LONDON – Mosaid Technologies Inc., a licensor of memory-related semiconductor intellectual property, has announced that it is now sampling a 16-die stacked NAND flash memory component with a memory ca ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Sigma Designs Inc. said Monday (April 2) it finalized a deal to acquire Trident Microsystems Inc.'s digital television (DTV) business for $21 million in cash, plus the assumption of some ...
LONDON – Dutch chip company NXP Semiconductors NV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) has agreed to buy electronic design house and IP licensor Catena Holding NV and its subsidiaries for an undisclosed sum. ...
LONDON – Intrinsic-ID NV, a vendor of hardware-derived security technology, has received 5 million euro (about $6.7 million) in a round of funding led by Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH and joined b ...
Samsung to spend $7 billion on wafer fab in Xian, China
LONDON – ARM, Gemalto and Giesecke & Devrient have announced the creation of a joint venture chartered with delivering secure environments in which to run services such as financial payments on mo ...
Semi materials sales posted second straight record in 2011
SAN FRANCISCO—Networking chip vendor Cavium Inc. said Monday (April 2) that first quarter sales would miss the company's guided target due to lower than expected sales to the service provider and ...
Chinese IC firm using Kilopass NVM IP in set-top box SoC
PORTLAND, Ore.—IBM will harness water-cooled 3-D chip sets to plumb the secrets of the universe by analyzing exabytes (billion gigabytes) of data streaming in from the world's largest radio telesc ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Chinese chip foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) said it signed an agreement last week with IBM Corp. to collaborate on 28-nm manufacturing technology. SMIC (S ...
SAN FRANCISCO—NOR flash memory vendor Spansion Inc. will offer single-level-cell (SLC) NAND flash devices for the embedded market under the terms of a deal announced Monday (April 2) with SK Hynix Inc ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Scalable flash memory array vendor Violin Memory Inc. Monday (April 2) announced $50 million in Series D funding from a group of investors including Toshiba Corp., Juniper Networks, SAP ...
Mobile device chip market grew 20% in 2011, says ABI
Chip vendors know they can cater to the huge embedded market with many more divergent chips than might be pitched to, say, the mobile markets for iPods, iPads and notebook computers. There has been an ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Germany's Suss MicroTec AG acquired ultraviolet (UV) projection lithography vendor Tamarack Scientific Co. Inc. for $9.34 million, plus an additional variable earn-out component.Tama ...
LONDON – Embedded memory intellectual property licensor Memoir Systems Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has announced that its first commercial product, the Renaissance 2X, is available.The company, formed ...
MANHASSET, NY -- Samsung Electronics has officially launched Samsung Display Co., Ltd. as a new corporation after the company carries out incorporation registration on April 3.Donggun Park, executive ...
LONDON – NTT Docomo Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) has announced that it has cancelled an agreement to establish a joint venture fabless chip company to develop and sell ICs for mobile devices.The plan, under de ...
Samsung is ninth going on fourth in foundry ranks, says Gartner
LONDON – Mixed-signal and converter IC vendor Analog Devices Inc. (Norwood, Mass.) has announced that it has acquired Multigig Inc. (San Jose, Calif.), a developer of high frequency clock signal techn ...
LONDON – Fabless chip company Dialog Semiconductor plc is planning to use a 130-nm BCD process from leading foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. for power management ICsDialog (Kirchhei ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Lithography tool vendor ASML Holding NV commanded a higher share of units shipped in 2011 than the combined total of competitors Nikon Corp. and Canon Inc., further evidence that the Dut ...
Audience reverse engineers human hearing for mobile
SAN JOSE Calif. – Shortly after Dr. James Truchard and Jeff Kodosky, two cofounders of National Instruments Corp. (Austin, Texas), were honored with the lifetime achievement award at the UBM Electroni ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Micron Technology Inc., SK Hynix Inc. and Toshiba Corp. are all in the process of throwing their hats in the ring to acquire all or part of bankrupt Japanese DRAM vendor Elpida Memory In ...
Xilinx Zynq-7000 receives product of the year ACE award
Mars rover to measure climate, study microbial life
Do embedded processors shape applications, or is it the other way around? A few years ago, after nearly two decades of evaluating and using embedded processors for DSP-intensive applications, my c ...
SAN JOSE – It’s been a month since Intel Corp. confirmed its withdrawal from the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS), a non-profit service that publishes monthly reports about global chip sale ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Computer vision still has a lot to learn, but if researchers embrace real-world challenges they could make important breakthroughs, said a government program manager.“I have quite a ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Operating system vendor Enea AB (Stockholm, Sweden) announced at the DESIGN West exhibition that it is now supplying Enea Linux together with some complementary technologies.Enea Li ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Chinese foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) reported a loss of $245.6 million for 2011 after reporting a rare profitable year in 2010, when it posted a net inc ...
SAN FRANCISCO—After earlier turning down an opportunity to invest in Japanese DRAM vendor Elipda Memory Inc., Toshiba Corp. has apparently decided to join the bidding for the bankrupt firm, according ...
McAfee talks angry robots and rotten apples at Design West
SAN JOSE, Calif. – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has become tougher but more predictable in how it handles medical products seeking approval under its 510(k) process, said a consultant at the ...
GrammaTech transforms code analysis with visualization
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Slow, steady improvement in battery technology over the past several decades as brought the world to the cusp of a tipping point that will lead to greater adoption of electric vehicle ...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Analog mixed-signal IC vendor Exar Corp. said Wednesday (March 28) it has eliminated about 40 percent of its global headcount in the past two months.Exar (Fremont, Calif.) said it cut ...
BANGALORE, India – When Ittiam Systems, a media processing company here, said last week that more than 35 percent of its $20 million in annual revenues came from licensing its intellectual property, o ...
Slideshow: EE Times, EDN honor 2012 ACE Award winners
MANHASSET, NY -- A team of French researchers have found a way of isolating or cloaking objects from sources of heat by diffusing the heat around the objects. The “thermal cloaking” method taps into s ...
Panel ponders many-core ICs tripping 'the singularity'
Slideshow: EE Times, EDN honor 2012 ACE Award winners
Imperas preps fast models of ARM Cortex-A15 processor
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Akustica is entering the mobile device market with its first analog microphone, a low-cost two-chip solution that it hopes will widen its market share.The Bosch subsidiary pioneered ...
PORTLAND, Ore.—The Freespace MotionEngine has already empowered the smart TV revolution at LG, Roku and Sony by enabling remote controllers to point-and-click on-screen air-mouse style. Now Hillcrest ...
Analog Devices to launch dual-core Blackfin with a vision accelerator
Flexible manufacturing, ecosystems seen as keys to U.S. innovation
Future of SSL LED lighting is not dim, but it’s flickering