Neul launches 'white-space' smart metering in Cambridge
Smartphone sales to grow 17% in 2012, says analyst
SAN FRANCISCO—Chip vendors LSI Corp. and Xilinx Inc. and design automation software provider Cadence Design Systems Inc. Wednesday (April 25) reported quarterly results that exceeded analysts' exp ...
Nvidia, BGI partner on cloud DNA sequencing service
Intersil's chip set enables Micron Tech LCOS display
MPSOC'12 advanced registration open until May 11th
SAN FRANCISCO—Market research firm IHS iSuppli Wednesday (April 25) lifted its forecast for the 2012 semiconductor market, citing strong ongoing consumer demand for wireless products like cell phones ...
Standards effort seeks to put a charge in EV deployment
Mentor's next-gen emulator promises more performance, capacity
Broadcom aims to spread 100Gbit Ethernet with single-chip solution
SAN FRANCISCO—Apple Inc. Tuesday (April 24) reported another stellar quarter of sales and earnings, but delivered a sales target for the current quarter that was below most analysts' expectations. ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Supercomputer maker Cray Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to sell its interconnect hardware development program and related intellectual property to Intel Corp. for $140 m ...
PORTLAND, Ore.—Tensilica Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) is banking its future growth on the world's largest electronics market by adding support for China's Dynamic Resolution Adaptation (DRA) sta ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Another quarter of disastrous financial results for Nokia last week, with a quarterly loss of $1.7 billion, has led to the Finnish phone maker’s debt being downgraded to “negati ...
PORTLAND, Ore.—Boosting the performance of its automotive microcontrollers—without increasing power consumption—is the aim of the new quad-core processor announced Tuesday (April 24) by Freescale S ...
PORTLAND, Ore.—The three-dimensional (3-D) field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is enabling the era of silicon convergence, according to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.), which is incorporating applica ...
SAN FRANCISCO – It’s the beginning of the end for the fabless model according to Mark Bohr, the man I think of as Mr. Process Technology at Intel.Bohr claims TSMC’s recent announcement it will serve j ...
RF chip firm Amalfi snags another $20 million in funding
LONDON – The plan put together to try and transform the fortunes of struggling mobile chip company ST-Ericsson NV by CEO Didier Lamouche, announced Monday (April 23), at one level makes a kind of sens ...
MANHASSET, NY -- A partnership between the New York State School Boards Association and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany will create innovative local school ...
MANHASSET, NY -- A partnership between the New York State School Boards Association and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany will create innovative local school ...
LONDON – Processor IP licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) has posted yet another quarter with increased sales and profits as it continues to benefit from being designed into market leading ...
LONDON – Fabless FPGA vendor Achronix Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has announced details of its Speedster22i HD and HP product families, claimed to be the first FPGAs to be built on a 22- ...
Toshiba to replace chip assembly plant in Thailand
SAN FRANCISCO—ST-Ericsson, the mobile phone chip joint venture between STMicroelectronics NV and Ericsson AB, reported a wider first quarter loss on declining sales Monday (April 23), due largely to l ...
SAN FRANCISCO—European chip vendor STMicroelectronics NV Monday (April 23) reported a wider loss on lower revenue for the first quarter, but the firm's CEO said the company believes billings botto ...
SAN FRANCISCO – Intel rolled out today a family of Ivy Bridge CPUs, its first processors using its 22nm tri-gate technology and aimed at ultra thin and light notebooks. Analysts said the chips will na ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Chip manufacturing equipment supplier KLA-Tencor Corp. Monday (April 23) launched a high-throughput review system for defect inspection and metrology for leading-edge semiconductors. Acc ...
TI's sales top estimates as orders, inventory swell
PORTLAND, Ore. -- By adding intelligent parallel processing, KLA-Tencor Corp. (Milpitas, Calif.) has increased the throughput of its wafer inspection and metrology tool by as much as four times. Calle ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – China government officials kicked off a program last month that aims to define a national processor architecture. If the initiative is successful, the processor could become a requi ...
PORTLAND, Ore.—The first automated software-to-chip dream came out of the closet Monday (April 23), when Algotochip Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) claimed to be able to produce a system-on-chip (SoC) desig ...
Veteran Fujitsu exec to lead wireless chip subsidiary
SAN JOSE, Calif. – China government officials kicked off a program last month that aims to define a national processor architecture. If the initiative is successful, the processor could become a requi ...
EE Times updates Silicon 60 list of emerging startups
One-Blue patent pool seeks to enforce Blu-ray, other IP
Equipment book-to-bill ratios diverge in U.S., Japan
Veteran Fujitsu exec to lead wireless chip subsidiary
There’s a measure of trepidation in the air of excitement surrounding the solid-state lighting (SSL) industry. Given the obvious need for more-efficient lighting than traditional incandescent bul ...
MANHASSET, NY -- Industry association SEMI has a “Call for Papers” for technical sessions and presentations for the upcoming Semicon Europa 2012 with abstracts due April 30. Abstracts are being acce ...
LONDON – Mike Hackworth, chairman of fabless chip company Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas) has died aged 71 years. Hackworth was a veteran of Silicon Valley and a pioneer of the fabless chip company ...
ST-Ericsson passing processors to ST, cutting staff
Emcore wins $6M contract to design solar panels for spacecraft
Microsemi announces 10,000th radiation-tolerant RTAX-S/SL FPGA shipment
SAN FRANCISCO – Intel is expected to formally roll out today Ivy Bridge, its first processors using its 22nm tri-gate technology and aimed at ultra thin and light notebooks. An analyst said the chips ...
STATS ChipPAC re-appoints former ST boss as director
LONDON – Multimedia processor licensor Imagination Technologies Group plc has announced that is has licensed certain intellectual property from its Ensigma range of communications cores to fabless chi ...
Intel has formally launched its Ivy Bridge processor to the market according to numerous online reports. Ivy Bridge is the first device to officially come out on the company's 22-nm manufacturing ...
PORTLAND, Ore.—Graphene has been courted as the miracle material of the future, since different formulations have been fabricated into conductors, semiconductors and insulators. Now IBM has added phot ...
Connected homes will give greater control over both entertainment and environment