The death of longtime Micron Technology Chairman and CEO Steve Appleton could throw a kink in rumored collaboration talks between Micron and Japan's Elpida Memory and delay needed industry consolidation, with significant consequences, according to market research firm Trendforce.

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A retrospective on the career of Steve Appleton, Chairman and CEO of memory chip vendor Micron Technology, who died Friday in a plane crash.

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Broadcom integrated as many as ten discrete devices into a SiGe component to shrink the electronics needed for cellular microwave aggregation networks.

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The new CEO of IBM has had her salary doubled from $800,000 to $1.5 million according to a regulatory filing.

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With tech start-ups taking the world by storm, industry heavyweight IBM is plowing venture capital into seedling companies it believes can best solve the analytical challenges and public infrastructure problems of what it’s calling the “smarter planet”.

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ARM CEO Warren East (shown) says the U.K. processor IP vendor would consider acquiring non-volatile memory IP as a way to bolster its physical IP division.

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Panasonic, one of the Japanese electronics giants, has said that it expects to make a net loss of 780.0 billion yen (about $10.2 billion) in the fiscal year that runs to March 31, 2012.

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Sonics Inc., a licensor of interconnect IP, has announced its on-chip networks will support the processor interface (PIF) from Tensilica Inc., a licensor of DSP and application-specific processor cores.

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Microcontroller chip company Microchip Technology Inc. has reported that its fiscal third-quarter profit dropped 23.5 percent year-on-year to $77.5 million as net sales slipped back to $329.2 million, down 3.4 percent sequentially and down 10.5 percent year-over-year.

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EE Times hit the exhibition floor at DesignCon 2012 to get engineers' perspectives on whether high-tech jobs are coming back to the U.S.

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