NEW YORK – Microchip Technology has announced its signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Standard Microsystems Corporation (SMSC), a company focused on mixed-signal connectivity solutions, for $ ...
Exeter researchers come up with possible ITO replacement
The folks from Microchip Technology, a leading provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions, have announced that they've signed a definitive agreement to acquire Standard Microsystem ...
Yole: Sony, Silex, Dalsa shine MEMS foundry ranking
Mercury wins sensor processing subsystem contract with Raytheon
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 ...
I was sat alongside Brian Fuller, who was then EE Times editor-in-chief, in the ballroom of a London hotel as I heard Ulrich Schumacher, then CEO of Infineon Technologies AG, talk about the unthinkabl ...
IMEC: 60-GHz transceiver offers 7-Gbps short range data rate
Microchip tips gesture firm buy in profitable quarter
SAN FRANCISCO—The worldwide semiconductor photomask market is expected to be worth $3.35 billion in 2012, up 7 percent from 2011, according to the fab tool vendor trade group SEMI. At $3.35 billion, t ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Fabless semiconductor provider Broadcom Corp. Tuesday (May 1) reported sales and profit that exceeded analysts' expectations, even as its net income in accordance with generally acce ...
Fairchild asserts new patents against Power Integrations
SAN FRANCISCO— Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd. will transfer ownership of an older fab that produces microcontrollers to Denso Corp. to Japanese automotive parts supplier Denso Corp. under the terms of an ...
SAN JOSE – The HGST division of Western Digital demonstrated a solid-state disk drive with a 12 Gbit/second Serial Attached SCSI interface working with chips from LSI and PMC-Sierra. The tech demo rep ...
Apache updates Redhawk for sub 20nm and 3-D designs
SAN FRANCISCO—RF chip supplier TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. said Tuesday (May 1) it was selected by the the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to lead a $12.3 million development pr ...
GlobalFoundries, Infineon, IBM, ST linked to Indian fab plan
Libelium lists 50 Internet of Things (IoT) applications
SAN FRANCISCO—More evidence of the trouble facing the solar industry as subsidies dry up and intense competition continues: An executive for LDK Solar Co. Ltd. said Monday (April 30) that the photovol ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Semiconductor vendors and related companies have largely continued in recent days to forecast sequential quarterly growth in providing sales targets for the current quarter. Over the ...
SAN FRANCISCO—RF chip maker TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. cut about 70 jobs in Florida last week after issuing a disappointing quarterly report and sales forecast, according to a report by the South Flo ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Micron Technology Inc. and SK Hynix Inc. narrowed the gap in NAND flash memory with market leaders Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Toshiba Corp. in the fourth quarter of 2011, according ...
Smart memory seen as cure for user-interface bottlenecks
WASHINGTON – If you were under the impression that science, math and engineering aren’t cool, you weren’t at the USA Science and Engineering Festival here this past weekend (April 27-29).Ten of thousa ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Chip vendor Integrated Device Technology Inc. (IDT) said Monday (April 30) it signed a definitive agreement to acquire connectivity chip vendor PLX Technology Inc. in a cash and stock de ...
NeoPhotonics deals with Rusnano, plans facilities in Russia
SAN JOSE – I recall the first time I heard someone in a tutorial describing the Dalvik virtual machine in Android. I scratched my head wondering what this strangely named thing was all about.Now it’s ...
Researchers prototype implantable microphone for deaf
Gore starts business, develops tests for portable electronics
NEW YORK – For anyone who has known NXP Semiconductors since it was the Dutch giant Royal Philips’ subsidiary, NXP today feels much transformed. Instead of pledging changes every quarter, NXP has grow ...
LONDON – Samsung's cellphone sales revenue jumped 47 percent to $48.2 billion in 2011 making the company the leading mobile phone company by revenue, according to IC Insights. However, Nokia retai ...
SAN JOSE – Broadcom brings to Interop 2012 next week another strategic piece of the puzzle for the 100 Gbit/second networks that are just starting to emerge. The BCM88650 is a high-end switching fabri ...
Here comes silicene, possible graphene replacement
Huawei to give Intel LTE development support in China
LONDON – Growth in the semiconductor market will accelerate in the second half of 2012 and achieve an annual percentage figure of 6 to 7 percent, according to Mali Venkatesan, research manager for sem ...
Heliatek pushes organic solar cell efficiency higher
LONDON – PolyCore Software Inc. (Burlingame, Calif.) has upgraded its Poly-Platform tool to version 2.0 with the inclusion of Poly-Mapper which provides control of memory used for messaging in multi-c ...
Fairchild, Power Integrations found to infringe patents
If you've always dreamed of hanging with the pit crew at Indy, your opportunity has arrived. Littelfuse Inc. is sponsoring the Speed2Design contest that enables its winners to attend the race, vis ...
Dialog signs up to use Intrinsic-ID on-chip security
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Next-generation 20 nm processes can support optimized versions for low power and high performance, according to an IBM expert. GlobalFoundries will decide in August whether or ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Flash memory vendor Spansion Inc. Thursday (April 26) reported a loss on declining sales for the first quarter, but said it expects a revenue increase and return to profitability in the ...
ARM TechCon 2012 – Call for abstracts closes on Friday 27 April 27 2012
MANHASSET, NY -- The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering's Smart System Technology and Commercialization Center of Excellence (STC) in Canandaigua, NY has been designated as a Trusted Fou ...
Achronix chairman: Intel foundry gambit poised for payoff
TSMC raises capex to record $8.5 billion, pulls in 20-nm
SAN JOSE – GlobalFoundries is installing equipment to make through-silicon vias in its Fab 8 in New York. If all goes well, the company hopes to take production orders in the second half of 2013 for 3 ...
LONDON – Pixel Qi Corp. (San Bruno, Calif.), a developer of reflective liquid crystal displays that can be read in sunlight thereby saving power, has announced that it can produce a screen with higher ...
SAN JOSE – GlobalFoundries is installing equipment to make through-silicon vias in its Fab 8 in New York. If all goes well, the company hopes to take production orders in the second half of 2013 for 3 ...
LONDON – Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has announced that it is manufacturing a quad-core application processor for smartphones and tablet computers built on a 32-nm CMOS manufacturing process with hig ...