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Sharp enters blue laser mass production Sharp has tossed its hat into the blue laser ring as the second supplier of the diode, following Nichia. Sharp has already begun supplying the diodes to an undisclosed customer. Indian semi industry creating more IP, report says India's semiconductor and embedded design industries have not to date created a significant amount of intellectual property (IP). But that is changing as overseas companies use their R&D centers in India to develop IP either as a by-product of a specific project or purposely to feed their global IP portfolio, according to a new report. Study: many high-tech start-ups have immigrant founders Around 31% of VC-funded firms had founders who came to the U.S. as "employment-sponsored immigrants" in programs like the H-1B vasa program. Korean group to light up AC LED sector South Korea's leading supplier of LEDs, Seoul Semiconductor, has invested $40 million to bring on line volume production of a new kind of LED it has invented that can be directly connected to 110V or 220V AC outlets using a simple circuit, eliminating the need for a DC converter. EDAC panel to probe business in India the EDA Consortium (EDAC) and Silicon Valley Bank are co-sponsoring a panel on "How to do business in India" Tuesday, Nov. 28. Blue laser shortfall cools PS3 debut The PS3 won't be a runaway hit this holiday season, for one reason: Set back by production problems for the blue-laser diodes used in the consoles' optical disk system, Sony cannot deliver enough of them. CDT extends range of passive matrix OLED displays Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) has revealed details of a driving technology that promises to extend the viability of passive matrix OLED displays. Chip startup formed to address mobile phone problem Two entrepreneurs at the University of Bath in