Three students named winners of Synopsys optical design award
MANHASSET, N.Y. -- Electronics manufacturing operations with a total value of at least $2.5 billion are expected to be brought back to North America in the next three years with companies citing quali ...
Applied sees semi equipment orders bottoming by October
SAN FRANCISCO—Spectra7 Microsystems, formed last month from the combination of Fresco Microchip and RedMere Technologies, said it closed more than $11 million in funding from venture capital firms Cel ...
Yoshida in China: Worries about declining U.S. investors
Fujitu Semi's top U.S. exec spies opportunities for growth
The hubris over "conflict minerals" has resumed. Several high-tech companies are being hailed as heroes for "pioneering progress toward wiping out the use of conflict minerals," ac ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Chip vendor Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Thursday (Aug. 16) reported sales for the quarter ended July 28 that came up short of analysts' expectations. Company executives, who cited macr ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Apple and Samsung lawyers both got a dressing down from Judge Lucy Koh as the clock ran down on their high-profile patent infringement case here.In the morning session, Koh chided A ...
SAN FRANCISCO—The book-to-bill ratio for North America-based semiconductor equipment vendors slipped to 0.87 on a three-month average basis in July, the fourth consecutive month that the figure has de ...
MADISON, Wis. – The Nikkei, Japan’s economic journal, reported Friday (Aug. 17) that Foxconn owner Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. is now asking to double its planned stake in Sharp Corp. to about 20 p ...
Samsung Semi to expand Silicon Valley R&D facilitiy
NEW YORK -- There’s no better example that reflects Microsemi Corp.’s position as a high-reliability semiconductor player than its relationship with NASA and its role as a supplier of mission-critical ...
'Stupid' to show IP on unfrozen standard--Sanmsung
SAN FRANCISCO— Non-volatile memory IP vendor Sidense Corp. claimed legal victory over rival Kilopass Technology Inc. Thursday (Aug. 17) after a U.S. federal court ruled that Kilopass could not present ...
In Asia-Pacific region, local firms enjoy Apple-like chip buying perks
SAN FRANCISCO—EDA vendor Mentor Graphics Corp. said Friday (Aug. 17) it filed another patent infringement suit against French emulation tool vendor EVE SA, the latest in an escalating legal battle bet ...
SAN JOSE – The patent system, as much as anything, is what’s on trial in the Apple vs. Samsung case about to go to the jury here.In my opinion, Apple did something novel with the iPhone: It delivered ...
Yoshida in China: Spreadtrum sees higher volumes, lower profits
LONDON – Efficient Power Conversion Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.), a 2007 gallium nitride power transistor startup, has announced that wireless charging startup WiTricity Corp. has demonstrated wireless ...
SAN JOSE – The Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium released to its members an initial draft of interface specifications for its 3-D DRAM memory stack. The group is now in final review of the specs with plan ...
MANHASSET, NY -- City Labs, Inc.(Miami) recebtly has been granted a product regulatory general license to manufacture, sell, and distribute its NanoTritium betavoltaic power sources which conta ...
SAN JOSE – Startup Skyera Inc. debuts its first product today, a flash-based storage appliance for business networks it claims will rival prices of some hard-disk arrays. It claims its SkyHawk system ...
PORTLAND, Ore. – As smart touchscreen devices shrink in price and size, MEMS motions sensors must keep pace. To that end, Freescale Semiconductor recently introduced a smaller, cheaper MEMS device the ...
The use of LEDs for lighting is hitting the news fast and furiously now. The general lighting application is set to grow rapidly to become more than 50 percent of the demand for LEDs within just two o ...
MANHASSET, NY -- The Chinese lithium-ion battery market will nearly double to $9.2 billion in 2016, as volumes grow 129 percent to 44.3 GWh. The impressive growth will occur despite demand for emergin ...
Yoshida in China: Smartphone craze catches vendors off guard
SAN JOSE – Apple shipped 17 million iPads in the second quarter, increasing its share of the new category to 70 percent, according to figures from IHS iSuppli. Apple was followed distantly by Samsung, ...
SAN JOSE – Intel made a surprise appearance at the Apple vs. Samsung patent infringement case Tuesday morning, asking the judge to throw out an expert witness for Samsung who had looked at Intel sourc ...
MADISON, Wisc. -- Micron Technology’s planned takeover of Japan’s failed chip maker Elpida Memory has hit a snag.A group of Elpida’s bondholders filed their own restructuring plan on Tuesday (Aug. 14) ...
SAN JOSE – Attorneys for Apple and Samsung pointed fingers suggesting the other is playing games behind the scenes at their $2.5 billion patent infringement trial here. Charges flew after the jury was ...
SAN JOSE – A former senior technologist from Texas Instruments testifying for Samsung said three design patents on the iPhone and iPad are invalid. He cited Japan and Korea patents as well as a Hewlet ...
Oracle releases Java SE 7 Update 6, expands OS support to Mac OS X, Linux JavaFX
LONDON – Semiconductor industry consortium Sematech has announced it has made significant defect reductions in mask blanks for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, a step towards enabling high volum ...
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 ...
camenzind obitSAN FRANCISCO--Hans Camenzind, the Swiss emigre analog guru whoinvented one of the most successful circuits in electronics historyand introduced the concept of phase-locked loop to IC de ...
LONDON – The mobile phone industry shipped fewer phones in the second quarter than it did a year before due to a mixture of macro-economic woe and deferred indulgence, according to market analyst Gart ...
In the second quarter of 2012 the top ten mobile phone companies by shipment volumes were: 1. Samsung 2. Nokia 3. Apple 4. ZTE 5. LG Electronics 6. Huawei 7. TCL Communications 8. HTC 9. Motorola 10. ...
LONDON – Toshiba Corp. has cancelled plans to sell computers that run the Windows RT operating system from Microsoft Corp. and that are based on an ARM-based processor, due to delays in getting adequa ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – At the peak of work on Samsung’s first Galaxy smartphones, the team of about 300 designers spent three months together in Seoul sleeping as little as two hours a night. A senior use ...
Yoshida in China: If not China, there is always Indonesia
NEW YORK -- Analog chip companies are firing up their stock repurchase programs in an effort to increase shareholder value and boost the market’s long-term confidence in their financial viability. E ...
SAN JOSE – Another day in court and another couple Wows!It turns out serial entrepreneur Tim A. Williams--a founder of hot startups such as Atheros, SiBeam, BeeCube back in the day—was the witness Int ...
There’s been a lot written here and elsewhere in the last several years about the critical need to revive U.S. manufacturing. But it remains unclear precisely what a manufacturing revival would mean f ...
SAN JOSE – Google demanded Samsung change the design of an early Galaxy Tab so it would not look so much like the Apple iPad, according to a Samsung email. (More on this later including excepts from t ...
WASHINGTON -- A clarion call from the National Research Council this week to revive the nation’s ability to design and make products based on optics and photonics technology inexplicably buries a crit ...
National effort needed to maintain optics-technology leadership: report
Bluetooth and ZigBee on collision course in the connected home
MADISON, Wisc. -- When Sharp Corp. announced in March its partnership with Hon Hai (also known as Foxconn), the world’s largest contract manufacturer, the decision by Japan’s leading LCD maker generat ...
Fraunhofer Institute for Communication Systems ESK develops smart wireless power outlets
Philips and Daintree highlight ZigBee for wireless lighting controls
Cloud computing to boost global memory IC market, says GBI Research
WASHINGTON – Mission planners were expected to complete a software update on Monday (Aug. 13) that will ready the Mars rover Curiosity to begin exploring its Gale Crater landing site with it robotic a ...
You gotta hand it to National Instruments for promoting and leveraging their products globally in all possible applications where signals need control and have to be measured. At its annual Graphi ...
You gotta hand it to National Instruments for promoting and leveraging their products globally in all possible applications where signals need control and have to be measured. At its annual Graphi ...
LONDON – Tokyo Electron Ltd., a leading supplier of IC and display production equipment, has agreed to buy FSI International Inc. (Chaska, Minn.) for $252.5 million.FSI is a supplier of wafer cleaning ...
Yoshida in China: Spreadtrum sees higher volumes, lower profits
LONDON – IP licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) and foundry chip maker GlobalFoundries Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.) have announced they have signed a multi-year agreement to work together to opt ...
LONDON – Two leading manufacturers of light-emitting diodes, Samsung and Osram, have settled patent differences and have been granted a joint-motion to end an investigation before the U.S. Internation ...
LONDON – Motorola Mobility, the mobile phone company acquired by Google in May 2012 for $12.5 billion, has reportedly notified staff that it plans to cut 20 percent of jobs and close one third of its ...
LONDON – Researchers from IBM Research and the university ETH, both based in Zurich, have reported the observation of a persistent spin helix in a semiconductor, which they claim could have implicatio ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Google Inc.'s Nexus 7 tablet is not a less expensive alternative to Apple Inc.'s iPad, but the best realization yet of a tablet with the potential to tap the millions of Android users wo ...
Let’s call a spade a spade: Research-in-Motion’s latest consumer electronic release, the Blackberry Playbook LTE, is highly unlikely to reverse the current tide of negativity that comes with any news ...
SAN JOSE – Apple warned Samsung in a detailed August 2010 presentation it was violating iPhone and iPad patents. In a separate October 2010 presentation, it offered to license its patents at a rate of ...
SAN JOSE – Apple warned Samsung in a detailed August 2010 presentation it was violating iPhone and iPad patents. In a separate October 2010 presentation, it offered to license its patents at a rate of ...
SAN JOSE – Users of Samsung products said they would pay as much as $100 extra per smartphone or tablet to get features covered in three Apple patents, according to a survey done for Apple.Users would ...
SAN JOSE – Samsung infringes a key Apple patent on scrolling and zooming in 24 of its products, said an expert testifying for Apple. Samsung also infringes a patent on using a double tap to zoom and c ...
Let’s call a spade a spade: Research-in-Motion’s latest consumer electronic release, the Blackberry Playbook LTE, is highly unlikely to reverse the current tide of negativity that comes with any news ...
SAN JOSE – A user interface expert testifying for Apple said as many as 21 Samsung devices infringe Apple U.S. patent 7,469,381. In its $2.5 billion infringement case, Apple also introduced more inter ...
SAN JOSE – Half of consumers who viewed two Samsung handsets thought they looked like iPhones, according to a survey conducted for Apple. In a separate study six to 19 percent of consumers viewing vid ...
LONDON – Specialist foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel), which trades as TowerJazz, has said it has been shortlisted by the Indian government to run a 300-mm wafer fab to be const ...
EE Times has been all over the ongoing patent trial between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The following is a collection of stories from the trial: Apple vs. Samsung: Reading Steve Jobs' ...
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, including lum ...
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Researchers in Switzerland are claiming to have developed a new source-location algorithm they say could replace the brute force method of identifying national security and other thr ...
LONDON – Germany, in the form of Deutsche Telekom, is being expansive in support of developers while Finland, in the form of Nokia, is juggling its developer support technology called Qt over to a com ...
LONDON – Over the next five years the long-term growth rate for the semiconductor market is going be more than double what it has been, according to market research firm IC Insights Inc. (Scottsdale, ...
Expect further investment from China to Taiwan. Fully energized cross-strait business deals between Taiwanese and Chinese companies will be emerging on the horizon. China and Taiwan signed Thursday ...
LONDON – Intel may use internally developed resonant wireless charging to improve the attractiveness of mobile offerings based on its chips such as Intel-based ultrabooks and smartphones, according to ...
PARIS – The Toulouse-based branch of Freescale Semiconductor Inc. (Austin, Texas) has permanently closed its doors this week, affecting some 500 employees. Freescale said it will transfer manufacturin ...
LONDON – Processor IP licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) has said it continues to work with all the major EDA companies after EE Times asked about claimed improvements in performance and p ...
LONDON – Over the next five years the long-term growth rate for the semiconductor market is going be more than double what it has been, according to market research firm IC Insights Inc. (Scottsdale, ...
LONDON – July sales at foundry chip-making giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. were up 37.3 percent compared with July 2011 putting the company on course for exceptional growth in 2012. ...
LONDON – Germany, in the form of Deutsche Telekom, is being expansive in support of developers while Finland, in the form of Nokia, is juggling its developer support technology called Qt over to a com ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Google Inc.'s Nexus 7 tablet is not a less expensive alternative to Apple Inc.'s iPad, but the best realization yet of a tablet with the potential to tap the millions of Android users wo ...
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a programming language called Halide for the implementation of multicore image processing algorithms ...
Editor’s note: The case study below focuses on a team that learned the hard way how to pivot and succeed by synchronizing product development with customer requirements. The author, Frank Robinson, co ...
Molex banks on acquisitions, new product wins for growth
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, including lum ...
PARIS – Aviation safety systems can be used to help prevent complications after surgery. UK researchers said they are developing a real-time patient monitoring and risk prediction system similar to th ...
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a programming language called Halide for the implementation of multicore image processing algorithms ...
Inside TI's ADS1298 analog front end for health monitoring
China Daily reported this week that China will shut down about one-fifth of its rare earths production capacity under new industry rules. Analysts fear that the rules’ strict implementation could see ...
Microelectronics Olympiad backed by Synopsys, IEEE
LONDON – Processor IP licensor ARM Holdings plc and EDA software vendor Cadence Design Systems Inc. have said they have been working together to link ARM's processor optimization packages (POPs) to Ca ...
LONDON – Foundry chip maker Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel), which trades as TowerJazz, reported second quarter financial results that were much as expected. The company made a reduce ...
PARIS – Packaged LED revenue will amount to $11.4 billion in 2012 and peak to $17 billion by 2018, according to market research firm Yole Développement (Lyon, France). In its latest report, " ...
Let's hear it for two of the guys pioneering some of the new applications for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) components, namely SiTime and WiSpry.WiSpry Inc. (Irvine, Calif.), a ten year old pr ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Semico Research Corp. this week became the latest market research firm to cut its forecast for 2012 chip market growth, saying it now expects global semiconductor sales to increase 6 to ...
SAN JOSE -- Apple released late Tuesday its best evidence that Samsung has copied its patents and trade dress, a 132-page Samsung report comparing its handsets to the iPhone.The report methodically co ...
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