Strong sales of Ryzen processors and graphics chips lift chip vendor to first non-GAAP profit in three years.
Bad news keeps piling up for Qualcomm. The company lost an appeal in an EU court while in the USA, it faces fresh antitrust allegations by four Apple iPhone contractors. Will Qualcomm's NXP acquisitio
Both Western Digital and Micron appear to have found the path to 3D NAND profitability with string stacking likely to follow 64 layers
The new chairman of the FCC Ajit Pai, virtually claimed the copyright on the term
Qualcomm calls it Pre-5G. Nokia calls it 4.9G. Verizon pushes 5GTF. This year's Mobile World Congress spoke volumes of the cellular industry's desire to boost the current LTE business while milking th
The market for cellular base stations is in the midst of a $10 billion decline waiting for a 5G boost that won't return the sector to growth until 2021.
AMD's chief technologist talks about the company's needs in 7nm foundry processes, multi-die packaging and EDA for its x86 and graphics processors.
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The legendary MIT professor who helped start the FIRST Robotics Competition discusses what engineers need. In Part 1, Flowers explains how engineering is about solving practical problems.
IBM and its research alliance partners GlobalFoundries and Samsung use nanosheets with quadruple-all-around-gates to achieve five nanometer node and one-third to one-half the power of finFETs.
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) is building the world's first graph-analytics processor in its Hierarchical Identify Verify Exploit (HIVE) program that is 1000-times faster than t
With the a new temperature measurement unit call the SI set to replace the Kelvin, a NIST apparatus provides a QVNS reference measurement of the Boltzmann constant to gauge SI temperature.
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The path to production doesn't have to be a long, time-consuming journey. Lead time ordering, out-of-stock components and order size are all avoidable issues when you employ this one best practice. Le
The path to production doesn't have to be a long, time-consuming journey. Lead time ordering, out-of-stock components and order size are all avoidable issues when you employ this one best practice. Le
As everyone turns to their favorite summer activities, the interest wearable electronic innovations is on the rise. We're looking at some of the most popular wearable wins on Kickstarter.
Everybody likes robots, and soon they'll be doing all sorts of things with them, if these wildly successful Kickstarter projects are any indication.
Intel Corp. is showing a new mobile SoC chip developed by China's Spreadtrum. Manufactured by Intel, using its 14nm process, this may pave the way for Intel to manufacture its own new modem later this
While CMOS imagers and infrared are well established as sensors in smartphones, today's $64 million question is whether they will make room for radar and ultrasound inside IoT devices. And if yes, wha
Softbank is about to sell 25 percent of ARM into a new, Saudi-backed $100 billion investment fund. The Japanese decision appears to be driven by Mubadala -- which owns 100 percent of Globalfoundries -
Google released a paper describing its Tensor Processing Unit and tests showing that it beat an Intel Xeon and Nvidia GPU on machine-learning jobs.
Engineers are paving roads to 100G copper links, including a standard that could open a door for new system-in-package devices.
Nine companies and three universities are exploring how machine learning could tackle difficult problems in electronics design.
Gardner, a 50-year electronics industry executive, died this week at age 74 after a short bout with illness.
Globalfoundries and the municipality of Chengdu are betting on China to rewrite the history of FD-SOI. They plan to pump $100 million to build FD-SOI ecosystem. The question is, if you build it, will
How many antennas does it take to screw autonomy into a car? In the emerging era of highly automated vehicles, as many as 18 antennas
Intel will build experiences using virtual reality, 360-degree video, 5G cellular, and drones for the Olympics starting with the 2018 winter games.
Here's a list of common projects engineers and makers often think of to do: is one of your projects on this list?
Higher average selling prices for components such as DRAM and flash memory chips began driving system costs up, adding to the headwind facing declining PC sales.
A collection of images taken from the halls, stages and exhibit floor of the annual Semicon West semiconductor equipment and materials tradeshow.
With the memory chip market booming and electronic devices shipments forecast to be tepid, the value of the semiconductor content in those devices is expected to hit an all-time high, according to IC
Mesh Networking is finally coming to Bluetooth as a formally ratified, interoperability- tested global standard, allowing Bluetooth proponents to target a whole new machine-to-machine, industrial Inte
Interfacing with existing building management systems is one of many challenges facing the EV charging infrastructures.
Russian and Finish researchers collaborate to obsolete the need for expensive, single-mode fiber optics.
Backlog of extreme ultraviolet tools eclipses $3 billion sales to memory chip vendors bolster top line growth.
Despite the company's assurances to the contrary, Qualcomm's increasingly public licensing dispute with Apple is dogging Qualcomm and costing it dearly.
Kumu Networks discussed its chip aimed at full duplex networking for Wi-Fi and LTE amid standards efforts from CableLabs and the 3GPP.
The embedded market for neural network accelerators is heating up, with more systems - ranging from smart speakers and drones to light bulbs - poised to run neural networks locally instead of going ba
European chip maker says expansion will enable it to produce secure ID chips for the U.S. government.
An independent inventor is licensing a trio of patents to secure the Internet of Things using technology he pioneered at IBM for mag stripe cards.
Analysts said the Internet of Things will crack a billion units a year in 2019, slower than expected, as Andes rolled out four new IoT processor cores.
Bringing popular Ethernet technology to cars seems like a natural progression. But here's why in the auto world, a regular GbE switch won't work, and even 1000BASE-T1 might not cut it for autonomous c
South Korean giant eyes No. 2 spot in foundry market and market share of 25 percent, according to Reuters report.
LAKE WALES,Fla. — Google’s artificial-intelligence guru, Demis Hassabis, has unveiled the company’s grand plan ...
The value of semiconductor industry deals fell markedly in the first half of this year as the absence of
Whether or not it succeeds, China's MIC 2025 plan to catapult into advanced manufacturing will have consequences for European companies and the EU's Industry 4.0 initiative.
Judging the June 2017 cartoon caption competition was not easy but as usual, the EE Times Elves did their work cheerfully, giggling over all ...
Our seventh cartoon caption contest for 2017 is chock-full of interesting possibilities. "Your caption here!"Our challenge to you ...
The legendary MIT professor who helped start the FIRST Robotics Competition discusses what engineers need. In Part 1, Flowers explains how engineering is about solving practical problems.