SAN FRANCISCO—Qualcomm Inc. said Monday (June 18) it acquired programmable power IC vendor Summit Microelectronics Inc. for an undisclosed sum.Qualcomm (San Diego) said the acquisition would enhance t ...
CUSTER, Wis. – One of the stars of the annual renewable energy festival was lithium-ion battery technology, which is slowly making the transition from a power source for electronic devices to the prim ...
SAN FRANCISCO—The board of directors of nonvolatile ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM) maker Ramtron International Corp. reviewed and rejected a proposal by Cypress Semiconductor Corp. to acqui ...
OLEDs are hitting their stride this year in all segments
SAN JOSE – Intel Corp.’s second run at the graphics market is catching some badly needed traction.Supercomputer maker Cray announced today it will use in its high profile Cascades system Knights Corne ...
Europe asks if it is time for an 'Airbus of chips'
Six-axis sensor fuses accelerometer with magnetometer
SAN JOSE – IBM re-took the lead on the latest edition of the list of the world’s Top 500 supercomputers with Sequoia, a 16.32 petaflops system packing more than 1.5 million custom Power cores. It is b ...
On Monday, Microsoft is expected to introduce a tablet computer of its own design that runs a new version of its Windows operating system, according to people with knowledge of Microsoft’s plans who d ...
SAN JOSE – Silicon Valley is becoming the next Detroit, but Detroit is by no means asleep at the wheel these days when it comes to connected, green vehicles.“There are a lot of hybrids and electric ve ...
Chinese RF chip vendor Nationz licenses MIPS32 M4K cores
I just heard from the folks at Xilinx that they are going to feature the advantages of their All Programmable Technologies for carrier-class optical networking at the WDM and Next Generation Optical N ...
Large capacity LiFePO4 batteries require high power chargers
Research project to avoid rare-earth metals for electric motors
SAN FRANCISCO – Via Licensing will roll out in the next few months a patent pool for 4G LTE cellular technology with more than 20 members including AT&T. The effort comes as two other LTE licensin ...
SAN JOSE – Taking its expertise with chip startups to the mainland, Silicon Valley Bank aims to be the first U.S. tech-focused bank operating in China by September when it opens the doors on a new joi ...
Awinic, China fabless, flourishes by mimicking Huawei work ethic
Dallas, TX.--Texas Instruments Inc., has shown off Windows RT running on an Omap powered Toshiba tablet on video for the first time.Microsoft's operating system, adapted for the ARM ecosystem, see ...
SAN FRANCISCO – In an effort to leapfrog AT&T and Verizon, T-Mobile is deploying base stations for what it hopes will be the first cellular network to support Release 10, the next generation of LT ...
The announcement earlier today by Nokia Corp. that it will eliminate one of every five jobs in its mobile handset division and remove three senior executives didn't impress investors who promptly ...
Qualcomm, Lantiq team on home gateway reference design
Power IC vendor taps Dongbu HiTek's analog process
BELLEVUE, Wash.—Thanks to higher average selling prices (ASPs) in the wake of supply disruptions caused by last year's rampant flooding in Thailand, overall hard disk drive (HDD) sales hit a recor ...
Nokia Corp. has replaced three senior executives, including the head of its mobile phone division. And it plans to reduce payroll by up to 10,000 as it struggles to restore profitability and improve i ...
Imec, Panasonic R&D collaboration to include flexible electronics
PARIS – Wafer maker Soitec SA announced it has completed construction and grid connection of its 1.17-megawatt-peak (MWp) concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar power plant in the Belpasso municipality ...
The story of Samsung in the smartphone landscape is an intriguing one. No more than three years ago, Samsung was considered a minor player in the handset industry, lagging in sales and stature behind ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Texas Instruments Inc. Wednesday (June 13) detailed progress in integrating through-silicon-vias (TSVs) into the company's advanced 28-nm CMOS process with little or no impact on nearby ...
Toshiba shows first SCSI-like Universal Flash demo system
A UK startup is set to launch a phased array antenna system that allows moving vehicles to communicate with satellites, or antennas that track satellites, in real time with no moving parts.Phasor Solu ...
SHANGHAI - On its surface, Apexone Microelectronics Inc., consisting of 40 people in Shanghai, is your typical one-trick Chinese fables chip company. The company designs an optical sensor chip that ...
BELLEVUE, Wash.—Japan's Toshiba Corp. posted NAND flash memory sales of $1.71 billion in the first quarter, up 19 percent from the fourth quarter of 2011, the highest growth rate among all NAND suppli ...
BELLEVUE, Wash.—Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) will develop a platform security processor using an ARM Cortex-A5 CPU for inclusion in accelerated processing units (APUs) that will be available star ...
In April 2011 I was already been arguing that AMD would eventually have to license ARM processor cores. And at the first AMD Fusion developers conference in June 2011 Phil Rogers, AMD Fellow, said tha ...
LONDON – Nanoelectronics research center IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) is evaluating options for so-called replacement metal gate (RMG) technology to allow further transistor scaling and to follow-on to the ...
SAN JOSE – Can you pass the software test? That’s the question The National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying will answer when it offers its first Principles and Practice of Engineeri ...
SAN JOSE – Notebooks, netbooks, smartphones, tablets…what other sorts of systems or combinations of existing systems are out there to be discovered?That’s the question Asustek posed about a year ago w ...
AMD, ARM, Imagination, TI, MediaTek form HSA group
ARM has been doing better at shipping graphics cores than it has been given credit for, according to Jem Davies, ARM Fellow and vice president of technology for the media processing division. Some rat ...
BELLEVUE, Wash.—The market for communications semiconductors is projected to grow moderately in 2012 after a 3 percent decline in 2011, according to a new report by the Linley Group, a market research ...
SK Hynix buys Italian flash expertise, forms R&D center
Fujitsu tips bi-directional transcoders with integrated memory
Imec, Kaneka claim 22.68% heterojunction solar cell efficiency
WASHINGTON – Battery specialist A123 Systems said Tuesday (June 12) it has developed a battery technology advance that enables lithium ion batteries to operate more efficiently in extreme temperatures ...
LONDON – Memory IC maker SK Hynix Inc. has agreed to develop non-volatile phase-change memory technology and products with IBM. SK Hynix will manufacture the memories, which will offer multi-level cel ...
LONDON – Chip company Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.) has announced it has offered to acquire all the outstanding stock of non-volatile memory company Ramtron International Corp. (Color ...
LONDON – Processor intellectual property licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) has provided some details of the Mali-450, a graphics processor based on ARM's Utgard architecture.T450 offers u ...
Dolphin Integration, LFoundry team to serve defense, industrial markets
BELLEVUE, Wash.—Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) Monday (June 11) announced the formation of a business unit dedicated to marketing the company's accelerated processing units (APUs) for embedded appl ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings reached $10.61 billion in the first quarter, up 14 percent from the previous quarter, but down 9 percent from the same period of ...