BEIJING – It’s hard to argue against the widely held notion that the weaknesses of China’s fabless companies lies in their inability to go beyond the Chinese market. Put more bluntly, Chinese companie ...
BOSTON – Sponsors of the XPrize put out a hailing frequency to engineers at DESIGN East, calling for them to invent an all-in-one medical gadget like the tricorder from the sci-fi TV series Star Trek. ...
Engineering students vote for the world’s most attractive employers
LONDON – Scientists from the University of Cambridge have reported a way of making organic lasers using inkjet printing technology. The breakthrough has implications for a wide range of potential appl ...
Globalfoundries to offer 14-nm process with FinFETs in 2014
BOSTON – Microcontroller makers and software developers welcomed Intel to the embedded software party following the PC giant’s announcement of a framework for embedded middleware. They agreed with Int ...
LONDON – The war between the leading suppliers of personal electronics has escalated as Google subsidiary Motorola Mobility has asked for a ban in the United States on a broad set of products from App ...
BOSTON – Microcontroller makers and software developers welcomed Intel to the embedded software party following the PC giant’s announcement of a framework for embedded middleware. They agreed with Int ...
MANHASSET, NY -- Texas Instruments has enhanced its Miracast system for streaming digital content from mobile devices to larger screens. Today’s Miracast offering is based on OMAP 4 processors and the ...
BOSTON – Engineers need to develop a new generation of biological sensors to attack genetic causes of cancer. That’s just one of several medical conditions where electronics will play an increasing ro ...
MANHASSET, N.Y. -- DRAM and flash memory chip provider SK Hynix has joined the Sematech consortium's EMI partnership to develop metrology tools used to spot defects in advanced masks needed for ex ...
Fab lite, fewer startups to fuel doubling of IC growth rates
China Fabless: Why is GigaDevice chasing the no-growth$3 billion NOR flash market?
LONDON – After several rejections, Ramtron International Corp. (Colorado Springs, Colorado) Wednesday (Sept. 19) agreed to be acquired by Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.) for $3.10 per s ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Sean Maloney, a veteran Intel executive who is currently an executive vice president and chairman of the Intel's China subsidiary, plans to retire in January after 30 years with the ...
On Sept. 6, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos stood in front of a packed house and fired his latest shot across the bow of Apple’s battleship. It was approximately one year to the day since Amazon surprised the i ...
LONDON – The global chip market will contract by 0.5 percent in 2012 and then increase by 7.7 percent in 2013, according to market analyst Mike Cowan.Cowan has updated his linear regression analysis ( ...
London Calling: Lego supercomputer, meet Arduino mopho
LONDON – Worldwide semiconductor sales on a three-month average basis were likely $24.4 billion in August, unchanged from the $24.40 billion posted by World Semiconductor Trade Statistics organization ...
On Sept. 6, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos stood in front of a packed house and fired his latest shot across the bow of Apple’s battleship. It was approximately one year earlier that Amazon surprised the indus ...
LONDON – Intrinsyc Software International Inc. (Vancouver, British Columbia), a product development company that helps other companies develop smartphones and tablet computers, is offering an embedded ...
Kilopass details smaller memory footprint bit cell
Yoshida in China: Defending your company against short sellers
Think electronics manufacturing is on life support? Think again
Design East keynoter tells engineers to think different
FONTANA, Calif.--Technology deep dives, trackside insights, scorching heat, pictures, memories and a spectacular race that saw the season's points leader crash early and later return to the track ...
BOSTON – The Internet of Things is real, it’s in its infancy and it will be huge—there are just a few big hurdles yet to clear standards and security. That was the conclusion of three panelists spe ...
Yoshida in China: Defending your company against short sellers
Xilinx acquires Estonian wireless backhaul IP company
FONTANA, Calif.--For automotive engineers, the Formula One seriescan be like romping through a candy store with not credit limit. After all, it costs a single team about $400 million a seasonto operat ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) said Monday (Sept. 17) that its chief financial officer, Thomas Seifert announced his resignation after three years with the chip maker. Seifert's r ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Brooks Automation Inc., a provider of automation tools used in semiconductor manufacturing and other industries, said Monday (Sept. 17) it expects to cut about 150 jobs in an effort to r ...
Group takes shortcut to development of electronic brain
SAN JOSE, Calif. – PLX Technology is developing a variant of its PCI Express switches to act as a fabric for a variety of servers and network appliances. The effort is one of several proposals to expa ...
Despite the increasingly negative predictions of semiconductor forecasters, predictable change in the semiconductor industry comes from monitoring capital investment. From this, we can predict the sup ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Long Term Evolution, the next big wave in cellular networks is getting switched on around the globe. The fourth-generation network is bringing plenty of interesting changes worth tr ...
SHANGHAI, China – Spreadtrum Communications has emerged as one of China's hottest fabless companies, along with RDA Microelectronics, prompting talk here of a potential merger between the two. Fue ...
Xilinx acquires Estonian wireless backhaul IP company
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Startup Peraso Technologies Inc. (Toronto) is sampling a 60 GHz transceiver suitable for the 802.11ad and WiGig standards. The PRS1021 can deliver up to 3.52 Gbits/second over unlic ...
Microchip rolls smallest, cheapest 8-bit at DESIGN East
SAN FRANCISCO -- Ultrabooks and Intel's upcoming Haswell x86 architecture were the stars of the Intel Developer Forum. But the annual event also included updates on everything from smartphones and ...
LONDON – A tutorial presentation at the upcoming ARM TechCon exhibition and conference, taking place October 30 to November 1 in Santa Clara, will discuss the mix of challenge and opportunity repres ...
PARIS – LFoundry GmbH (Landshut, Germany) said it plans to invest 25 million euro ($32.8 million) in R&D and innovation projects at its French wafer fab, LFoundry Rousset SAS, over the next three ...
Kalray claims market traction for 256-core processor
SAN FRANCISCO--Recently at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), EE Times had the opportunity to sit down one to one with Intel’s executive vice president, David (Dadi) Perlmutter, general manager of the f ...
BEIJING – Big cities in China — even medium-sized cities in China’s flyover regions — are all hot to trot promoting high-tech science parks. They all think they’ve built the next “Silicon Valley in Ch ...
Innovations ‘borrowed, digested and re-invented’ are legit?
SAN FRANCISCO—PCs accounted for less than half the market for DRAM chips in the second quarter for the first time in about 30 years, according to IHS iSuppli. In what IHS described as another sign tha ...
The following is a regular quarterly update from market watchers at the Dell'Oro Group (Redwood City, Calif.) on key networking and telecom markets it tracks. 10 Gbit Ethernet switchingThe Etherne ...
Innovations ‘borrowed, digested and re-invented’ are legit?