Researchers at the German research institution Fraunhofer IOF have developed an array of hundreds of microprojectors that can be used to project images from smartphones and similar small devices. The ...
GENEVA, Switzerland – Baolab Microsystems SL (Barcelona, Spain), a startup pioneering the creation of MEMS within the metal interconnect layers of CMOS wafers, has announced that it is planning to use ...
Jasper offers individual formal verifications apps apps
SAN FRANCISCO—John Peeler, CEO of semiconductor production equipment vendor Veeco Instruments Inc., has also been named the company's chairman, Veeco said Monday (May 7).Peeler replaces as chairma ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Micron Technology Inc. Monday (May 7) announced development of its first fully functional DDR4 DRAM module. Micron (Boise, Idaho) said it began sampling the DDR4 module earlier this year ...
SAN JOSE – Google appeared to block what could have been a devastating punch against its Android operating system in the legal suit brought by Oracle. But this battle is far from over.Oracle is suing ...
SAN JOSE – The big breeze you just felt was a collective sigh of relief from the hoards of people who make devices based on Android. A San Francisco jury delivered a partial decision that appears to g ...
MANHASSET, NY -- President Barack Obama is visiting the NanoTech Complex at the State University of New York in Albany tomorrow, Tuesday, May 8 to show he is behind the goal for advanced manufacturing ...
SAN JOSE – Digital Media Professionals Inc. extended its Smaph-S family of graphics cores, including a new core it claims has the smallest footprint of any device compliant with the OpenGL ES 2.0 appl ...
I just received a jolly friendly email from the folks at NXP thanking me for visiting them at the Embedded Systems Conference, a DESIGN West summit, in Silicon Valley, at the McEnery Convention Center ...
SAN FRANCISCO—U.S. memory chip vendor Micron Technology Inc. has won the exclusive right to negotiate to buy failed Japanese DRAM vendor Elpida Memory Inc. after offering more than $2.5 billion, accor ...
Xcell Journal Magazine Spring 2012 Edition is here
Component distributors occupy a central position in the electronics supply chain, acting like traffic officers to move parts and services swiftly and efficiently from suppliers to contract manufacture ...
SAN JOSE – Altair Semiconductor announced a low-cost TD-LTE chip set for India and chip designer Sequans Communications said it will work with service provider Clearwire to support its planned TD-LTE ...
At Indy 500, rules make it tough to gain competitive edge
MANHASSET, NY -- President Barack Obama is visiting the NanoTech Complex at the State University of New York in Albany tomorrow, Tuesday, May 8 to show he is behind the goal for advanced manufacturing ...
NEW YORK – Microchip CEO Steve Sanghi is a straight talker. When Sanghi comments on the economy, outsourcing, technology or market trends, you’ll hear very little conventional wisdom or polite evasion ...
With the rising popularity of smartphones and tablet PCs, DRAM makers are eagerly expanding mobile DRAM capacity, which not only improves profitability but lowers risk from commodity DRAM production a ...
SAN JOSE – The IEEE aims to release within two years a test suite to help consumers assess the picture quality of cellphone cameras. The suite will consist of a variety of metrics, probably simplified ...
Murata selects Black Sand CMOS PAs for 3G front ends
Wireless chip designer Cambridge Silicon Radio has opened a new Automotive Systems Development and Applications Centre in Ingolstadt, Southern Germany.CSR acquired the facility, which was built by TEM ...
Fujitsu shows radiation-hardened RFID using FRAM technology
Light but safe: Research project aims at a high-volume urban e-car
EnOcean creates new energy harvesting wireless technology education program
Plessey reveals EPIC sensor technology to create a heart monitor in a wristwatch
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Robots enabled the human genome to be mapped in just over 12 years, but it took less than four years for the Paul Allen--Microsoft co-counder--Brain Atlas to be completed last month ...
Researchers claim low-cost solar cells based on abundant metals
Imagination signs HiSilicon to use PowerVR, Rogue GPUs
Agilent releases aerospace, defense application videos
LONDON – EDA company Sagantec North America Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has announced that is has acquired NP Komplete Technologies BV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), a startup company founded in 2009. S ...
LONDON – SK Hynix Inc. (Icheon, South Korea), the world's second largest DRAM maker, has dropped its bid for Elpida Memory Inc. according to reports that referenced a regulatory filing in Seoul Fr ...
Micropelt raises funds to expand energy harvest work
Mines and metals firm starts building Chinese MEMS wafer fab
LONDON – Fabless chip company Spreadtrum Communications Inc. (Shanghai, China) has reported that its sales revenue for the first quarter of 2012 was $161.1 million, down 16.2 percent sequentially but ...
Trade group survey to measure 'on-shoring' in electronics
Semiconductor probe card sales projected flat for 2012
Elon Musk and testing as if your life depended on it
Struggle continues to plug embedded programming gap
LONDON – The International Electronics Forum is off to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia for its 21 st annual meeting. The meeting of C-level executives is set to take place at Yerevan Marriott Hotel fr ...
More than 200,000 spectators lined the downtown streets of Long Beach, Calif., in April as 26 drivers battled for dominance in the 2012 IndyCar circuit. The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach -- third i ...
LONDON – Infineon Technologies has issued a rather downbeat outlook for the second half of its fiscal year after posting second fiscal quarter sales revenue ahead of forecast at 986 million euro (abou ...
LONDON – Foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has announced it has made a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor test chip in its 28-nm high-performance mobile CMOS process that it has run a ...
Freescale snags Insight Award for innovative process technology
SAN FRANCISCO—The three month-rolling average of global chip sales improved to $23.3 billion in March, up 1.5 percent from February but down 7.9 percent compared with March 2011, according to the Semi ...
SAN FRANCISCO—ON Semiconductor Corp. and Atmel Corp. Wednesday (May 2) became the latest chip makers to declare that the bottom of the semiconductor industry down cycle had passed, each reporting sale ...
SAN JOSE – Facebook struck an alliance with China’s Tencent and Baidu to merge separate designs for data center racks. The move is one small step toward the social networking giant’s goal of a broad d ...
SAN FRANCISCO--MIPS Technologies Inc. has welcomed Google Inc.’s release of a native development kit (NDK) for Android which supports the MIPS architecture, allowing developers to code for MIPS-based ...
CEA stokes engines of innovation with free booth at CES 2013
EAsic claims to enable 3X increase in energy efficiency for supercomputer
SAN FRANCISCO—Billionaire financier Carl Ichan is still agitating EDA vendor Mentor Graphics Corp.Icahn, who controls about 15 percent of Mentor and last year saw three of his nominees to the company& ...