India seen as fastest growing chip consumer in 2012
PORTLAND, Ore.—Reaching the advanced semiconductor process nodes at 22-nanometer and beyond requires accurate three-dimensional (3-D) models of the proposed physical structures to obviate the need for ...
SAN FRANCISCO—STMicroelectronics NV has been ordered to pay about $59 million to NXP Semiconductors BV by an arbitration tribunal to settle a dispute over charges for wafers NXP supplied to ST's w ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – A wide group of vendors is poised to roll solid-state drives for the PCI Express bus, promising improved performance over current flash drives that mainly use serial ATA and Serial- ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Taiwanese foundry United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) Monday (April 9) reported sales of NT$8.19 billion (about $277 million), up 9 percent from February but down about 15 percent compar ...
Xilinx target the Video Production Chain at NAB 2012
SAN FRANCISCO—EDA and IP vendors posted another strong quarter of sales in the fourth quarter of 2011, turning in revenue of $1.7 billion, up 10 percent compared to the third quarter and up 12.8 perce ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The machine looks like a square spaceship with a round hatch or a giant oven with a convection fan. Its designer jokingly calls the contraption the “world’s most expensive bug zappe ...
LONDON – Leading foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has held a groundbreaking ceremony for the fifth phase of its Fab 14 gigafab at the South Taiwan Science Park in Tainan, Taiwan.The ...
4M Wireless licenses LTE protocol stack to Wuxi DSP
Adeunis-RF partners Avnet Memec to develop a NFC 'reader-writer' smart module
Future of mobile devices to be debated at FWS 2012
Digi International and Wind River cooperate on cloud-connected wireless M2M solutions
WASHINGTON – While Chinese military intentions remain unclear, the Asian power is continuing to modernize its military through indigenous design and development as it seeks to replace its Soviet-era a ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – The “user experience” has become the tech mantra in recent years. The announcement this week of Google’s Project Glass is an example of how this philosophy can be pushed too far.Lik ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Intel Corp. has closed the $120 million deal to acquire some of RealNetworks Inc.'s patents and software, RealNetworks said Thursday (April 5).Intel (Santa Clara, Calif.) and RealNetwork ...
PORTLAND, Ore.—The possible pathways down to the 8-nanometer semiconductor fabrication node were detailed last week at the IEEE International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) in Napa, Calif., albei ...
Samplify sells ultrasound business, changes direction
Reports: China's Hony and TPG team to bid for Elpida
On Semi, Qualcomm, Infineon shine in chip rankings
SAN FRANCISCO—Technology licensor Rambus Inc. has filed an appeal of a November 2011 California Superior Court verdict that found that Rambus did not prove price fixing allegations against Micron Tech ...
Nissan pick's Intel's Atom for infotainment system
SAN FRANCISCO—Toshiba Corp. no longer plans to bid for a stake in fellow Japanese chip vendor Elpida Memory Inc., according to a Reuters news service report that cites two Japanese newspapers as its s ...
Nissan pick's Intel's Atom for infotainment system
SAN FRANCISCO—Networking chipmaker PMC-Sierra Inc. has had discussions with potential buyers over the last few months, according to a Reuters news service report that cites unnamed sources. According ...
Major chip maker orders optics for EUV lithography
LONDON – Ultrawideband chip company DecaWave Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland) has raised 6 million euro (about $7.9 million) in a second round of financing that brings the total raised by the company to 12.4 mi ...
Google unveils Project Glass, augmented reality specs
SAN JOSE, Calif.--The nation’s smart grid is constantly under threat of real attack and potentially no amount of investment in securing it will help, according to a white hat security expert.Speaking ...
LONDON – The total compensation for Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.), was $17,491,900 in 2011, up 11.75 percent from the equivalent figure of $15,652,500 in 2010, according to a ...
Netronome to use Intel 22-nm process in foundry deal
SAN FRANCISCO—Mindspeed Technologies Inc. will cut an unspecified number of jobs as part of a restructuring in the wake of its acquisition of PicoChip Ltd. earlier this year, according to a regulat ...
IHS: Counterfeit parts represent $169B annual risk
SAN JOSE, Calif. –Redpine Signals Inc. rolled out two Wi-Fi-based real time location systems tags, seeing an unserved market niche that is small but potentially lucrative for the second-tier Wi-Fi chi ...
Well, this is "Cool Beans" news. I see a lot of adverts for forthcoming webinars, but many times I am too busy “on the day” to attend … and then I forget all about them … so the fact that th ...
Pixel Qi low-power displays shipping in notebooks, tablets
Free Webinar: New 32-bit processor for entry-level and energy-efficient app
Energy Micro EFM32 Gecko MCU ideal for e-paper displays
EU project to develop highly efficient silicon thin-film solar modules
Silicon dioxide nanometal offers alternative memory
Synopsys' StarRC certified for UMC's 28-nm processes
MANHASSET, NY -- Power electronics is moving beyond its historic dependence on silicon, with silicon carbide and gallium nitride taking a 22 percent market share for $3.3 billion in sales by 2020.The ...
BERKELEY, Calif – Cloud computing could help usher in the next wave of technological innovation and, with it, provide a new engine for economic growth, say the authors of a forthcoming study on the em ...
SAN FRANCISCO—The three-month rolling average of global semiconductor sales fell to $22.9 billion in February, down 1.3 percent from January, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) ...
SAN FRANCISCO—NXP Semiconductors NV confirmed Monday (April 2) that it filed a patent infringment complaint against Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) in U.S. federal court in Florida. The suit alleges tha ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Flash memory vendor SanDisk Corp. said Tuesday (April 3) that preliminary results indicate that the company will report first quarter sales of about $1.2 billion, below the company's for ...
SAN JOSE, Calif.--Semiconductor company NXP has had its engineering workbench iPad app approved by Apple and launched in the App store.The app, in beta since early February of this year, follows hot o ...
SAN JOSE, Calif.--With sensors becoming ever smaller and less expensive, full-body motion-tracking systems are becoming increasingly available, demystifying sporting success and putting computer measu ...
Report: MEMS packing growing faster than overall IC packaging
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