November 28, 2008 - Industry News
Semicon sales to decline 5.6pc in 2009: SIA
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) released its annual forecast of global semiconductor sales, projecting the first decline in sales ...
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November 26, 2008 - Technology News
Scoop: Advanced notification of RoHS2 content
While it has been widely reported for quite some time that Categories 8 (Medical Devices) and 9 (Monitoring and Control Instruments) are ...
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November 25, 2008 - Industry News
ON Semiconductor withdraws bid to acquire Atmel
ON Semiconductor Corporation announced that it would withdraw from its joint proposal with Microchip Technology Incorporated to acquire Atmel ...
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November 17, 2008 - Industry News
AMD presents platforms, manufacturing roadmaps
During executive presentations at the 2008 AMD Financial Analyst Day, AMD presented roadmaps for platforms that span the most popular usage ...
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November 17, 2008 - Industry News
3-5pc MEMS growth this year, modest slowdown for 2009
The MEMS sector will finish 2008 with 3-5 percent growth, and see only a modest slowdown in 2009, industry analysts agreed at the MEMS Industry ...
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November 17, 2008 - Industry News
PV raw materials mkt to shift in buyers' favor in 2009
Pricing for polysilicon used to create photovoltaic (PV) cells is expected to drop in 2009 and the following years due to fundamental ...
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November 10, 2008 - Industry News
Top 20 semicon suppliers: 54-point growth rate swing
Insights' recent research for its November Update to The McClean Report includes an analysis of the top 20 semiconductor suppliers for 1Q-3Q08 ...
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October 27, 2008 - Industry News
Chip market: Will there ever be light at end of tunnel?
Talk about a month of mixed messages! On the one hand, at a stroke the world's financial ecosystem became dysfunctional; yet on the other ...
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October 15, 2008 - Industry News
Solar/PV: Top 20 global companies
Brace yourself folks! Presenting the Top 20 solar photovoltaic companies during Q1-2008. I am very grateful to Jon Cassell at iSuppli, USA, ...
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October 14, 2008 - Industry News
IC Insights' opinion on AMD's new business model
As seen in the recent headlines, AMD plans to undergo a major restructuring of its business model beginning in early 2009. The core ...
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October 9, 2008 - Industry News
Process geometries below 80nm dominate fab capacity
More than one-fourth (29%) of all wafer capacity is for devices having geometries or feature sizes smaller than 80nm according to IC Insights ...
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October 8, 2008 - Technology News
Challenge and promise of low-power IC design
In the past, due to a high degree of process complexity and the exorbitant costs involved, low-power integrated circuit (IC) design ...
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October 8, 2008 - Technology News
Importance of low power in today's ICs
In every application, power management must take precedence, whether to reduce energy use or to minimize heat dissipation to lower cooling ...
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October 8, 2008 - Technology News
New tools support shift toward mixed-signal design
Until recently, the majority of integrated circuits have been either purely digital or purely analog in nature. Based on this, early IC-based ...
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October 1, 2008 - Top Story News
What semicon firms should do to outperform industry!
The global semiconductor industry has had a year full of turmoil, and the ongoing global financial has been of little help. Has the semiconductor ...
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September 29, 2008 - Technology News
New solar inks bring more consistency to silicon cells
Five Star Technologies, a leader in fine particle dispersions for functional inks, announced the availability of ElectroSperse S-series ...
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September 29, 2008 - Industry News
Doom and gloom in chip market?
According to Malcolm Penn, chairman and CEO, Future Horizons, July's results continued the first-half year trend of 'exceeding ...
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September 29, 2008 - Industry News
DFM is where all the value is: Mentor
This is the concluding part of my discussion with Joseph Sawicki, vice president & GM, Design to Silicon Division, Mentor Graphics. Here, we ...
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September 26, 2008 - Industry News
Yindusoft goes aggressive on embedded
Yindusoft is focused on the following domains: embedded software for IC design houses, OEMS/ODMS in consumer electronics; IT solutions in the ...
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September 23, 2008 - Industry News
Some second-tier suppliers may cut DRAM output
After Elpida/PSC's 10-15 percent output cut, Hynix Semiconductor Inc. (Hynix) announced operation stoppage of total production output will ...
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September 17, 2008 - Technology News
The revolution called microchip
September 12, 1958. Jack S. Kilby, a newly employed engineer at Texas Instruments, was sweating it out in the lab of the company without ...
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September 15, 2008 - Industry News
China's DRAM market tries to shake off Olympic blues
China was hoping for an economic boost from the Summer Olympic Games, but for the nation's DRAM market, the event actually had the opposite ...
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September 15, 2008 - Industry News
Broadcast RF power semicon doubles up
The global market for RF power semiconductors used in broadcasting is much larger than years of "conventional wisdom" have suggested, ...
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September 11, 2008 - Technology News
Converting silicon waste to electricity
Last week, at the CopenMind exhibition in Copenhagen, the latest research into Clean Technology was exhibited. Some of the research from Asia ...
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September 8, 2008 - Industry News
Motion sensors in CE, mobile, drive MEMS growth
In a recent report, iSuppli predicted that driven by new demand from consumer electronics (CE) and wireless applications, the global market ...
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