Analyst: Only six chip firms to expand capex in 2012
Analyst: Only six chip firms to expand capex in 2012
Does the math add up for RedMere + Fresco = Spectra7?
Does the math add up for RedMere + Fresco = Spectra7?
Sales, profits falling at ASML, but outlook steady
Sales, profits falling at ASML, but outlook steady
Startup debuts e-paper for signage
PORTLAND, Ore.—Altierre Corp. Wednesday (July 18) debuted a new e-paper for signage applications, offering customers the opportunity to take advantage of wireless updates using Altierre's E-Paper ...
Micron claims first high-volume production of PCM
SAN FRANCISCO—Claiming to offer the first phase change memory (PCM) in high-volume production, U.S. memory chip vendor Micron Technology Inc. Tuesday (July 17) announced the availability of a 45-nm mu ...
Former Intel exec Gelsinger named CEO of VMware
SAN FRANCISCO—Pat Gelsinger, a longtime Intel Corp. executive who has been president and chief operating officer at EMC Corp. since 2009, was appointed CEO of virtualization software vendor VMware Inc ...
40G passive optical networks take shape
SAN JOSE –The Full Service Access Network, an alliance of about 85 telecom providers and their vendors, picked a technical proposal for 40 Gbit/second passive optical networks. The group is hammering ...
ST-Ericsson grows revenue, net losses
SAN JOSE – Mobile chip designer ST-Ericsson grew revenues but failed to shave net losses in its most recent financial quarter. The troubled company--just three months into a makeover--predicted flat s ...
Intel cuts 2012 sales target
2012-07-18 06:00:59Intel cuts 2012 sales target
SAN FRANCISCO—Intel Corp. Tuesday (July 17) cut its target for 2012 sales growth, citing macroeconomic uncertainty and reduced projections for consumer spending in the second half of the year.Intel (S ...
DRAM pricing strengthens as inventories fall
SAN FRANCISCO—DRAM pricing is set to increase as inventory levels fall relative to demand, according to a new report from market research firm IHS iSuppli. IHS's weeks of inventory DRAM index, whi ...
TI preps Keystone II as server coprocessor
SAN JOSE – Texas Instruments is moving its line of Keystone II SoCs beyond cellular base stations to target coprocessing jobs in servers. However, TI does not plan to deliver members of the family aim ...
Chip sales likely slowed in June, says analyst
SAN FRANCISCO—Worldwide semiconductor sales on a three-month average basis were likely about $24.55 billion in June, up slightly from $24.4 billion in May, but down from May on a seasonally adjusted b ...
Startups to merge to form new analog chip venture
SAN FRANCISCO—A pair of privately held chip startups that have taken more than $80 million in venture funding combined to date announced Tuesday (July 17) they would merge with a holding company to cr ...
Atomic Rules – OK?
2012-07-17 23:01:53Atomic Rules – OK?
I just received an email from Shepard "Shep" Siegel, who is the founder and CTO of Atomic Rules. Shep started off by saying "EE Times probably won’t run this on the cover, but we are ju ...
DSP chip makes mobile sound louder
An audio DSP chip from NXP Semiconductor NV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) is able to boost the output power of small speakers used in smartphones and tablet computers by a factor of five while still pr ...
6-axis MEMS chip gets motion engine
PORTLAND, Ore. – The volume of STMicroelectronics’ latest 6-axis MEMS chip has been halved and the device adds programmable motion sensing engines. ST’s iNEMO inertial module, the LSM330, combines a 3 ...
Student proposes C60-based molecular transistor
Elad Mentovich, a Ph.D. student at Tel Aviv University, has made a vertical transistor based on a single carbon-60 molecule that he reckons could be the basis for both a logic transistor and a memory ...
LG, Samsung execs charged with OLED theft
Researchers at Samsung Electronics and board members at LG Display have been charged over the theft of organic light emitting diode (OLED) display technology, according to local reports.Information re ...
Samsung acquires CSR's mobile business
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has agreed to pay CSR plc (Cambridge, England) $310 million for its handset connectivity and location operations and the associated technology. Samsung has also agreed to ...
Marissa Mayer named Yahoo CEO
Marissa Mayer has been named CEO of Yahoo Inc. after 13 years at Google Inc., where she served as one of the top executives on the search company’s management team. Employee number 20 and the first fe
EDA firm gets funding after nine years
EDA firm gets funding from Russia after nine years
How Samsung stole Apple’s lead
SAN JOSE – Smartphones are headed for the big screen and Samsung, not Apple, set the trend. Samsung’s Galaxy Note and S3 handsets foreshadow what I expect to be the next important element in smartphon ...
Agilent acquires AT4 for LTE wireless testing
MANHASSET, NY -- Agilent Technologies Inc. and AT4 wireless have signed a definitive agreement for Agilent to acquire the assets of AT4 wireless’ Test Systems business. Privately held AT4 wireless (Ma ...
Energy Micro opens design center in Kraków, Poland
Energy Micro opens design center in Kraków, Poland
Maxim sensor strategy targets analog integration
NEW YORK -- Maxim Integrated Products is attempting to take analog integration to a new level by combining up to seven sensors in a tiny 2 x 2 mm optical package. According to one analyst, the move is ...
Tablets to outsell notebooks in 2016, says analyst
Tablets to outsell notebooks in 2016, says analyst
Ecosystem emerges around new mobile chip tech
SAN FRANCISCO – A consortium touting fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI) technology for mobile computing applications presented a united front this week in promoting the process technology as ...
EDA firm gets funding from Russia after nine years
EDA firm gets funding from Russia after nine years
France considers Internet tax, says report
LONDON – The French government is considering ways to tax Internet based companies that contrive to sell products and services in France without paying much to the government there by way of taxes, ac ...
Heliatek preps OPV production, seeks more funds
LONDON – Heliatek GmbH, a 2006 startup company pioneering the development and manufacture of flexible, organic photovoltaic cells, is about to begin production of the first such products at its Dresde ...
Hot Chips debuts new x86, Power, Sparc chips
SAN JOSE – Engineers will get the first look inside new x86, Power and Sparc microprocessors at the Hot Chips conference next month. The event will cast a wide net that includes chips for cellular bas ...
Whatever happened
2012-07-14 04:01:04Whatever happened
The free market and many other natural systems are supposedly about the survival of the fittest. The survival of the best companies, the success of the best products, the best processors and ICs, and ...
evolvable hardware
2012-07-14 04:00:46evolvable hardware
The free market and many other natural systems are supposedly about the survival of the fittest. The survival of the best companies, the success of the best products, the best processors and ICs, and ...
Microsemi completes impressive FPGA reliability testing
Microsemi completes impressive FPGA reliability testing
Investigators zeroing in on China’s ZTE, Huawei
NEW YORK – With multiple investigations already underway in the U.S. and Europe targeting illegal sales to Iran by Chinese telecom giants ZTE and Huawei, reports surfaced in Friday (July 13) that the ...
Irish microLED startup gains Canadian cash
LONDON – ScienceWorks Ventures plc has announced that its subsidiary company InfiniLED Ltd. has closed a first round of funding from IL Investment Group (Quebec, Ontario).InfiniLED (Cork, Ireland) is ...
Will GlobalFoundries buy IBM chip business
Will GlobalFoundries Inc. or some other manifestation of the oil-rich state of Abu Dhabi, be buying the chip R&D and business interests of IBM any time soon? And what would be the price?Future Hor ...
European role in wafer transition at risk, says analyst
Europe's role in next-gen wafer at risk, says analyst
Analyst lowers 2012 chip market growth forecast
LONDON – The global market for semiconductors will grow by 4 percent in 2012, according to market research company Future Horizons Ltd. (Sevenoaks, England). Malcolm Penn, CEO of the company, announce ...
Xilinx CTO: Focus on what matters to customers
SAN FRANCISCO—The value of Moore's Law—the doubling of the number of transistors in a chip every 18 months—is not just in the cost reduction it offers but more importantly in the added value that ...
Six-axis MEMS sets new size/power low
PORTLAND, Ore.—The latest six-axis MEMS combo chip combining a three-axis accelerometer and three-axis gyroscope from Invensense Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) sets a new low in size and power. "Our ne ...
Xilinx to invest $50M expanding operations in Ireland
Xilinx to invest $50M expanding operations in Ireland
Ecosystem emerges around new moble chip tech
SAN FRANCISCO – A consortium touting fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI) technology for mobile computing applications presented a united front this week in promoting the process technology as ...
Whatever happened to evolvable hardware?
The free market and many other natural systems are supposedly about the survival of the fittest. The survival of the best companies, the success of the best products, the best processors and ICs, and ...
EDAC reports 6.3% growth for Q1 2012
License and maintenance was very strong this quarter (7.5%) and stronger than overall EDA in the first quarter of 2012 which increased 6.3 percent to $1536.9 million, compared to $1446.4 million in th ...
Cryptography Research teams with Discretix on DPA
LONDON – Security R&D and licensing company Cryptography Research Inc. (CRI) has agreed a deal with Discretix Technologies Ltd. allowing Discretix to develop products incorporating differential po ...
Vitesse offers 11-port Gb Ethernet switch
MANHASSET, NY -- Vitesse Semiconductor has introduced an 11-port Gigabit Ethernet switch targeted at low-power industrial Ethernet and enterprise applications. The VSC7414 dissipates a total of 1.6W, ...
More jobs added, but unemployment rate unchanged
SAN FRANCISCO--According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the U.S. saw the number of employed people jump by 128,000 in June.Despite the addition of some 80,000 new jobs last month, ...
Thin Film printed electronics selected for smart packaging
Thin Film printed electronics selected for smart packaging
Vitesse Semiconductor has introduced an 11-port Gigabit Ethernet switch targeted at low-power industrial Ethernet and enterprise applications.
MANHASSET, NY -- Vitesse Semiconductor has introduced an 11-port Gigabit Ethernet switch targeted at low-power industrial Ethernet and enterprise applications. The VSC7414 dissipates a total of 1.6W, ...