MANHASSET, NY -- Electronics manufacturing operations with a total value of at least $2.5 billion are expected to be brought to North America in the next three years with companies citing quality cont ...
Oracle releases Java SE 7 Update 6, expands OS support to Mac OS X, Linux JavaFX
WASHINGTON – The Curiosity rover now gearing up to explore a 96-mile-wide crater on Mars is by far the most complex machine ever to explore the surface of another planet. One big reason is the rover’s ...
camenzind obitSAN FRANCISCO--Hans Camenzind, the Swiss emigre analog guru whoinvented one of the most successful circuits in electronics historyand introduced the concept of phase-locked loop to IC de ...
LONDON – Toshiba Corp. has cancelled plans to sell computers that run the Windows RT operating system from Microsoft Corp. and that are based on an ARM-based processor, due to delays in getting adequa ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – At the peak of work on Samsung’s first Galaxy smartphones, the team of about 300 designers spent three months together in Seoul sleeping as little as two hours a night. A senior use ...
Yoshida in China: If not China, there is always Indonesia
NEW YORK -- Analog chip companies are firing up their stock repurchase programs in an effort to increase shareholder value and boost the market’s long-term confidence in their financial viability. E ...
SAN JOSE – Another day in court and another couple Wows!It turns out serial entrepreneur Tim A. Williams--a founder of hot startups such as Atheros, SiBeam, BeeCube back in the day—was the witness Int ...
There’s been a lot written here and elsewhere in the last several years about the critical need to revive U.S. manufacturing. But it remains unclear precisely what a manufacturing revival would mean f ...
SAN JOSE – Google demanded Samsung change the design of an early Galaxy Tab so it would not look so much like the Apple iPad, according to a Samsung email. (More on this later including excepts from t ...
SAN JOSE – A former senior technologist from Texas Instruments testifying for Samsung said three design patents on the iPhone and iPad are invalid. He cited Japan and Korea patents as well as a Hewlet ...
LONDON – The mobile phone industry shipped fewer phones in the second quarter than it did a year before due to a mixture of macro-economic woe and deferred indulgence, according to market analyst Gart ...
In the second quarter of 2012 the top ten mobile phone companies by shipment volumes were: 1. Samsung 2. Nokia 3. Apple 4. ZTE 5. LG Electronics 6. Huawei 7. TCL Communications 8. HTC 9. Motorola 10. ...
LONDON – Semiconductor industry consortium Sematech has announced it has made significant defect reductions in mask blanks for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, a step towards enabling high volum ...
SAN JOSE – A former senior technologist from Texas Instruments testifying for Samsung said three design patents on the iPhone and iPad are invalid. He cited Japan and Korea patents as well as a Hewlet ...
SAN JOSE – Intel made a surprise appearance at the Apple vs. Samsung patent infringement case Tuesday morning, asking the judge to throw out an expert witness for Samsung who had looked at Intel sourc ...
MADISON, Wisc. -- Micron Technology’s planned takeover of Japan’s failed chip maker Elpida Memory has hit a snag.A group of Elpida’s bondholders filed their own restructuring plan on Tuesday (Aug. 14) ...
SAN JOSE – Attorneys for Apple and Samsung pointed fingers suggesting the other is playing games behind the scenes at their $2.5 billion patent infringement trial here. Charges flew after the jury was ...
Yoshida in China: Spreadtrum sees higher volumes, lower profits
SAN JOSE – The Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium released to its members an initial draft of interface specifications for its 3-D DRAM memory stack. The group is now in final review of the specs with plan ...
PORTLAND, Ore. – As smart touchscreen devices shrink in price and size, MEMS motions sensors must keep pace. To that end, Freescale Semiconductor recently introduced a smaller, cheaper MEMS device the ...
Yoshida in China: Smartphone craze catches vendors off guard
SAN JOSE – Apple shipped 17 million iPads in the second quarter, increasing its share of the new category to 70 percent, according to figures from IHS iSuppli. Apple was followed distantly by Samsung, ...
MANHASSET, NY -- The Chinese lithium-ion battery market will nearly double to $9.2 billion in 2016, as volumes grow 129 percent to 44.3 GWh. The impressive growth will occur despite demand for emergin ...
LONDON – Efficient Power Conversion Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.), a 2007 gallium nitride power transistor startup, has announced that wireless charging startup WiTricity Corp. has demonstrated wireless ...
SAN JOSE – The Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium released to its members an initial draft of interface specifications for its 3-D flash memory stack. The group is now in final review of the specs with pla ...
MANHASSET, NY -- City Labs, Inc.(Miami) recebtly has been granted a product regulatory general license to manufacture, sell, and distribute its NanoTritium betavoltaic power sources which conta ...
The use of LEDs for lighting is hitting the news fast and furiously now. The general lighting application is set to grow rapidly to become more than 50 percent of the demand for LEDs within just two o ...
SAN JOSE – Startup Skyera Inc. debuts its first product today, a flash-based storage appliance for business networks it claims will rival prices of some hard-disk arrays. It claims its SkyHawk system ...
WASHINGTON -- A clarion call from the National Research Council this week to revive the nation’s ability to design and make products based on optics and photonics technology inexplicably buries a crit ...
MADISON, Wisc. -- When Sharp Corp. announced in March its partnership with Hon Hai (also known as Foxconn), the world’s largest contract manufacturer, the decision by Japan’s leading LCD maker generat ...
National effort needed to maintain optics-technology leadership: report
Bluetooth and ZigBee on collision course in the connected home
Fraunhofer Institute for Communication Systems ESK develops smart wireless power outlets
Philips and Daintree highlight ZigBee for wireless lighting controls
Cloud computing to boost global memory IC market, says GBI Research
WASHINGTON – Mission planners were expected to complete a software update on Monday (Aug. 13) that will ready the Mars rover Curiosity to begin exploring its Gale Crater landing site with it robotic a ...
You gotta hand it to National Instruments for promoting and leveraging their products globally in all possible applications where signals need control and have to be measured. At its annual Graphi ...
You gotta hand it to National Instruments for promoting and leveraging their products globally in all possible applications where signals need control and have to be measured. At its annual Graphi ...
LONDON – Tokyo Electron Ltd., a leading supplier of IC and display production equipment, has agreed to buy FSI International Inc. (Chaska, Minn.) for $252.5 million.FSI is a supplier of wafer cleaning ...
Yoshida in China: Spreadtrum sees higher volumes, lower profits
LONDON – IP licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) and foundry chip maker GlobalFoundries Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.) have announced they have signed a multi-year agreement to work together to opt ...
LONDON – Motorola Mobility, the mobile phone company acquired by Google in May 2012 for $12.5 billion, has reportedly notified staff that it plans to cut 20 percent of jobs and close one third of its ...
LONDON – Two leading manufacturers of light-emitting diodes, Samsung and Osram, have settled patent differences and have been granted a joint-motion to end an investigation before the U.S. Internation ...
LONDON – Researchers from IBM Research and the university ETH, both based in Zurich, have reported the observation of a persistent spin helix in a semiconductor, which they claim could have implicatio ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Google Inc.'s Nexus 7 tablet is not a less expensive alternative to Apple Inc.'s iPad, but the best realization yet of a tablet with the potential to tap the millions of Android ...
Let’s call a spade a spade: Research-in-Motion’s latest consumer electronic release, the Blackberry Playbook LTE, is highly unlikely to reverse the current tide of negativity that comes with any news ...
SAN JOSE – Apple warned Samsung in a detailed August 2010 presentation it was violating iPhone and iPad patents. In a separate October 2010 presentation, it offered to license its patents at a rate of ...
SAN JOSE – Apple warned Samsung in a detailed August 2010 presentation it was violating iPhone and iPad patents. In a separate October 2010 presentation, it offered to license its patents at a rate of ...