LONDON – Apical Ltd., a developer of image processing intellectual property, has said it has licensed its iridix image processing IP cores to Texas Instruments Inc. The iridix image processing IP core ...
LONDON – Europe's largest chip company STMicroelectronics NV should persuade Ericsson AB that they sell off their mobile chip joint venture ST-Ericsson, but probably to some aspiring Chinese compa ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Despite an amended wafer supply agreement that gives Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) the right to use other foundries to make its 28-nm accelerated processing units (APUs), Globa ...
LONDON – Europe's largest chip company STMicroelectronics NV should persuade Ericsson AB that they sell off their mobile chip joint venture ST-Ericsson, but probably to some aspiring Chinese compa ...
LONDON – Didier Lamouche, the CEO appointed in December at fabless mobile chip joint venture ST-Ericsson, is set to announce a re-organization before the end of the month, which will ready the company ...
LSI asks U.S. ITC to probe Mediatek, Realtek, Funai
WASHINGTON – NASA said Wednesday (March 14) it has successfully demonstrated the ability to repair satellites in orbit using robotic tools.An experiment about the International Space Station last week ...
Texas Instruments opens lab for mixed-signal/analog
Scientists develop automatic air navigation, collision avoidance model
LONDON – Chinese foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. and IC design company Brite Semiconductor Inc. have teamed up with Zhejiang University IC and Basic Software Research Institute ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – A new open source benchmark aims to give engineers and end users a way to measure the performance of Android-based systems. The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMB ...
Heliatek opens organic PV factory, plans second plant
SAN FRANCISCO—Non-volatile memory IP vendor Kilopass Technology Inc. has inked a patent license deal with an unnamed customer of rival Sidense Inc., the first such deal the company has reached with a ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Global semiconductor revenue is expected to increase by 4 percent to $316 billion in 2012, according to the latest forecast from market research firm Gartner Inc. The revised forecast ca ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Applied Materials Inc. failed to lead semiconductor equipment vendors in sales in 2011 for the first in 20 years, as strong sales of lithography tools propelled Dutch lithography vendor ...
Freescale to demo Cortex-M0+ Kinetis devices at DESIGN West
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Electronics companies need to step up their collaboration to deal with growing complexity of the technology, said executives from Cadence, TSMC and ARM at an annual Cadence user eve ...
Apple's iPad to dominate NAND use in tablets through 2015
MANHASSET, NY -- Strong increases in emerging markets is contributing to the rise of global consumer spending on movies from $61.4 billion in 2010 to $68.9 billion in 2015, while online piracy rema ...
Khronos Group wants China in 3-D graphics standards
ARM Cortex-M0+ targets 'internet of things' designs
MANHASSET, NY -- Strong increases in emerging markets is contributing to the rise of global consumer spending on movies from $61.4 billion in 2010 to $68.9 billion in 2015, while online piracy rema ...
Xilinx and Micron demo interoperability of FPGA and RLDRAM 3 memory interface standard
Twin Creeks emerges from the shadows with new solar approach
SAN FRANCISCO—Global sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment totaled $43.53 billion in 2011, up 9 percent from 2010, according to the fab tool vendor group SEMI. The global wafer processing equ ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Masimo Corp., a medical technology firm that develops and manufactures non-invasive patient monitoring technologies, said Monday (March 12) it acquired the assets of Spire Semiconductor ...
LONDON – Soitec SA, a supplier of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers, has announced that mobile chip joint venture ST-Ericsson NV has selected planar fully depleted SOI (FD-SOI) technology for use with ...
BARCELONA – Ching-Jiang Hsieh has been forging tight links with China’s handset makers. The president of Mediatek believes they will be the source of the next big wave of smartphones.“We will sell 50 ...
MANHASSET, NY --The Global Semiconductor Alliance has appointed Ajit Manocha, chief executive officer of GlobalFoundries to its board of directors. “It is my privilege to represent the foundry segm ...
LONDON – Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas, Texas) has announced a partnership with iRobot Corp. to develop robotics technology based on the TI's OMAP application processors.Founded in 1990, iRobot i ...
LONDON – Graphensic AB has been formed by researchers Professor Rositza Yakimova, Mikael Syvajarvi and Tihomir Iakimov as a spin-off from the Linkoping University, to commercialize the formation of gr ...
Chip-making equipment spend flat in 2012, says SEMI
Radio waves beamed with a twist allow massive multiplexing
Military technology offers disruptive route for scaling M2M systems
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Ford chairman William Clay Ford explained the company's vision of mobility in the future. His keynote speech titled "Blueprint for Mobility" hi ...
Personal tracking to be the next billion dollar GPS market
Visiongain believes that global NFC application revenue will reach $10.6bn in 2012, and that in 2012 NFC is poised for rapid growth. Recent developments analysed in the market researcher's latest ...
Research project sketches centralized computing architecture for e-cars
Cloud-connected MCUs with out-of-box cloud connectivity
If you are wondering whether or not the annual CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany has retained relevance in this fast changing world, all you have to do is pay attention to the accessories that are now b ...
Tablets to boost semiconductor use to fourth place
WASHINGTON – The drones are coming.The initial step in the process of overseeing introduction of unmanned aircraft in the nation’s skies was announced this week by the Federal Aviation Administration, ...
LONDON – Joergen Lantto, executive vice president and chief technology officer, at struggling mobile chip joint venture ST-Ericsson NV has decided to return to parent company Ericsson. ST-Ericsson (Ge ...
MANHASSET, NY -- In 2014 media tablets will become the world’s fourth-largest application for semiconductors rising in four short years from obscurity to a level rivaling chip markets for mobile hands ...
LONDON – Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a software simulator, called Hornet, that they claim models the cycle-accurate performance of multicore chips and scale ...
MANHASSET, NY -- Market research firm In-Stat forecasts the value of outdoor metropolitan picocells will jump to $6.9 billion in 2015 due to the quantity needed to provide sufficient services for an e ...
Synchrophaser workshop addresses smart grid testing
Imagination issues positive outlook on multiple fronts
LONDON – Leading foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) has announced that net sales fell in February compared with the previous month but were ahead of sales in Februar ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Analog and mixed-signal chip vendor Semtech Corp. said Wednesday (March 7) it acquired Cycleo SAS, a developer of IP for wireless long-range semiconductors used in smart meters, and all ...