Intel Corp.

ASML, a little-known company based in the Netherlands, may hold the answer to a question hanging over the global semiconductor industry: how to make chips do more while keeping them the same, compact size.

Investors shifted toward riskier stocks in the third quarter, helping push major U.S. indexes to record highs and lifting optimism that stocks’ seven-year bull run will continue despite sputtering corporate earnings.

Qualcomm is best known for designing smartphone chips—and leaving the production to others. Now, the San Diego-based company is in talks to acquire chip manufacturer NXP Semiconductors in a shift that adds substantial risks.

Qualcomm is in talks to acquire NXP Semiconductors, a deal that would likely be valued at over $30 billion and represent the latest merger in a rapidly consolidating semiconductor industry.

Major U.S. companies have pledged to offer money, technology and training worth about $650 million to address the global refugee crisis, saying the enormity of the problem requires more than government action.

Gordon Campbell, an entrepreneur who has been betting on new chip companies since the 1980s, is now backing one of his most ambitious startups yet.

Intel said veteran finance executive Bob Swan would be its next CFO, ending months of speculation about who would replace longtime finance chief Stacy Smith.

Technology pioneer John McAfee’s MGT Capital said Monday that it received a subpoena last week from the SEC.

Chip maker Intel raised its revenue forecast for the third quarter amid signs of improving demand in the personal-computer market.

Chip manufacturer Globalfoundries said it is planning a multibillion-dollar investment in an upstate New York factory, part of a novel strategy for introducing new production technology.

Microsoft and Chinese technology giant Huawei, each feeling the heat from the other’s government, have joined in producing a tech “buyers guide” aimed at shifting the global cybersecurity debate away from protectionism.

A former sales manager for LG Electronics in California filed suit against LG and Samsung Electronics, claiming the two Korean companies have an agreement not to recruit each other’s Silicon Valley employees, which has the effect of suppressing wages.