September 5, 2008 - Technology News
Polycrystalline price affects thin film solar growth
During the time through 2015, the global solar cell market will exhibit a breathtaking growth — from a market volume of 5.6 GW in 2008 to 79.5 ...
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September 5, 2008 - Technology News
When atoms count
In my previous blog, Reading the tea leaves, I stated that: "it is impossible to divide an atom in two while maintaining a non-explosive ...
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September 5, 2008 - Industry News
Analyst: NAND flash market has 'fallen apart'
The NAND flash memory market was on track to post growth for 2008, but now appears ticketed for a 10 percent decline, according to Bryan ...
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September 5, 2008 - Industry News
Details finally due from AMD on 'fab-lite'
AMD could announce later this month a significant advance towards its long-touted fab-lite strategy that involves spinning out its Dresden, ...
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September 4, 2008 - Technology News
Bell Labs Exits Chip Research
Bell Labs confirmed it is exiting the chip researcher business. Researchers at Bell Labs, now part of Alcatel-Lucent, have received six ...
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September 4, 2008 - Industry News
IBM, EMC storage gurus debate future of flash
Storage gurus from IBM Corp. and EMC Corp. spent much of the Labor Day weekend debating the future of flash memory drives in servers and ...
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September 4, 2008 - Technology News
Flow memory manages multimedia embedded systems
The continuous evolution of the consumer market for portable embedded systems has created the need to port and run on these platforms ...
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September 4, 2008 - Industry News
Infineon shares gain on talk of 'imminent' Qimonda sale
Shares in Infineon Technologies AG are again rising on various reports that a sale of its remaining stake in DRAM supplier Qimonda AG is ...
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September 3, 2008 - Industry News
300mm wafers start dominating capacity, says SIA
300mm wafers for the first time account for the largest share of wafer manufacturing capacity and actual wafers processed, with 44 percent of ...
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September 3, 2008 - Technology News
NSF sponsors multicore university research
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and semiconductor university-research consortium Semiconductor Research Corp.(SRC) have launched ...
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September 3, 2008 - Industry News
More ATE consolidation: Teradyne to buy Eagle Test
Teradyne Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire fellow semiconductor automated test equipment (ATE) vendor Eagle Test ...
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September 2, 2008 - Technology News
Will memristors prove irresistible?
The transistor was invented in 1925 but lay dormant until finding a corporate champion in Bell Labs during the 1950s. Now another ...
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September 2, 2008 - Industry News
Global semi sales up 2.8% in July
Sales of semiconductors in Europe in July grew by 0.7 percent to reach $3.39 bn according to the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) ...
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August 29, 2008 - Top Story News
July set to end chip market's strong growth, says analyst
The three-month moving average of global chip sales for July has come in at $22.1 billion, up 7.2 percent year-on-year from $20.6 billion in ...
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August 29, 2008 - Industry News
ChipMOS cuts investment in China
ChipMOS Technologies Ltd. said that its IC-packaging and test subsidiary in Shanghai, China--Modern Mind Technology Ltd.--has formally cut its ...
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August 29, 2008 - Industry News
Photovoltaics drive thin-film market for energy applications
The global market for thin films in energy applications is projected to reach $3.9 billion in 2013 up from $1.1 billion in 2007 for a compound ...
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August 29, 2008 - Industry News
Is Sony Ericsson about to break up?
In an interview with Die Welt online, Sony CEO Howard Stringer appeared disappointed with the performance of Sony's mobile phone joint venture ...
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August 28, 2008 - Technology News
Green energy research targets hydrogen, photosynthesis
Green energy initiatives are striving to replace fossil fuels with renewable resources like hydrogen and photosynthesis. The U.S. Energy ...
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August 28, 2008 - Industry News
Photovoltaics underestimated, says SunPower co-founder
If the growth of photovoltaic (PV) solar cell installations were to continue at the current rate, they would be able to satisfy all U.S. ...
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August 27, 2008 - Industry News
Intel invests in WAN accelerator firm
Expand Networks Inc., a supplier of application acceleration solutions over the wide area network (WAN), has secured $8.5 million of funding ...
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August 27, 2008 - Industry News
Japan ministry to seek $1.2 billion for new energy
A Japanese ministry is seeking $1.2 billion next year to speed up alternative energy use -- a 50 percent hike from 2008 -- as the ...
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August 26, 2008 - Industry News
Industrial motors power chip market shows 9% annual growth
The market for power semiconductors in industrial motor drives is set to grow from $1 billion in 2007 to $1.3 billion in 2010, with the growth ...
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August 25, 2008 - Industry News
Wireless JV drives IC consolidation
The consolidation in the semiconductor industry continues—but not necessarily in the exact way many might have expected: The planned ...
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August 25, 2008 - Industry News
Spansion extends foundry agreement with SMIC
Spansion Inc. has expanded its foundry arrangement with China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) to include ...
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August 25, 2008 - Industry News
Technology Week in Review: Memristor advances, new DLP apps
This week's top technology stories the irrresistable memristor, new applications for digital signal processors and highlights from the ...
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