SAN JOSE, Calif. – Apple will cut into its profit margins--but only slightly--with its latest iPad and discounts on the iPad 2, according to estimates from UBM TechInsights.The new iPad announced yest ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Chip vendors Texas Instruments Inc. and Altera Corp. Thursday (March 8) cut their first quarter sales targets, citing slower demand among wireless customers. TI (Dallas) said it expects ...
Analyst: Printed electronics is a $9-billion opportunity
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The temporary halt in the production of the Chevy Volt isn't a sign that the Volt is dead or that electric cars are disappearing, but rather that General Motors executives must now separate the Vo ...
Video: NFC technology, proliferation and challenges examined
LONDON – Engineers from IBM Corp. have developed a prototype parallel optical transceiver that can transfer data at a rate of one terabit per second. The optical chipset is due to be reported at the O ...
LONDON – MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan), one of the largest fabless chip companies, has announced that its net sales for February 2012 totaled NT$6,230 million (about $211 million), up 20.8 percent f ...
Microsoft has posted the community technology preview for its forthcoming Windows Embedded Standard 8 operating system. Windows Embedded Standard 8, as the embedded version of Windows 8 is formally kn ...
HP Proliant Gen 8 uses Xeon E5s and Nvidia Tesla GPUs
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Apple added LTE and upgraded the processor, display and camera in its latest iPad announced today. The new iPad uses a new Apple A5X applications processor, sporting two CPU and fou ...
GaN power market to rise to $10 million in 2012, says Yole
MANHASSET, NY -- Pixelligent, a provider of nanocrystal additives, and Brewer Science are using their nanocrystal and microelectronic coating technologies to create a next-generation spin-on hard mask ...
LONDON – The global semiconductor market has some catching up to do if it is to record growth in 2012 as market analysts expect it to do.The three-month average of chip sales for January and the prece ...
ideo: analysts, companies grapple with mobile security issues
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Apple dominated the market for applications processors in tablets last year with Texas Instruments and Nvidia in a near tie for second place, according to a new market research repo ...
Surrey NanoSystems gets funding for commercialization of new materials
LONDON – The market for MEMS microphones totaled $373 million in 2011, up 67 percent from $223 million in 2010, according to IHS-iSuppli.Knowles Electronics still dominates the MEMS microphone sphere, ...
U.S. elections to aid chip sales in 2012, says analyst
Applied Materials, IME open Singapore 3-D packaging lab
LONDON – Dialog Semiconductor plc has said it has licensed the Cortex-M0 microcontroller core from ARM Holdings plc for use in future mixed-signal power management ICs. Resulting chips are likely to b ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Cypress Semiconductor Corp. Tuesday (March 6) cut its sales target for the first quarter, citing order decreases and lower than expected revenue from the distribution channel. Cypress (S ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Intel Corp. declined the opportunity to acquire microserver startup SeaMicro Inc. prior to the announcement last week that Intel's chief competitor in the microprocessor market, Adva ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – For all the news today around Intel’s E5-2600 announcement, there’s still a handful of untold stories behind this latest server processor. The big one to me is what the chip and pro ...
Report: Fewer design starts are yielding higher value
Intel rolls first processor optimized for datacenters
Cadence offers design support to Australia's IC startups
IMEC offers 14-nm dev kit, test chip to follow 2H12
LONDON – Analog and mixed-signal fabless chip company NeoEnergy Microelectronics Inc. (Chupei, Taiwan) has developed a Class-D audio power amplifier for the consumer electronics market. Typical applic ...
LONDON – The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) industry body has said it is concerned over the withdrawal of chip companies Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. from the World Semiconductor T ...
LONDON--Augmented Reality (AR) is the process of layering computer generated graphics on top of real world environments, either directly or indirectly through a tablet or cell phone. The technology pr ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Last week's bankruptcy filing by Japan's Elpida Memory Inc. should work in favor of other DRAM vendors, reducing supply and boosting average selling prices (ASPs) and revenue in ...
SAN FRANCISCO—The three-month rolling average of global semiconductors in January totaled $23.1 billion, down 2.7 percent from $23.8 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), ...
Scientists have identified a nearly 13,000-year-old layer of thin, dark sediment buried in the floor of Lake Cuitzeo in central Mexico. The sediment layer contains an exotic assemblage of materials, i
MaxLinear tips full-spectrum capture cable receivers
A new cornea may be the only way to prevent a patient going blind -- but there is a shortage of donated corneas and the queue for transplantation is long. Scientists have for the first time successful
SAN FRANCISCO—Discrete semiconductor and passive components supplier Vishay Intertechnology Inc. has acquired HiRel Systems LLC, a supplier of transformers, inductors, coils and power conversion produ ...
A recent study has found clear evidence on Venus for a type of space weather outburst quite common at Earth, called a hot flow anomaly.
An Alaskan beetle beats the cold using an unusual, natural antifreeze with a novel mode of action that scientists are beginning to unravel.
The risk of problem behavior during childhood — particularly for boys — is greatly increased if children have genetic predispositions for these behaviors and if they are spanked by
What good is half an eye? Evolutionary biologists studying the origins of vision get that question a lot, and new research points to a possible answer. New findings indicate that, even in the absence
Past waves of extinctions which removed some of the world's largest animals were caused by both people and climate change, according to new research.
Bioengineers have developed a self-healing hydrogel that binds in seconds, as easily as Velcro, and forms a bond strong enough to withstand repeated stretching. The material has numerous potential app
New research into the Earth's primordial oceans revisits Earth's historical water budget. Investigating the history of water on Earth is critical to understanding the planet's climate. One central que
Imaging data suggest that conscious perception has little to do with the primary visual cortex —- the region where visual information enters the brain. From a purely intuitive point of view,
In the absence of eyes, the fresh water polyp, Hydra magnipapillata, nevertheless reacts to light. They are diurnal, hunting during the day, and are known to move, looping end over end, or contract, i
Imaging data suggest that conscious perception has little to do with the primary visual cortex —- the region where visual information enters the brain. From a purely intuitive point of view,
Sawfishes wouldn't be sawfishes if they didn't come equipped with long toothy snouts -- their saws. Now, researchers have figured out what they use those saws for, and it turns out the answer is quite
Researchers have discovered that spider silk is surprisingly good at transferring heat. Spider silk, in fact, conducts heat as well or better than most metals.
SAN FRANCISCO—Technology licensor Rambus Inc. said Monday (March 5) that Taiwanese chip vendor MediaTek Inc. agreed to license Rambus's patents, just days after a U.S. International Trade Commissi ...