Marvell sees return to normalcy follow
Ing Thai floods
SAN FRANCISCO—Semiconductor packag
Ing and test services provider Amkor Technology
Inc. said Friday (May 18) it plans to build a state-of-the-art test and packag
Ing 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 due to ...
HiWave embeds haptic response
In flat pr
Inted panels
This year, when
Indy 500 teams search for a competitive edge, they're go
Ing to have to dig deeper
Into the mechanical aspects of the car than ever before
In the history of the race.
PORTLAND, Ore.—Scientists have discovered a way to genetically eng
Ineer a liv
Ing virus to be piezoelectric, enabl
Ing self-assembl
Ing 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 outl
InIng the Weightless standard for mach
Ine-to-mach
Ine communications (M2M) us
Ing white-space radio. Warren E ...
LONDON – STMicrolectronics NV has filed a compla
Int
In the Northern District of California alleg
Ing that
InvenSense
Inc., a supplier of motion track
Ing components based on MEMS technology,
Infr
Inges n ...
Hybridization of processors
Increas
Ingly rapidly, says report
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 expec ...
NASA, commercial space
Industy, brace for critical test
The launch of Electric Imp
Inc. by founders with have served time at Apple, Facebook, Google, Mozilla and Yahoo suggests that the
Internet of Th
Ings might be about to get a boost
In public profile. ...
LONDON – Design services provider eSilicon
Inc. has helped several fabless chip companies and OEMs enter the market by manag
Ing their ASIC and SoC flows. It services
Include everyth
Ing from IP selecti ...
LONDON – Reverse eng
Ineer
Ing 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 F
InFETs, 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, accord
In ...
Former Apple, Google, Facebook eng
Ineers launch IoT startup
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 work
Ing "feverishly" on produc
Ing a faster version of the Spice analog electronics simulator, accord
In ...
GSA spies venture capital
Investment uptick
In April
SAN JOSE – The Optical
Internetwork
Ing Forum launched three projects to def
Ine serial
Interfaces runn
Ing at 50-56 Gbits/second. The efforts aim to reduce p
In counts and package sizes for future 100 an ...
Cadence extends verification and storage IP offer
Ings
WASH
InGTON – There’s a fashionable theory mak
Ing the rounds here that Ch
Ina’s boom
Ing manufactur
Ing economy will soon “hit a wall” just as did the export-driven Japanese economy
In the early 1990s. Re ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Rival analog and mixed-signal chip vendors Avago Technologies Ltd. and TriQu
Int Semiconductor
Inc. Tuesday (May 15) announced a patent cross-licens
Ing agreement and agreed to dismiss all ...
ARL
InGTON, Va. – A new public-private effort aimed at strengthen
Ing the U.S. “
Innovation ecosystem” seeks to leverage promis
Ing technologies emerg
Ing from university labs so that they can quickly be t ...
IHS: Apple iOS to reassert tablet dom
Inance
In 2012
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, accord
Ing to market research firm IHS i ...
SMIC gets government back
Ing for second Beij
Ing fab
NEW YORK--Correct us if we’re wrong, but many readers may be writ
Ing off MIPS Technologies way too soon.The fate of MIPS is shap
Ing up as one of the
Industry’s biggest stories
In 2012. The company’s p ...
SAN JOSE – Advanced Micro Devices officially launched its 32 nm Tr
Inity processors, go
Ing head-to-head
In notebooks and desktops with
Intel’s 22 nm Ivy Bridge CPUs. The AMD parts sport upgraded x86 an ...
SAN JOSE – Nvidia rolled out the latest graphics board geared for use
In highly parallel technical and scientific jobs. It also described a graphics board support
Ing hardware virtualization and a dedi ...
MaxL
Inear takes Silicon Labs to court over 'false allegations'
Smartphone, tablet sales driv
Ing growth
In mobile memory
SAN FRANCISCO—Fabless semiconductor vendor Qualcomm
Inc. moved to the No. 5 position among chip sellers
In the first quarter, surpass
Ing Texas
Instruments
Inc., among others, accord
Ing to market resea ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Fabless semiconductor vendor Qualcomm
Inc. moved to the No. 4 position among chip sellers
In the first quarter, surpass
Ing Texas
Instruments
Inc., among others, accord
Ing to market resea ...
Netronome reduces SoC power use with tim
Ing tricks
SAN JOSE – Graphics giant Nvidia and patent specialist
Intellectual Ventures jo
Intly acquired a set of about 500 patents developed and owned by IPWireless. Terms of the deal that
Includes patents on L ...
SAN JOSE –
Intel launched the first server CPUs us
Ing its 22 nm tri-gate technology,
Includ
Ing a new 17W part aimed at the emerg
Ing micro-server segment. The x86 giant also rolled out new 32 nm server ...
Bauer resigns as CEO of
Inf
Ineon due to ill-health
Bauer resigns as CEO of
Inf
Ineon due to ill-health
Applied to cut jobs, move solar manufactur
Ing to Asia
Analog chip market to grow 3%
In 2012, says research firm
SAN FRANCISCO—Graphics chip vendor Nvidia Corp. Friday (May 11) reported better-than-expected sales for its fiscal first quarter, ended April 29, and said it expects sales to
Increase significantly
In ...
Four reasons why MIPS new cores may make it relevant aga
In
This year, when the
Indy cars l
Ine up
In the grid at the "greatest spectacle
In rac
Ing," they'll be us
Ing eng
Ines with less displacement than that
In a Volkswagen Golf or a Toyota Camry.
LONDON – Texas
Instruments and Hewlett Packard Co. reta
Ined the number 1 and 2 positions
In the rank
Ing of MEMS suppliers by sales revenue
In 2011, despite each suffer
Ing sales slides of 4 percent, ac ...
Silicon Ventures tips plan to stem fabless VC drought
PARIS – Northrop Grumman Corp. announced it has concluded a three-year $84 million contract with the U.S. Navy to support the Naval Education Tra
InIng Command (NETC). Northrop Grumman said it will pro ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Bridgelux
Inc., a Livermore, Calif.-based developer of LED light
Ing technologies, said Thursday (May 10) that Japan's Toshiba Corp. made an equity
Investment
In the firm of undisclosed s ...