PORTLAND, Ore.—Separate labs in the U.S. and Europe recently reported progress in adapting solid-state materials to store spintronic quantum states, a critical hurdle on the path to using spintronics ...
MANHASSET, NY -- Bourns, Inc. has completed its purchase of substantially all of the assets of Jensen Devices AB (Stockholm, Sweden), a design and manufacturing firm of gas discharge tubes.The company ...
SAN FRANCISCO—As expected, Google Inc. used the occasion of its Google I/O developer event here Wednesday (July 27) to launch a 7-inch media tablet, made by Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc., which w ...
The semiconductor industry is seeing increasing demand for miniaturization which necessitates changes in chip design, including larger numbers of I/O per unit space, multi-tier devices, and stacked di ...
U.S., European manufacturers join forces to compete with China
Maxim pledges $200 million boost for U.S. chipmaking
Maxim pledges $200 million boost for U.S. chipmaking
Indian fabless startup seeks $20 million, say reports
SAN JOSE – A new battle has broken out over how to bring high def video to mobile devices.The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) formally announced Mobility DisplayPort (MyDP) today, a new ...
Google neural network teaches itself to identify cats
Applied tips dielectric etch tool for 3-D NAND production
LONDON – Soitec SA (Bernin, France), a vendor of silicon-on-insulator wafers, has announced that its subsidiary Altatech Semiconductor SA has installed an chemical vapor deposition system at the resea ...
LONDON – Infineon Technologies AG (Munich, Germany) has updated its outlook for the third and fourth quarters of its 2012 fiscal year.For the current, third fiscal quarter, which ends on June 30, Infi ...
Court halts U.S. sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1
SAN FRANCISCO—Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) this week introduced an accelerated processing unit (APU) targeted at very low power, small form factor and cost-sensitive embedded designs that require ...
MediaTek to bring premier smartphone features to $150 - $200 handsets
Intel announces another university research center
2x2mm MEMS microphones delivered in tough plastic packages
LONDON – Wolfson Microelectronics plc (Edinburgh, Scotland), a mixed-signal fabless chip company, has announced that its WM1811 audio hub IC is being used within the Galaxy S III smartphone from Samsu ...
PARIS – Average gross profits of crystalline photovoltaic (PV) industry module manufacturers fell to 9 cents per watt in the first quarter of 2012 and are expected to decline further to 7 cents per wa ...
Dow Corning and Suss cooperate on making 3-D TSV chips
ST starts sampling STM32 F3 microcontroller range LONDON – STMicroelectronics NV (Geneva, Switzerland) has announced it has started delivering samples of its STM32 F3 series of microcontrollers which
Virtual jobs fair offers engineers work in Singapore
SHANGHAI – Multinational chip companies who’ve consigned some of their design work to China tend to do so as quietly as possible; but a few leading companies are clearly making deeper inroads in China ...
Quantum film firm InVisage appoints Madavi chairman
MANHASSET, NY -- Dow Corning and SUSS MicroTec are collaborating on developing a material and equipment system solution for high volume manufacturing of 3-D TSV packaged devices. Stacking two or more ...
Imec, Murata team on reconfigurable radio IC design
SAN ANTONIO—Freescale Semiconductor Inc.'s 2012 Freescale Technology Forum featured, among other things, the first extended comments from the company's new CEO, Gregg Lowe, dozens of technolog ...
Dow Corning, SUSS MicroTec team on TSV chip packaging
Fab tool spending to fall 9% in 2012, says Gartner
SAN FRANCISCO—Technology licensor Rambus Inc. Monday (June 25) named Ronald Black, a 20-year veteran of the semiconductor and mobile industries, to the position of CEO. Black replaces Howard Hughes, R ...
Reports are coming out of Japan that private equity company Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) LP is being asked to invest in struggling Japanese chip company Renesas Electronics Corp. to help it ...
WASHINGTON – On Aug. 5, 2012, after completing a nine-month, 354 million mile journey, mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will attempt to break the fall of a rover-carrying spacec ...
MANHASSET, NY -- The Nexus 5001 Forum has added two new interfaces and ratified IEEE-ISTO 5001-2012 Standard as a global embedded processor debug interface.Nexus 5001 added support for IEEE Std. 1 ...
SAN JOSE – Next year, Intel is poised to generate $2 billion in revenues—half its expected revenue growth—from chips outside its traditional PC x86 processors, according to a financial analyst who tra ...
LONDON – Struggling Japanese chip company Renesas Electronics Corp. is to seek a 50 billion yen (about $620 million) investment from private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), accord ...
LONDON – Japanese consumer electronics giants Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. have announced they will collaborate in the development of organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels and modules for TVs a ...
LONDON – A radiation hardened 512-kbit SRAM designed by fabless chip startup RedCat Devices srl (Milan, Italy) withstands a 15-Mrad total ionization dose. The chip was manufactured for RedCat by Tower ...
SAN JOSE – The H.265 High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard is about to be ratified, promising a new generation of higher resolution and more compact digital video products. The bad news is chip ...
Research shows more strain can improve transistors
Former Movidius executive joins haptic startup as CEO
SAN JOSE – Next year, Intel is poised to generate $2 billion in revenues—half its expected revenue growth—from chips outside its traditional x86 processors, according to a financial analyst who tracks ...
SAN JOSE – Freescale will add next year two ARM-based families to its Power-based QorIQ line, using a new modular architecture called Layerscape. The architecture will sport ARM, Power and accelerator ...
Freescale takes shotgun approach to basestation SoCS
SAN FRANCISCO – More than a dozen companies are supporting a proposed standard for device-to-device links in Long Term Evolution handsets. They believe Direct LTE will offer capabilities and power eff ...
SAN FRANCISCO – Engineers still have significant work ahead to deliver small cell base stations, a key piece of the puzzle for easing congestion on heavily loaded mobile data networks.Powerwave Techno ...
Sony to spend $1-billion on CMOS sensor production
Freescale, Vivante, Rightware team on automotive display
APPLETON, Wis. – Kara Pezzi didn’t want to be a teacher.With a degree in chemistry from the University of Wisconsinat Superior and plans to pursue a Ph.D in chemistry down at UW-Madison, Pezzi couldn’ ...
PARIS — Japan’s economic journal Nikkei reported that Olympus Corp. is negotiating a roughly 50 billion yen investment from Sony Corp. The move, if materialized, will make Sony a partner in Olympus’ e ...