Multicore 'string processor' firm sold to Ericsson
Foundries soar, Japanese IDMs slide in IC sales rankings
LONDON – Despite the economic calamity in Europe some governments still have good chunks of cash to back technology development.The German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is backing a projec ...
What's in a name? Plenty, says CEO of former austriamicrosystems
SAN FRANCISCO—ON Semiconductor Corp. said Thursday (Aug. 2) that Chief Financial Officer Donald Colvin will resign after the company identifies a replacement.ON Semi (Phoenix) said Colvin and the comp ...
SAN FRANCISCO—ON Semiconductor Corp. plans to cut additional jobs as part of a plan to save the company between $10 million and $15 million per year, company executives said Thursday (Aug. 2).In a con ...
SAN FRANCISCO—ON Semiconductor Corp. said Thursday (Aug. 2) that Chief Financial Officer Donald Colvin will resign after the company identifies a replacement.ON Semi (Phoenix) said Colvin and the comp ...
Yoshida in China: Is China’s manufacturing sector slowing down?
Animated characters brought to life by 3-D printing
Among nature’s tiniest and shortest-lived particles, the Higgs Boson has fame and influence extending far beyond its physical attributes. The search for this particle has brought together huge numbers ...
LONDON – Struggling Japanese chip firm Renesas Electronics Corp. has forecast it will make a net loss of 150 billion yen (about $1.91 billion) driven by restructuring costs for the fiscal year ending ...
LONDON – The price of shares in mobile phone company Nokia Oy was volatile amid heavy trading on Wednesday amid rumors that the company might be bought by Chinese computer maker Lenovo. "This mus ...
LONDON – Intel likes MEMS and gesture recognition it seems. Movea SA (Grenoble, France) has raised 6.5 million euro (about $8 million) in a funding round led by Intel Capital, joined by existing inves ...
PARIS – Japan's Sharp Corp. reported a significantly wider fiscal first quarter loss and unveiled its intention to cut 5,000 jobs by the end of March 2013. This will be the company's first per ...
SAN FRANCISCO— Al Schuele, a venture capitalist and former semiconductor industry executive, was appointed chairman of the board of directors of Cirrus Logic Inc., the company said Wednesday (Aug. 1). ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Semiconductor stocks are showing surprising strength in spite of difficult global macroeconomic conditions, thanks to lower than expected estimate declines by chip firms and Wall Street, ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission has approved MediaTek Inc.'s proposal to acquire up to 48 percent of rival MStar Semiconductor Inc., saying the combination would not hamper market ...
SAN JOSE – Fusion-io is shipping its Ion Data Accelerator, software to enable it flash memory cards on a server to act as a storage networking array or appliance. The code opens up a new front in comp ...
LONDON – Fabless networking chip firm Cavium Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) has announced that it is planning to deliver a family of multicore system-chips based on full custom cores designed to implement th ...
SAN JOSE – Samsung sketched the outlines of its countersuit case against Apple in opening statements here Tuesday. The Korean giant showed prior art on all the patents Apple claims it infringes and de ...
WASHINGTON – When engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) realized they had to start from scratch in order to safely land a Mini Cooper-sized rover on the surface of Mars, they realized si ...
Startup raises $30 million to bring MRAM to market
LONDON – Audio and MEMS mixed-signal chip company Wolfson Microelectronics plc (Edinburgh, Scotland) has announced a reduction in its net loss in the second quarter as it has increased its sales reven ...
AMD recruits Apple processor guru as chief chip architect
LONDON – Mesuro Ltd. (Cardiff, Wales), a startup RF test company founded in 2008 as a spin off from Cardiff University, has announced it has raised £700,000 (about $1.1 million) in a funding roun ...
Smart energy interoperability consortium formally incorporated
LONDON – Japan has revived plans for a mobile equipment chip joint venture but has come up with something smaller and less ambitious than a previous plan that was cancelled earlier this year.NTT Docom ...
SAN FRANCISCO—China's antitrust regulatory body rubber stamped Microchip Technology Inc.'s $939 million acquisition of Standard Microsystems Corp. (SMSC), clearing the way for the deal to clos ...
SAN JOSE – A 17-year veteran of Apple’s small but powerful industrial design team provided a glimpse of the design process at Apple in the first testimony of the company’s patent infringement case aga ...
SUNNYVALE, CALIF.--Memory maker Spansion, which reported strong second-quarter earnings today, has an "aggressive" roadmap to boost its product-introduction rate and break its latest design- ...
LONDON – Peter Bauer, is CEO of Infineon Technologies AG (Munich, Germany) until the end of the fourth fiscal quarter on September 30, 2012. He has been one of the more successful chip company CEOs on ...
SAN JOSE – The Apple v. Samsung case now starting here has already raised two broad questions: What’s the line between aggressive benchmarking and copying of a competitor’s product? And what’s the lin ...
Indian firm launches $125 MIPS-based Android 4.1 tablet
Toshiba to commence volume production of white LEDs
LONDON – Mayim Bialik, the Emmy-nominated actress who plays neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler on the television show The Big Bang Theory, is going to be doing teaching gigs at schools as part of workin ...
ARM microcontroller, IoT exam coming early in 2013
LONDON – Fiscal Q3 sales at chip maker Infineon Technologies AG (Munich, Germany) were slightly ahead of previous guidance but the company confirmed its outlook that the fiscal Q4 (calendar Q3) wou ...
NEW YORK – With almost 60 percent of its business is coming from a single customer – in this case Apple, Inc., it’s not quite kosher to call Cirrus Logic an independent fabless chip company any more. ...
SAN JOSE – It's Gold Rush time in California again thanks to VMWare’s proposed $1.26 billion acquisition of Nicira Inc., a startup pioneering software-defined networking. There’s no doubt there’s ...
SAN FRANCISCO—EDA and IP vendor Synopsys Inc. said Monday (July 30) it completed the acquisition of EDA tool vendor Ciranova Inc. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.Ciranova, founded in 2003, ...
Analog sector to post modest sales growth, boost 300mm production
In-Q-Tel, the investment wing of the Central Intelligence Agency, has entered into a partnership with Lime Microsystems Ltd. to develop transceiver technology.In-Q-Tel usually secures its partnerships ...
LONDON – Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has regained the lead in the smartphone market in 2Q12, six month after losing out to Apple, according to market research firm IHS-iSuppli (El Segundo, Calif.).Sa ...
Analog sector to post modest sales growth, boost 300mm production
SAN FRANCISCO—Apple Inc. has signed a merger agreement to acquire AuthenTec Inc., a provider of fingerprint ICs, sensors and software for security, for about $356 million, according to a regulatory fi ...
LONDON – Foundry chip maker United Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) has announced that it is offering a private equity placement for up to 10 percent of the company. There has been speculation ...
MANHASSET, NY -- Rohde & Schwarz will take over the sales of anechoic chambers and shielded rooms from the Albatross Projects Group in the U.S. and Canada.The two companies have globally collabora ...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- The demise of the automobile has been greatly exaggerated thanks in large part to engineering innovations by automotive electronics companies.The auto market has been revived th ...
Wireless is bright sector in slow chip market, says IHS
LONDON – Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has announced the integration of a 3G HSPA radio frequency transceiver with power amplifiers on a single 65-nm die.The company did not say where the chip is ...