November 24, 2008 - Top Story News
Fear and hope cloud chip market
Future Horizons is predicting that the semiconductor industry will witness a 2 per cent decline next year but that there will be no re ...
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November 21, 2008 - Industry News
AMD versus the unbeatable foe
Advanced Micro Devices' place in the annals of the semiconductor industry is now more or less fixed. The battle for supremacy in the microprocessor ...
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November 20, 2008 - Technology News
Embedded design needs power-awareness
Embedded systems developers are not as "power-aware" as portable systems designers, who try to save every milliwatt to increase battery life ...
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November 20, 2008 - Industry News
Analysis: Investing in green technologies
It was a good line, and it also happens to be true: "Moore's Law never mentioned anything about power efficiency," said National Semiconductor ...
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November 17, 2008 - Industry News
National Semiconductor plans workforce reduction
National Semiconductor Corp. cut its expectations for fiscal second quarter revenue, citing weakness in wireless and other industries, ...
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November 11, 2008 - Industry News
Qualcomm one of top chip suppliers
Qualcomm Inc. used a 27% year-over-year growth rate to jump to ninth among the largest semiconductor suppliers through the first quarters ...
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November 10, 2008 - Industry News
DRAM shakeout looms
A DRAM shakeout looms amid the current global financial crisis and potential technology roadblocks in the sector. Several DRAM vendors ...
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November 3, 2008 - Industry News
Big players enter MEMS mic arena
MEMS microphones were once the darlings of start-ups, but no more. Analog Devices Inc. has announced a major thrust into the fledgling MEMS ...
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November 3, 2008 - Industry News
Intel leads microprocessor industry
Intel Corp. gained market share in the worldwide microprocessor business in the third quarter of 2008, on both a sequential and a year-over- ...
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October 27, 2008 - Industry News
Chip equipment sector takes us back to 2001
With semiconductor equipment manufacturers reporting rapid declines in orders and shipments and the world experiencing a financial meltdown ...
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October 20, 2008 - Technology News
TSMC, MAPPER team up on multiple e-beam exploration
Mapper Lithography and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has signed an agreement, according to which MAPPER will ship its first ...
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October 16, 2008 - Industry News
IC industry to face 'severe' impact of economy
Japan's Renesas Technology Corp. said that it plans to boost its international business and expand its microcontroller share, but shaky ...
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October 16, 2008 - Industry News
MEMS is the new analogue
Out-of-the-box thinking is necessary if mobile phone design is to enable the ubiquitous services that future subscribers are going to expect. ...
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October 15, 2008 - Industry News
Fab technologies on the spotlight
There's trouble brewing in the chip-making business. Manufacturers are rolling out 45-nm ICs, with 32-nm designs in the works; 22-nm and even ...
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October 9, 2008 - Industry News
Stacked microprocessor system promises enhanced performance
Advanced microprocessors do the heavy number-crunching in all sorts of electronics systems, but these chips are hampered by the amount of ...
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October 7, 2008 - Industry News
Chip package choices abound
When creating a new IC, all of the initial focus is naturally on the design. When it comes to tape-out, then fabrication, multi-project ...
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October 6, 2008 - Industry News
CMOS is still irreplaceable, says TI exec
Dennis Buss, chief scientist at TI, gave a retrospective look and a prospective analysis of the semiconductor industry as Moore's law is ...
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October 6, 2008 - Industry News
Micron announces cost control measures
Micron Technology Inc. has announced some cost control measures after reporting a Rs.6,881.70 crore ($1.6 billion) loss for its fiscal year ...
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October 3, 2008 - Industry News
IBM 'fab club' outlines foundry process roadmap
IBM Corp.'s ''fab club'' alliance has outlined its foundry process roadmap, tipping a 28-nm ''half-node'' technology, and, in some ...
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September 29, 2008 - Industry News
Buzz: Is AMD dropping 'Bobcat' project?
Rumors are running rampant that Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has dropped its "Bobcat" processor project. The processor is expected to compete ...
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September 25, 2008 - Technology News
LED lighting breakthrough not before 2012
The energy saving trend has led Aixtron's sales to record heights in Q4/2007. Now the manufacturer of LED production equipment sees a ...
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September 25, 2008 - Industry News
Peek inside IBM's 300-mm fab
Up until recently, IBM Corp. and its secretive chip unit refused to reveal any information about its semiconductor operations. The Big Blue did ...
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September 23, 2008 - Technology News
Albany NanoTech primes 300-mm R&D fab
Albany NanoTech is opening a massive new operation called NanoFab 300 East, which will focus on 22-nm R&D technology, post-CMOS processes ...
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September 22, 2008 - Top Story News
Medical ICs outpace computer, CE markets
The medical semiconductor market is in an early stage of development and still very small compared with the consumer and computer markets. ...
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September 8, 2008 - Technology News
Polycrystalline contributes to thin film growth
The global solar cell market will exhibit a remarkable growth—from a market volume of 5.6 GW in 2008 to 79.5 GW in 2015. The market for the ...
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