DO-178 software reuse in the ISO 26262 domain reduces cost for automotive suppliers
LONDON – HiSilicon Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China) has licensed a range graphics processing units (GPUs), including the Mali-400 and Mali-T658, from ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England). ARM ...
LONDON – Processing circuitry that has been designed to allow imprecision has been shown to be 15 times more power efficient than conventional circuitry at performing some tasks. The technique is part ...
SAN JOSE – AMD announced a family of embedded processors based on its new Trinity integrated x86 and graphics design, itself formally launched just a week ago. The AMD Embedded R-Series includes as ma ...
SAN JOSE – A new standard for short-range body area networks officially debuts today, nearly five years after committee work on it began. IEEE 802.15.6 specifies a link that delivers up to 10 Mbits/se ...
TOKYO – Rare natural phenomena like solar eclipses can be inspirational but also unsettling.The ancient Chinese believed that solar eclipses occur when a legendary celestial dragon devours the Sun. Th ...
SAN FRANCISCO – As a pinnacle to a packed week, Facebook creator and CEO Mark Zuckerberg used his profile to announce his marriage to long-time girlfriend of nine years Priscilla Chan on Saturday.Zuck ...
TOKYO – Rare natural phenomena like solar eclipses can be inspirational but also unsettling.The ancient Chinese believed that solar eclipses occur when a legendary celestial dragon devours the Sun. Th ...
Marvell sees return to normalcy following Thai floods
SAN FRANCISCO—Semiconductor packaging and test services provider Amkor Technology Inc. said Friday (May 18) it plans to build a state-of-the-art test and packaging facility and global research and dev ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Although DRAM content in smartphones is on the rise, DRAM's share of the average smartphone's bill of materials (BoM) has fallen by about half over the course of the past year ...
Purdue researchers use AZO for optical metamaterials
Report: ARM aims to take 20% of notebook PC market
HiWave embeds haptic response in flat printed panels
PORTLAND, Ore.—Scientists have discovered a way to genetically engineer a living virus to be piezoelectric, enabling self-assembling arrays of them to produce enough electricity to power small electro ...
Samsung researchers propose graphene 'barristor' device
LONDON – Professor William Webb, CTO and cofounder of Neul, has authored a 200-page book outlining the Weightless standard for machine-to-machine communications (M2M) using white-space radio. Warren E ...
LONDON – STMicrolectronics NV has filed a complaint in the Northern District of California alleging that InvenSense Inc., a supplier of motion tracking components based on MEMS technology, infringes n ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Semiconductor capital equipment vendor Applied Materials Inc. Thursday (May 17) reported sales that beat consensus analysts' expectations for its fiscal second quarter, but said it e ...
Hybridization of processors increasingly rapidly, says report
NASA, commercial space industy, brace for critical test
SAN FRANSCIO— Mark Murphy, chief financial officer at silicon wafer supplier MEMC Electronic Materials Inc., resigned Tuesday (May 16) to take a job as president of Praxair Inc.'s wholly owned sub ...
Report: UMC benefits from TSMC 28-nm supply shortage
The launch of Electric Imp Inc. by founders with have served time at Apple, Facebook, Google, Mozilla and Yahoo suggests that the Internet of Things might be about to get a boost in public profile. ...
Farnell element14 Cadsoft Eagle design contest opens
LONDON – Design services provider eSilicon Inc. has helped several fabless chip companies and OEMs enter the market by managing their ASIC and SoC flows. It services include everything from IP selecti ...
LONDON – Reverse engineering and analysis consultancy Chipworks Inc. has posted microscope cross-sections of parts of the 22-nm Ivy Bridge processor from Intel that has revealed that the FinFETs, whic ...
LONDON – Specialty foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd., which trades as TowerJazz, improved its cash position as of March 31, 2012 to $158 million, up from $101 million at the fourth quarter of 2011. The ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Taiwan expects its integrated circuit (IC) output for the second quarter to be worth NT$411.5 billion (about $13.94 billion), an increase of 14.3 percent from the first quarter, accordin ...
Leeds, England, U.K. - Premier Farnell’s element14 collaborative community and electronics store has teamed with CadSoft Computer GmbH to sponsor the EAGLE Design Competition over the next four months ...
Former Apple, Google, Facebook engineers launch IoT startup
GSA spies venture capital investment uptick in April
LONDON - Two UK universities have opened the largest robotics laboratory in Europe as the UK government announced a £16M ($25 million) boost for research.The Bristol Robotics Lab is a partnership ...
MUNICH, Germany – EDA software vendor Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) is working "feverishly" on producing a faster version of the Spice analog electronics simulator, accordin ...
SAN JOSE – The Optical Internetworking Forum launched three projects to define serial interfaces running at 50-56 Gbits/second. The efforts aim to reduce pin counts and package sizes for future 100 an ...
LONDON – Altis Semiconductor SA, the specialty foundry bought by French entrepreneur Yazid Sabeg from IBM and Infineon in 2010, has announced the release of updated process design kits for 130-nm spec ...
Cadence extends verification and storage IP offerings
WASHINGTON – There’s a fashionable theory making the rounds here that China’s booming manufacturing economy will soon “hit a wall” just as did the export-driven Japanese economy in the early 1990s. Re ...
Virtual file system speeds data access, reduces storage needs
Open Virtual Platforms Selected by EU research project
SAN FRANCISCO—Rival analog and mixed-signal chip vendors Avago Technologies Ltd. and TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. Tuesday (May 15) announced a patent cross-licensing agreement and agreed to dismiss all ...
SAN FRANCISCO—The global DRAM industry is expected to partially reverse massive losses incurred in 2011, with projected growth of more than 3 percent this year, according to market research firm IHS i ...
ARLINGTON, Va. – A new public-private effort aimed at strengthening the U.S. “innovation ecosystem” seeks to leverage promising technologies emerging from university labs so that they can quickly be t ...
NEW YORK--Correct us if we’re wrong, but many readers may be writing off MIPS Technologies way too soon.The fate of MIPS is shaping up as one of the industry’s biggest stories in 2012. The company’s p ...
SMIC gets government backing for second Beijing fab
IHS: Apple iOS to reassert tablet dominance in 2012
SAN FRANCISCO—Enterprise IT hardware, software and services provider EMC Corp. has acquired XtremIO Ltd., a three-year old Israeli startup that develops flash memory technology for storage infrastruct ...
MaxLinear takes Silicon Labs to court over 'false allegations'
SAN JOSE – Advanced Micro Devices officially launched its 32 nm Trinity processors, going head-to-head in notebooks and desktops with Intel’s 22 nm Ivy Bridge CPUs. The AMD parts sport upgraded x86 an ...