SRC clears path to 14-nm with directed self-assembly litho
WASHINGTON – The International Space Station and a commercial cargo ship are now locked in an electronic embrace after a series of rendezvous maneuvers brought the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft within sigh ...
Inertial measurement unit integrates accelerometer, gyro
While most of us probably work in the volt or two range, there are many applications that require high power and/or high voltage. Examples include AC LED lighting, chargers with no-load power consumpt ...
ARM CTO looks at architecture scaling for 2020 solutions
HELSINKI, Finland – Foundry chip company United Microelectronics Corp. has held a ground breaking ceremony for Phases 5 and 6 (P5 and P6) of its Fab 12A 300-mm wafer fab complex at Tainan, Taiwan.The ...
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 300 mm fab to date. When complete, ...
HELSINKI, Finland – Renesas Electronics Corp., Japan's largest maker of logic chips, is expected to announce business partnership with foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. for the p ...
Spansion sampling single-level cell NAND for embedded apps
SAN FRANCISCO—Analog chip vendor Intersil Corp. said Wednesday (May 23) it would cut about 11 percent of its workforce as part of a plan to reduce operating expenses by about $40 million per year.Inte ...
SAN FRANCISCO—EDA and IP vendor Synopsys Inc. Wednesday (May 23) announced the promotion of longtime chief operating officer Chi-Foon Chan to the position of co-CEO, effective immediately. With the pr ...
Teardown slideshow: The anatomy of the LED light bulb
PORTLAND, Ore. - This weekend’s Indy 500 (May 27) could be one of the safest in U.S. auto racing history by combining 200-mph race cars with emerging MEMS technologies. Along with new safety features ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Texas Instruments Inc. Wednesday (May 23) introduced a family of turbo CAN transceivers designed for data rates in excess of 1 Mbps, meeting the growing demand for more nodes and greater ...
NI tips LabVIEW Electrical Power Suite for power monitoring
SAN FRANCISCO—Disappointing first quarter results and a lower-than-expected second quarter sales target by PC supplier Dell Inc. is bad news for Intel Corp., which has forecast growth above the season ...
TCL to launch motion-controlled Android TV first in China
SAN FRANCISCO—Texas Instruments Inc. said Wednesday (May 23) it has shipped nearly 6.5 billion analog, embedded processing and wireless chips using copper wire bonding technology, a milestone that the ...
Report reveals fake chips in U.S. military hardware
Professor Leon Chua, the originator of the term memristor for a variable resistance device with pinched hysteresis behavior, has joined forces with Professor Christofer Toumazou and Themistoklis Prodo ...
TAIPEI – At a glitzy event in an upscale department store here, HTC launched its first WiMax phone for Taiwan, providing much needed ammunition for two service providers trying to make a go of the und ...
Silicon Valley’s latest product—diamonds Synthetic Diamons, Element Six, Silicon Valley, Diamonds, Manufacturing Silicon Valley becomes a producer of synthetic diamonds this week Synthetic as Elemen
Agilent Technologies develops voice-over-LTE test system with Brüel & Kjær
Video and audio storage requirements drive doubling of maximum hard drive densities by 2016
SAN FRANCISCO— Sanjay Jha, who helped carve out Motorola Mobility from Motorola Inc. and served as CEO of the company since 2010, resigned Tuesday (May 22) as Google Inc. closed its $12.5 billion acqu ...
WASHINGTON – With the successful launch of the Dragon cargo ship, SpaceX engineers and NASA controllers are now focusing on the spacecraft’s readiness to approach and link up with the International Sp ...
TOKYO – The TV set – once regarded by Japan Inc. as the focal point of every living room, essential to fuel growing demand for a host of other consumer devices in the home – has turned on its parents, ...
LONDON – Chip company STMicroelectronics NV has announced that it is working with startup Soundchip SA on an in-ear audio accessory that allows the wearer to switch between multiple audio sources – su ...
While 200mph speeds are not uncommon for IZOD IndyCar racers, their electronic systems are in many ways simpler than those found in many passenger cars designed for public highway speeds. After all, t ...
TOKYO – The TV set – once regarded by Japan Inc. as the focal point of every living room, essential to fuel growing demand for a host of other consumer devices in the home – has turned on its parents, ...
LONDON – Qualcomm Ventures, the investment arm of mobile technology company Qualcomm Inc. (San Diego, Calif.), has launched its third annual QPrize seed investment competition by opening it up to eigh ...
Microsoft and Skolkovo Foundation cooperate on the Cloud
MaxLinear tips front-end receivers for video gateways, STBs
LONDON – Researchers from University College London (UCL) have developed a silicon oxide based non-volatile resistive memory structure by following a promising line of research similar to that pursued ...
LONDON – EpiGaN NV, a startup spun out of the IMEC research institute in 2010, has officially opened a production facility for gallium nitride on silicon wafers at the Research Campus in Hasselt, Belg ...
Electronic components travel well on Space missions
SAN JOSE – Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. will form a joint development lab to support deployment of Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access femtocells at China Mobile, the world’s large ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Maximum areal densities in hard disk drives (HDD) are expected to more than double during the five-year period from 2011 to 2016, spurring continued growth for HDDs in storage-intensive ...
Foxconn invests $210M in new Apple production plant
SAN FRANCISCO—Sales of smartphones continues to drive mobile device market growth in the first quarter of 2012, but global sales of all cell phones declined compared to the first quarter of 2011, acco ...
Foxconn invests $120M in new Apple production plant
SAN FRANCISCO—Investors in Standard Microsystems Corp. (SMSC) have filed two lawsuits in Delaware state court seeking to block the proposed $939 million acquisition of SMSC by Microchip Technology Inc ...
SAN FRANCISCO—ON Semiconductor Corp. has expanded its operations in the Czech Republic, opening a 13,000-square-foot R&D and design facility in the town of Roznov, the company said Monday (May 21) ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Electronic materials vendor Shocking Technologies Inc. said Monday (May 21) it raised $10.5 million in new funding. The $10.5 million in funding was lead by electronics distributor Litte ...
JEDEC publishes LPDDR3 standard for low-power memory devices
Amid all the fanfare over smartphones and tablets, another vast mobile market is undergoing transition. The $40 billion-plus cellular infrastructure segment faces potential disruptions on multiple fro ...
Report: Hynix, Globalfoundries in talks to buy Elpida
LONDON – Rusnano, the investment arm of the Russian state, has in the last month alone struck three deals with fabless chip companies and is contributing to a turnaround in investment in semiconductor ...
Silicon Labs to buy wireless mesh networking technology firm
Rusnano, the technology investment arm of the Russia, has led a $35 million Series F financing of Ethernet chip company Aquantia Inc. (Milipitas, Calif.). Rusnano is investing $25 million and current