Samsung researchers propose graphene 'barristor' device
SAN FRANSCIO— Mark Murphy, chief financial officer at
silicon wafer supplier MEMC Electronic Materials Inc., resigned Tuesday (May 16) to take a job as president of Praxair Inc.'s wholly owned subsidi ...
LONDON – Design services provider e
silicon Inc. has helped several fabless chip companies and OEMs enter the market by managing their ASIC and SoC flows. It services include everything from IP selecti ...
MaxLinear takes
silicon Labs to court over 'false allegations'
silicon Ventures tips plan to stem fabless VC drought
MEMC saw 'turning point' for semi wafer sales in Q1
SAN JOSE – Driven by the growth of mobile devices, merchant CPU cores shipped in more than 10 billion chips last year, up 25 percent over 2010, according to a new report. ARM Ltd. commanded 78 percent ...
SAN FRANCISCO--Worldwide
silicon wafer area shipments increased slightly during the first quarter compared to the fourth quarter of 2011, according to the fab tool vendor trade group SEMI. SEMI's Sili ...
I just received a jolly friendly email from the folks at NXP thanking me for visiting them at the Embedded Systems Conference, a DESIGN West summit, in
silicon Valley, at the McEnery Convention Center ...
Imagination signs Hi
silicon to use PowerVR, Rogue GPUs
Here comes silicene, possible graphene replacement
SAN JOSE – GlobalFoundries is installing equipment to make through-
silicon vias in its Fab 8 in New York. If all goes well, the company hopes to take production orders in the second half of 2013 for 3 ...
SAN JOSE – GlobalFoundries is installing equipment to make through-
silicon vias in its Fab 8 in New York. If all goes well, the company hopes to take production orders in the second half of 2013 for 3 ...
PORTLAND, Ore.—The three-dimensional (3-D) field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is enabling the era of
silicon convergence, according to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.), which is incorporating applica ...
EE Times updates
silicon 60 list of emerging startups
silicon-on-insulator at ST and IBM closing gap with Intel
silicon dioxide nanometal offers alternative memory
EU project to develop highly efficient
silicon thin-film solar modules
Chip vendors know they can cater to the huge embedded market with many more divergent chips than might be pitched to, say, the mobile markets for iPods, iPads and notebook computers. There has been an ...
MANHASSET, NY -- The Global Semiconductor Alliance has filled six positions on its board of directors including five semiconductor positions and one value chain producer position.Ralph Schmitt, presid ...
Panel sees MEMS market boom,
silicon to win more slots
LONDON – Graphensic AB has been formed by researchers Professor Rositza Yakimova, Mikael Syvajarvi and Tihomir Iakimov as a spin-off from the Linkoping University, to commercialize the formation of gr ...
Heliatek opens organic PV factory, plans second plant
LONDON – Europe's largest chip company STMicroelectronics NV should persuade Ericsson AB that they sell off their mobile chip joint venture ST-Ericsson, but probably to some aspiring Chinese company. ...
Graphensic AB has been formed by researchers Professor Rositza Yakimova, Mikael Syvajarvi, and Tihomir Iakimov as a spin-off from the Linkoping University, to commercialize the formation of graphene o
Tyson Tuttle will take the helm at analog and mixed-signal specialist
silicon Labs, the company announced Thursday (March 1), replacing Necip Sayiner as president and CEO effective April 18. Tuttle, 4 ...
Luxtera, ST in deal to take
silicon photonics mainstream
silicon Labs takes Cortex-M3 route for 32-bit MCUs
BARCELONA – The mobile industry took a few small but significant steps toward the holy grail of a unified technology at the Mobile World Congress here. Qualcomm and Hi
silicon announced multi-mode chip ...
MANHASSET, NY -- Hi
silicon, a China-based company, and European R&D consortium IMEC have signed a strategic research collaboration to develop RF transceiver architectures for next-generation mobil ...
SAN FRANCISCO – The International Solid-State Circuits Conference is always a global smorgasbord of the latest in semiconductor design, and the 2012 version here was no exception.True there were no he ...
Analyst: Mobile MEMS market rising to $6bn in 2016
SAN FRANCISCO – Experts agree printed circuit boards and processors will eventually need optical interconnects. But just when and how the industry will get there is still unclear.The International Tec ...
Thermal Diffusivity Sensors: Temperature Sensors that Scale
LONDON – Fabless chip company Black Sand Technologies Inc., which sells CMOS power amplifiers for 3G communications, has announced it has raised $10 million in a series C round of funding.The BST34 se ...
IEEE gives honor to Tyndall professor for SOI work
Konica Minolta makes MEMS inkjet for printed electronics
Marvell Technology Group Ltd has signed a licensing agreement for Veri
silicon Holdings Co Ltd's ZSP G3 intellectual property cores, including the dual-MAC ZSP800M and ZSP880M synthesizable DSP cores.
The 2012 edition of the
silicon Valley Index has just been released in a combined effort by Joint Venture and the
silicon Valley Community Foundation. Published every February since 1995, the 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 ...
LONDON – Analog and mixed-signal IC maker Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) has acquired Genasic Design Systems Ltd. (Riseley, England), a fabless RF chip company founded in 2009, for ...
RESEARCHERS with the Semiconductor Materials Research Division at Linkoping University in Sweden say it is possible to produce cheaper and purer
silicon carbide.
OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has succeeded in manufacturing high-performance
silicon-based prototypes of blue and white LEDs.
ST offers audio processor for multiple MEMS microphones
LONDON – U.K. chip maker Plessey Semiconductors Ltd., a once-famous semiconductor name reborn as a management-owned buy-out, has licensed the right to manufacture, sell and support certain products fr ...
People ask me is there something wrong with the semiconductor industry if apparently good companies with good technologies such as
siliconBlue Technologies Inc. and PicoChip Ltd. are being sold for le ...
RESEARCHERS at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, have made conducting wires in
silicon just four atoms wide and one atom tall.
LATTICE Semiconductor is acquiring
siliconBlue Technologies, strengthening its position in the mobile market.
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.
The smallest wires ever developed in
silicon -- just one atom tall and four atoms wide -- have been shown by a team of researchers to have the same current-carrying capability as copper wires.