Analyst: Only six chip firms to expand capex in 2012
Does the math add up for RedMere + Fresco = Spectra7?
Sales, profits falling at ASML, but outlook steady
PORTLAND, Ore.—Altierre Corp. Wednesday (July 18) debuted a new e-paper for signage applications, offering customers the opportunity to take advantage of wireless updates using Altierre's E-Paper ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Claiming to offer the first phase change memory (PCM) in high-volume production, U.S. memory chip vendor Micron Technology Inc. Tuesday (July 17) announced the availability of a 45-nm mu ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Pat Gelsinger, a longtime Intel Corp. executive who has been president and chief operating officer at EMC Corp. since 2009, was appointed CEO of virtualization software vendor VMware Inc ...
SAN JOSE –The Full Service Access Network, an alliance of about 85 telecom providers and their vendors, picked a technical proposal for 40 Gbit/second passive optical networks. The group is hammering ...
SAN JOSE – Mobile chip designer ST-Ericsson grew revenues but failed to shave net losses in its most recent financial quarter. The troubled company--just three months into a makeover--predicted flat s ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Intel Corp. Tuesday (July 17) cut its target for 2012 sales growth, citing macroeconomic uncertainty and reduced projections for consumer spending in the second half of the year.Intel (S ...
SAN FRANCISCO—DRAM pricing is set to increase as inventory levels fall relative to demand, according to a new report from market research firm IHS iSuppli. IHS's weeks of inventory DRAM index, whi ...
SAN JOSE – Texas Instruments is moving its line of Keystone II SoCs beyond cellular base stations to target coprocessing jobs in servers. However, TI does not plan to deliver members of the family aim ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Worldwide semiconductor sales on a three-month average basis were likely about $24.55 billion in June, up slightly from $24.4 billion in May, but down from May on a seasonally adjusted b ...
SAN FRANCISCO—A pair of privately held chip startups that have taken more than $80 million in venture funding combined to date announced Tuesday (July 17) they would merge with a holding company to cr ...
I just received an email from Shepard "Shep" Siegel, who is the founder and CTO of Atomic Rules. Shep started off by saying "EE Times probably won’t run this on the cover, but we are ju ...
An audio DSP chip from NXP Semiconductor NV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) is able to boost the output power of small speakers used in smartphones and tablet computers by a factor of five while still pr ...
PORTLAND, Ore. – The volume of STMicroelectronics’ latest 6-axis MEMS chip has been halved and the device adds programmable motion sensing engines. ST’s iNEMO inertial module, the LSM330, combines a 3 ...
Elad Mentovich, a Ph.D. student at Tel Aviv University, has made a vertical transistor based on a single carbon-60 molecule that he reckons could be the basis for both a logic transistor and a memory ...
Researchers at Samsung Electronics and board members at LG Display have been charged over the theft of organic light emitting diode (OLED) display technology, according to local reports.Information re ...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has agreed to pay CSR plc (Cambridge, England) $310 million for its handset connectivity and location operations and the associated technology. Samsung has also agreed to ...
Marissa Mayer has been named CEO of Yahoo Inc. after 13 years at Google Inc., where she served as one of the top executives on the search company’s management team. Employee number 20 and the first fe
EDA firm gets funding from Russia after nine years
SAN JOSE – Smartphones are headed for the big screen and Samsung, not Apple, set the trend. Samsung’s Galaxy Note and S3 handsets foreshadow what I expect to be the next important element in smartphon ...
MANHASSET, NY -- Agilent Technologies Inc. and AT4 wireless have signed a definitive agreement for Agilent to acquire the assets of AT4 wireless’ Test Systems business. Privately held AT4 wireless (Ma ...
Energy Micro opens design center in Kraków, Poland
NEW YORK -- Maxim Integrated Products is attempting to take analog integration to a new level by combining up to seven sensors in a tiny 2 x 2 mm optical package. According to one analyst, the move is ...
Tablets to outsell notebooks in 2016, says analyst
SAN FRANCISCO – A consortium touting fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI) technology for mobile computing applications presented a united front this week in promoting the process technology as ...
EDA firm gets funding from Russia after nine years
LONDON – The French government is considering ways to tax Internet based companies that contrive to sell products and services in France without paying much to the government there by way of taxes, ac ...
LONDON – Heliatek GmbH, a 2006 startup company pioneering the development and manufacture of flexible, organic photovoltaic cells, is about to begin production of the first such products at its Dresde ...
SAN JOSE – Engineers will get the first look inside new x86, Power and Sparc microprocessors at the Hot Chips conference next month. The event will cast a wide net that includes chips for cellular bas ...
The free market and many other natural systems are supposedly about the survival of the fittest. The survival of the best companies, the success of the best products, the best processors and ICs, and ...
The free market and many other natural systems are supposedly about the survival of the fittest. The survival of the best companies, the success of the best products, the best processors and ICs, and ...
Microsemi completes impressive FPGA reliability testing
NEW YORK – With multiple investigations already underway in the U.S. and Europe targeting illegal sales to Iran by Chinese telecom giants ZTE and Huawei, reports surfaced in Friday (July 13) that the ...
LONDON – ScienceWorks Ventures plc has announced that its subsidiary company InfiniLED Ltd. has closed a first round of funding from IL Investment Group (Quebec, Ontario).InfiniLED (Cork, Ireland) is ...
Will GlobalFoundries Inc. or some other manifestation of the oil-rich state of Abu Dhabi, be buying the chip R&D and business interests of IBM any time soon? And what would be the price?Future Hor ...
Europe's role in next-gen wafer at risk, says analyst
LONDON – The global market for semiconductors will grow by 4 percent in 2012, according to market research company Future Horizons Ltd. (Sevenoaks, England). Malcolm Penn, CEO of the company, announce ...
SAN FRANCISCO—The value of Moore's Law—the doubling of the number of transistors in a chip every 18 months—is not just in the cost reduction it offers but more importantly in the added value that ...
PORTLAND, Ore.—The latest six-axis MEMS combo chip combining a three-axis accelerometer and three-axis gyroscope from Invensense Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) sets a new low in size and power. "Our ne ...
Xilinx to invest $50M expanding operations in Ireland
SAN FRANCISCO – A consortium touting fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI) technology for mobile computing applications presented a united front this week in promoting the process technology as ...
The free market and many other natural systems are supposedly about the survival of the fittest. The survival of the best companies, the success of the best products, the best processors and ICs, and ...
License and maintenance was very strong this quarter (7.5%) and stronger than overall EDA in the first quarter of 2012 which increased 6.3 percent to $1536.9 million, compared to $1446.4 million in th ...
LONDON – Security R&D and licensing company Cryptography Research Inc. (CRI) has agreed a deal with Discretix Technologies Ltd. allowing Discretix to develop products incorporating differential po ...
MANHASSET, NY -- Vitesse Semiconductor has introduced an 11-port Gigabit Ethernet switch targeted at low-power industrial Ethernet and enterprise applications. The VSC7414 dissipates a total of 1.6W, ...
SAN FRANCISCO--According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the U.S. saw the number of employed people jump by 128,000 in June.Despite the addition of some 80,000 new jobs last month, ...
Thin Film printed electronics selected for smart packaging
MANHASSET, NY -- Vitesse Semiconductor has introduced an 11-port Gigabit Ethernet switch targeted at low-power industrial Ethernet and enterprise applications. The VSC7414 dissipates a total of 1.6W, ...