KLA wafer inspection system 'first domino to fall' on road to 450-mm
KLA wafer inspection system 'first domino to fall' on road to 450-mm
Applied tips PVD system for void-free copper structures
Applied tips PVD system for void-free copper structures
Intel keynoter: Power consumption hurdles litter path to exascale computing
Intel keynoter: Power consumption hurdles litter path to exascale computing
Hot news! Lattice announces strategic partnership with UMC
Hot news! Lattice announces strategic partnership with UMC
Elpida bondholders to propose alternative to Micron takeover
Elpida bondholders to propose alternative to Micron takeover
ASML funding plan targets proposed 2018 EUV machine
ASML funding plan targets proposed 2018 EUV machine
Applied cuts annual sales target on foundry weakness
Applied cuts annual sales target on foundry weakness
MIT develops tri-source energy harvest control IC
LONDON – Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed the control circuitry for an energy harvesting platform that can work with natural light, heat and vibrations.The abi ...
ASML in talks with Samsung, TSMC on equity stakes
LONDON – Lithography tool vendor ASML Holding NV (Veldhoven, The Netherlands) is negotiating with leading chip makers Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. over ...
Synopsys ports DesignWare IP to SMIC 40-nm process
Synopsys ports DesignWare IP to SMIC 40-nm process
First 450-mm fabs to ramp in 2017, says analyst
SAN FRANCISCO—The first production semiconductor fabs to use 450-mm wafers are projected to commence operation in 2017, according to Christian Dieseldorff, a senior analyst with the fab tool vendor tr ...
Fab tool spending to decline 2.6% in 2012, SEMI says
Fab tool spending to decline 2.6% in 2012, SEMI says
Lattice extends foundry deal with UMC
SAN FRANCISCO—Programmable logic vendor Lattice Semiconductor Corp. said Monday (July 9) it signed a long-term technology partnership with Taiwanese foundry United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC). As par ...
TSMC's June sales surge 20% year-over-year
SAN FRANCISCO—Foundry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said Tuesday (July 10) that sales in June were up more than 20 percent compared to the same period of 2011, but down compared with th ...
Utilities ponder battery storage as solar soars
SAN FRANCISCO – Growing electricity generation from by solar and wind energy is flowing into California’s electrical grid, forcing utilities here to begin integrating energy storage technologies into ...
AMD warns of Q2 sales shortfall
SAN FRANCISCO—Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) Monday (July 9) cut its estimate for second quarter sales, citing lower than expected sales in China and Europe and weaker consumer market for PCs. AMD ...
Intel buys stake in ASML to boost 450-mm, EUV R&D
SAN FRANCISCO—Intel Corp. agreed to acquire a stake of about 15 percent in leading lithography tool vendor ASML Holding NV as part of a $4.1 billion deal to accelerate the development of extreme ultra ...
Arbitration panel sides with Tessera over Amkor
SAN FRANCISCO—Technology licensor Tessera Technologies Inc. said Monday (July 10) that the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitration court sided with Tessera in an ongoing dispute with test ...
Flemish government promises IMEC cash for 450-mm fab
Flemish government promises IMEC cash for 450-mm fab
Printed electronics startup gains security foil licensee
Printed electronics startup gains security foil licensee
Cellular execs debate ‘reasonable’ licensing
SAN FRANCISCO – Just what is reasonable licensing? That’s the next big intellectual property question cellular networking executives have started to debate.An Apple executive recently asked the NGMN A ...
EUV startup in talks with ASML, seeks $5 million
EUV startup in talks with ASML, seeks cash to develop technology
Marvell CEO named Indonesian diaspora innovator
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- Marvell Technology Group Ltd. chairman, president, CEO and co-founder, Dr. Sehat Sutardja, has accepted an Indonesian diaspora lifetime achievement award for his efforts in globa ...
Indoor femtocell market flat in 2012, says ABI
LONDON – The market for enterprise and consumer femtocell equipment for communications, also referred to as indoor small cells, will be flat in 2012 in terms of volumes compared with 2011, according t ...
UMC June sales move into annual growth
LONDON – Foundry United Microelectronics Corp. has announced sales for June of NT$9,289 million (about $310 million) up 1.1 percent on the same figure in 2011 and up 0.9 percent on the sale in May 201 ...
Volkswagen overtakes Porsche
2012-07-09 18:01:28Volkswagen overtakes Porsche
You may have heard me going on recently about the strength of the Germany economy in the midst of a host of weak services-oriented European economies. And Germany's automotive industry epitomizes ...
Global tablet usage for viewing TV/Video content doubles year on year, says NPD DisplaySearch
Global tablet usage for viewing TV/Video content doubles year on year, says NPD DisplaySearch
Sixty percent of new cars will be connected by 2017
Sixty percent of new cars will be connected by 2017
Smart TV surges in popularity worldwide, China at the forefront
Smart TV surges in popularity worldwide, China at the forefront
Search engine aims to quiz sensor networks
A new type of search engine is being developed that can interrogate networks of sensors to give real time answers to questions about the physical world.The European-funded project, known as SMART, for ...
Audi, Sierra Wireless jointly develop and test in-vehicle LTE infotainment system
Audi, Sierra Wireless jointly develop and test in-vehicle LTE infotainment system
World's first Bluetooth low energy bike speed and cadence monitor is released
World's first Bluetooth low energy bike speed and cadence monitor is released
One in every five wearable wireless devices set for healthcare deployment by 2017
One in every five wearable wireless devices set for healthcare deployment by 2017
In-car information deluge raises concerns of driver distraction, analyst says
In-car information deluge raises concerns of driver distraction, analyst says
NXP Semi CTO steps down
2012-07-09 05:00:54NXP Semi CTO steps down
NEW YORK -- NXP Semiconductor's management team saw more changes recently as its chief technology officer, René Penning de Vries, stepped down after residing with the company for more than 26 ...
4 keys to succeeding in cloud services
While consumers and enterprises hail “the cloud” for its ability to provide flexible, low cost and easily accessible computing power, traditional hardware and software providers tend to see the innova ...
NXP Semi realigns management team
NEW YORK -- NXP Semiconductor's management team saw more changes recently as its chief technology officer, René Penning de Vries, stepped down after residing with the company for more than 26 ...
Aeroflex offers 16-Mbit, 64-Mbit rad-hard MRAMs
LONDON – Aeroflex Inc., a supplier of electronic components for military and aerospace applications, has announced the availability of three magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) components mad ...
Derecho exposes our fragile networks
WASHINGTON – Among the very bad things that happened here last week (June 29) when a derecho storm hammered the nation’s capital and its suburbs was the collapse of the region’s 911 emergency communic ...
Tools expand for sensor fusion hubs
PORTLAND, Ore. -- An expanding suite of algorithms for fusing the outputs from Xtrinsic family of MEMS chips is designed to enable designers to develop sensor fusion algorithms from Freescale Semicond ...
Emulex pays Broadcom $58M in patent deal
SAN JOSE – Emulex Corp. agreed to pay Broadcom Corp. $58 million in a partial settlement of ongoing patent disputes between the two companies.Under the deal Emulex gets a license to three Broadcom pat ...
Touchstone targets 'everything in signal path'
Analog startup Touchstone targets 'everything in the signal path'
TI, Stanford explore OpenFlow silicon
SAN JOSE – Researchers from Stanford University, Texas Instruments and at least one other company are exploring ways to optimize networking chips for the emerging OpenFlow specification. The effort is ...
Analog startup targets 'everything in signal path'
Analog startup Touchstone targets 'everything in the signal path'
MEMC introduces SOI wafers for FinFET over oxide
LONDON – Silicon wafer supplier MEMC Electronics Materials Inc. (St. Peters, Missouri) has announced the introduction of FOX-Si, a form of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer designed to facilitate the c ...
Konarka files for bankruptcy protection
LONDON – Konarka Technologies Inc. (Lowell, Mass.), a developer of thin-film solar panels, has filed for bankruptcy under chapter 7 of the United States federal bankruptcy laws.This means that the com ...
Report: Supply chain mobilizes to make iPad Mini
LONDON – Taiwanese suppliers are getting ready to ship components for the iPad Mini in August to meet a manufacturing start of September, according to a Taiwan Economic News report, that cited unnamed ...
Chip executives' conference relocates to Bratislava
Chip executives' conference relocates to Bratislava
Russian component market to grow 9.5% in 2012, says study
Russian component market to grow 9.5% in 2012, says study
Teardown: Inside Google's Nexus 7 tablet
Amazon shook the consumer electronics market last year when it introduced the first sub-$200 tablet, the Amazon Kindle Fire. Many were skeptical of the online vendor’s foray into electronics, but some ...