SAN FRANCISCO—The counterfeiting of semiconductors is expected to become a more prevalent problem in the future as the semiconductor industry enters a phase of accelerating growth, according to market ...
SAN FRANCISCO—The three month-rolling average of global chip sales improved to $23.3 billion in March, up 1.5 percent from February but down 7.9 percent compared with March 2011, according to the Semi ...
SAN FRANCISCO—The three month-rolling average of global chip sales improved to $23.3 billion in March, up 1.5 percent from February but down 7.9 percent compared with March 2011, according to the Semi ...
Arms race in app processors drives mobile chip market
LONDON – LTE chipmaker Sequans Communications SA has been working with Chinese RF chip company Nationz on the development of dual-mode TD-SCDMA/LTE
chips for LTE bands 7, 38, 39 and 40, specifically f ...
Spreadtrum, Dialog, Mega
chips shine in fabless rankings
SAN FRANCISCO—Toshiba Corp. no longer plans to bid for a stake in fellow Japanese chip vendor Elpida Memory Inc., according to a Reuters news service report that cites two Japanese newspapers as its s ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Ambiq Micro Inc. (Westlake Hills, Texas) has announced the introduction to the market of the AM08XX and AM18XX real-time clock (RTC)
chips, which the company claims are the world's ...
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 ...
Initiative on 450mm moves gets Europe's full attention
Initiative on 450mm moves gets Europe's full attention
ISS Europe 2012 ponders 450mm wafer fab challenges
SAN FRANCISCO—Engineers from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and SanDisk Corp. took to the podium to provide details of their respective 19-nm NAND flash
chips in presentations at the Inte ...
SAN FRANCISCO--Samsung touted its new 32-nm high-k metal gate (HKMG) process at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference here Tuesday (Feb. 21), showing features it hopes might win customers ...
ST Microelectronics causes financial analyst concerns
MediaTek launches platform for low-end Android phones
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has announced the next generation of its WiLink combo
chips, the WiLink 8.0 product family; a collection of 45-nanometer single-chip offerings integr ...
Wi-Fi
chipset revenue to reach $6.1 Billion in 2015
Imagination technologies to see big royalty uptick
INTEL hopes to bring transactional memory technology, which it calls Transactional Synchronisation Extensions (TSX), to the masses with the upcoming 22nm Haswell chip.
MANHASSET, NY -- More than 60 scientific and technical papers detail results from research by CNSE scientists and industry partners at next week's SPIE Advanced Lithography 2012 conference. Among th ...
DRAM Exchange has released the 4Q11 sales ranking of branded NAND flash manufacturers, with Samsung taking top share.
SAN FRANCISCO--The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has made public its 2011 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS). , first presented in Incheon, Korea on December 14, 201 ...
PHOENIX,AZ.--On the heels of the company’s financial conference, there is a buzz in the air about AMD and its new management team headed by Rory Read. From the presentation material to the press repor ...
The creation of the book
chips 2020 - A Guide to the Future of Nanoelectronics, edited by Bernd Hoefflinger with contributions by authors from across the semiconductor field, was, according to Hoeffli ...
TSMC plans to launch 3-D IC assembly early in 2013
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Globalfoundries CEO Ajit Manocha has praised his firm for what he called a “remarkable quarter” in Q411, and promised that the foundry was on track to “keep the momentum going,” ...
MANHASSET, NY -- Texas Instruments claims the industry’s first demonstration of a radio frequency system-on-chip that integrates an IEEE 802.15.4 (2.4 GHz) radio, an ARM Cortex-M3 processor and enough ...
Intel Corp may have missed the smartphone boat the first time around, but the chip maker is determined not to let the opportunity set sail without it again, making its first big moves in ultra-mobilit
SAN FRANCISCO--Intel Corp. may have missed the smartphone boat the first time around, but the chip maker is determined not to let the opportunity set sail without it again, making its first big moves ...
MANHASSET, NY -- The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering has partnered with Applied DNA Sciences on research and further development of APDN’s SigNature DNA product for preventing counterfeit ...
RESEARCH by Randy Abrams and Kevin Chan of Credit Suisse into the Asian semiconductors sector has found the trend toward 2.5D and 3D packaging could benefit packaging subcontractors.
LONDON – As of July 2011 Taiwan held 21 percent of the world's installed wafer fabrication capacity, surpassing Japan and Korea and taking the top spot for the first time, according to market research ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Some companies are still standing on the sidelines of growth opportunities as China expands its domestic market and technical clout, said a PriceWaterhouseCoopers executive.China co ...
IHS iSuppli says chip inventories held by semiconductor suppliers declined in the third quarter of 2011, as the industry cut production to reduce oversupply.
SILANNA has presented a chip that it developed for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) at the Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference held 5 to 8 December 2011 in Melbourne.
Google's famous front-page Doodle today has been changed to that of a microchip for 12 December, in celebration of what would have been Robert Noyce's 84th birthday.
RESEARCHERS from the University of Bristol’s Centre for Quantum Photonics have developed a multi-purpose photonic chip, an important step toward programmable quantum processors.
STMICROELECTRONICS has introduced ultra-low-power, high-performance three-axis accelerometers in 2x2mm packages, for smaller electronic devices with motion sensing.
REUTERS has reported that Apple is in talks to buy Israel-based Anobit, which manufactures flash storage technology.
Broadcom to show 802.11ac
chips in products at CES
Quanta Computer Inc filed a lawsuit Tuesday against AMD, alleging breach of contract and saying AMD sold defective products, according to a report by the Bloomberg news service.
SAN FRANCISCO—Quanta Computer Inc., a Taiwanese contract manufacturer of notebook computers, filed a lawsuit Tuesday (Jan. 3) against Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), alleging breach of contract and ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Broadcom upgraded two families of
chips for set-top boxes and residential gateways and forged two software partnerships, including one to support Echostar's Sling Media technology.B ...
SAN FRANCISCO--Purported specifications and benchmarks of Intel Corp.’s upcoming 32nm Medfield platform have been leaked online, detailing performance figures set to rival if not beat current chip mar ...
SAN FRANCISCO—NTT Docomo Inc., Japan's largest wireless carrier, said Tuesday (Dec. 27) it reached a basic agreement with five companies— Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd., NEC Corp., Panasonic ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Advanced Micro Devices refreshed its line of processors that mix CPU and graphics cores with five desktop and eight notebook parts. The
chips use two and four CPU cores and include ...
Advanced Micro Devices refreshed its line of processors that mix CPU and graphics cores with five desktop and eight notebook parts.
The company claims the CMOS
chips can support long-haul transmissions while consuming about 2.3 W, about 50% less than its previous parts.
Engineers have discovered a surprising new way to increase a material's thermal conductivity that provides a new tool for managing thermal effects in computers, lasers and a number of other powered de