SAN FRANCISCO – It was a heady week hanging out the Intel Developer Forum and covering the iPhone 5 launch a block away. At the end of it all, I am both impressed and worried about the two big ecosyst ...
LONDON – Toshiba has begun offering its European customers an extensive More-than-Moore (MtM) foundry service based on access to 200-mm wafer fab capacity and support for CMOS manufacturing processes ...
DIY electrocardiograms for patients with heart disease
LONDON – Japan's troubled Sharp Corp. has asked its labor union to agree a 7 percent cut in wages for the general work force and the company is imposing a 10 percent cut in managers' salaries. ...
SAN FRANCISCO – It was a heady week hanging out the Intel Developer Forum and covering the iPhone 5 launch a block away. At the end of it all, I am both impressed and worried about the two big ecosyst ...
Numetrics, UBM partner on project management software
BOSTON -- LEDs and other display devices are all very nice, but there's something unique about Nixie Tubes that is guaranteed to capture the attention of most any engineer and make more than a few ...
SAN FRANCISCO – Intel provided the first look at the system-on-chip variant of its 22-nm process technology in a talk at the Intel Developer Forum here Thursday (Sept. 13). However, it declined to pro ...
STMicro tips executive changes, promises new strategic plan
PORTLAND, Ore. – IBM researchers who won the Nobel Prize for imaging individual atoms have gone a step further by imaging individual bonds between atoms.IBM Fellows Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer, wh ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- PCI Express, the I/O backbone of PCs and servers, is getting a low-power extension that will take it into Ultrabooks, tablets and smartphones starting next year. The enhanced intercon ...
LONDON – Component suppliers for the iPhone 5 that was unveiled by Apple Wednesday (Sept. 12) will remain the same as those for the iPhone 4S, even though several components have changed, according to ...
PARIS – Researchers from the University of Southern California and the Washington University in St. Louis claimed they have developed a hybrid medical imaging technology that could help doctors detect ...
SAN FRANCISCO--Intel is making an aggressive shift toward mobile computing and designing its next-generation core microprocessors with mobility in mind, according to David (Dadi) Perlmutter, executive ...
LONDON – The suppliers for the various components within the iPhone 5 mobile phone announced by Apple Wednesday (Sept. 12) have mainly remained the same as they were for the iPhone 4S, even though sev ...
PARIS – Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) claimed they have defined a low-cost method for detecting certain neurological disorders through the study of eye movements. Many hig ...
Analyst: Apple A6 processor is dual-core Cortex-A15
MANHASSET, NY -- Ceva has made a strategic investment in Antcor, a provider of IP software for Wi-Fi in handsets, machine-to-machine and small cell applications.The investment complements Ceva's s ...
SAN FRANCISCO – Intel Corp. has found a way to create a 10 nm process technology using immersion lithography. In addition, the processor giant is on track to start making chips in a 14 nm process tech ...
Intel exec sketches vision for 'transparent computing'
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Analyst: Apple A6 processor is dual-core Cortex-A15
OTTAWA – The bill of materials for Apple’s new IPhone 5 comes in at an estimated $167.50 for the 16-gigabit version, or about $35 higher than a comparable version of the IPhone 4S, according to a prel ...
SHANGHAI, China – With the tech world abuzz about whether Apple’s iPhone 5 will include a near-field communications (NFC) capability, China Mobile is pursuing a “China-style” e-wallet solution for mob ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Analysts generally praised the new iPhone 5, noting that with its upgraded iPod Touch Apple is attacking both the consumer point-and-shoot camera market as well as handheld games.Appl ...
LONDON – Analog and mixed-signal chip company Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) has announced it has established a corporate venture group to invest in startup companies and innovative ...
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LONDON – Some authorities around the world are suspicious of Chinese telecom giant Huawei, distrusting its connections to the Chinese government, and expressing concern that its telecoms equipment cou ...
SHANGHAI, China – While the world was abuzz with mounting speculation on whether Apple’s iPhone 5 would be NFC-enabled, China Mobile was pursuing a “China-style” e-wallet solution for mobile handsets: ...
MANHASSET, N.Y. -- Chip IP specialist CEVA Inc. said Wednesday (Sept. 12) it will make a minority equity investment in wireless software IP provider Antcor.Antcor (Marousi, Greece) specializes in IP s ...
LONDON – Five companies will account for 64 percent of the global semiconductor industry's capital expenditure of $61.4 billion in 2012, a total that is 6 percent less than the 2011 chip capex of ...
SAN FRANCISCO—The venture capital arm of South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. made a $4 million strategic investment in Carbon Design Systems Inc., a supplier of unified virtual prototypes f ...
LONDON – X-Fab Silicon Foundries AG (Erfurt, Germany) has announced a manufacturing process for 3-D inertial sensors based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The company claims it is the first ...
U.S. thermal energy storage capacity to triple by 2020
LONDON – South Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has broken ground on a wafer fab for NAND memory production in Xian, in northwestern China. Initially Samsung is investing $2.3 bil ...
LONDON – Some authorities around the world are suspicious of Chinese telecom giant Huawei, distrusting its connections to the Chinese government, and expressing concern that its telecoms equipment cou ...
SAN FRANCISCO—U.S. regulators won't hold up Micron Technology Inc.'s proposed $2.5 billion acquisition of bankrupt Japanese DRAM vendor Elpida Memory Inc., but other hurdles to closing the dea ...
SAN FRANCISCO--On the surface, it seemed odd. But Advanced Micro Devices and the San Francisco Giants know their audiences. The major league baseball club knows many of its local fans are techies, and ...
WASHINGTON – Three new university research centers to be funded by the National Science Foundation will focus on developing nanotechnology systems that could be used in electromagnetic, mobile computi ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Claiming an industry first, computational design tool vendor D2S Tuesday (Sept. 11) rolled out a model-based mask data preparation (MB-MDP) tool said to offer fully automated, full-chip ...
LONDON – In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the Central Intelligence Agency, has invested an undisclosed amount in Imprint Energy Inc., a startup developing zinc-based rechargeable battery technology. In ...
Fairchild appoints industry veteran as president and COO
SAN FRANCISCO—Apple Inc.'s iPhone 5—widely anticipated to launch Wednesday (Sept. 12)—is expected to spur the global smartphone market back to growth in the second half of the year after contracti ...
SAN FRANCISCO--Trying to catch up and even surpass Apple’s Siri and Google’s Wallet, Intel Corp. showed efforts with Nuance and Mastercard--and offered a $1 million prize--for creating novel user inte ...
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SAN FRANCISCO – Longer battery life and better graphics lead a laundry list of improvements in Intel’s next-generation CPU, Haswell. Intel described its first new architecture for its 22-nm tri-gate t ...
LONDON – Audience Inc., a supplier of audio processing ICs and intellectual property, said Apple is unlikely to "enable" Audience's IP in its next generation iPhone 5, which is expected ...
LONDON – Worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings in the second quarter were down sequentially and annually, according to industry association SEMI. However while the global picture wa ...
LONDON – STMicroelectronics is planning production stoppages at its wafer fabs in Crolles, France, and Catania, Italy, amid reports that CEO Carlo Bozotti will soon announce a reorganization of the co ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Trying to stake a deeper claim in the embedded space, Intel has rolled out a framework for management and security middleware at its annual Intel Developer Forum here. The software ...