LONDON – Engineers from Duke University and the University of Arizona have developed a camera with the potential to capture up to 50-Gpixels of data with a resolution over a 120 degree horizontal fiel ...
PARIS – MediaTek’s bid to buy Mstar is likely to cement the supremacy of the combined power of the two Taiwan-based companies -- often described as the “M brothers” -- in the digital consumer market, ...
GRENOBLE – Transferring technological value to SMEs is an objective per se for France-based CEA-Leti research center. One illustration is the co-development of a solar-powered roller shutter with Fran ...
GRENOBLE – Lighting is becoming the largest consumer of electricity in buildings, accounting for 25 or more of total costs. At the Leti’s Annual Review this week in Grenoble, France, Alexandre Lagrang ...
LONDON – Fabless consumer chip company Mediatek Inc. has announced it has offered to buy a local Taiwan rival MStar Semiconductor Inc., according to a Reuters report that cited a statement from MediaT ...
SAN FRANCISCO—The three-month rolling average book-to-bill ratio for North American semiconductor manufacturing equipment declined to 1.05 in May, down from 1.10 in April, according to the fab tool ve ...
Freescale grapples with automotive safety mandates
Over the last 20 years, the world population grew at a compound annual growth rate of 1.4 percent, recently surpassing the 7 billion mark. During the same time period, overall semiconductor unit sales ...
SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook could start running--at least in part--on so-called wimpy server CPU cores by the second half of 2013. Long term, the company wants to move to a systems architecture that lets ...
SAN ANTONIO—Cypress Semiconductor Corp. said Thursday (June 21) it has commenced a tender off to acquire all outstanding shares of Ramtron International Corp. for $2.68 per share, or about $95 million ...
LONDON – Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho) has announced that is has acquired Intel's 18 percent interest in IM Flash Singapore LLP and the assets of IM Flash Technologies LLC located at Micro ...
BEIJING – With reportedly 450-plus fabless chip companies in China, it’s fair to ask how many more years can they survive in this business and, more important, what they must do now to grow into a sig ...
LONDON – Nick Kepler, vice president of products at startup company SuVolta Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.), has authored an article that expounds the virtues of his company's deeply depleted channel (DD ...
LONDON – Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho) made a net loss of $320 million on net sales of $2.2 billion in the third quarter of fiscal 2012, which ended May 31 due to continuing softness in the me ...
LONDON – Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric, two of the three major shareholders in struggling Japanese chip company Renesas Electronics Corp., have agreed in principle to provide a support package worth ...
Freescale grapples with automotive safety mandates
SAN FRANCISCO – With demand for mobile data outpacing forecasts, the industry urgently needs to rally around an effort to find more spectrum. It also needs to set standards for rapidly evolving antenn ...
Live webinar on safety-critical apps and high-reliability products
Partitioned automotive embedded apps run on multicores
The benefits of Moore’s Law can now be split into the classical benefits of greater density and lower cost-per-transistor from shrinking, and the benefit of extending the capability of mature process ...
French parallel processing research wins $40 million
SAN ANTONIO—Chip and system design software vendor Atrenta Inc. said Wednesday (June 20) it acquired assertion synthesis technology NextOp Software Inc. for an undisclosed sum. NextOp’s products focus ...
SAN ANTONIO—Fabless chip vendors, IDMs and semiconductor industry suppliers received a total of $134.5 million venture investment dollars in May, down 42.5 percent from April but up 122.7 percent comp ...
SAN FRANCISCO – Samsung will ship 25 new phones serving 13 operators of 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks this year in an effort to keep its edge as the leader in the latest cellular technology. H ...
SAN ANTONIO—Semiconductor and solar panel manufactruing equipment vendor Applied Materials Inc. Tuesday (June 19) appointed Gary Dickerson to the position of president, effective immediately. Dickerso ...
Freescale selects Spansion flash for Vybrid automotive chips
LONDON – Mixed-signal chip company Analog Devices Inc. (Norwood, Mass.) and foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) have announced they are collaborating on the developme ...
LONDON – Processor IP licensor Imagination Technologies Group plc (Kings Langley, England) made a pre-tax profit of £36.8 million (about $57.9 million) on group revenues of £127.5 million (a ...
LONDON – Memory chipmaker SK Hynix Inc., has agreed to buy Link_A_Media Devices Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.). The purchase price was not disclosed.LAMD, founded in 2004, is a fabless chip company that ...
SAN ANTONIO—When Greg Lowe, Freescale Semiconductor Inc.'s president and CEO, took the microphone to deliver the keynote address at perhaps his company's most important annual event Tuesday (J ...
SAN ANTONIO—Vendors defended the mass migration to ARM cores for their low-power, broad spectrum of performance levels and more economical software here at the Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) Tuesday ...
DALLAS -- “We don’t get affected by the headlines,” said Rich Templeton, at the second annual TI Media Day here last week, referring to the economic troubles in Greece and Spain.Texas Instruments’ cha ...
SAN JOSE – NOR flash maker Spansion Inc. officially launched a new business unit today that aims to roll out a family of human interface accelerators starting with a voice recognition chip. The compan ...
DALLAS -- Texas Instruments said this week it is adapting its HD digital light processor (DLP) chipset for rapid prototyping systems that can print 3-D objects. By optimizing the DLP for UV light, the ...
SAN FRANCISCO – Hewlett-Packard will roll out a processor-agnostic chassis called Gemini later this year geared for low power servers. Intel’s Centerton, a dual-core, 64-bit Atom SoC, will be the firs ...
SAN ANTONIO—Freescale Semiconductor Inc. Tuesday (June 19) announced a core-agnostic network system architecture said to offer the flexibility and scalability required by network infrastructure OEMs t ...
Spreadtrum TD-SCDMA Baseband goes in Samsung GALAXY S III
Beijing -- Let’s face it. China’s IC industry still lacks its own superstars – equivalent to Intel, Qualcomm or Broadcom in the West – in terms of the scale, reach and quality these brands possess on ...
SAN JOSE – Freescale will add next year two ARM-based families to its Power-based QorIQ line, using a new modular architecture called Layerscape. The architecture will sport ARM, Power and accelerator ...
Beijing -- Let’s face it. China’s IC industry still lacks its own superstars – equivalent to Intel, Qualcomm or Broadcom in the West – in terms of the scale, reach and quality these brands possess on ...
Microsoft has unveiled a 10.6-inch tablet in a 16:9 aspect ratio, dubbed the Surface, to be available in two options, one powered by Intel's 22-nm Ivy Bridge processor running Windows 8, and anoth ...
DALLAS – Digital light processor technology developed by Texas Instruments 25 years ago has been used to bring big-screen cinema to the digital age is now being used in picoprojectors for smartphones, ...
LONDON – Renesas Mobile Corp., the mobile chip company subsidiary of struggling Renesas Electronics Corp., could be put up for sale as part of a previously reported re-organization. Other details that ...
SAN ANTONIO—Freescale Semiconductor Inc. is sampling the industry's first microcontroller to use ARM's ultra-low-power Cortex-M0+ processor, which aims to convert 8- and 16-bit applications to ...
SAN JOSE – Shame on you, Steve Ballmer!Pre-announcing your own Windows 8 tablet a few months before your OEM customers are ready to roll out their own products. That’s not gutsy, it’s just gross.For y ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – T. J. Giuli comes full circle this week as Ford officially launches the Silicon Valley research center he runs.Giuli joined Ford’s Dearborn, Mich., labs nine years ago, fresh o ...
PHILADELPHIA--The tussle for domination in the wireless communication market intensifies today with an announcement from Intel Corp. that it has agreed to purchase about 1,700 "patents and patent ...
IHS India: Cache SSDs vs. hybrid HDDs in ultrabooks
Friday morning dawned bright and fair as a collection of journalists stumbled out of a Dresden city center hotel ready to be bussed to GlobalFoundries' Fab 1 complex on the outskirts of the town. ...
Dresden fab could host 20-nm process, 450-mm wafers