NEW YORK—When NXP Semiconductor went public two years ago, the company was debt-ridden with $4.5 billion on its books and faced with the arduous task of streamlining its product portfolio to emerge as ...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- The demise of the automobile has been greatly exaggerated thanks in large part to engineering innovations by automotive electronics companies.The auto market has been revived th ...
LONDON – Taiwan's United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), which has been a struggling number two behind foundry leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC), could get one over on its lo ...
MIAMI – More than a third of all Google Android applications contain some form of malware, according to tests conducted by BT. A security expert for the U.K. telecom service provider said it expects t ...
NEW YORK – Wow. Talk about alternative reality… or, should I say, revisionist history?I am talking about Intel’s recently launched ‘Me The Musical’ campaign, which piggy- backs on Facebook. ...
LONDON – Japan's Fujitsu Ltd. has attempted to open up talks about the sale of its main wafer fab to foundry chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., according to reports. The wafer ...
LONDON – Fully depleted FinFET style transistors made on SOI wafers are likely to allow between half and one-third the leakage current of FinFETs made on bulk silicon according to TCAD simulations per ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Physicists at the University of Texas-Austin say they have developed the world's smallest semiconductor laser in collaboration with colleagues in Taiwan and China. The researchers sa ...
MIAMI – The Metro Ethernet Forum has started technical work on standards to support cloud computing and software-defined networking over carrier-grade Ethernet. First fruits from the work that started ...
SAN JOSE – Data traffic is expected to grow ten-fold from 2010 to 2015 and up to 100-fold by 2020, according to a new report from the IEEE’s Ethernet standards group. The assessment aimed to lay a fou ...
LONDON – Processor intellectual property licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) has invited four U.K. companies to help it form an industry forum to help shape the Internet of Things. The work ...
PARIS – After a 1-percent decline in 2009 and an unprecedented 5-percent surge in 2010, global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) increased by 3 percent in 2011, to 34 billion tons, according to the an ...
LONDON – SEMI, the international trade association that represents the interests of semiconductor equipment and materials companies, is planning for a 3-D packaging and through silicon via (TSV) meeti ...
LONDON – ARM CEO Warren East is not concerned that Intel Corp. is developing a lead in process technology of the foundries that ARM licensees usually deal with. This is despite the fact that FinFET te ...
LONDON – Next generation headsets and glasses frames will be able to deliver audio in compact way without having to use ear buds or stick things in the ear canal, according to HiWave Technologies plc ...
PARIS – The global photovoltaic (PV) inverter market shrank in terms of revenues in 2011 but will return to growth in 2012, exceeding $7 billion, according to IMS Research.In its annual report, titled ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Cadence Design Systems Inc. President and CEO Lip-Bu Tan said Wednesday (July 25) he expects to see design activity remain at a good pace in the second half of the year, despite macroeco ...
NASA preps spacecraft for risky Mars landing attempt
SAN FRANCISCO—The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) Wednesday (July 25) finding that a group of chip makers did not violate several patents held by technology licensor Rambus Inc.Wednesday' ...
MIAMI – A ruling by Brazil’s telecom officials is expected to tee up a multi-billion bonanza in capital spending on telecom networks.Anatel, Brazil’s equivalent of the U.S. Federal Communications Comm ...
Apple coming to dominate electronics supply chain, says IHS
MANHASSET, NY -- Market research firm IHS iSuppli, in its latest report, has confirmed Texas Instruments’ purchase of National Semiconductor has boosted TI’s market share, reinforcing its dominance in ...
Black Hat: Impersonating Microsoft Exchange servers to manipulate mobile devices
A competitor at the 2012 London Summer Olympics will be running on carbon fiber blades attached to his amputated legs. Double amputee Oscar Pistorius of South Africa is expected to compete in the Olym ...
LONDON – The world's leading foundry chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. is considering operating single-customer wafers, according to chairman and CEO Morris Chang.Chang, speak ...
SAN JOSE – After testifying before Congress about security vulnerabilities in civil GPS systems last week, Todd Humphreys is convinced the industry needs a new approach to plugging holes in what he ca ...
Processor IP firm sues Amazon, Samsung, Huawei, ZTE, others
LONDON – Mixed-signal chip company NXP Semiconductor NV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) has posted an increased loss on sales that climbed sequentially in the second quarter but were down year-on-year.NX ...
LONDON – Processor IP licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) has posted yet another quarter with increased sales and profits. As it announced its 2Q12 financial results ARM highlighted that it ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Broadcom Corp. President and CEO Scott McGregor Tuesday (July 24) downplayed speculation that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s acquisition of CSR plc's mobile business posed a thre ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Japan's Toshiba Corp. said Tuesday (July 24) it would cut its production of flash memory chips by about 30 percent, effective immediately, due to market oversupply and price declines ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Globalfoundries Inc. said Tuesday (July 24) it would move forward with the final construction of Module 1 at its Fab 8 campus in upstate New York, a move that will bring the total manufa ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Micron Technology Inc.'s move to acquire bankrupt Japanese DRAM vendor Elpida Memory Inc. is a bold move that carries risk, particularly if the integration and technology transfer do ...
RS Components signs global distribution agreement for HiWave Technologies audio and haptic devices
Despite record iPad sales, Apple's revenue comes up short
SAN FRANCISCO—Chinese chip foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) Monday (July 23) increased its second quarter sales and gross margin forecast, citing improved business.SMIC ( ...
LONDON – Qualcomm Inc. (San Diego, Calif.) has said it will focus its manufacturing of Mirasol sunlight-readable displays on a limited set of products and try and license the technology out to other c ...
NEW YORK -- We all feel like we’ve already seen the movie: “Downfall of the Feature Phones.” Our heroes are Apple and Samsung. They take over the world with their smartphones, while Nokia — the ste ...
LONDON – The market for automotive ICs is set to grow 8 percent in 2012 to an annual value of $19.6 billion, according to market research company IC Insights Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).The crash of 2008 ...
Chip set shortage, weak economy mars Fairchild’s sales growth
Slideshow: A blacksmith shop in the heart of high tech
Qualcomm, Renault team on wireless electric vehicle charging
Chinese safety requirement may be de facto global standard
LONDON – A combination of continued losses and renewed market softness for Europe's leading chip company STMicroelectronics NV has led the company to make a 25 percent cut in its capital expenditu ...
MANHASSET, NY -- Ferroelectric random access memory supplier Ramtron has entered into a new manufacturing and license partnering agreement with Rohm Co., Ltd. to manufacture Fram-based semiconductor p ...
Here in the U.K. we are about to stage the London Olympic Games. It will be hard to do better than the amazing ceremony that opened the Beijing Olympics four years before, so I am expecting that we wo ...
LONDON – Processor intellectual property licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) has signed up Prometric Inc. (Baltimore, Md.) to design and deliver the ARM Accredited Engineer certification pr ...
Chipset shortage, weak economy mars Fairchild’s sales growth
Astronaut Sally Ride’s battle with cancer ended today (July 23). The California physicist and first U.S. woman to fly in space was 61.Ride was part of the first astronaut class to include woman in 197 ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Network infrastructure chip vendor Mindspeed Technologies Inc. Monday (July 23) announced plans to cut more than 80 jobs as part of a restructuring plan to reduce costs.Mindspeed (Newpor ...