Elpida submits restructuring plan advancing Micron deal
Thanks to Apple, Samsung's foundry sales to surge again in 2012
NEW YORK—In another sign that Cirrus Logic Inc. is sharply focused on the consumer audio market, it has sold its Apex Precision Power business for $26 million to a group of private investors led by Al ...
Globalfoundries projected to surpass UMC in foundry rankings
"Emotion" is the last thing any scientist or design engineer wants to deal with, especially when it comes to developing computing systems. "Oh, dear," Rosalind Picard, professor ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Semiconductor firms and suppliers raised $72.5 million in July, up 127 percent from June but down 11 percent compared with July 2012, according to the Global Semiconductor Association (G ...
SAN JOSE -- The nine regular Joes and Janes of the San Jose jury in the Apple vs. Samsung patent infringement case have quite a task ahead of them when they arrive at work on 9am Wednesday morning.The ...
SAN JOSE – Adapteva Inc. (Lexington, Mass.) has released an OpenCL compiler for its Epiphany multicore floating–point processor. The company hopes the open source tool will help expand its addressable ...
ADI’s Fishman bullish on growth prospects, despite macroeconomic uncertainty
SAN FRANCISCO—ON Semiconductor Corp. said Wednesday (Aug. 22) it would eliminate about 250 jobs as part of a previously disclosed plan to reduce costs.ON Semi (Phoenix) said in a regulatory filing tha ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Taiwanese foundry United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) said Tuesday (Aug. 21) its board of directors voted to close the company's 200-mm fab in Japan in an effort to cut costs amid di ...
Yoshida in China: Battles heat up over high-end data users
SAN FRANCISCO—Semiconductor technology licensor Rambus Inc. plans to cut its workforce by about 15 percent--or about 75 jobs--as part of a restructuring plan expected to save the company $30 million t ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Apple and Samsung both made compelling points in closing arguments of a case in which Apple seeks more than $2.751 billion. Here’s a sampler of their comments from four hours in fro ...
WASHINGTON – A traffic safety initiative launched this week (Aug. 21) will equip 3,000 cars, trucks and buses with Wi-Fi connections designed to help vehicles avoid crashes and improve traffic flow, p ...
Synopsys raises profit target again after strong quarter
Report: Dongbu Group likely to acquire Daewoo Electronics
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 (Aug. 21 ...
Johnson Controls, XL Hybrids in lithium-ion battery deal
Queen Elizabeth is looking for a few visionary engineers
MANHASSET, NY -- 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 Apex ...
Yoshida in China: Tight-fisted migrant workers aren't buying products they make
Running shoes, hosiery, and nylon shirts can be death for electronic circuits. Taken together, they can generate an electrostatic discharge (ESD) of 30,000V for the briefest of moments, sending handhe ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – The aging PC is about to get a makeover with new user interfaces courtesy of Microsoft Windows 8. Synaptics hopes to provide some of the cosmetics, extending its reach into larger, ...
SAN JOSE – Startup SimpliVity (Westborough, Mass.) comes out of stealth mode today debuting an integrated server, storage and networking system packed into a single 2U box. The OmniCube uses VMWare’s ...
SAN JOSE – Nimbus Data debuts at this week's Flash Memory Summit its Gemini flash-storage appliance using two novel but unnamed controllers to keep pace with red hot competition in the emerging se ...
SAN JOSE – A new group will tackle an issue that’s been a hot debate in communications for at least two years—should the next big leap for Ethernet be to 400 Gbits/second or a Terabit/s. The IEEE 802. ...
MANHASSET, NY -- Ethertronics’ chip division has leveraged its AIRFDC technology into the EtherChip 1.0 chip, the first in a series of building blocks for RF front-end modules used in smart phones.The ...
In Asia-Pacific region, local firms enjoy Apple-like chip buying perks
SAN FRANCISCO—EDA vendor Mentor Graphics Corp. said Friday (Aug. 17) it filed another patent infringement suit against French emulation tool vendor EVE SA, the latest in an escalating legal battle bet ...
SAN JOSE – The patent system, as much as anything, is what’s on trial in the Apple vs. Samsung case about to go to the jury here.In my opinion, Apple did something novel with the iPhone: It delivered ...
WASHINGTON – The Curiosity rover now gearing up to explore a 96-mile-wide crater on Mars is by far the most complex machine ever to explore the surface of another planet. One big reason is the rover’s ...
SAN FRANCISCO— Non-volatile memory IP vendor Sidense Corp. claimed legal victory over rival Kilopass Technology Inc. Thursday (Aug. 17) after a U.S. federal court ruled that Kilopass could not present ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Apple and Samsung lawyers both got a dressing down from Judge Lucy Koh as the clock ran down on their high-profile patent infringement case here.In the morning session, Koh chided A ...
Samsung Semi to expand Silicon Valley R&D facilitiy
NEW YORK -- There’s no better example that reflects Microsemi Corp.’s position as a high-reliability semiconductor player than its relationship with NASA and its role as a supplier of mission-critical ...
'Stupid' to show IP on unfrozen standard--Sanmsung
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Apple and Samsung lawyers both got a dressing down from Judge Lucy Koh as the clock ran down on their high-profile patent infringement case here.In the morning session, Koh chided A ...
MADISON, Wis. – The Nikkei, Japan’s economic journal, reported Friday (Aug. 17) that Foxconn owner Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. is now asking to double its planned stake in Sharp Corp. to about 20 p ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Chip vendor Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Thursday (Aug. 16) reported sales for the quarter ended July 28 that came up short of analysts' expectations. Company executives, who cited ...
SAN JOSE – Apple and Samsung lawyers both got a dressing down from Judge Lucy Koh as the clock ran down on their high-profile patent infringement case here.In the morning session, Koh chided Apple att ...
SAN FRANCISCO—The book-to-bill ratio for North America-based semiconductor equipment vendors slipped to 0.87 on a three-month average basis in July, the fourth consecutive month that the figure has de ...
Fujitu Semi's top U.S. exec spies opportunities for growth
The hubris over "conflict minerals" has resumed. Several high-tech companies are being hailed as heroes for "pioneering progress toward wiping out the use of conflict minerals," ac ...
Three students named winners of Synopsys optical design award
Applied sees semi equipment orders bottoming by October
SAN FRANCISCO—Spectra7 Microsystems, formed last month from the combination of Fresco Microchip and RedMere Technologies, said it closed more than $11 million in funding from venture capital firms Cel ...
Yoshida in China: Worries about declining U.S. investors
Fujitu Semi's top U.S. exec spies opportunities for growth
MANHASSET, N.Y. -- Electronics manufacturing operations with a total value of at least $2.5 billion are expected to be brought back to North America in the next three years with companies citing quali ...