SAN JOSE –The Full Service Access Network, an alliance of about 85 telecom providers and their vendors, picked a technical proposal for 40 Gbit/second passive optical networks. The group is hammering ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has agreed to pay CSR plc (Cambridge, England) $310 million for its handset connectivity and location operations and the associated technology. Samsung has also agreed to ...

Researchers at Samsung Electronics and board members at LG Display have been charged over the theft of organic light emitting diode (OLED) display technology, according to local reports.Information re ...

SAN FRANCISCO—A pair of privately held chip startups that have taken more than $80 million in venture funding combined to date announced Tuesday (July 17) they would merge with a holding company to cr ...

I just received an email from Shepard "Shep" Siegel, who is the founder and CTO of Atomic Rules. Shep started off by saying "EE Times probably won’t run this on the cover, but we are ju ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Worldwide semiconductor sales on a three-month average basis were likely about $24.55 billion in June, up slightly from $24.4 billion in May, but down from May on a seasonally adjusted b ...

SAN FRANCISCO—DRAM pricing is set to increase as inventory levels fall relative to demand, according to a new report from market research firm IHS iSuppli. IHS's weeks of inventory DRAM index, which p ...

NEW YORK—Texas Instruments strengthened its commitment to the smart meter market this week with its first integrated e-metering product that it claims offers the lowest power.Designed for power monito ...

LONDON – The market for discrete semiconductors, module and ICs dedicated to the power electronics industry will reach $20 billion in 2012, according to market research firm Yole Developpement (Lyon, ...

SAN JOSE – Texas Instruments is moving its line of Keystone II SoCs beyond cellular base stations to target coprocessing jobs in servers. However, TI does not plan to deliver members of the family aim ...

SAN JOSE – Mobile chip designer ST-Ericsson grew revenues but failed to shave net losses in its most recent financial quarter. The troubled company--just three months into a makeover--predicted flat s ...

LONDON – Altis Semiconductor SA (Corbeil-Essonnes, France), the specialty foundry bought by French entrepreneur Yazid Sabeg from IBM and Infineon Technologies in 2010, is preparing to run a multi-proj ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel Corp. Tuesday (July 17) cut its target for 2012 sales growth, citing macroeconomic uncertainty and reduced projections for consumer spending in the second half of the year.Intel (S ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Pat Gelsinger, a longtime Intel Corp. executive who has been president and chief operating officer at EMC Corp. since 2009, was appointed CEO of virtualization software vendor VMware Inc ...

An audio DSP chip from NXP Semiconductor NV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) is able to boost the output power of small speakers used in smartphones and tablet computers by a factor of five while still pr ...

PORTLAND, Ore. – The volume of STMicroelectronics’ latest 6-axis MEMS chip has been halved and the device adds programmable motion sensing engines. ST’s iNEMO inertial module, the LSM330, combines a 3 ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Claiming to offer the first phase change memory (PCM) in high-volume production, U.S. memory chip vendor Micron Technology Inc. Tuesday (July 17) announced the availability of a 45-nm mu ...

Sales, profits falling at ASML, but outlook steady

LONDON – IP core developer SiliconGate LDA (Porto, Portugal has said that its power management IP has been included in the U-blox 7 platform and the UBX-G7020 chip implementation from U-blox AG (Thalw ...

SAN FRANCISCO—LSI Corp. Tuesday (July 17) appointed Greg Huff to the position of chief technology officer (CTO) as one of three promotions of company executives. Huff joined LSI in May 2011 as chief s ...

PORTLAND, Ore.—Altierre Corp. Wednesday (July 18) debuted a new e-paper for signage applications, offering customers the opportunity to take advantage of wireless updates using Altierre's E-Paper digi ...

I remember back in the 1980s getting quite excited about the application of fuzzy logic to control applications. I think there was a startup company but I certainly remember speaking on the telephone ...

LONDON – Eric Meurice, CEO of lithography equipment supplier ASML Holding NV (Veldhoven, The Netherlands), has explained how he expects logic process nodes to roll out over the next several years. The ...

SAN JOSE – Venture capital investments in the U.S. teetered in the second quarter of 2012, but semiconductor deals got a significant boost, according to the latest figures from Dow Jones VentureSource ...

LONDON – Eric Meurice, CEO of lithography equipment supplier ASML Holding NV (Veldhoven, The Netherlands), has provided background on the roll out of its next generation extreme ultra violet (EUV) lit ...

LONDON – Morris Chang, chairman and CEO of leading foundry chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., has warned that a slowdown is coming to the chip market and has cut his forecast for t ...

Analyst: Only six chip firms to expand capex in 2012

Does the math add up for RedMere + Fresco = Spectra7?

SAN JOSE – A handful of vendors have created a trial version for ARM-based servers of the OpenStack cloud computing software now available for testing online. The open source offering fills in another ...

NEW YORK -- Fifteen “clean tech” companies, more than half of which are located in New York state, are competing for investment funds at the seventh annual New Energy Symposium at the New York Academy ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Qualcomm Inc. said Wednesday (July 18) it expects supply of 28-nm chips to remain constrained until the end of the calendar year, despite acknowledging that the firm is now engaged with ...

SAN JOSE – Xilinx is not hearing any alarm bells, but it is forecasting sales will be down four to eight percent in its current quarter ending in September. The slowdown will come from a mixture of so ...

LONDON – A shortage of wafers for customers at the 28-nm process node has been no barrier to sharply increased profits at leading foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan). ...

LONDON – Analog and mixed-signal chip company Silicon Laboratories Inc. announced Wednesday (July 18) it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against rival chip company MaxLinear Inc. The suit, fil ...

PARIS – The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has published a report that makes ten recommendations to the public sector involved in the definition and implementation of smart g ...

Panel defines strategy for U.S. advanced manufacturing

Electronic Manufacturing Service (EMS) companies have enjoyed a reasonably rapid growth in revenue in the last 30 years. However, the marketplace is experiencing significant structural change with the ...

Linear Tech moves to integrate Dust Nets' wireless

SAN FRANCISCO—Market research firm International Data Corp. (IDC) Thursday (July 19) cut its forecast for 2012 semiconductor market growth, citing macroeconomic uncertainties such as the ongoing Euroz ...

PARIS – Ulis announced a 20 million euros ($24 million) investment in a new infrared facility near Grenoble, France, to penetrate emerging high volume markets such as automotive and low-resolution sen ...

SAN JOSE – Annual PC processor sales may slow to “a new baseline” of low second-digit growth long term, said Advanced Micro Devices. The prediction came as AMD reported an 11 percent decline in quarte ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Freescale Semiconductor Inc. President and CEO Gregg Lowe said Thursday (July 19) that the company expects to complete by the end of the third quarter an analysis of the company's produc ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Analog and mixed-signal chip vendor Integrated Device Technology Inc. Thursday (July 19) announced the separate acquisitions of NXP Semiconductors NV's high-speed data converter assets a ...

The start of a new day was dominated by an old tradition at the Indy 500 on Saturday, as vintage race cars took to the track for Legend’s Day, honoring Roger Penske.

Intel has announced the release of another Atom-powered smartphone, this time by Chinese electronics vendor Lenovo Group.

Freescale Semiconductor has crafted three reference designs enabling any tablet, smartphone, or other mobile devices to be wirelessly recharged.

ATSC said it has invested in IP enablement and infrastructure readiness with Tanner EDA tools and flows to provide low cost analog/mixed signal ASIC design services and solutions to its global ASIC cu

Dell Inc said it has started shipping server computers called Copper based on the ARM processor architecture to selected customers. The servers are based on Marvell's quad-core Armada XP SoC products.

Xilinx has begun initial shipments of the Virtex-7 H580T FPGA, a single-chip solution for addressing key Nx100G and 400G line card applications and functions.

It's sort of ironic that limiting innovation in electronics actually allows electronics companies a greater presence in racing events.

We caught up with KV Racing's Eric Cowdin the other day to talk about the importance of the electronics and engineering when it comes to getting a top finish at the Indy 500 race.

LG Display has introduced a 5-inch full high definition LCD panel for smartphones, which the company claims provides the same quality as on TVs and monitors.

The PDK includes options including an embedded flash memory, which is proposed in 90-nm resolution.

Scientists at Natcore Technology using simple liquid bath processes said they have created a black surface on a silicon wafer with an average reflectance in the visible and near-infrared region of the

Flash memory vendor Spansion began sampling the first single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash memory devices to emerge from a deal with South Korea's SK Hynix Inc announced last month.

More than a million suspect counterfeit electronic components have been used in 1,800 separate cases of bogus parts affecting US military hardware, according to a report produced by the Senate Armed S

According to an announcement from Hillcrest Labs, TCL will start shipping in China Android-based smart TVs featuring Hillcrest's patented motion software, Freespace.

Three academics join forces to demonstrate that memristor behavior has been observed for more than 200 years.

EpiGaN NV, a startup spun out of the IMEC research institute in 2010, has officially opened a production facility for gallium-nitride-on-silicon wafers at the Research Campus in Hasselt, Belgium.

With the successful launch of the Dragon cargo ship, SpaceX engineers and NASA controllers are now focusing on the spacecraft's readiness to approach and link up with the International Space Station.

STMicroelectronics is working with startup Soundchip on an in-ear audio accessory that allows the wearer to switch between multiple audio sources using voice commands or gesture recognition.

While 200-mph speeds are not uncommon for IZOD IndyCar racers, their electronic systems are in many ways simpler than those found in many passenger cars designed for public highway speeds.

The devices support an input voltage range of 4.5 to 14V and an output voltage range of 0.6 to 5V.

This year, when Indy 500 teams search for a competitive edge, they're going to have to dig deeper into the mechanical aspects of the car than ever before in the history of the race.

Electronic design engineers and enthusiasts will need to submit their innovative design projects to win prizes with a pot value of $7000.

Reverse engineering and analysis consultancy Chipworks Inc has posted microscope cross-sections of parts of the 22-nm Ivy Bridge processor from Intel that has revealed that the FinFETs, which Intel c

Investment in semiconductor industry startup and private companies jumped up in April to $194.2 million, according to the Global Semiconductor Alliance industry body.

Electric Imp Inc has developed a Wi-Fi node in a memory card physical format that it hopes will become a standard technique for assigning IP addresses and linking to the Internet to establish a Wi-Fi-

There's a fashionable theory making the rounds here that China's booming manufacturing economy will soon "hit a wall" just as did the export-driven Japanese economy in the early 1990s.

Grab your lunch and head to Frost&Sullivan's webinar on the test equipment market.

A new public-private effort aimed at strengthening the US "innovation ecosystem" seeks to leverage promising technologies emerging from university labs so that they can quickly be turned int

Advanced Micro Devices officially launched its 32-nm Trinity processors, going head-to-head in notebooks and desktops with Intel's 22-nm Ivy Bridge CPUs.

With the new cores' smaller die size and reduced energy consumption compared to ARM's midrange core like A15, MIPS is hoping that the new family of cores can put the company back on track.

Cadence Design Systems claims that Netronome designers achieved a 29% reduction in power consumption using Cadence's latest Encounter 11.1 technology thereby providing performance advantage on its low

Intel launched the first server CPUs using its 22-nm tri-gate technology, including a new 17W part aimed at the emerging micro-server segment. The x86 giant also rolled out new 32-nm server chips, inc

This year, when the Indy cars line up in the grid at the "greatest spectacle in racing," they'll be using engines with less displacement than that in a Volkswagen Golf or a Toyota Camry.

At the PCIM Europe trade show in Nuremberg, the two companies announced their agreement on a joint common footprint for automotive IGBT power modules using Infineon's Hybrid PACK 2 power module.

The move to software-defined networks passed another milestone as ADVA Optical Networking demonstrated the OpenFlow specification for the first time on an optically switched network.

Driven by the growth of mobile devices, merchant CPU cores shipped in more than 10 billion chips last year, up 25% over 2010, according to a new report.

EDA and IP vendor Synopsys said it completed the acquisition of RSoft Design Group, a provider of photonics design and simulation software. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

French wireless communications chip vendor Sequans Communications said it added a new interference mitigation algorithm to its LTE chip platforms that the company says can increase throughput by more

LLVM, a popular open source compiler, now supports Nvida GPUs.

Researchers at the German research institution Fraunhofer IOF have developed an array of hundreds of microprojectors that can be used to project images from smartphones and similar small devices. The

Baolab Microsystems SL (Barcelona, Spain), a startup pioneering the creation of MEMS within the metal interconnect layers of CMOS wafers, has announced that it is planning to use its technology to bui

Microsoft became the seventh core member of the Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium led by Micron and Samsung, a sign of the concept’s broad technical implications.

When the cars take the track at the Indy 500 a few weeks from now, the margin of victory might be directly attributable to an engineering detail so miniscule most spectators have never heard of it.

The IEEE aims to release within two years a test suite to help consumers assess the picture quality of cellphone cameras.

Robots enabled the human genome to be mapped in just over 12 years, but it took less than four years for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Brain Atlas to be completed last month by robots.

More than 200,000 spectators lined the downtown streets of Long Beach, CA in April as 26 drivers battled for dominance in the 2012 IndyCar circuit.

Hanking Group, a mining and metal processing conglomerate in the north-east of China, has begun building what could become a major wafer fab for the manufacture of microelectromechanical systems.

IPC, a trade group that represents printed circuit board manufacturers and other electronics firms, launched a survey to measure the impact of "on-shoring"—the migration of electronics manuf

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 (about ...

LONDON–Foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd has announced it has made a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor test chip in its 28-nm high-performance mobile CMOS process that it has run at a ...

MANHASSET, NY--A research team from the University of Exeter has placed its stamp on its unique version of a transparent, lightweight, and flexible graphene material.To create what they call GraphExet ...

Mercury Computer Systems said it has concluded a contract with Raytheon SAS to deliver application-ready subsystems and integration services for Raytheon’s ADAS.

Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc said May 1 it filed new patent infringement claims in US federal court against Power Integrations Inc's LinkSwitch-PH LED power conversion products.

The folks from Microchip Technology have announced that they've signed a definitive agreement to acquire SMSC, a leading developer of smart mixed-signal connectivity solutions.

More companies are being linked to the Indian government's plan to get one or more semiconductor wafer fabs constructed on the sub-continent.

A proof-of-concept prototype microphone implanted in the middle ear promises to partly offset the need for wearing an outer hearing aid.

Next-generation augmented reality displays will employ smart-recognition of their users that melds context-sensitive voice-and-gesture commands with total-surrounding awareness of other people, places