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Furthermore, National Semiconductor reported sales of $412.0 million and net income of $88.8 million, or 36 cents per diluted share, for the first quarter of fiscal 2011, which ended Aug. 29, 2010. National’s first quarter sales were 3% higher sequen- tially from the $398.5 million in sales reported in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010, and 31% higher than the $314.4 million reported in the first quarter of fiscal 2010. First quarter fiscal 2011 sales increased sequentially due primarily to demand from wire- less handset and industrial markets, the two largest markets served by National. First quarter net income of $88.8 million, or 36 cents per diluted share, was an increase from the $79.2 million, or 33 cents per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010. National reported net income of $29.8 million, or 13 cents per diluted share, in the first quarter of fiscal 2010.

In the first quarter of fiscal 2011, National’s total company bookings decreased 10% sequentially, primarily from the company’s distribution channel. However, order rates improved slightly in the quarter for analog and power management products for the personal mobile device and communications infra- structure markets.

The Company is collaborating with Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), the world’s largest producers of crystalline silicon solar panels, to deve- lop “smart panel” technology, incorporating National Semiconductor’s award-winning SolarMagic™ power optimizer chipset into Suntech solar panels to impro- ve the power output of solar systems. http://www.national.com/ultrasound

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rofessor Reza Ghadiri (Scripps Institute, CA, USA) got an award of $5.1 million, four year grant by

the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). Professor Ghadiri will collaborate with Ox- ford Nanopore Technologies Ltd founder Professor Hagan Bayley (University of Oxford, UK) and Pro- fessor Amit Meller (Boston University) on the grant, entitled “Single-Molecule DNA Sequencing with Engineered Nanopores”.

The research laboratories in the US and UK will col- laborate to research the use of biological nanopores for sequencing single stranded DNA (ssDNA), for the development of a new method of faster and chea- per DNA analysis technology. Specific projects will address enzymatic and non-enzymatic mechanisms of controlling the translocation of ssDNA through the nanopore and the accurate identification of individu- al DNA bases on the strand as it passes through the pore. Nanopore sensing can be scaled-up through the use of massively parallel array chips, where indi- vidual electronic channels correspond with individual nanopores. The NHGRI-funded programme will also include research on new types of arrays, including the insertion of protein nanopores into silicon nitride