National Instruments debuts integrated VST for RF tests
Beware technology bearing gifts; turn off the light
SAN FRANCISCO—Chinese foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) Wednesday (Aug. 8) reported a new quarterly revenue record for the second quarter, posting sales that exceeded anal ...
Replace Cirrus’ design slots in Apple? Fuhgeddaboudit!
The folks at Xilinx honored the winner of the NI LabVIEW FPGA Innovation Award last night at the Graphical System Design Achievement Awards ceremony at the Hilton Hotel during the NIWeek 2012 Worldwid ...
Synopsys launches verification IP community website
Startup works with NASA to develop low mass lighting
National Instruments debuts integrated VST for RF tests
Loss-making Peregrine prices IPO to raise $77 million
LONDON – Sales revenue at foundry United Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) bounced strongly into annual growth in July after being in negative territory for the first five months of 2012.UMC's ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Tuesday (Aug. 7) promoted John Byrne, a sales executive who joined the company in 2007, to fill the vacant position of senior vice president and chief sales o ...
SAN JOSE -- One of the guilty pleasures of covering a multi-billion dollar patent infringement case like Apple v. Samsung is you get permission to read the emails of industry executives. So, go ahead ...
Analyst: Strong mobile DRAM market drove Micron's Elpida buy
SAN JOSE – A marketing expert testifying for Apple said he believes Samsung blurred and tried to copy the iPhone and iPad trade dress. Apple entered into evidence a Samsung internal report saying it n ...
WASHINGTON – NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has released the first, murky color image from its Curiosity rover showing the north wall and rim of Gale Crater, where Curiosity landed early Monday (Aug ...
London Calling: Former IBM, Globalfoundries execs rising
Report: Nikon to work with Intel to develop 450-mm wafer steppers
SAN JOSE – Samsung’s lead attorney tried to draw the conclusion that icons are by their very nature, well—iconic. The images represent basic functions all smartphones need to use, he suggested in cros ...
WASHINGTON – NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has released the first, murky color image from its Curiosity rover showing the north wall and rim of Gale Crater, where Curiosity landed early Monday (Aug ...
SAN JOSE – As many as 13 Samsung phones use “substantially similar” icons and display screens as protected in an Apple iPhone design patent, said an expert witness testifying for Apple. Another 11 Sam ...
PARIS – As part of a a three-year project, researchers at the University of Lincoln in Great Britain said they will develop 3-D imaging technology for cancer patients receiving proton therapy. The res ...
LONDON – Mixed-signal and RF chip company MaxLinear Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.) has filed counterclaims against rival fabless chip firm Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas) in U.S. District Court in ...
Sharp LCD-based support plan is up for renegotiation
Yoshida in China: Apple falls to No.5 in China; Pearl River woes
Reports: Wafer discounts, rush orders from MediaTek, Nvidia
PARIS – As part of a a three-year project, researchers at the University of Lincoln in Great Britain said they will develop 3D imaging technology for cancer patients receiving proton therapy. The rese ...
LONDON: What a small solar system we live in. The state-owned China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Corp. Ltd. (Beijing, China) has just helped Dynex Semiconductor Ltd. (Lincoln, England) build a ...
Analyst: Apple, Samsung snagged over 100% of Q2 handset profits
MediaTek cracks top 5 in smartphone apps CPU sales
SAN JOSE – Mountains of design and legal details bubbled into frustration as Samsung attorneys tried to discredit an expert witness for Apple and the judge wrestled with attorneys.Apple attorneys aske ...
SAN FRANCISCO—The market for magnetic sensors is projected to grow by 13 percent in 2012 after surging by more than 22 percent last year, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli.Thanks to use ac ...
Either Cypress Semiconductor Corp. is practicing a siege mentality, or it is waiting for shares of Ramtron International Corp. (Nasdaq: RMTR) to sink so low that the company will have no choice but to ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Analog chip vendor Power Integrations Inc. (PI) Monday (Aug. 6) announced it would make a one time payment of $42.6 million to the U.s. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for taxes and inter ...
PORTLAND, Ore.—Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and elsewhere have embarked on an ambitious $32 million " human body-on-a-chip" research project that will us ...
WASHINGTON – Human beings are capable of great things when they work together.The engineers and scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL who designed, built and flawlessly landed the Curiosi ...
SAN JOSE – An expert witness testifying for Apple said as many as 11 Samsung phones and two tablets infringe Apple design patents.Peter W. Bressler—a consultant and teacher of industrial design who ho ...
SAN JOSE – A Samsung executive said the company had a “crisis of design” because the difference in user interfaces on the iPhone and Samsung handsets were like “Heaven and Earth.” The executive spoke ...
LONDON – Nitero Inc. (Austin, Texas), a fabless chip company with Australian roots, has announced it has begun demonstrating 60-GHz, multi-gigabit Wi-Fi ICs for mobile devices to selected companies. T ...
Yoshida in China: Leveraging one billion smart phones
Xilinx spotlights All Programmable Technology at NIWeek 2012
High-profile ex-Intel exec joins Qualcomm as new marketing chief
Samsung plans ARM-based CPU for servers, says report
SAN JOSE – ARM announced the first three members of the second generation of its Mali T600 graphics cores. The T624, 628 and 678 cores are the first to support Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression, a ...
LONDON – Market researcher Allied Business Intelligence Inc. has decided that a lack of confidence in the global economy and a past lack of investment in semiconductor manufacturing mean the chip mark ...
MANHASSET, NY -- Analog Devices, Inc. introduced a low-power, single-lead, heart-rate monitor analog front end (AFE) for a wide range of vital sign monitoring applications. The AD8232 AFE is 50 percen ...
LONDON – Leading Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) has opted to take a 5 percent stake in lithography equipment maker ASML Holding NV (Veldhoven, The Netherlands) as part o ...
There’s enough greatness and pettiness to go around in the cramped courtroom of Judge Lucy Koh of San Jose Federal Court where Apple and Samsung are suing each other for patent infringement.Apple dese ...
Smartphone projector display ready for market, says ST
WASHINGTON – The Curiosity rover has landed in the lowlands of Mars. The Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft carrying the 1-ton rover reached the surface at Gale Crater at about 1:32 a.m. eastern time ...
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SAN JOSE – Apple’s penchant for secrecy came into the spotlight in testimony in its patent infringement case Friday. Scott Forstall, Apple’s senior vice president for iOS, also talked about the genesi ...
SAN JOSE – Samsung’s attorneys suggested the late Steve Jobs saw an idea that could be useful for the iPhone in a Samsung design in the trial where Apple is seeking $2.5 billion from Samsung for infri ...
MANHASSET, N.Y. -- Electronic paper display specialist E Ink Holdings has signed a definitive agreement to buy shares of SiPix Technology, a provider of rival electrophoretic technologies. E Ink will ...
SAN JOSE – Apple’s head of marketing said he was “shocked” when he first saw Samsung’s “copycat” products of the iPhone and iPad that he said have impacted Apple’s sales. An attorney for Samsung sugge ...
SAN JOSE, Calif.--Pressures of the patent infringement battle boiled over Friday morning (Aug. 3) as Judge Lucy Koh admonished Apple and Samsung in front of the jury for deluging the court with object ...
Microchip closes SMSC deal, discusses integration plans
NEW YORK -- The recently announced CSR-Samsung deal, under which Samsung Electronics will acquire CSR’s handset connectivity/location development operations and its technology, was an easy sell to the ...
NASA engineer and media sensation Adam Steltzner is the face of the Mars Science Laboratory mission scheduled to land on the Red Planet early Monday morning (Aug. 6). So far, media attention to Stelzn ...
LONDON – Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached a three-month average of $24.38 billion in June for the month of June 2012, a decrease of 0.1 percent from the prior month when the averaged sales we ...
Wearable monitoring system for Parkinson's patients
LONDON – EDA software leader Synopsys Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) has agreed to purchase IC debug and verification software company SpringSoft Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) for $406 million, or approximatel ...
Yoshida in China: Windfall orders from smartphones in China?
Is Synopsys helping chip making return to its roots?
PARIS – It is now possible to draw and write using just eye movements, claimed France's National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).French CNRS researcher Jean Lorenceau said that subjects sufferin ...
Component prices plunging on economic uncertainty, says IHS
Multicore 'string processor' firm sold to Ericsson
Foundries soar, Japanese IDMs slide in IC sales rankings
LONDON – Despite the economic calamity in Europe some governments still have good chunks of cash to back technology development.The German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is backing a projec ...
What's in a name? Plenty, says CEO of former austriamicrosystems
SAN FRANCISCO—ON Semiconductor Corp. said Thursday (Aug. 2) that Chief Financial Officer Donald Colvin will resign after the company identifies a replacement.ON Semi (Phoenix) said Colvin and the comp ...
SAN FRANCISCO—ON Semiconductor Corp. plans to cut additional jobs as part of a plan to save the company between $10 million and $15 million per year, company executives said Thursday (Aug. 2).In a con ...
SAN FRANCISCO—ON Semiconductor Corp. said Thursday (Aug. 2) that Chief Financial Officer Donald Colvin will resign after the company identifies a replacement.ON Semi (Phoenix) said Colvin and the comp ...
Yoshida in China: Is China’s manufacturing sector slowing down?
Animated characters brought to life by 3-D printing
Among nature’s tiniest and shortest-lived particles, the Higgs Boson has fame and influence extending far beyond its physical attributes. The search for this particle has brought together huge numbers ...
LONDON – Struggling Japanese chip firm Renesas Electronics Corp. has forecast it will make a net loss of 150 billion yen (about $1.91 billion) driven by restructuring costs for the fiscal year ending ...
LONDON – The price of shares in mobile phone company Nokia Oy was volatile amid heavy trading on Wednesday amid rumors that the company might be bought by Chinese computer maker Lenovo. "This mus ...
LONDON – Intel likes MEMS and gesture recognition it seems. Movea SA (Grenoble, France) has raised 6.5 million euro (about $8 million) in a funding round led by Intel Capital, joined by existing inves ...
PARIS – Japan's Sharp Corp. reported a significantly wider fiscal first quarter loss and unveiled its intention to cut 5,000 jobs by the end of March 2013. This will be the company's first personal do ...
SAN FRANCISCO— Al Schuele, a venture capitalist and former semiconductor industry executive, was appointed chairman of the board of directors of Cirrus Logic Inc., the company said Wednesday (Aug. 1). ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Semiconductor stocks are showing surprising strength in spite of difficult global macroeconomic conditions, thanks to lower than expected estimate declines by chip firms and Wall Street, ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission has approved MediaTek Inc.'s proposal to acquire up to 48 percent of rival MStar Semiconductor Inc., saying the combination would not hamper market competi ...
SAN JOSE – Fusion-io is shipping its Ion Data Accelerator, software to enable it flash memory cards on a server to act as a storage networking array or appliance. The code opens up a new front in comp ...
LONDON – Fabless networking chip firm Cavium Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) has announced that it is planning to deliver a family of multicore system-chips based on full custom cores designed to implement th ...
SAN JOSE – Samsung sketched the outlines of its countersuit case against Apple in opening statements here Tuesday. The Korean giant showed prior art on all the patents Apple claims it infringes and de ...
WASHINGTON – When engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) realized they had to start from scratch in order to safely land a Mini Cooper-sized rover on the surface of Mars, they realized si ...
Startup raises $30 million to bring MRAM to market
LONDON – Audio and MEMS mixed-signal chip company Wolfson Microelectronics plc (Edinburgh, Scotland) has announced a reduction in its net loss in the second quarter as it has increased its sales reven ...
AMD recruits Apple processor guru as chief chip architect
LONDON – Mesuro Ltd. (Cardiff, Wales), a startup RF test company founded in 2008 as a spin off from Cardiff University, has announced it has raised £700,000 (about $1.1 million) in a funding roun ...
Smart energy interoperability consortium formally incorporated
LONDON – Japan has revived plans for a mobile equipment chip joint venture but has come up with something smaller and less ambitious than a previous plan that was cancelled earlier this year.NTT Docom ...
SAN FRANCISCO—China's antitrust regulatory body rubber stamped Microchip Technology Inc.'s $939 million acquisition of Standard Microsystems Corp. (SMSC), clearing the way for the deal to close this w ...
SAN JOSE – A 17-year veteran of Apple’s small but powerful industrial design team provided a glimpse of the design process at Apple in the first testimony of the company’s patent infringement case aga ...
SUNNYVALE, CALIF.--Memory maker Spansion, which reported strong second-quarter earnings today, has an "aggressive" roadmap to boost its product-introduction rate and break its latest design- ...
LONDON – Peter Bauer, is CEO of Infineon Technologies AG (Munich, Germany) until the end of the fourth fiscal quarter on September 30, 2012. He has been one of the more successful chip company CEOs on ...
SAN JOSE – The Apple v. Samsung case now starting here has already raised two broad questions: What’s the line between aggressive benchmarking and copying of a competitor’s product? And what’s the lin ...
Indian firm launches $125 MIPS-based Android 4.1 tablet
Toshiba to commence volume production of white LEDs
LONDON – Mayim Bialik, the Emmy-nominated actress who plays neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler on the television show The Big Bang Theory, is going to be doing teaching gigs at schools as part of workin ...