LONDON – Foundry chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. now foresees the start of volume production of ICs on 450-mm diameter wafers in 2018, according to local reports that reference ...
PORTLAND, Ore.—Chip equipment vendor KLA-Tencor Corp. rolled out new tools for overlay control and photomask inspection Wednesday (Sept. 5) at the Semicon Taiwan tradeshow in Taipei. Multi-patterning ...
LONDON – Warren East, the CEO of U.K. processor licensor ARM Holdings plc, is warning that sales will slow in second half in 2012 due global economic uncertainty. In an interview with the Financial ...
LONDON – Spending on research and development by semiconductor companies worldwide is expected to grow 10 percent in 2012 to a record high of $53.4 billion, according to market analysis firm IC Insigh ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Silicon wafer supplier MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. said Wednesday (Sept. 5) it agreed to pay 70 million euro (about $88.2 million) to specialty chemical provider Evonik Industries AG ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Intel Corp. announced positive results from a year-long test of a novel system that cools servers by immersing them in mineral oil. The CarnotJet vat from Green Revolution Cooling ( ...
LONDON – In a return to the 20th century days of electromechanical computation IBM and STMicroelectronics are working on a project to enable a low-power processor made from nanometer-scale mechanical ...
SAN FRANCISCO—EDA and IP vendor Cadence Design Systems Inc. said Tuesday (Sept. 4) that the first products in its DDR4 SDRAM PHY and memory controller IP family have been proven in silicon on TSMC' ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – As many as 100 new patent examiners and administrative patent law judges will be setting up office in Silicon Valley by 2014, said Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), after receiving an ...
SAN FRANCISCO—The powerful alliance between Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. that has set the pace in the computer market for a generation is beginning to fray amid a new era of computing where new pla ...
VeriSilicon touts shift from fab lite to design lite
SAN FRANCISCO—Semiconductor sales improved slightly in July compared to June, but remained lower than July 2011, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) trade group. The SIA reported ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Here are ten things you can do if you are going or thinking of going to DesignEast in Boston (Sept. 17-20). They range from the highly practical to the merely cool.I’ll be headin ...
LONDON – Sol Chip Ltd. (Haifa, Israel), which is developing technology to integrate solar energy conversion with logic circuits, has raised an additional $1 million in funding.The company is planning ...
Fujitsu Semi offloads test and assembly operations
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Here are ten things you can do if you are going or thinking of going to DesignEast in Boston (Sept. 17-20). They range from the highly practical to the merely cool.I’ll be headin ...
LONDON – In a return to the 20th century days of electromechanical computation IBM and STMicroelectronics are working on a project to enable a low-power processor made from nanometer-scale mechanical ...
MANHASSET, NY -- FormFactor, Inc. has signed a merger agreement with Astria Semiconductor Holdings, Inc., the parent company of MicroProbe, Inc., to acquire MicroProbe for $100 million in cash and $16 ...
LONDON – Quantum computing has been brought a step closer to mass production by a research team led by scientists from the University of Bristol that has made a transition from using glass to silicon. ...
LONDON – Dongguan Tianyu Semiconductor Technology Co. Ltd., a start up formed in 2009, has started to extend its supply of silicon-carbide epitaxial wafers outside China after the completion of three ...
LONDON – Isorg SA (Grenoble, France), a 2010 startup company that can print optoelectronic sensors on plastic and glass surfaces to create novel forms of detection, gesture control and image sensing, ...
LONDON – Eight19 Ltd. (Cambridge, England) has decided to spin off its Indigo pay-as-you-go solar technology for off-grid markets as a company called Azuri Technologies Ltd. Eight19, a startup formed ...
LONDON – A Tokyo court has found Samsung not guilty of infringing Apple's intellectual property, in contrast to a jury decision and a $1.05 billion damage award in Apple's favor in a Californi ...
MANHASSET, NY -- Computer Simulation Technology launched CST BOARDCHECK for design engineers dealing with electromagnetic compatibility and signal integrity of PCBs to get a quick overview of potent ...
WASHINGTON – It’s been a momentous year for space exploration. The Mars Curiosity rover continues to astound with its desert southwest-like vistas of Gale Crater. The most complex machine ever sent to ...
MANHASSET, NY – Researchers have come up with a future manufacturing method for tiny structures with potentially revolutionary properties.A "nano machine shop" shapes nanowires and ultrathin ...
LONDON – The Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA) Foundation, a group formed by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and ARM Holdings plc amongst others to advance technology for multicore processing, has ...
LONDON – Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) component maker Memscap SA (Grenoble, France) said it has formed a partnership with Hanking Group to expand sales of the MUMPS multiproject wafer service ...
LONDON – A Tokyo court has found Samsung not guilty of infringing Apple's intellectual property, in contrast to the legal decision and the $1 billion ruling that went in favor of Apple and against ...
TOKYO – The Monday morning quarterbacks are out in force talking about what went wrong with Renesas Electronics over the past two years. Many of you have already spoken. And the analyses tend to be ri ...
LONDON – Intel is gearing up to make its wireless resonant energy link (WREL) technology a supporting element to its mobile computing and communications offering.IDT has announced that it has been sel ...
LONDON – Formosa Plastics Group, parent of Nanya Technology Corp., has put together a bail-out plan worth about $1 billion to keep the loss-making DRAM maker from delisting from the Taiwan stock excha ...
LONDON – Intel has selected mixed-signal fabless chip company Integrated Device Technology Inc. to make an transmitter and receiver ICs for Intel's resonant wireless energy transfer technology.Int ...
LONDON – What do Recore Systems BV and William Adams, otherwise known as rapper will.i.am, have in common? Recore Systems (Enschede, The Netherlands), a 2005 fabless startup, has recently presented a ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – In the next five years, ARM-based SoCs will grab about ten percent of the server market, according to a straw poll of engineers at the annual Hot Chips. ARM’s future in the data cen ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Velvin Hogan, the jury foreman in the Apple vs. Samsung patent infringement case, defended and provided more context on the $1.05 billion judgment against the South Korean consumer ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- In an extended interview, Velvin Hogan, the jury foreman in the Apple vs. Samsung patent infringement case, offers more insights into the jury deliberations that led to a $1.5 bill ...
CUPERTINO, Calif. – Tomorrow’s wireless networks need chips designed mainly for a new class of small-cell basestations that will serve the growing capacity needs of mobile data users. But just where t ...
LONDON – Semiconductor Ideas to the Market BV, otherwise known as ItoM, has reached a settlement with several chip companies, including Qualcomm and Broadcom, in a deal reportedly worth several millio ...
LONDON – Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has appointed Jack Harding, CEO of design and manufacturing services provider eSilicon Corp., to its board of directors.The moves marks yet another step in a subst ...
Verizon Wireless pre-certified Altair Semiconductor’s FourGee 3100/6200 LTE chipset to run over Verizon’s 4G LTE network, representing the first time that Verizon certified an LTE chip vs. a device. ...
TOKYO – Just a few hours after the news broke Wednesday morning (Aug. 29) about private equity firm KKR’s plans to invest 100 billion yen ($1.27 billion) in Renesas Electronics Corp., Yasushi Akao, pr ...
LONDON – Apple and Qualcomm have each offered more than a $1 billion to foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to obtain a dedicated supply of processor chips, and both their offers have been ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Six of the world's top 10 semiconductor suppliers booked chip sales in the second quarter that were lower than the second quarter of 2011, with four of the six experiencing double-di ...
CUPERTINO, Calif. – Advanced Micro Devices is making steady progress toward its goal of transforming itself into a system-on-chip company with broad industry backing for its chips.AMD expects to annou ...
CUPERTINO, Calif. – Intel provided the first look inside its Xeon Phi aka Knights Corner processor in a Hot Chips paper here. The chip packs more than 50 quad-threaded Pentium-class cores with 512-bit ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said Tuesday (Aug. 28) it lured another well-known semiconductor industry veteran to join the firm, continuing a recent run of high-profile talent recruiting. ...
Report: KKR to take over Renesas with $1.27 billion investment
SAN JOSE, Calif. – The Apple vs. Samsung case sent out two calls to action big as billboards along San Jose’s Highway 101: File more design patents. Register more trade dresses. These are the relative ...
Western Digital back on top of hard disk drive heap