SHANGHAI, China – Multinational semiconductor companies are no longer able to compete with China’s fabless chips vendors in the consumer electronics IC business, according to Vincent Tai, CEO of RDA M ...
SAN FRANCISCO—The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) said Tuesday (June 5) it officially endorsed a forecast by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) group that calls for chip sales to ...
Nanosys teams with 3M film to yield less-costly LCDs
Zytronic provides mutitouch display for industrial apps
UMC, Singapore's IME team on TSV process for image sensors
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SAN JOSE, Calif. – PMC-Sierra Inc. rolled out Unitrx, a three-chip set for base station radios geared to break through mobile network congestion by enabling active antennas. The chips replace as many ...
BOSTON, MA -- A display measurement standard has been released by the International Committee for Display Metrology and the Society for Information Display and includes procedures to quantify electron ...
WASHINGTON – Gregg Lowe, the former manager of the analog business at Texas Instruments, has been tapped as the next CEO and president of Freescale Semiconductor Inc., the company announced Tuesday (J ...
Microsemi denies FPGAs have backdoor security flaw
SAN JOSE – PMC-Sierra Inc. rolled out Unitrx, a three-chip set for base station radios geared to break through mobile network congestion by enabling active antennas. The chips replace as many as 14 di ...
MicroGen chooses X-Fab to make energy harvest MEMS
SAN FRANCISCO – Globalfoundries reported progress ramping four flavors of its 28nm process and early work qualifying its 20 nm process and developing 3-D IC technology at the Design Automation Confere ...
SAN FRANCISCO— Jedat Inc., a successful Japanese vendor of high-performance analog and mixed signal EDA tools, is exhibiting at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) here for the first time in an eff ...
SAN FRANCISCO—SanDisk Corp. said Monday (June 4) it is now building its iNAND Extreme NAND flash memory using 19-nm process technology, the most advanced process technology in use today for memory chi ...
SAN FRANCISCO-- Freescale Semiconductor is readying itself for the official launch of Windows 8 with a 12-axis sensor development reference platform it is dubbing a “black-box” of sensor integration.F ...
SAN FRANCISCO—The requirement for lithography double patterning on many layers makes moving to the 20-nm node a major undertaking that will require customers to invest in new design tool sets, accordi ...
When former Intel CEO Craig Barrett visited India six years ago, he predicted that health care innovation would be a key driver of semiconductor growth. In a way, Barrett was right. But what he di ...
Computex 2012 will be a huge show for the PC industry which needs a win to show the overall tech industry that it can still be innovative in the face of a juggernaut of Apple smartphones and tablets. ...
Blackbox Biometrics testing ADI MEMS for Blast Gauge
On the IndyCar circuit, rules determine strategy. Engines, gearboxes, and chassis must be acquired through prescribed suppliers and are strictly governed. Innovations involving electronics and aerodyn ...
LONDON – STMicroelectronics NV has claimed it is the first company that has mass-produced MEMS microphones in plastic packages. ST has patented a technology development that allows this while, at the ...
Solar module prices have rapidly decreased during the last five years due to several factors, including the economic recession and resulting lower demand for solar energy, an increased supply of polys ...
Statum develops multitouch/stylus platform with Nissha
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Erlangen, Germany, have developed a space-saving metering unit that can be clipped onto a power cable like a laundry peg, without ...
LONDON – Nanosolar Inc., a company founded in 2002 to pursue the roll-to-roll printing of CIGS (copper, indium, gallium, selenium) photovoltaics on aluminum foil, has raised $70 million. It is not cle ...
Tiempo, ST announce 32-nm asynchronous design flow
Gary Smith hails multi-platform design methodology
TAIPEI – Taiwan’s Etron Technology Inc. claims it has a module to power a gesture recognition device with better performance and lower cost than Microsoft’s Kinect. Separately, the company also has st ...
PARIS – CMOS technology scaling will go on for the foreseeable future but, as we enter the 10nm node, process complexity reduction and variability control will become crucial and drive technology deci ...
SAN FRANCISCO— Kathryn Kranen, president and CEO of Jasper Design Automation Inc., has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the EDA Consortium (EDAC), an EDA tool vendor trade group, EDA ...
SAN FRANCISCO—South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said Friday (June 1) it acquired Nanoradio AB, a Swedish developer of ultra low-power wireless LAN chipsets for mobile phones, for an undis ...
WASHINGTON – The successful conclusion of the first commercial supply mission to the International Space Station this week also prompted a wave of announcements from a growing list of commercial space ...
MANHASSET, N.Y. -- The Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University in conjunction with U.S. Army Research Labs scientists have developed a 7.4-inch OLED prototype device using mixed oxid ...
After studying a multitude of different data findings from our recently released global consumer electronics usage survey of 19 consumer electronic devices, Accenture asked a simple question: If we ha ...
MANHASSET, NY -- The Society for Information Display is providing a forum for live demonstrations of emerging information display technologies prototypes in the “Innovation Zone” at the June 3-8 Displ ...
TAIPEI – Etron Technoogy Inc. has started work on buffered DRAM designs geared for 3-D ICs using through-hole vias. The company is also working on an upgrade of a low-cost gesture recognition module.C ...
MEMS-based tennis racquet enhances playing experience
CAMBRIDGE, England – Global chip sales for April 2012 are likely to be reported at about 5 percent lower than the same month in 2011, according to Bruce Diesen, an analyst at Carnegie Group (Oslo, Nor ...
CAMBRIDGE, England – Plessey Semiconductors Ltd. (Plymouth, England) has announced the release of the PS25451, a low-cost version of its electric field sensor. Whereas the original version was aimed a ...
InvenSense opens up process to enable fabless MEMS
MANHASSET, NY -- The FDC at Arizona State University in conjunction with Army Research Labs scientists have developed a 7.4 inch OLED prototype device using mixed oxide thin film transistors (TFTs). R ...
MANHASSET, NY -- At next week’s Society for Information Display exhibition manufacturer of glass, chemicals and high-tech materials AGC will showcase carrier glass on which to laminate its 0.1 mm-thic ...
Slideshow: Pinpoint splashdown ends first visit to space station
MANHASSET, NY -- Cadence Design Systems has announced it has helped tape out STMicroelectronics’ 20nm test SoC chip, an industry milestone for Cadence delivering an end-to-end mixed-signal design flow ...
Snapped up before DAC – there will be no Missing Link
TOKYO – Nissan launched here what it calls its “Leaf-to-home” power supply system, designed to turn Nissan’s electric vehicle Leaf into a backup electricity supply for residential homes. The “Leaf-to- ...
SAN FRANCISCO--Intel Corp. has announced the release of another Atom-powered smartphone, this time by Chinese electronics vendorLenovo Group, which announced its intent to put out an Intel Inside devi ...
SAN FRANCISCO--Thanks to continued strong sales of Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle Fire, Korean display makers Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and LG Electronics Inc. remained the top suppliers of tablet sc ...