London Calling: Former IBM, Globalfoundries execs rising
Report: Nikon to work with Intel to develop 450-mm wafer steppers
SAN JOSE – Samsung’s lead attorney tried to draw the conclusion that icons are by their very nature, well—iconic. The images represent basic functions all smartphones need to use, he suggested in cros ...
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 ...
SAN JOSE – As many as 13 Samsung phones use “substantially similar” icons and display screens as protected in an Apple iPhone design patent, said an expert witness testifying for Apple. Another 11 Sam ...
PARIS – As part of a a three-year project, researchers at the University of Lincoln in Great Britain said they will develop 3-D imaging technology for cancer patients receiving proton therapy. The res ...
LONDON – Mixed-signal and RF chip company MaxLinear Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.) has filed counterclaims against rival fabless chip firm Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas) in U.S. District Court in ...
Sharp LCD-based support plan is up for renegotiation
Yoshida in China: Apple falls to No.5 in China; Pearl River woes
Reports: Wafer discounts, rush orders from MediaTek, Nvidia
PARIS – As part of a a three-year project, researchers at the University of Lincoln in Great Britain said they will develop 3D imaging technology for cancer patients receiving proton therapy. The rese ...
LONDON: What a small solar system we live in. The state-owned China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Corp. Ltd. (Beijing, China) has just helped Dynex Semiconductor Ltd. (Lincoln, England) build a ...
Analyst: Apple, Samsung snagged over 100% of Q2 handset profits
MediaTek cracks top 5 in smartphone apps CPU sales
SAN JOSE – Mountains of design and legal details bubbled into frustration as Samsung attorneys tried to discredit an expert witness for Apple and the judge wrestled with attorneys.Apple attorneys aske ...
SAN FRANCISCO—The market for magnetic sensors is projected to grow by 13 percent in 2012 after surging by more than 22 percent last year, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli.Thanks to use ac ...
Either Cypress Semiconductor Corp. is practicing a siege mentality, or it is waiting for shares of Ramtron International Corp. (Nasdaq: RMTR) to sink so low that the company will have no choice but to ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Analog chip vendor Power Integrations Inc. (PI) Monday (Aug. 6) announced it would make a one time payment of $42.6 million to the U.s. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for taxes and inter ...
PORTLAND, Ore.—Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and elsewhere have embarked on an ambitious $32 million " human body-on-a-chip" research project that will us ...
WASHINGTON – Human beings are capable of great things when they work together.The engineers and scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL who designed, built and flawlessly landed the Curiosi ...
SAN JOSE – An expert witness testifying for Apple said as many as 11 Samsung phones and two tablets infringe Apple design patents.Peter W. Bressler—a consultant and teacher of industrial design who ho ...
SAN JOSE – A Samsung executive said the company had a “crisis of design” because the difference in user interfaces on the iPhone and Samsung handsets were like “Heaven and Earth.” The executive spoke ...
LONDON – Nitero Inc. (Austin, Texas), a fabless chip company with Australian roots, has announced it has begun demonstrating 60-GHz, multi-gigabit Wi-Fi ICs for mobile devices to selected companies. T ...
Yoshida in China: Leveraging one billion smart phones
Xilinx spotlights All Programmable Technology at NIWeek 2012
High-profile ex-Intel exec joins Qualcomm as new marketing chief
Samsung plans ARM-based CPU for servers, says report
SAN JOSE – ARM announced the first three members of the second generation of its Mali T600 graphics cores. The T624, 628 and 678 cores are the first to support Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression, a ...
LONDON – Market researcher Allied Business Intelligence Inc. has decided that a lack of confidence in the global economy and a past lack of investment in semiconductor manufacturing mean the chip mark ...
MANHASSET, NY -- Analog Devices, Inc. introduced a low-power, single-lead, heart-rate monitor analog front end (AFE) for a wide range of vital sign monitoring applications. The AD8232 AFE is 50 percen ...
There’s enough greatness and pettiness to go around in the cramped courtroom of Judge Lucy Koh of San Jose Federal Court where Apple and Samsung are suing each other for patent infringement.Apple dese ...
LONDON – Leading Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) has opted to take a 5 percent stake in lithography equipment maker ASML Holding NV (Veldhoven, The Netherlands) as part o ...
Smartphone projector display ready for market, says ST
WASHINGTON – The Curiosity rover has landed in the lowlands of Mars. The Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft carrying the 1-ton rover reached the surface at Gale Crater at about 1:32 a.m. eastern time ...
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SAN JOSE – Apple’s penchant for secrecy came into the spotlight in testimony in its patent infringement case Friday. Scott Forstall, Apple’s senior vice president for iOS, also talked about the genesi ...
SAN JOSE – Samsung’s attorneys suggested the late Steve Jobs saw an idea that could be useful for the iPhone in a Samsung design in the trial where Apple is seeking $2.5 billion from Samsung for infri ...
MANHASSET, N.Y. -- Electronic paper display specialist E Ink Holdings has signed a definitive agreement to buy shares of SiPix Technology, a provider of rival electrophoretic technologies. E Ink will ...
SAN JOSE – Apple’s head of marketing said he was “shocked” when he first saw Samsung’s “copycat” products of the iPhone and iPad that he said have impacted Apple’s sales. An attorney for Samsung sugge ...
SAN JOSE, Calif.--Pressures of the patent infringement battle boiled over Friday morning (Aug. 3) as Judge Lucy Koh admonished Apple and Samsung in front of the jury for deluging the court with object ...
Microchip closes SMSC deal, discusses integration plans
NEW YORK -- The recently announced CSR-Samsung deal, under which Samsung Electronics will acquire CSR’s handset connectivity/location development operations and its technology, was an easy sell to the ...
NASA engineer and media sensation Adam Steltzner is the face of the Mars Science Laboratory mission scheduled to land on the Red Planet early Monday morning (Aug. 6). So far, media attention to Stelzn ...
LONDON – Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached a three-month average of $24.38 billion in June for the month of June 2012, a decrease of 0.1 percent from the prior month when the averaged sales we ...
Wearable monitoring system for Parkinson's patients
Yoshida in China: Windfall orders from smartphones in China?
Is Synopsys helping chip making return to its roots?
LONDON – EDA software leader Synopsys Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) has agreed to purchase IC debug and verification software company SpringSoft Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) for $406 million, or approximatel ...
PARIS – It is now possible to draw and write using just eye movements, claimed France's National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).French CNRS researcher Jean Lorenceau said that subjects suff ...
Component prices plunging on economic uncertainty, says IHS