ZURICH, Switzerland – Leading chipmaking equipment company Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) is planning to launch a deep reactive ion etch machine for small wafer sizes at the end of April ...
Get hands-on and see the Xilinx Zynq-7000 EPP in action at DESIGN West
ST Micro expands expands MEMS line, partakes at DESIGN West
A safety standard could disrupt sales of automotive MEMS
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Nvidia Corp. rolled out a new generation of desktop and notebook graphics chips, fueling the next round of neck-and-neck competition with archrival Advanced Micro Devices. Nvidia cl ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Average days of inventory (DOI) held by semiconductor suppliers is expected to decline by 0.5 percent in the first quarter after hitting an 11-year high in the fourth quarter of 2011, ac ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Sigma Designs Inc. said Wednesday (March 21) it signed an asset purchase agreement to serve as a "stalking horse" bidder to acquire assets of Trident Microsystems Inc.'s di ...
ZURICH, Switzerland – The market and opportunities for MEMS are only limited by the imagination, according to Carmelo Papa, senior executive vice president at STMicroelectronics NV, providing a keynot ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Chip vendor Broadcom Corp. said Wednesday (March 21) it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Broadlight Inc., a provider of fiber access passive optical network (PON) processors, for ...
PARIS – BAE Systems plc (Bristol, England) announced it has obtained a $34 million contract from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop the next generation Multi-Function Radio F ...
Report: MEMS will become 'essential gatekeepers' for systems
DESIGN West preview: Radio show marks the rise of MEMS
LONDON – Fabless chip company XMOS Ltd. (Bristol, England) has added the XS1-S processor to its family of event-driven 32-bit embedded processors. The XS1-S adds a 180-nm analog interface and power ...
PORTLAND, Ore.—The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) scientist responsible for major paradigm shifts that have repeatedly redefined modern materials science, American scientist Joh ...
Despite challenges, Renesas still dominant in MCUs
SAN JOSE, Calif. – In what’s seen as a slap on the wrist, the U.S. Department of Commerce proposed duties of 2.9 to 4.73 percent on crystalline photovoltaic panels coming from China. The preliminary r ...
ACE: Top exec finalists stood apart from crowded field
Xilinx inaugurates expanded R&D and Technical Support site in Hyderabad, India
SAN FRANCISCO—Chip vendor Integrated Silicon Solution Inc. (ISSI) said Tuesday (March 20) it signed an agreement to license static random access memory (SRAM) technology from IBM Corp. Specific ter ...
MANHASSET, NY -- Icon Labs and Zilog are making a splash at DESIGN West with Zgate, an embedded hardware communication solution that aims to protect connected devices from Internet-based threats. T ...
PARIS – Worldwide solar photovoltaic (PV) market installations grew to 27.4 gigawatts (GW) in 2011, up 40 percent year over year. The PV industry generated $93 billion in revenues in 2011, up 12 perce ...
Sensory and Tensilica partner on speech recognition subsystem
XMOS has launched a new Partner Program, enabling companies to use XMOS devices and no-cost development tools as well as application code and reference designs to meet their exact product specificatio ...
Merus Audio raises EUR 1.7m to develop ultra-efficient and compact audio amplifiers
SAN FRANCISCO—Applied Materials Inc. said Monday (March 19) it has developed new plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) technology for use in the production of higher-performance, high-reso ...
Report: Elpida to solicit bids from potential investors
NI co-founders recognized for lifetime achievement
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Just a few miles from the shuttered Solyndra plants where 1,100 workers were laid off seven months ago, former presidential candidate General Wesley Clark called for putting the fl ...
Optoelectronics industry seeks manufacturing comeback
SAN FRANCISCO—A U.S. federal court granted Broadcom Corp.'s request for a permanent injunction against certain Emulex Corp. products previously found to infringe two Broadcom patents. According to ...
LONDON – M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings Inc., a vendor of RF and microwave chips and components, has raised about $98 million, after underwriting discounts and commissions, with the launch of a ...
Marvell's founders file complaint against Goldman Sachs
LONDON – It may not be that the tide has turned in semiconductor startup funding but February caught a big wave of venture capital money, according the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) industry org ...
LONDON – Adapteva Inc. (Lexington, Mass.), a small and lean fabless startup that has developed a series of multicore floating-point processors, claims its latest device, a 28-nm 64-core processor is c ...
Chinese foundry adopts ProPlus Spice modeling tool
SAN FRANCISCO—Apple Inc.'s new iPad models are more expensive to produce than the iPad 2 at time of launch, though they carry the same price points, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli. ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Japanese semiconductor equipment vendor Tokyo Electron Ltd. (TEL) said Friday (March 16) it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Nexx Systems Inc., a supplier of physical vapor depos ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Analog chip vendor Micrel Inc. said Thursday (March 15) it signed a definitive agreement to acquire a controlling interesting in PhaseLink Co. Ltd., a privately held provider of high-per ...
Teardown slideshow: Inside the third-generation iPad
DESIGN West preview: Tesla CTO keynoting on EV innovation
LONDON – Chinese foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (Shanghai, China) has announced that is subsidiary Semiconductor Manufacturing International (Beijing) Corp., has closed a seve ...
LONDON – Analog and mixed-signal foundry Dongbu Hitek Co. Ltd. (Seoul, Korea) has announced the appointment of a CEO and senior manager in a move "to step up its global growth momentum."Chan ...
LONDON – Consumer electronics repair company iFixit Inc. (San Luis Obispo, Calif.) has disassembled the latest iPad tablet computer from Apple to reveal the details of how it is put together including ...
CoreCommander, Autobuzz JTAG tools to debut at DESIGN show
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Mobile systems are driving toward better graphics, better voice quality and quad-core processors, according to veteran market watcher.Graphics seems to be key area of investment, as ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Israel, Iran, Jordan and Turkey will join forces to launch a new particle accelerator in the Middle East as part of a Unesco-sponsored project.Announced on Wednesday (March 14), each of ...
University lab to provide interoperability testing for NVMe spec
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Toyota Motor Corp. joined the Trusted Computing Group to help drive future security standard as part of a new embedded initiative.The Trusted Computing Group has created a handful o ...
Cisco buys video streaming firm NDS for $5 billion
SAN FRANCISCO—TMSC Solar Ltd., a wholly-owned solar module subsidiary of foundry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Inc. (TSMC), said Thursday (March 15) it has received both Underwriters La ...