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The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. has booted a handful of underperforming technology stocks from its Nasdaq-100 Index, replacing them with retail and logistics stocks among others, in a move that reflects the sagging state of the industry.

The name may not be glamorous, but the IBM Embedded Security Subsystem meets a need that's long been met poorly, if at all. For many, the risk that critical data on the hard drives of PCs and laptops can be stolen or tampered with is just something they had to live with. Laptops can disappear at airport security checkpoints. Trojan horses can sniff out passwords and steal security keys. Unauthorized users can snoop.

In the latest twist in the semiconductor memory patent infringement battle, U.S. semiconductor company Atmel Corp. said Thursday that customs authorities in the U.S. had blocked imports of chips said to be infringing on one of its patents, while Japan's Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd., which has seen shipments of its chips halted, maintained they do not infringe the patents under question.

Atmel scores Siemens' chip plant, Laptops cut cords, Baltimore secures PDAs

SAN FRANCISCO (09/18/2000) - Queen Elizabeth II presided over Siemens AG's opening of a northeast England semiconductor plant in 1997, but even the presence of royalty couldn't guarantee future success for the operation. Just two years after its official unveiling, Siemens said Monday it would sell the North Tyneside plant to Atmel Corp. as part of an extended partnership between the two companies.

Japan's Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has licensed from ARM Ltd. the company's ARM7TDMI-S RISC (reduced instruction set computer) microprocessor core for use in future digital consumer electronics chips, U.K.-based ARM said yesterday.