After a worldwide search, a North Carolina microchip maker has selected Cirent Semiconductor in Orlando as the site for a $58 million initiative to develop next-generation microelectronics for the ...

Orlando microchip maker Cirent Semiconductor plans to dismiss another 100 workers as part of a major downsizing by its parent company, Agere Systems Inc. It is the second round of layoffs this month ...

Orange County’s bygone hopes of becoming an industry leader in microchip manufacturing are now a pile of rubble off South John Young Parkway. Bulldozers are razing the old Agere Systems Inc. microchip ...

PINELLAS PARK -- The gowning routine was less than debutante perfect. Giggling and muttering, high school guidance counselors struggled into white, fitted garments. With shoe covers on backwards, ...

ORLANDO -- Orange County Commissioners today approved a $1.6 million tax incentive for RF Micro Devices to start a joint venture with Cirent Semiconductor. In May, the two companies announced plans ...

ORLANDO-RF Micro Devices of Greensboro, NC, partnering with locally based Cirent Semiconductor, gets the tax rebate money from Orange County only after it has paid more than $1.6 million in local ...