LONDON – Fourth quarter sales and profits came in as expected in the fourth quarter financial results for leading chip making equipment vend ...
In our gut, we all get that hardware-based security should outstrip the traditional, software-centric approach to antivirus protection. But ...
LONDON – Leading chip foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. said that strong demand gave rise to above-guidance revenue and pr ...
AMD reportedly sues former employees over trade secrets
Atmel talks touch enabled curves and Internet of Things
LONDON – Fabless consumer chip company MediaTek Inc. has withdrawn an application to raise cash by issuing shares, casting doubt on a plan t ...
LAS VEGAS – A number of reputable chip companies, including ST-Ericsson, Renesas Mobile, NVidia, Marvell, have been developing LTE baseband ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The Facebook-led Open Compute Project (OCP) announced a specification for a plug-in board that can accommodate a varie ...
Facebook’s software lead, Lars Rasmussen, on social search
MENLO PARK, Calif. – Software engineer Lars Rasmussen could be a poster child for the slogan pasted on the walls of Facebook’s headquarters ...
Beyond UHD: Audio, voice, connectivity top CE agenda
Beyond UHD: Audio, voice, connectivity top CE agenda
Beyond UHD: Audio, voice, connectivity top CE agenda
Fairchild pumps up volume on analog and power in mobile
SAN FRANCISCO—Semiconductor capital equipment vendor Mattson Technology Inc. said Tuesday (Jan. 15) it would broadly reduce its workforce as ...
Memristors were conceived by electrical engineer Leon Chua in his seminal 1971 paper "Memristor--the Missing Circuit Element" (IEE ...
LONDON – Fabless chip company MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) has signed an additional license with Imagination Technologies Group plc (King ...
The share prices of rival U.K. processor intellectual property licensors Imagination Technologies Group plc and ARM Holdings plc have been b ...
Electronics growth in '13 could face headwinds: experts
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Expect ARM and Facebook to become data center friends at the Open Compute Project’s summit here Wednesday (Jan. 16).Exe ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Apple Inc. has cut orders for components for the iPhone 5 due to weaker than expected demand, according to a report Monday (Ja ...
CES: Samsung’s $250 Exynos 5-based Arndale development board
SAN FRANCISCO—An international team of researchers reported designing a multi-component molecular motor that can be moved clockwise and coun ...
Yoshida in Vegas: How to walk away from smartphones
SAN FRANCISCO--Analog semiconductor firm Maxim Integrated was certainly not giving off mixed-signals at CES 2013, demonstrating its intent t ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – The global PC market declined in the fourth quarter of 2012, the first such holiday season drop in more than five years. ...
LAS VEGAS – Gary Shapiro, poobah of the Consumer Electronics Association, likes to call International CES "the greatest show on eart ...
Invention and intellectual property company Rambus has had its difficulties over the past few years, and garnered an unfortunate reputation ...
Invention and intellectual property company Rambus has had its difficulties over the past few years, and garnered an unfortunate reputation ...
With the proliferation of connected devices comes a plethora of new challenges, perhaps none more challenging than the strain this puts on t ...
SAN FRANCISCO—More than 240 million tablet PCs are expected to ship in 2013, easily exceeding the 207 million notebook PCs projected to ship ...
Agilent Fellow Joel Dunsmore: The art of measurement science
Time was when a great many companies had their own processor architectures. It was a pinnacle of electronic and semiconductor achievement an ...
I asked five subject-matter experts (SMEs) -- some of my go-to engineers in high-speed design -- what are the big issues to watch for at Des ...
Agilent Fellow Joel Dunsmore: The art of measurement science
LONDON – Lithography light source provider Cymer Inc. (San Diego, Calif.) has appointed Klaus Schuegraf as group vice president of extreme u ...
Five intellectual property trends to watch in 2013
LAS VEGAS – Henry Samueli, co-founder and CTO of Broadcom, during one-on-one with EE Times, identified Ultra HDTV, gigabit wireless and &quo ...
Agilent Fellow Joel Dunsmore: The art of measurement science
CES: FCC chair on Wi-Fi traffic jam and mobile body area
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Google edged out Apple in a close race to win U.S. patents in 2012. The two mobile rivals also logged the biggest gains o ...
What's this? Was Globalfoundries behind "Project Azalea," codename for a huge chip foundry, all along? Or has that shoe yet to fal ...
Smartphone platforms, ultrabooks, touch and gesture control were all on Intel’s CES 2013 agenda, with the firm ramping up the rhetoric aroun ...
Newark Mayor, at CES, endorses Panasonic's 'better world'
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Like many other tech journalists, I got an invite this week to a Jan. 15 press conference at Facebook headquarters. The i ...
CES: ARM CEO on TV as '56-inch smartphone' and RF IPs for IoT
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Despite Intel’s reports of progress in tablets and smartphones at the Consumer Electronics Show this week, at least one a ...
LAS VEGAS – Kazuhiro Tsuga, president of Panasonic, is expecting another 10 billion yen net loss for the second straight year. Now he the hu ...
Newark Mayor, at CES, endorses Panasonic's 'better world'
Globalfoundries plans $2-bn R&D center in New York
Yoshida in Vegas: Windshield camera for the paranoid driver
LAS VEGAS -- As traditional TV manufacturers seek ways to jettison their commodity flat-panel TV businesses, Sharp Corp. is doubling down on ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – The many flavors of home networks are all claiming advances in technology and adoption at the Consumer Electronics Show, ...
Read enough about DesignCon on EE Times? Don't cry "uncle" just yet. We've got a collection of mobile and tablet apps to help thos ...
LONDON – Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said Tuesday (Jan. 8) it has demonstrated working silicon of two quad-core x86 system-chips intended fo ...
LAS VEGAS – Smart TV is turning out to be a slow learner, through no fault of its own. As evidenced at CES here on Monday (Jan. 7), leading ...
LONDON – Qualcomm Inc. has announced it is sampling the first two of its next generation of quad-core Snapdragon system chips and that it al ...
LONDON – A flexible tablet design created by Queens University in collaboration with Intel Labs and Plastic Logic features innovative contro ...
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Future wearable electronic devices will automatically respond to the context of a user's actions depending on whether they ...
Intel Corp. proved its predictably solid self at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in a press conference announcing new platforms, new eco ...
Report: Nvidia ahead in tablets, Qualcomm in phones
SAN JOSE, Calif. – If you were the engineering manager for the 2013 Apple iWatch, what would you build?“I wouldn’t call it a watch,” said Ri ...
LONDON – China's Ingenic Semiconductor has introduced a small, dual-core MIPS-based application processor and said it plans to demonstrate t ...
LAS VEGAS – The Consumer Electronics show curtain raiser, dubbed "CES Unveiled," offered a glimpse of consumer market trends and h ...
DesignCon, coming Jan. 28-31 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, is positioned as the leading live event for chip and systems designers an ...
LONDON – Mixed-signal chip company NXP Semiconductors NV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) has appointed Hans Rijns and David French to take join ...
LONDON – Nvidia has launched the quad-core Cortex-A15 based Tegra 4 application processor for use in consumer gadgets from smartphones, thro ...
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Bosch said it has integrated into a 32-bit microcontroller a three-axis accelerometer with its first nine-axis inertial me ...
Sports and wellness drive mobile health device shipments past 30 million in 2012
Global smart electricity meter to see installed base double by 2016
Cisco, NXP push commercialization of Car-to-X communication
The tablet generation is pushing networks to the edge
With LTE in the starting blocks and the Connected Car increasingly taking shape, new alliances are in the offing. Volvo Car Group and Ericss ...
BMW brings LTE connectivity to its vehicles (and others)
CES: Three reasons why Ultra HDTV is a non-starter
LONDON – Hossein Yassaie, CEO of Imagination Technologies Group plc, has been knighted for services to technology and innovation in the New ...
This is a test to see if the EET reg required check-box CMS feature of last sprint works. ...
MANHASSET, N.Y. -- An Orbital Sciences Corp. Antares rocket will launch three PhoneSat spacecraft into low Earth orbit in 2013 from NASA's W ...
LONDON – Diodes Inc. (Plano, Texas), a manufacturer of discrete, analog and application-specific semiconductors, is set to buy BCD Semicondu ...
LONDON – A Pittsburgh jury has found that chip company Marvell infringed two disk drive patents owned by Carnegie Mellon University and awar ...
iPad 3 called 'unbalanced' as Apple, TSMC rumors revive
Who says Sony's a sinking ship? Santa and I would beg to differ. Here's the deal: For years, people have been beating Sony up for its ina ...
Analyze this!: Electronics winners & losers in 2012
Solid-state lighting is one of my tips for a technology-driven trend in 2013 and no sooner has the year begun than I receive the news that V ...
Voice recognition is one of those technologies that are wrought with peaks of anticipation followed by valleys of disappointments. The quest ...
MANHASSET, N.Y. --The Pentagon wants to improve its energy security by using microgrid technologies.The U.S. military's heavy reliance on fo ...
LONDON – Strength in mobile devices and weakness in PCs will characterize the coming year and drive global semiconductor market growth of 4. ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Out of curiosity, I clicked on Lab126 while poking around for a story and got more than I expected. It appears this secre ...
Yoshida in China: Disconnects within a Sino-U.S. company
SAN FRANCISCO--User Interface firm Rightware, has appointed former Nokia vice president of N-Series, Jonas Geust, as CEO of the company effe ...
How come you need an engineering degree to set up a 5.1 surround sound system to work with your flat-screen TV? That's what the consumer ele ...
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — AMD announced it has appointed interim CFO Devinder Kumar to the full time role of senior vice president and chief finan ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Google has agreed to drop cases in the U.S. that seek injunctions against competitors alleged to have violated standards- ...
LONDON – Partners of graphics IP licensor Imagination Technologies Group plc will be demonstrating the first products using the firm's Power ...
The MEMS industry saw double-digit growth in 2012, is now valued at more than $10 billion by Yole Développement, and is on track to dou ...
Got DesignCon questions? Last week, I put forth five questions I'd like answered at the electronics industry's go-to conference covering all ...
Is social media a bunch of BS? (There's a new book which argues yes.) Even if we stipulate that it's not, there's an unspoken consensus t ...
LONDON – For the second month in a row, strong growth in the Americas region pushed the three-month average of worldwide semiconductor sales ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Fabless semiconductor companies as a group outperformed chip makers with their own fabs again in 2012, according to the l ...
WASHINGTON – The Curiosity rover now gearing up to explore a 96-mile-wide crater on Mars is by far the most complex machine ever to explore the surface of another planet. One big reason is the rover’s ...