New Birds of a Feather Group pulls together OEMs, suppliers and other industry experts to solicit input for automotive applications, including autonomous driving projects
After a record-setting 2016, shipments of blank silicon wafers are expected to reach new all-time highs in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
After six straight years of decline, Gartner is projecting a nominal increase in PC sales in 2018, thanks to continued Windows 10 upgrades.
Lithography tool vendor says it shipped three more next-generation extreme ultraviolet lithography tools, bringing total for the year to six.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) Chairman Morris Chang has announced his retirement from the company in June next year. He will turn over leadership to the current co-CEOs.
A visit to the Flea at MIT reveals that you can get test equipment, tools, books, computers, components, radios, and more. All used, some bargains.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) Chairman Morris Chang has announced his retirement from the company in June next year. He will turn over leadership to the current co-CEOs.
Texas Instruments, which entered the radar sensor market only four months ago, is late to a party that includes heavyweights NXP Semiconductors, Infineon Technologies and STMicroelectronics, but nonet
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. will build the world's first 3-nm fab in the Tainan Science Park in southern Taiwan, where the company does the bulk of its manufacturing.
EE Times caught up with Ray Bingham, partner at Canyon Bridge. Our discussion covered questions about his firm's relationship with Tallwood VC which bought MIPS, how Canyon Bridge plans to rebuild Ima
Technology licensor sues electronics giant in several venues claiming breach of 24 patents in semiconductor packaging end imaging analysis.
Semiconductor Industry Association President John Neuffer comes out in support of framework for reducing corporate tax rate to 20 percent from 35 percent.
Silicon Valley-based Efinix says its programmable platforms deliver four-fold power, performance and area advantage over traditional FPGAs.
Investments and revenues in robotics are on the rise, particularly for emerging collaborative and mobile systems, an analyst said.
In the final part of EE Times' interview with MIT Professor Emeritus Woodie Flowers, we get to the core of what it takes to make a difference in your career and in society.
The test & measurement company is joining forces with a manufacturing software to integrate IoT devices and analyze sensor data.
Computations requiring high performance computing power may soon be done in the palm of your hand thanks IBM researchers in Dublin, machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data
Deal to sell chip unit for about $18 billion structured to proceed before legal challenges brought by Western Digital are resolved.
When it comes to sensor data and automation technologies, Japanese companies know how to use them effectively to improve productivity -- especially on the factory floor. Unfortunately, all that knowho
Computations requiring high performance computing power may soon be done in the palm of your hand thanks IBM researchers in Dublin, machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data
Startup Reno Sub-Systems' investors include three of top five chip makers, two of the top four vendors of etch tools.
Computations requiring high performance computing power may soon be done in the palm of your hand thanks IBM researchers in Dublin, machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data
Cars at this year's International Automobile Exposition in Frankfurt fulfilled everyone's expectations.
Qualcomm engineer and 3GPP chair Wanshi Chen is on the hook to deliver by the end of the year a draft of requirements for a 5G cellular transceiver.
After a period in which it contracted in three of five years, the power transistor market is projected to hit a new high this year and should enjoy modest growth in the years ahead, according to IC In
When it comes to sensor data and automation technologies, Japanese companies know how to use them effectively to improve productivity -- especially on the factory floor. Unfortunately, all that knowho
Greg Lowe, who also spent 28 years at Texas Instruments, succeeds Chuck Swoboda, who is retiring.
A collaboration that mixes Mobiveil's NVMe SSD IP with Crossbar's ReRAM IP blocks is aimed at enabling 10 times more IOPs at one-tenth of the latencies of flash NVMe SSDs
Apple's iPhone 8 Plus sports an A11 processor 30% smaller than in the A10 in the iPhone 7, according to a TechInsights teardown of it and other chips.
Western Digital still believes it can block the sale of Toshiba's chip unit to a consortium led by Bain Capital through arbitration tribunals at the International Chamber of Commerce.
Intel rolled out six new desktop processors, boosting CPU frequency at the high end and adding more x86 cores elsewhere.
Speculation growing that Qualcomm may have to sweeten the offer to close the $38 billion deal.
GE, Boeing, Jabil, Flex and others showed their latest work in flexible hybrid electronics at a coming out party for Nextflex.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang came to Beijing this week to put Nvidia's new AI inference platform --TensorRT3 -- front and center at the company's GPU Technology Conference (GTC).
MIT spin-off Pi Inc., promises a wireless recharging station that works over about a foot.
As Sondrel integrates the IMGWorks design team and invests to hire 100 more engineers in Europe, CEO Graham Curren weighs in on China, Brexit, and the benefits of market-driver diversity.
Imagination will sell itself to Canyon Bridge, while simultaneously agreeing to sell MIPS to Tallwood VC. Has Imagination structured both deals in such a way to let Canyon Bridge -China's government-b
A teardown of the iPhone 8 by iFixit shows good news for Qualcomm, NXP, Broadcom, and Skyworks, who maintain or expand sockets in Apple's latest handset.
NCSU researchers have implemented the cheap-to-license PRESiCE process at TI's X-Fab as an alternative to proprietary silicon carbide processes for power devices.
Globalfoundries has asked European regulators to investigate rival chip foundry TSMC, accusing its larger competitor of unfair competition, according to a report by the Reuters news service.
Search engine giant makes second major foray into smartphones.
Globalfoundries announced 12-nm FinFET and RF-SOI processes as part of an annual update on its road map.
MediaTek and Huawei, China's largest mobile phone maker, have completed 5G tests in Beijing with the aim of building an industry ecosystem that includes 5G terminals, chipsets, instruments, and networ
Tesla is collaborating with AMD on a machine-learning ASIC for its self-driving cars that could replace Nvidia GPUs that the car maker uses, said a report.
The second EDICON USA took place in Boston from September 11 to 13. Here is some of what EE Times saw on the exhibit floor.
Nest unveiled the next phase of its strategy to enable the connected home, rolling out a suite of products for the retail home security market.
DeepScale has developed a perception system for ADAS/autonomous vehicles. It offers pre-trained AI algorithms, based on raw data, not object list, coming from multiple sensory data types, and accelera
Latest twist in months-long saga has Toshiba agreeing to sell for $18 billion to group that includes Apple, Dell and sk Hynix, leaving Western Digital out in the cold.
Rambus has working chips in the lab for DDR5, the next-generation DRAM bus while the industry debates the road ahead for memory in servers.
Vendors of smartphones - both Android and iPhone - are putting an NFC reader in the hands of consumers, making NFC a globally interoperable platform to connect, commission, and control things with NFC