SAN JOSE – Nvidia rolled out the latest graphics board geared for use in highly parallel technical and scientific jobs. It also described a graphics board supporting hardware virtualization and a dedi ...
Smartphone, tablet sales driving growth in mobile memory
PORTLAND, Ore.— The Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC) will report next month on progress to make its memristor variation, called resistive-RAMs (RRAM), the dominate memory technology in f ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Fabless semiconductor vendor Qualcomm Inc. moved to the No. 5 position among chip sellers in the first quarter, surpassing Texas Instruments Inc., among others, according to market resea ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Fabless semiconductor vendor Qualcomm Inc. moved to the No. 4 position among chip sellers in the first quarter, surpassing Texas Instruments Inc., among others, according to market resea ...
Netronome reduces SoC power use with timing tricks
SAN JOSE – Graphics giant Nvidia and patent specialist Intellectual Ventures jointly acquired a set of about 500 patents developed and owned by IPWireless. Terms of the deal that includes patents on L ...
SAN JOSE – Intel launched the first server CPUs using its 22 nm tri-gate technology, including a new 17W part aimed at the emerging micro-server segment. The x86 giant also rolled out new 32 nm server ...
Bauer resigns as CEO of Infineon due to ill-health
Transphorm delivers 600-V GaN-on-Si power components
Bauer resigns as CEO of Infineon due to ill-health
Applied to cut jobs, move solar manufacturing to Asia
Analog chip market to grow 3% in 2012, says research firm
SAN FRANCISCO—Graphics chip vendor Nvidia Corp. Friday (May 11) reported better-than-expected sales for its fiscal first quarter, ended April 29, and said it expects sales to increase significantly in ...
Four reasons why MIPS new cores may make it relevant again
LONDON – Texas Instruments and Hewlett Packard Co. retained the number 1 and 2 positions in the ranking of MEMS suppliers by sales revenue in 2011, despite each suffering sales slides of 4 percent, ac ...
LONDON – In a move reminiscent of ARM's three-tiered Cortex product launch a few years back, processor IP licensor MIPS Technologies Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) has introduced three families of Aptiv ...
Silicon Ventures tips plan to stem fabless VC drought
PARIS – Northrop Grumman Corp. announced it has concluded a three-year $84 million contract with the U.S. Navy to support the Naval Education Training Command (NETC). Northrop Grumman said it will pro ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Bridgelux Inc., a Livermore, Calif.-based developer of LED lighting technologies, said Thursday (May 10) that Japan's Toshiba Corp. made an equity investment in the firm of undisclos ...
TI donates $2.2 million for UC Berkeley design lab
PORTLAND, Ore.—The infamous 1980s television commercial that featured the tag line "I've fallen and I can't get up" became the butt of a thousand jokes. But for the elderly, suscepti ...
SAN FRANCISCO— Lam Research AG, the Austrian subsidiary of U.S.-based semiconductor capital equipment vendor Lam Research Corp., said Wednesday (May 9) it opened new R&D lab in Villach, Austria.La ...
Despite obstacles, experts say China continues to innovate
SAN FRANCISCO—Chinese chip foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) reported a narrower loss for the first quarter and said it expects sales to increase sequentially in the secon ...
MEMC saw 'turning point' for semi wafer sales in Q1
The folks from EVE, developers of hardware/software co-verification solutions, say that Texas Instruments used their ZeBu-Server (for Zero Bugs) hardware-assisted verification platform to accelerate d ...
Infineon, Fuji agree on HybridPACK 2 automotive power module specs
Printed Electronics Europe, which took place in Berlin last month, gave rise to a tide of interesting papers and lectures, all concerned with the adoption of new manufacturing or printing methods able ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Taiwanese semiconductor foundries Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) reported this week that sales for April increased more than 9 ...
SAN JOSE – The move to software-defined networks passed another milestone as ADVA Optical Networking (Munich) demonstrated the OpenFlow specification for the first time on an optically switched networ ...
GENEVA, Switzerland – Fabless chip company Nordic Semiconductor ASA, well known as a supplier of low power 2.4-GHz radio ICs, is ready to take its business to the next level, which is the combination ...
Scottsdale, Az. - According to the VITA trade association for standard computing, the second edition of its OpenVPX system specification has been ratified by ANSI.The ANSI/VITA 65.0-2012 specificati ...
Bozotti has a dream: to turn round ST's digital problem
SAN JOSE – Driven by the growth of mobile devices, merchant CPU cores shipped in more than 10 billion chips last year, up 25 percent over 2010, according to a new report. ARM Ltd. commanded 78 percent ...
SAN FRANCISCO—U.S. memory chip vendor Micron Technology Inc. confirmed Thursday (May 10) it is engaged in discussions with trustees for bankrupt Japanese DRAM vendor Elpida Memory Inc. in an attempt t ...
SAN FRANCISCO--Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased slightly during the first quarter compared to the fourth quarter of 2011, according to the fab tool vendor trade group SEMI. SEMI's ...
SAN FRANCISCO—The counterfeiting of semiconductors is expected to become a more prevalent problem in the future as the semiconductor industry enters a phase of accelerating growth, according to market ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Advanced Technology Investment Co. (ATIC), the semiconductor unit of the Abu Dhabi government's Mubadala investment fund, lost money in each of the last two years and has accumulated ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Nvidia Corp. said Wednesday (May 9) that LLVM, a popular open source compiler, now supports Nvida GPUs. Nvidia (Santa Clara, Calif.) said it worked with LLVM developers to provide its CU ...
You may recall that the folks at Tabula have developed an innovative FPGA architecture that they refer to as ABAX 3PLDs. The idea is that they use a small piece of silicon that they reconfigure eight ...
Sequans tips interference mitigation technology for LTE
SAN FRANCISCO—EDA and IP vendor Synopsys Inc. said Tuesday (May 8) it completed the acquisition of RSoft Design Group Inc., a provider of photonics design and simulation software headquartered in Ossi ...
The folks at Xilinx are bursting with enthusiasm abut their participation at the forthcoming Interop IT Expo and Conference in Las Vegas, from May 8-10, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Booth #2 ...
I just received an interesting email from the folks at Altera that started off as follows:Besides our many instructor-led classes and free online trainings, did you know that Altera also offers virtua ...
WASHINGTON – There’s been a lot of talking lately about mining asteroids for precious metals like platinum. A group of space entrepreneurs recently announced the formation of a company called Planetar ...
SAN JOSE – AT&T and Qualcomm separately rolled out broad ecosystem of home and building automation products. AT&T’s Digital Life and Qualcomm’s M2MSearch are among the first shots in a coming ...
SAN JOSE – Microsoft became the seventh core member of the Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium led by Micron and Samsung, a sign of the broad technical implications for the concept of 3-D memory chip stacks ...
MANHASSET, NY -- The cost of maintaining productivity at a time of limited R&D resources facing the global chip-making community will be discussed at next week’s SEMI Advanced Semiconductor Manufa ...
GENEVA, Switzerland – Mobile technology companies Qualcomm Inc., and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have announced the formation of the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP).The mission of the organization ...