SAN JOSE – One week after Taiwan’s mobile PC party at Computex, Apple rolled out a new line of notebooks that will bring the ceiling down on Ultrabooks and ultrathins from PC makers.Apple refreshed al ...
Free online training: Optimal MCU solutions for safety-critical apps
ST opens up 28-nm, 20-nm FDSOI with GlobalFoundries
The demand for LTE Radio Access Network (RAN) equipment continues to grow rapidly. During the first quarter of 2012, sales of LTE RAN equipment approached $1 billion, representing an 160 percent in ...
Infineon leads industrial chip vendor ranking, says analyst
LONDON – The Taiwan government has a approved a proposal from foundry chip company Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. to build a 450-mm wafer fab in central Taiwan early in 2014, according to ...
SAN JOSE – Mindspeed injected a handful of new cores into its second-generation Comcerto family to create a communications processor that will compete with giants such as Broadcom, Cavium, Freescale a ...
HDD prices expected to stay above pre-flood levels until 2014
Q1 chip inventories signal rising demand, IHS says
Phablets hybrid communication devices to surpass 208 million unit shipments annually in 2015
Patient status engine combines wireless body-worn sensors with cloud-based electronic health record
Tablets to drive telemedicine market growth to more than 300% by 2018
M2M software platform market to reach USD 3.85 Billion by 2017, displacing self-built solutions
Lightfair: NXP gets serious about Internet-enabled smart lighting
Total GPS/GNSS IC market to reach 1.8 billion shipments by 2016, says ABI Research
Research centre looks to autonomic machine-based service networks
SAN FRANCISCO--An Instagramed photo taken today in San Francisco confirms one of the many rumors circling Apple’s WWDC next week-- that iOS 6 will be announced.The snap, taken by one Zac Altman, shows ...
SAN FRANCISCO--At Computex this week, Marvell Technology Group Ltd. announced its version of an 802.11ac combination radio chip with both near field communications (NFC) and Bluetooth 4.0.The Avast ...
SAN FRANCISCO—The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) said Thursday (June 7) it voted to institute an investigation into radio frequency ICs and devices containing them made by Motorola Mobility ...
LONDON – Foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd has reported strong sequential and annual sales growth in May while smaller rival United Microelectronics Corp. reported a year-on-year decl ...
PARIS – The IC industry growth will grow over the next ten years, said Bill McClean, CEO of IC Insights (Scottsdale, Ariz.)., at the recent IMEC Technology Forum at the Square meeting center in Brusse ...
LONDON – NXP Semiconductors NV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) has announced the launch of two driver ICs in its GreenChip family for retrofit LED lamps.The SSL21151 and SSL21153 are designed for non-dim ...
LONDON – Lisa Su, senior vice president and general manager of global business units at processor chip company Advanced Micro Devices Inc., has been elected to the board of directors of analog and mix ...
PARIS – The IC industry growth will be better over the next ten years, said Bill McClean, CEO of IC Insights (Scottsdale, AZ.)., at the recent IMEC Technology Forum at the Square meeting center in Bru ...
SAN FRANCISCO—SK Group, the South Korean conglomerate that last year bought a 21 percent stake in Hynix Semiconductor Inc., is mulling setting up a semiconductor fab in Turkey at the request of Turkis ...
SAN FRANCISCO--Two Bucknell University professors are working with a U.S. Department of Defense contractor on training rats to recognize and neutralize landmines.Not only is the system deemed to be in ...
SAN FRANCISCO--Genetic engineering could hold the key to artificially creating semiconductors in a lab.According to technology news site Ars Technica, a team of academics at the University of Californ ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The best part about Computex exhibition is that it is here in Taiwan, where life and philosophy intertwine in a very unique way. For example, this statue outside the Nangang Exhibit ...
LONDON – Lapis Semiconductor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan), a Rohm Group company formerly known Oki Semiconductor, has developed a low-power microcontroller designed to serve as a sensor hub and potentially ...
Slideshow: Medtech entrepreneurs build Indian health care from ground up
LONDON – Wafer supplier IQE plc (Cardiff, Wales) has agreed to acquire the molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) epitaxial wafer growth manufacturing unit of RF Micro Devices Inc. (Greensboro, North Carolina). ...
LONDON – Gilles Delfassy, who was until recently CEO of mobile chip vendor ST-Ericsson NV, has joined the board of processor intellectual property licensor Imagination Technologies Group plc (Kings La ...
Samsung to spend $1.9 billion on logic fab, says report
SAN FRANCISCO—Intellectual property (IP) reuse in SoC design is increasing, creating challenges in compatibility and complexity, according to executives on a Design Automation Conference (DAC) panel. ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Taiwan’s Etron Technology Inc. has started work on buffered DRAM designs geared for 3-D ICs using through-hole vias. It is also working on an upgrade to a gesture recognition module t ...
SAN JOSE – Mobile phone giant Ericsson (Stockholm) is making a push into wired access networks, trying to leverage its strength as the leading provider of cellular network gear. We talked with Ericsso ...
Malcolm Penn, CEO of technology and market analysis company Future Horizons Ltd. believes in the importance of retaining control of manufacturing passionately. He has many times spoken of the fab-lite ...
PORTLAND, Ore. -- E Ink Corp. is branching out into a wide variety of reflective displays which it is showcased this week at the 2012 Society for Information Display (SID) conference."Dollar-wise ...
As if another example were needed, here’s the latest illustration of why Washington is dysfunctional.There was great rejoicing last week over the highly successful commercial space mission to the Inte ...
Zytronic provides multitouch display for industrial apps
SAN FRANCISCO—Wireless and audio chip vendor CSR plc said Wednesday (June 6) it acquired the Map-X audio product line from bankrupt U.S. chip vendor Trident Microsystems Inc.CSR (London) did not discl ...
Intel makes flow processor with ARM inside, for Netronome
Get smart: Energy effort seeks to link consumers, technology
LONDON – Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has announced its Varian VIISta Trident ion implantation, which it describes as the most advanced single-wafer high-current ion implanter. The mac ...
Haptic display/keyboard uses microfluidics to surface
Intel FinFETs vary, may need SOI for shrink, says GSS
European report considers 450-mm More-than-Moore fab
LONDON – MiraMEMS Sensing Technology Co. Ltd. (Suzhou, China) is offering a three-axis capacitive linear accelerometer part numbered MM3A310. The component includes a surface micromachined sensor elem ...
SAN JOSE – A handful of companies are creating systems to build cellular enterprise clouds, just as others aim to build cellular carrier clouds. Meanwhile some startups are working on 70-80 GHz radios ...
Indian gov't taps Accenture to review fab proposals