Report: ARM aims to take 20% of notebook PC market
HiWave embeds haptic response in flat printed panels
Hybridization of processors increasingly 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 ...
Report: UMC benefits from TSMC 28-nm supply shortage
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 ...
GSA spies venture capital investment uptick in April
LONDON – Altis
semiconductor SA, the specialty foundry bought by French entrepreneur Yazid Sabeg from IBM and Infineon in 2010, has announced the release of updated process design kits for 130-nm spec ...
PORTLAND, Ore.— The Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC) will report next month on progress to make its memristor variation, called resistive-RAMs (RRAM), the dominate memory technology in f ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Fabless
semiconductor vendor Qualcomm Inc. moved to the No. 5 position among chip sellers in the first quarter, surpassing Texas Instruments Inc., among others, according to market resea ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Fabless
semiconductor vendor Qualcomm Inc. moved to the No. 4 position among chip sellers in the first quarter, surpassing Texas Instruments Inc., among others, according to market resea ...
Bauer resigns as CEO of Infineon due to ill-health
Transphorm delivers 600-V GaN-on-Si power components
Bauer resigns as CEO of Infineon due to ill-health
Applied to cut jobs, move solar manufacturing to Asia
Analog chip market to grow 3% in 2012, says research firm
LONDON – Texas Instruments and Hewlett Packard Co. retained the number 1 and 2 positions in the ranking of MEMS suppliers by sales revenue in 2011, despite each suffering sales slides of 4 percent, ac ...
LONDON – In a move reminiscent of ARM's three-tiered Cortex product launch a few years back, processor IP licensor MIPS Technologies Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) has introduced three families of Aptiv pro ...
Silicon Ventures tips plan to stem fabless VC drought
MEMC saw 'turning point' for semi wafer sales in Q1
GENEVA, Switzerland – Fabless chip company Nordic
semiconductor ASA, well known as a supplier of low power 2.4-GHz radio ICs, is ready to take its business to the next level, which is the combination ...
Bozotti has a dream: to turn round ST's digital problem
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 ...
MANHASSET, NY -- The cost of maintaining productivity at a time of limited R&D resources facing the global chip-making community will be discussed at next week’s SEMI Advanced
semiconductor Manufa ...
GENEVA, Switzerland – Mobile technology companies Qualcomm Inc., and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have announced the formation of the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP).The mission of the organization ...
Murata selects Black Sand CMOS PAs for 3G front ends
Imagination signs HiSilicon to use PowerVR, Rogue GPUs
LONDON – EDA company Sagantec North America Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has announced that is has acquired NP Komplete Technologies BV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), a startup company founded in 2009. S ...
Micropelt raises funds to expand energy harvest work
LONDON – Fabless chip company Spreadtrum Communications Inc. (Shanghai, China) has reported that its sales revenue for the first quarter of 2012 was $161.1 million, down 16.2 percent sequentially but ...
semiconductor probe card sales projected flat for 2012
LONDON – The International Electronics Forum is off to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia for its 21 st annual meeting. The meeting of C-level executives is set to take place at Yerevan Marriott Hotel fr ...
LONDON – Infineon Technologies has issued a rather downbeat outlook for the second half of its fiscal year after posting second fiscal quarter sales revenue ahead of forecast at 986 million euro (abou ...
Freescale snags Insight Award for innovative process technology
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—ON
semiconductor Corp. and Atmel Corp. Wednesday (May 2) became the latest chip makers to declare that the bottom of the
semiconductor industry down cycle had passed, each reporting sale ...
Yole: Sony, Silex, Dalsa shine MEMS foundry ranking
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 ...
I was sat alongside Brian Fuller, who was then EE Times editor-in-chief, in the ballroom of a London hotel as I heard Ulrich Schumacher, then CEO of Infineon Technologies AG, talk about the unthinkabl ...
IMEC: 60-GHz transceiver offers 7-Gbps short range data rate
Microchip tips gesture firm buy in profitable quarter
Fairchild asserts new patents against Power Integrations
SAN FRANCISCO—RF chip supplier TriQuint
semiconductor Inc. said Tuesday (May 1) it was selected by the the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to lead a $12.3 million development pr ...
SAN FRANCISCO—
semiconductor vendors and related companies have largely continued in recent days to forecast sequential quarterly growth in providing sales targets for the current quarter. Over the ...
SAN FRANCISCO—RF chip maker TriQuint
semiconductor Inc. cut about 70 jobs in Florida last week after issuing a disappointing quarterly report and sales forecast, according to a report by the South Flo ...
Here comes silicene, possible graphene replacement
Huawei to give Intel LTE development support in China
LONDON – Growth in the
semiconductor market will accelerate in the second half of 2012 and achieve an annual percentage figure of 6 to 7 percent, according to Mali Venkatesan, research manager for sem ...
LONDON – PolyCore Software Inc. (Burlingame, Calif.) has upgraded its Poly-Platform tool to version 2.0 with the inclusion of Poly-Mapper which provides control of memory used for messaging in multi-c ...
Fairchild, Power Integrations found to infringe patents