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SAN FRANCISCO – Advanced Micro Devices took the first small step toward making its Freedom Fabric an interconnect of choice for linking server processors. AMD’s SeaMicro group announced Intel- and AMD ...
Researchers claim semiconductors grown on graphene
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Apple is expected to launch its iPhone 5 this week, sporting a custom quad-core processor, LTE, an upgraded image sensor and a new, smaller connector. Pundits debate whether the new ...
Build the lab and they will come – and stand in line. Put the lab online and students can carry out experiments anywhere. That’s the basic premise behind the “Lab-in-a-box” model Virginia Tech develop ...
LONDON – Kalray SA, fabless chip company that developed the MPPA multicored processor family for embedded applications, has announced it is now providing samples of its 28-nm MPPA-256 chip, which incl ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Intel Corp. is not providing details, but it has disclosed plans that confirm industry speculation of recent weeks: The x86 giant is developing a next-generation interconnect it wil ...
LONDON – Audience Inc., a supplier of audio processing ICs and intellectual property, said Apple is unlikely to "enable" Audience's IP in its next generation iPhone 5, which is expected ...
SAN FRANCISCO— Ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) vendor Ramtron International Corp. said Monday (Sept. 10) that its board of directors once again rejected an unsolicited takeover offer from Cy ...
SHANGHAI, China – Last week, while serious citizens in the United States were watching the Democratic National Convention unfold, I was in Shenzhen. But I was able to catch up with a few convention sp ...
LONDON – Texas Instruments Inc. retained its position in 2011 as the leading manufacturer of power management ICs, according to a ranking produced by market researcher IHS.TI increased its sales of po ...
LONDON – Raspberry Pi, the credit card sized single-board computer developed in Cambridge, England, by the not-for-profit Raspberry Pi Foundation is going to be manufactured in the U.K.Premier Farnell ...
LONDON – Texas Instruments Inc. retained its position in 2011 as the leading manufacturer of power management ICs, according to a ranking produced by market research firm IHS.TI increased its sales of ...
LONDON – Foundry chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is planning to set capital expenditure for 2013 at $10 billion, up from about $8.25 billion in 2012, according to reports that referen ...
LONDON – August sales at foundry chip-making giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. were up 32.0 percent compared with August 2011, prompting the company to say Q3 sales will likely be ahea ...
SHENZHEN, China – Will China ever create an enterprise comparable in size, creativity and impact to Texas Instruments?So far, it hasn't come close. For now, there’s not much chance it will.With su ...
SHANGHAI, China – Last week while serious citizens in the United States were watching the Democratic National Convention unfold, I was in Shenzhen. But I was able to catch up with a few convention spe ...
Shenzhen, CHINA – Will China ever create an enterprise comparable in size, creativity and impact to Texas Instruments?Well, the Chinese haven’t come close yet. And, for the immediate future, there’s n ...
Shenzhen, CHINA – Will China ever create an enterprise comparable in size, creativity and impact to Texas Instruments?Well, the Chinese haven’t come close yet. And, for the immediate future, there’s n ...
German research project aims to improve energy distribution in smart grid
Automotive infotainment system shipments to hit over 50 million by 2017
Networked cars are opening new opportunities to automotive value chain
Subscriptions to cloud storage services to reach half-billion level this year, says IHS iSuppli
Broadcom has added Community Wi-Fi software to its latest cable set top box chip to allow network operators to set up Wi-Fi hot spots without adding additional infrastructure.The company is porting th ...
LONDON – Intel Corp. has lowered its forecast for its third quarter revenue and said that it will reduce capital spending for 2012 below the previous minimum estimate of $12.1 billion. In a statement ...
LONDON – Sales revenue at United Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) continued to climb in August, following a trend that has continued for several months and that is starting to indicate that th ...
Engineers aren't using social networking for work: survey
SAN JOSE, Calif. – The storage industry has just started to harvest opportunities in non-volatile memory, and there may be an opening for a new play in open source. Those were just two observations du ...
LONDON – Taiwanese DRAM maker Nanya Technology Corp. has received about $200 million in backing from parent Formosa Plastics Group including a $27 million equity investment from Integrated Silicon Sol ...
Emerging wideband power line communication (PLC) networks are pushing transmit frequencies through 50 MHz today and soon through 100 MHz carriers. In PLC networks, the line driver not only delivers ...
LONDON – Apple Inc. has reduced its order with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for memory ICs for its forthcoming model of iPhone, according to a Reuters report that referenced an unnamed source.Samsung ...
High-performance gyros to reach $1.66B in 2017, says Yole
LONDON – Just six weeks after Toshiba Corp. announced it was cutting its production of NAND flash chips by about 30 percent due to market oversupply and chip price concerns, a maker of solid-state dri ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – By 2027, mobile devices will sport all-digital radios and Gbit/second cellular modems powered by 16-core apps processors running at 5 GHz. That’s just one of several predictions Bro ...
On the move, Curiosity preps for ‘contact science’
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Quanta QCT will use Intel’s upcoming Atom-based Centerton processors in a microserver that ship by the end of the year. The server designer is the second company to say it will use ...
A long time ago a company made desktop surface profiling machines and sold its machines for thousands of British pounds. One reason is that the manufacturer added many pounds.I once visited a U.K. dis ...
LONDON – Holding company Xtrion (Tessenderloo, Belgium), majority owner of X-Fab Silicon Foundries, has led an investment round of $2.6 million in MEMS energy harvest company MicroGen Systems Inc. (It ...
Microinverters, power optimizers to grow by 70% in 2012
LONDON – Total fab spending is set to expand by 16.7 percent in 2013 to reach a record high of $42.7 billion, according to industry trade group SEMI. Fab spending is also set to head east as a cycle o ...
LONDON – Japan's troubled Sharp Corp. has mortgaged nearly all of its domestic factories and offices, including one making liquid crystal displays for Apple products, to secure loans, according to ...
Power amplifier specialist Nujira snags another $12M in funding
LONDON – Foundry United Microelectronics Corp. and STMicroelectronics NV have announced a collaborative effort to develop a 65-nm CMOS image sensor processor that supports back-side illumination, whic ...
LONDON – TSMC Solar Ltd. (Taichung, Taiwan) has announced that it has made solar conversion modules based on copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) technology with an efficiency of 14.2 percent. The mo ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – By 2027, mobile devices will sport all-digital radios and Gbit/second cellular modems powered by 16-core apps processors running at 5 GHz. That’s just one of several predictions Bro ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Next week's Intel Developer Forum is shaping up as the next front in the battle over who will own the cloud and who will own the mobile client.During IDF in San Francisco, Intel ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – QLogic will ship early next year versions of its network adapters that aim to manage and simplify use of non-volatile memory caches in servers. The Mt. Ranier adapters mark the netw ...
SAN FRANCISCO—China's Lenovo Group Ltd., the world's second largest PC maker, will acquire Brazil's largest PC and consumer electronics vendor in a cash and stock deal worth about $147 mil ...
I’ve never been shot at. Braver men than I faced that every day. But for 18 months, I saw weapons of war take off every day with bombs hanging under the wings. It never really hit home until the day s ...
VeriSilicon touts shift from fab lite to design lite