PORTLAND, Ore—Wireless inductive battery rechargers already cut the cable to many devices such as electric toothbrushes, but because there were no standards in place until recently, they still require ...
TSMC to use Mentor YieldEnhancer SmartFill at 20-nm
Insufficient baseband chip supply hurting LTE smartphone sales
PARIS – US military and aerospace specialist Teledyne Electronic Technologies Inc. announced it has acquired Lecroy Corp. to expand its portfolio of analytical instrumentation solutions. Teledyne said ...
Next growth opporunity for EMS providers: renewable energy
Globalfoundries selects Synopsys' tool for yield management
'Invisible' bike helmets protect with air-bag shell
ASTC, Tanner EDA to deliver A/MS ASIC design services
Marvell wins as Dell starts shipping ARM-based servers
Xilinx ships loaded FPGA for linecard applications
ASTC, Tanner EDA to deliver A/MS ASIC design services
AN JOSE – Engineers at HP Labs claim they have demonstrated software in a research setting that significantly lowers power consumption for large data centers. The company will test the tools in a full ...
PORTLAND, Ore.—Those ruggedized Motorola Solutions' ET-1 tablets you see point-of-sale clerks at Home Depot and elsewhere wielding to display product features, scan barcodes and take credit cards ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Simulation software provider Ansys Inc. said Tuesday (May 29) it signed a definitive agreement to acquire France-based Esterel Technologies SA, a provider of embedded software simulation ...
U.S. manufacturing effort targets regional clusters
Globalfoundries to use Mentor's SmartFill at 20-nm
Recently I was fortunate enough to be invited on a tour of the vibrant MEMS cluster that exists in the hinterland immediately north of Helsinki, Finland. I arrived at Helsinki airport on the evening f ...
Black solar cells have lowest reflectance for silicon solar cells
LG Display ups HD panel for smartphones to 5 inches
LONDON – Processor licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) is a key participant in a European collaborative research project that is aiming to develop a language to boost the programmability of ...
LONDON – Lfoundry Rousset SAS has announced the availability of its physical design kit (PDK) for 110-nm aluminum process. The PDK includes options including an embedded flash memory which is proposed ...
Intel invests in Dnote audio for use in ultrabooks
Real men have fabs, a semiconductor executive once said, but companies such as Apple and Qualcomm show you can build great electronics companies without manufacturing plants. This reality is playin ...
LONDON – Omnivision Technologies Inc. has launched the OV16820 and OV16825 images sensors, which provide 16-megapixel resolution, for use in digital still and video cameras.The sensors support somethi ...
The Technical University of Dresden (TU-Dresden) in Germany is setting up a laboratory to explore technologies for 5G wireless systems beyond LTE-Advanced.The 5G wireless lab will be one of the first ...
ESPOO, Finland – VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, a government funded research agency, is claiming it has developed an improved form of silicon MEMS microphone.VTT has a broad range of expert ...
Mentor, ST support French nanoelectronics research
Renesas, TSMC tout licensable MCU platform using 40-nm eFlash
LONDON – As expected Japan's Renesas Electronics Corp. and foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. have announced an increase in the collaboration between the companies on microcontrol ...
VANTAA, Finland – Okmetic Oyj a manufacturer of silicon wafers for sensor, semiconductor and solar applications, has begun outsourcing wafer manufacture even as it is expanding its factory here to mak ...
Murata wants to build from MEMS to Internet of Things
LONDON – The Intel wafer fab complex in Leixlip Ireland is set to receive investment to allow it to manufacture 14-nm silicon and beyond, the company revealed in a presentation to analysts on May 10. ...
Energy Micro and Spectrum Design Solutions to offer energy-efficient wireless designs
INDIANAPOLIS--EE Times got down and dirty in the pits at the Indy 500 on Friday, to learn how 0.5 increments of tire pressure can make or break a race, how many laps a driver can go on one set of whee ...
If you are planning on attending DAC 2012, June 4-6, and if you’re involved in creating FPGA-based designs, then you really should bounce over to see the folks from Blue Pearl Software (Booth #714) to ...
TOKYO --Renesas Electronics Corp. plans to eliminate up to 14,000 jobs, while selling the company’s leading system-chip fab in Yamagata to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., according to a report ...
WASHINGTON -- The commercial space industry came of age at 9:56 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on May, 25, 2012.The spectacular success of Space Exploration Technologies Inc.’s first attempt to send an un ...
SAN FRANCISCO—German broadband and networking chip vendor Lantiq Friday (May 25) appointed Dan Artusi to the position of CEO. Artusi is a former CEO of both Silicon Laboratories Inc. and Conexant Syst ...
WASHINGTON – Astronauts swiftly docked a U.S. commercial cargo ship to the International Space Station on Friday (May 25) just over two hours after the historic capture of the spacecraft by the statio ...
ST's priorities to sustain analog, expand into digital
HELSINKI, Finland – The takeover of MEMS manufacturer VTI Technologies Oy here by Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. was completed with a name change to Murata Electronics Oy.Japanese passives to power sup ...
TAINAN, TAIWAN – It was a good day in a good year for United Microelectronics Corp. Taiwan’s second largest foundry officially broke ground on its latest and largest fab to date. When complete, the $8 ...
ST MIcro' priorities to sustain analog, expand into digital
WASHINGTON – Astronauts on the International Space Station reached out and grabbed a U.S. commercial spacecraft in darkness about 250 statute miles over Australia at 9:56 a.m. EDT on Friday (May 25).E ...
ST MIcro' priorities to sustain analog, expand into digital
Sharp to transfer LCD technology to Hon Hai’s China plant
SIA holds yearly council and drafts global chip tariff policy
Intel to spend $40 million on international university research
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Sports-related concussions have skyrocketed in the U.S. with over 3.8 million reported each year. New MEMS sensors small enough to be mounted inside an athlete's helmet, for exam ...
TOKYO – While the merger of Japan’s largest chip companies has yet to materialize, negotiations continue among Renasas, Panasonic and Fujitsu Semiconductor, according to the latest reports here.Nikkei ...