SAN JOSE – Users of Samsung products said they would pay as much as $100 extra per smartphone or tablet to get features covered in three Apple patents, according to a survey done for Apple.Users would ...
SAN JOSE – Samsung infringes a key Apple patent on scrolling and zooming in 24 of its products, said an expert testifying for Apple. Samsung also infringes a patent on using a double tap to zoom and c ...
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 – A user interface expert testifying for Apple said as many as 21 Samsung devices infringe Apple U.S. patent 7,469,381. In its $2.5 billion infringement case, Apple also introduced more inter ...
SAN JOSE – Half of consumers who viewed two Samsung handsets thought they looked like iPhones, according to a survey conducted for Apple. In a separate study six to 19 percent of consumers viewing vid ...
LONDON – Specialist foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel), which trades as TowerJazz, has said it has been shortlisted by the Indian government to run a 300-mm wafer fab to be const ...
EE Times has been all over the ongoing patent trial between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The following is a collection of stories from the trial: Apple vs. Samsung: Reading Steve Jobs&# ...
SAN JOSE -- One of the guilty pleasures of covering a multi-billion dollar patent infringement case like Apple v. Samsung is you get permission to read the emails of industry executives, including lum ...
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Researchers in Switzerland are claiming to have developed a new source-location algorithm they say could replace the brute force method of identifying national security and other thr ...
LONDON – Germany, in the form of Deutsche Telekom, is being expansive in support of developers while Finland, in the form of Nokia, is juggling its developer support technology called Qt over to a com ...
LONDON – Over the next five years the long-term growth rate for the semiconductor market is going be more than double what it has been, according to market research firm IC Insights Inc. (Scottsdale, ...
Expect further investment from China to Taiwan. Fully energized cross-strait business deals between Taiwanese and Chinese companies will be emerging on the horizon. China and Taiwan signed Thursday ...
LONDON – Intel may use internally developed resonant wireless charging to improve the attractiveness of mobile offerings based on its chips such as Intel-based ultrabooks and smartphones, according to ...
PARIS – The Toulouse-based branch of Freescale Semiconductor Inc. (Austin, Texas) has permanently closed its doors this week, affecting some 500 employees. Freescale said it will transfer manufacturin ...
LONDON – Processor IP licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) has said it continues to work with all the major EDA companies after EE Times asked about claimed improvements in performance and p ...
LONDON – Over the next five years the long-term growth rate for the semiconductor market is going be more than double what it has been, according to market research firm IC Insights Inc. (Scottsdale, ...
LONDON – July sales at foundry chip-making giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. were up 37.3 percent compared with July 2011 putting the company on course for exceptional growth in 2012. ...
LONDON – Germany, in the form of Deutsche Telekom, is being expansive in support of developers while Finland, in the form of Nokia, is juggling its developer support technology called Qt over to a com ...
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 ...
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a programming language called Halide for the implementation of multicore image processing algori ...
Editor’s note: The case study below focuses on a team that learned the hard way how to pivot and succeed by synchronizing product development with customer requirements. The author, Frank Robinson, co ...
Molex banks on acquisitions, new product wins for growth
SAN JOSE -- One of the guilty pleasures of covering a multi-billion dollar patent infringement case like Apple v. Samsung is you get permission to read the emails of industry executives, including lum ...
PARIS – Aviation safety systems can be used to help prevent complications after surgery. UK researchers said they are developing a real-time patient monitoring and risk prediction system similar to th ...
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a programming language called Halide for the implementation of multicore image processing algori ...
Inside TI's ADS1298 analog front end for health monitoring
China Daily reported this week that China will shut down about one-fifth of its rare earths production capacity under new industry rules. Analysts fear that the rules’ strict implementation could see ...
Microelectronics Olympiad backed by Synopsys, IEEE
LONDON – Processor IP licensor ARM Holdings plc and EDA software vendor Cadence Design Systems Inc. have said they have been working together to link ARM's processor optimization packages (POPs) t ...
LONDON – Foundry chip maker Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel), which trades as TowerJazz, reported second quarter financial results that were much as expected. The company made a reduce ...
PARIS – Packaged LED revenue will amount to $11.4 billion in 2012 and peak to $17 billion by 2018, according to market research firm Yole Développement (Lyon, France). In its latest report, " ...
Let's hear it for two of the guys pioneering some of the new applications for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) components, namely SiTime and WiSpry.WiSpry Inc. (Irvine, Calif.), a ten year ol ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Semico Research Corp. this week became the latest market research firm to cut its forecast for 2012 chip market growth, saying it now expects global semiconductor sales to increase 6 to ...
SAN JOSE -- Apple released late Tuesday its best evidence that Samsung has copied its patents and trade dress, a 132-page Samsung report comparing its handsets to the iPhone.The report methodically co ...
Yoshida in China: Rainstorm, restrictions on license plates affect automakers
National Instruments debuts integrated VST for RF tests
Beware technology bearing gifts; turn off the light
SAN FRANCISCO—Chinese foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) Wednesday (Aug. 8) reported a new quarterly revenue record for the second quarter, posting sales that exceeded anal ...
Replace Cirrus’ design slots in Apple? Fuhgeddaboudit!
The folks at Xilinx honored the winner of the NI LabVIEW FPGA Innovation Award last night at the Graphical System Design Achievement Awards ceremony at the Hilton Hotel during the NIWeek 2012 Worldwid ...
Synopsys launches verification IP community website
Startup works with NASA to develop low mass lighting
National Instruments debuts integrated VST for RF tests
Loss-making Peregrine prices IPO to raise $77 million
LONDON – Sales revenue at foundry United Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) bounced strongly into annual growth in July after being in negative territory for the first five months of 2012.UMC ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Tuesday (Aug. 7) promoted John Byrne, a sales executive who joined the company in 2007, to fill the vacant position of senior vice president and chief sales o ...
SAN JOSE -- One of the guilty pleasures of covering a multi-billion dollar patent infringement case like Apple v. Samsung is you get permission to read the emails of industry executives. So, go ahead ...
Analyst: Strong mobile DRAM market drove Micron's Elpida buy
SAN JOSE – A marketing expert testifying for Apple said he believes Samsung blurred and tried to copy the iPhone and iPad trade dress. Apple entered into evidence a Samsung internal report saying it n ...
WASHINGTON – NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has released the first, murky color image from its Curiosity rover showing the north wall and rim of Gale Crater, where Curiosity landed early Monday (Aug ...