Smartphones projected to be majority of handsets shipped in 2013
Smartphones projected to be majority of handsets shipped in 2013
AMD's Jaguar packs four cores in one for mobile
CUPERTINO, Calif. – Advanced Micro Devices will describe Jaguar, a low-power x86 core for notebooks, tablets and embedded systems at Hot Chips here. Jaguar packs four x86 cores into one unit with a la ...
Xilinx buys embedded Linux tool vendor PetaLogix
SAN FRANCISCO—Programmable logic provider Xilinx Inc. said Tuesday (Aug. 28) it acquired embedded Linux solutions provider PetaLogix. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Xilinx (San Jose, Calif.) sa ...
Making every TV 'smart'
2012-08-29 02:01:46Making every TV 'smart'
PORTLAND, Ore.–Hillcrest Labs Inc. announced Tuesday (Aug. 28) it downsized its motion processing algorithms to run on an 8-bit microcontroller inside a television remote control. Known as Freespace M ...
ST forms joint venture with Chinese car maker
LONDON – Europe's largest chip company STMicroelectronics (Geneva, Switzerland) and Chinese automobile maker FAW Group Corp. (Changchun, China) have formed a joint laboratory to conduct research i ...
Yoshida in China: Fallout from Apple-Samsung lawsuit
Yoshida in China: Fallout of Apple-Samsung lawsuit
Jury foreman in Apple vs. Samsung had 'light bulb moment'
SAN JOSE, Calif. – As foreman of the jury that awarded Apple just over $1 billion in its patent infringement suit against Samsung, Velvin R. Hogan returned time and again to his experience as an elect ...
TSMC joins multibeam mask-writing club
LONDON – Leading foundry chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) has joined a multibeam mask writer development consortium hosted by IMS Nanofabrication AG (Vienna, Au ...
STATS ChipPAC qualifies TSV process
LONDON – Singaporean chip packaging and test company STATS ChipPAC Ltd. has announced it has "qualified" 300-mm mid- and back-end manufacturing using a through-silicon-via (TSV) process allo ...
Yoshida in China: Fallout of Apple-Samsung lawsuit
Yoshida in China: Fallout of Apple-Samsung lawsuit
Russia backs e-beam lithography firm
LONDON – Rusnano, the $10-billion nanotechnology investment arm of the Russian state, has led a round of financing into electron beam lithography equipment company Mapper Lithgraphy BV (Delft, The Net ...
ST forms JV with Chinese car maker
LONDON – Europe's largest chip company STMicroelectronics NV (Geneva, Switzerland) and Chinese automobile maker FAW Group Corp. (Changchun, China) have formed a joint laboratory to conduct researc ...
Teardown: Samsung tablet could have higher margin than iPad
Teardown: Samsung tablet could have higher margin than iPad
Intel partners with VMware on cloud security
SAN FRANCISCO—Intel Corp. will collaborate with VMware Inc. to deliver a platform for "trusted cloud" that combines Intel's Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) and VMware's vSphere 5. ...
Counterpoint: Apple scores a Pyrrhic victory
Apple has won a victory it may eventually regret. On Friday (Aug. 24), a California jury awarded Apple a tad over $1 billion in its patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics, which a jur ...
25th anniversary of flash memory sees 2.7ZB of data
25th anniversary of flash memory sees 2.7ZB of data
Finally, a hardware accelerator: Bolt's Ben Einstein on a leg up for startups
Experienced product designer and entrepreneur Ben Einsteinis part of a team in Boston looking to give hardware startupstheir fair share of the glory. Bolt,a new accelerator program that Einstein cofou ...
Apple vs. Samsung questions on the Monday after
I was out on a date recently (Note: Mature, handsome tech reporter available for dating in San Jose) and my date showed me her new Samsung SIII smartphone. I couldn’t resist testing to see whether it ...
Samsung to take 3% stake in ASML
SAN FRANCISCO—South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will invest $345.5 million to boost ASML Holding NV's extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and 450-mm lithography tool development and has committ ...
Fujitsu settles patent case with Acacia Research
SAN FRANCISCO—Acacia Research Corp., a patent portfolio holder and licensor, said Monday (Aug. 27) that it entered into a settlement agreement with Japan's Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd. and its U.S. ...
Cypress again ups ante for Ramtron
SAN FRANCISCO—Cypress Semiconductor Corp. said Monday (Aug. 27) it increased its offer to acquire FRAM vendor Ramtron International Corp. for a second time. Cypress (San Jose, Calif.) said it increase ...
Slideshow: The Apple/Samsung verdict form
The complexity of the Apple vs. Samsung case tripped up even the jury that made two boneheaded mistakes filling out there complex 33-question verdict form. Here are key extracts--warts and all--of the ...
After Apple win, Droids should feel afraid
SAN JOSE – The Android community should be very afraid in the wake of Apple’s clear win Friday in its case against Samsung in San Jose’s federal court. Apple is now armed with a handful of proven weap ...
Neil Armstrong, First Man
2012-08-27 03:01:35Neil Armstrong, First Man
WASHINGTON – Neil Alden Armstrong, who died unexpectedly Saturday (Aug. 25) from complications following heart bypass surgery, was largely misunderstood. I should know, having added to the myth that A ...
A tribute to the first man to walk on the Moon
The following are not our words. They come from a Washington DC-based think tank on policy for emerging technologies. EE Times does not endorse the organization. Here we just present a tribute in full ...
Apple awarded $1.05B in Samsung patent case
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Apple scored a significant but not complete legal victory in its landmark patent case against Koran rival Samsung, winning damages of $1.051 billion plus a verdict of willful infrin ...
Apple wins $1.05B in Samsung case
SAN JOSE – Apple had a big but not complete win in its landmark case with Samsung, winning damages of $1.051 billion from the jury plus a verdict of willful infringement on many counts. The willfulnes ...
Reaction to Apple's $1.05 billion patent infringement victory over Samsung
Live Twitter reaction in Apple-Samsung patent verdict
Experts see promise, threat in SDN, OpenFlow
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – A panel of experts gave mixed reviews on software-defined networking and the OpenFlow protocol at the annual Hot Interconnects conference here. Much of their conversation revolve ...
Chiphead
2012-08-25 07:04:01Chiphead
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Breaking News: Apple-Samsung verdict expected shortly
Breaking News: Apple-Samsung verdict expected shortly
Mentor riding 28-nm transition wave
SAN FRANCISCO—Mentor Graphics Corp. reported sales and earnings for the quarter ended July 31 that exceeded analysts' expectations, as the company's CEO said Mentor and fellow EDA vendors are ...
Live Twitter reaction in Apple-Samsung patent verdict
Live Twitter reaction in Apple-Samsung patent verdict
Seagate to buy former Solyndra plant
Disk-drive giant Seagate said late today (Aug. 23) it will buy the huge Solyndra solar-panel plant in Fremont, Calif., for $90.3 million, according to published reports.The 412,000-foot facility, a sy ...
Automotive IC sales roll in 2012
Automotive-IC sales roll; vehicle content up to $350
Yoshida in China: Does Apple need China Mobile?
The tech world is abuzz with speculation about a TD-SCDMA version of Apple iPhone, whose launch is anticipated later this year to specifically target China Mobile subscribers. However, I don’t think n ...
Qualcomm buys Israeli basestation SoC vendor
SAN FRANCISCO—Qualcomm Inc. said Thursday (Aug. 23) it acquired Israeli basestation system-on-chip (SoC) and software vendor DesignArt Networks Ltd. for an undisclosed sum. According to the English la ...
Zorian of Synopsys to head 50th DAC planning
The lead up to the 50th annual Design Automation Conference (DAC) has begun with the naming of the executive committee to be chaired by Yervant Zorian, chief architect at Synopsys. The executive com ...
IC market now seen shrinking in '12
SAN FRANCISCO—A key market watcher is expected to announce Friday (Aug. 24) a downgraded 2012 chip market forecast projecting sales to decline slightly compared to 2011. Based on weak economic conditi ...
New twist in Intel, ARM server war: Interconnects
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – A new front has opened up in the war over server microprocessors between Intel and ARM—interconnect. The technology is key to a range of chip-to-chip uses from high-speed network ...
Vicor has output-configurable MicroPAC power system
Vicor has output-configurable MicroPAC power system
Research on molybdenum disulfide sparks new apps
MANHASSET, N.Y. -- Molybdenum disulfide, used for many years as an industrial lubricant, promises to become another 2-D platform for electronic devices on par with graphene, itself a 2-D platform for ...
Research in molybdenum disulfide sparks new apps
MANHASSET, NY -- Molybdenum disulfide, used for many years as an industrial lubricant, promises to become another 2-D platform for electronic devices on par with graphene, itself a 2-D platform for ne ...
Apex reemerges as analog chip company
MANHASSET, N.Y. -- Apex Microtechnology, Inc., which Cirrus Logic acquired in July 2007, has been re-established as a stand-alone corporation as the result of Cirrus Logic selling its Tucson-based Ape ...
Cypress tips upgraded IDE for PSoC
SAN FRANCISCO—Cypress Semiconductor Corp. Monday (Aug. 20) rolled out a new version of the development environment for its PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families featuring more than100 ...
Updated: Curiosity ready to roll despite sensor damage
WASHINGTON – A damaged wind sensor is the first setback for the otherwise nearly flawless mission of the Mars Curiosity rover.NASA managers believe one of two “mini-booms” containing sensors to track ...
Electronics manufacturers emerging from recession
WASHINGTON – Electronics manufacturers who have retooled their operations to boost profits are emerging from the recession faster than their counterparts in the automotive and industry sectors, accord ...
Yoshida in China: Gap between rich, poor grows wider
Yoshida in China: Rich/poor gap dangerously widens
Samsung to invest $4B to upgrade Austin chip fab
SAN FRANCISCO—A subsidiary of South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to invest $4 billion to beef up the company's logic semiconductor fab in Austin, Texas, the company said Tuesday ...
Apple vs. Samsung jury hears 84 instructions
SAN JOSE – On the third of four “stand up breaks” during the reading of 84 jury instructions in the Apple vs. Samsung case someone exclaimed in the overflow room “How can [the jury] keep track of all ...