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Wake Up, You Wall Street Journal Guys!

It’s very odd to see the Wall Street Journal today complaining about the EC’s application of anti-trust law to Intel. After all the WSJ is the organ of American business, and America pretty much invented modern anti-trust law with the Sherman Act of 1890.

Cyan raises £5.3m to fund Chinese ambitions

UK fabless semiconductor firm Cyan has raised £5.3m after a share placing of 53,300,000 new ordinary shares at 10 pence per share. The company said it intends to use the money as working capital. The firm is still focusing on the Chinese market where it believes there is an opportunity in the domestic market. The firm said it would develop ...

Talk to us – Union tells Freescale at East Kilbride

Union officials have been unable to talk to the management at the Freescale Semiconductor fab in East Kilbride over three weeks after the firm said it would try and sell the facility. A union representative for the Transport and General Worker’s Union – currently merging with Amicus to form Unite – said it was not easy to get to talk with private ...

Anti-Competitive? What Me, M’Lud? Asks Intel

It looks as if Intel will be adopting the ‘there seems to have been a bit of a misunderstanding M’lud’ defence to the EC’s charges against it, with Intel’s lawyer saying that it was ‘a failure of logic’ to suggest that payments made to allegedly delay launches of AMD-based products were part of any kind of anti-AMD activity.