IBM researchers and university partners aim to build low-power-consumption and compact-sized computing systems that they expect will simulate and emulate the brain’s abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction, and cognition. Initial research will focus on demonstrating nanoscale, low-power synapse-like devices, with the long-term mission to demonstrate low-power, compact cognitive computers that approach mammalian-scale intelligence.

ST will work with MIT's Microsystems Industrial Group on ultra-low-power electronics, sensor systems, and medical electronics.

Following on the heels of Applied Materials' and KLA-Tencor's layoffs, wafer fabrication equipment provider Lam Research says it will trim 15% of its total workforce.

The electronics supply chain company will lead investment and lobbying initiatives to reduce the health and environmental impact of electronic-waste recycling.