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2-Year Plan to Focus on Leading-Edge Technologies
WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 10, 2009 – Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini today announced the company would spend $7 billion over the next two years to build advanced manufacturing facilities in the United States. The investment funds deployment of Intel’s industry-leading 32 nanometer (nm) manufacturing technology that will be used to build faster, smaller chips that consume less energy.
The commitment represents Intel’s largest-ever investment for a new manufacturing process.
“We’re investing in America to keep Intel and our nation at the forefront of innovation,” …

Sony Corporation today announced that it plans to invest approximately 22 billion yen to strengthen middle and large size OLED (organic light-emitting diode) panel production technology. With this investment, Sony intends to accelerate the shift to middle and large size, high image quality OLED panels.
Sony began researching OLED technology in 1994, and has since positioned OLED as a future next-generation display technology. In December 2007, Sony launched the world’s first OLED TV, “XEL-1” in Japan, incorporating Sony’s proprietary “Organic Panel” to realize extreme thinness and superb image quality through a …

GOOGLE Inc, the world’s top Internet search company, plans to invest in the world’s biggest server farm, which could be located in Malaysia, India or Vietnam, sources said.
A server farm is a cluster of server computers, or powerful computers, that store vast amounts of data. The data are shared between people via personal computers over a common network like the Internet.
“It will be very major for Malaysia. The investment could run into a few hundred million ringgit,” said a source.
Winning this investment will be a major coup for any country, …