Here are my informal, subjective nominations for the top innovations of 2017-Spoiler alert: It was a very good year!
Boosted by sales of automotive and power management ICs, the analog chip market segment is expected to growing fastest of all semiconductor product categories over the next five years, according to IC
Silicon Labs is riding high. The company's CEO Tyson Tuttle, buttonholed at the Consumer Electronics Show, conceded that his company has benefited from turmoil among its rivals, who have been preoccup
The semiconductor industry will slow this year and may go flat in 2019, said analysts looking over their shoulder for signs of an economic downturn.
Chip maker says probe into alleged anti-competitive practices is immaterial to its business and won't affect Qualcomm takeover bid.
CEO says preparation to insert next-generation EUV lithography into volume manufacturing
An analyst showed a detailed roadmap of process nodes using extreme ultraviolet lithography at Globalfoundries, Intel, Samsung, and TSMC.
Fabless giant agrees to concessions around near-field communications and MIFARE contactless payment technology in exchange for approval of its $38 billion proposed acquisition.
Paris-based VSORA says says its digital signal processor architecture and development platform target wireless mobile applications and boost computing power.
TSMC says that high-performance computing, including demand for chips used in cryptocurrency mining, has replaced smartphones as the key driver of its business.
Despite a tough stance on the acquisition of U.S. semiconductor companies by Chinese firms, government greenlights $15 million deal.
If deal with Bain-led consortium isn't finalized by March 31, Toshiba may take its memory chip spinoff public.
Videantis launched its sixth-generation processor IP architecture, which adds deep learning capability to a solution that combines computer vision, image processing and video coding from a single unif
Company hits notable milestone of recording revenue for its first 40nm 256Mb STT-MRAM products in the fourth quarter of 2017, now ramping its volume production in 2018 with a focus on applications tha
Brian Crutcher, currently the company's chief operating officer, to take the reins on June 1.
MIPS has returned to Santa Clara as an independent company, fresh with VC gold, and - it says - ready to hire.
A semiconductor vet called for help on an initiative to reach out to STEM grads in a war for talent that chipmakers are losing to cloud-computing giants.
A dozen startups are readying the first merchant chips to accelerate deep neural networks, but the underlying algorithms are still rapidly evolving.
Aldo Kamper's seven-year career as CEO of Osram Opto Semiconductors neatly overlaps the transformation of parent company Osram over the last decade. Basic semiconductor technologies- developed and man
Augmented reality may be further away and 5G cellular not as big as you think, according to two talks on the emerging markets.
Chip giant advises customers and ecosystem partners to stop installing patches to fix hardware vulnerabilities as testing begins on updated versions.
IBM, Intel, and AMD supercomputing platforms aim to beat China to exabyte computing, obsoleting the Top500's distributed-memory version of the Linpack benchmarks in the process.
Western Digital and startup Esperanto tipped plans for storage and machine-learning chips using the open-source RISC-V architecture.
CEA-Leti, one of the largest micro- and nanotechnologies research institutes in Europe, lost its head recently, but recovered by naming Emmanuel Sabonnadiere as CEO, succeeding Marie-Noelle Semeria. C
Billings among North American semiconductor tool makers declined sequentially in October for a fourth straight month.
Memory chip giants Samsung and SK Hynix increased their cumulative share of the mobile DRAM market to more than 85 percent in the third quarter while Micron Technology slipped.
Weebit Nano has been able to achieve 10 years' data retention achieved across 300nm 4Kb memory array cells at above room temperature.
HPE, the server and comms half of the former Hewlett Packard, named computer engineer Antonio Neri to succeed Meg Whitman as CEO.
Samsung, which has nearly half of the global DRAM market, is likely to crush smaller rivals after more than doubling its plan for capital expenditures in its semiconductor unit for this year, accordin
USound has developed microelectromechanical system (MEMS) chip-scale audio speakers, targeting in- and over-ear high-fidelity earbuds, smartphones, multidriver headphones, and other IoT wearables.
Chip stocks have surged in value over the past three years, but it might be time to sell before a downturn hits, according to Handel Jones of IBS.
In recent months, Soitec is talking up not just RF-SOI and FD-SOI, but Photonics-SOI, Imager-SOI and others. What are they, how are they engineered, and what are they for?
Startup Nano Global partnered with ARM to design SoCs than can detect and scrub pathogens in a wide range of medical and IoT products
Analysts generally praised the merger of Marvell and Cavium as diversifying into broader comms and networking markets but were wary of revenue and profit growth.
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Deal provides first glimpse of what may be a more aggressive stance on M&A for Mentor Graphics under Siemens ownership.
The AMMWR Simulator is a powerful tool that can accurately simulate the transmission and reception behavior of millimeter waves, taking development of autonomous driving sensing technology to a new le
The Kinetix 5700 servo drive: designed with the flexibility to scale machines with large axis counts and high power requirements. Click here to view the full Teardown.
Latest semiconductor industry blockbuster would result in firm with $3.4 billion in annual sales.
EE Times profiled 25 women in tech. Our goal is to trigger discussions in the workplace, and around the dinner table about women in engineering - not as numbers, but as real people, as colleagues and
A teardown of the iPhone 8 by iFixit shows good news for Qualcomm, NXP, Broadcom, and Skyworks, who maintain or expand sockets in Apple's latest handset.
STM32L4+ devices, part of STMicro's STM32 family, boast significantly higher performance at ultra-low power consumption.
We asked John Santagate, research director, Service Robotics, at market research firm IDC for his thoughts on the biggest trends that the robotics industry will see.
With the surge in popularity of voice activated digital assistants like Amazon Echo and the general frenzy of activity around artificial intelligence, a growing number of ASICs will incorporate these
Bosch Sensortec demonstrated its sophisticated three-tiered methodology for solving the real-time Big Data deluge with smart sensors that send summaries every few seconds to hubs, which in turn send t
Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), one of the world's largest high-tech research institutions, has introduced AI software that can predict breakdowns in production-line equipmen
PARIS — Although experts in the imaging industry are aware of a complex “TrueDepth” module that Apple has devi ...
Intel disclosed a few details of its plans for advanced LTE and 5G baseband chips, aiming to close the gap with market leader Qualcomm.
Matt Murphy will chair the semiconductor industry's biggest trade group in 2018, while Micron Technology CEO Sanjay Mehrota serves as vice chair.