Russian component market to grow 9.5% in 2011, says study
Russian component market to grow 9.5% in 2011, says study
Nuclear fusion research aids EUV source breakthrough
Nuclear fusion research aids EUV source breakthrough
Study assesses material constraints for concentrating solar power
Study assesses material constraints for concentrating solar power
Ramtron rejects Cypress again, in talks with others
Ramtron rejects Cypress again, in talks with others
Soap film forms textured display screen
LONDON – A team of scientists from the University of Tokyo, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Tsukuba have demonstrated the possibility of using a soap film to form a video projection d ...
Toshiba fined $87 million for LCD price-fixing
LONDON – Toshiba Corp. and its U.S. subsidiary Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. have been fined $87 million for anti-trust practices in the LCD business. A jury in the United States District ...
EE Times MEMS buzz
2012-07-05 18:00:23EE Times MEMS buzz
PORTLAND, Ore. – What with AMD, Apple, Dell, Dialog, Freescale, Fujitsu, HP, LSI, Microsoft, Motorola, MStar, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments all licensing ARM core ...
MEMS market to show 13% CAGR to 2017, says Yole
LONDON – The worldwide market for microelectromechanical systems components (MEMS) will be worth about $11.5 billion in 2012, an increase of about 12.7 percent compared with the size of the market in ...
ST supports study lab in northeast China
LONDON – STMicroelectronics and Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in northeastern China have announced the opening of a joint laboratory with the aim of supporting the study, research and developme ...
.Advantech aims boards at the Internet of Things
Advantech Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan), a vendor of embedded single-board computers, is aiming to dominate the Internet of Things with embedded devices and management software in a shift of strategy. The co ...
ARM won the processor wars? Hardly!
PORTLAND, Ore. – What with AMD, Apple, Dell, Dialog, Freescale, Fujitsu, HP, LSI, Microsoft, Motorola, MStar, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments all licensing ARM core ...
ARM, HP, SK Hynix join Hybrid Memory Cube group
LONDON – ARM, Hewlett-Packard and SK Hynix have joined the Hybird Memory Cube Consortium (HMCC) led by Micron and Samsung, a sign of gathering momentum for this proposed application of 3-D memory stac ...
Scientists to push organic solar cell efficiency
PARIS – Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have launched a four-year research program that aims to improve the efficiency of organic solar cells to more than 10 percent.Organ ...
Xilinx to recruit engineers in $50 million Irish expansion
Xilinx to spend $50 million expanding Irish operations
Report: TSMC's Chang says no to buying Renesas fab
Report: TSMC's Chang says no to buying Renesas fab
A Hitchcockian nightmare: Europe falling off a cliff
A Hitchcockian nightmare: Europe falling off a cliff
Chip market still shrinking versus 2011, says SIA
LONDON – The three-month average of worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $24.39 billion for the month of May 2012, 3.4 percent lower than in May 2011, but a 1.4 percent increase over the prior mo ...
A view from Norway on the Internet of Things
OSLO – Svenn-Tore Larsen is standing in a cramped glass room at the top of Holmenkollen, an Olympic ski jump on the fringe of Oslo. The chief executive is telling a dozen international journalists abo ...
Intel begins appeal against $1.3 billion European fine
Intel begins appeal against $1.3 billion European fine
Memo to Corporate America: 'Skills gap' is closing
Corporate America, the 'skills gap' is being closed
Enea completes migration to Linux OS
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Wireless equipment maker Enea rolled out its Linux Base Station Platform here during an industry event.Enea’s real-time operating systems (RTOS) run in more than 50 percent of ma ...
Broadcom extends MIPS deal but does not buy firm
LONDON – MIPS Technologies Inc., a licensor of processor intellectual property that has been reportedly up for sale, has provided long-time customer Broadcom with a multi-faceted, multi-year patent an ...
Plastic Logic demos flexible color moving display
LONDON – Organic electronics developer Plastic Logic Ltd. (Cambridge, England) has said it has demonstrated a flexible plastic electronic display that can play color video content at 12 frames per sec ...
Toumaz buys radio chip firm for $50 million
LONDON – Toumaz Ltd. (Abingdon, England) has agreed to buy fabless DAB radio chip firm Frontier Silicon (Holdings) Ltd. (London, England) for up to £32.3 million (about $50 million). As a result ...
Packaging takes front and center stage
Cadence has announced that it has bought Sigrity, a company that specialized in high-speed PCB design and packaging. This is significant to me in two ways. The first is that it is another event showin ...
Analysts find May was weak month for chip market
LONDON – The global market for chips was worth about $23 billion in May, according to Nomura Equity Research which has disclosed monthly by-sector statistics provided by the Semiconductor Industry Ass ...
Cadence pays $80 million to buy signal integrity firm
Cadence pays $80 million to buy signal integrity firm
Qualcomm signs UMC, Samsung for 28-nm chips, says report
Qualcomm signs UMC, Samsung for 28-nm chips, says report
Drone 'code of conduct' targets safety, privacy concerns
Drone 'code of conduct' targets safety, privacy concerns
Embracing 'superstack' model is a matter of survival
Embracing “Superstack” model is a matter of survival
Analyst lowers chip market forecast for 2012
LONDON – Actual global chip sales for May 2012 are likely to be reported at about 3 percent lower than the same month in 2011, according to Bruce Diesen, an analyst at Carnegie Group (Oslo, Norway).Th ...
Infineon leads power chip market ranking, says IMS
Infineon leads power chip market ranking, says IMS
Power management gauge measures multi-cell batteries
Power management gauge measures multi-cell batteries
Terahertz emitter harnesses 45-nm CMOS
DALLAS -- Millimeter wavelength alternatives to traditional X-rays are already using terahertz-range frequencies to safely scan passengers, luggage and cargo at airports, albeit using bulky discrete d ...
Micron confirms Elpida deal, also plans Rexchip purchase
Micron confirms Elpida deal, also plans Rexchip purchase
Researchers try vacuum transistors at low voltage
Researchers try vacuum-state transistors at low voltage
China, U.S. lead innovation, Europe nowhere, says survey
China, U.S. lead innovation, Europe nowhere, says survey
DoD's dubious achievement awards
WASHINGTON – It’s awards season over at the Pentagon. The latest list of “value engineering achievement award” winners announced this week (June 27) runs for seven pages, leading one to conclude that ...
Novaled expands agreement with Samsung Mobile Display
Novaled expands agreement with Samsung Mobile Display
UMC licenses IBM technology for 20-nm FinFETs
SAN FRANCISCO—Taiwanese chip foundry United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) has licensed technology from IBM Corp. to expedite the development of its 20-nm CMOS process, including FinFET 3-D transistors, ...
Newport Media gets the ISDB picture in smartphones
Newport Media gets the ISDB big picture in smartphones
Future of CMOS hinges on mobile apps
The future of CMOS technology was center stage during the recent 2012 Symposium on VLSI Technology. The conference focused heavily on Intel's first technical disclosure of its new 22-nm Tri-Gate t ...
Litho firm buys packaging patents from IBM
SAN FRANCISCO—Ultratech Inc., a supplier of lithography and laser-processing systems used to manufacture semiconductors, said Thursday (June 28) it acquired the rights to a collection of chip packa ...
Micron reportedly strikes deal to buy Elpida for $2.5 billion
Micron reportedly strikes deal to buy Elpida for $2.5 billion
Marvell aims to be China chip leader
SHANGHAI, China – No, Marvell Technology is not moving to China. However, the U.S. fabless chip company based in Santa Clara, Calif., has a goal to become “the largest semiconductor company in China,” ...
On Qualcomm manufacturing options
So Paul Jacobs CEO of Qualcomm Inc. (San Diego, Calif.) doesn't rule out owning the means of chip production? (see Qualcomm wafer fab not ruled out).Although Qualcomm, as fifth largest chip compan ...
Report: Qualcomm wafer fab not ruled out
LONDON – Paul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm Inc. (San Dieo, Calif.), the world's largest fabless chip company, has not ruled out owning a wafer fab or putting large amounts of cash down to ensure the fi ...
U-blox makes LTE move, buys Cognovo and 4M Wireless
U-blox makes LTE move, buys Cognovo and 4M Wireless
Nordic streamlines code in latest RF chips
OSLO – Nordic Semiconductor ASA announced the first members of a new family of 2.4 GHz RF chips that take a fresh approach to supporting multiple protocols. The nRF51 series separates protocol and app ...
Legislation seeks to relax restrictions on tracking fake chips
Legislation seeks to relax restrictions on tracking fake chips