November 17, 2008 - Technology News
EC and European semi companies plan R&D
A new blueprint for EC backing for the European semiconductor industry is being thrashed out by the European vice president for enterprise and ...
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November 13, 2008 - Technology News
Electronica: Actel sees flash-based FPGA tipping point
Actel has run its flash-based FPGA business up to a $60m a year run-rate and believes it has reached a tipping point where it can start to ...
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November 12, 2008 - Industry News
Electronica: New paradigm should succeed Moore's Law - Freescale CEO
There should be a new paradigm to succeed Moore's Law for semiconductor industry progress, Rich Beyer, CEO of Freescale Semiconductor, told ...
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November 11, 2008 - Industry News
Electronica: Fabless model works, says Cyan CEO
Talk to European venture capitalists and you will find very few show interest let alone enthusiasm for fabless semiconductor start-ups. Too ...
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November 7, 2008 - Industry News
Credit Crunch: Semiconductor light amid economic gloom
Amid the tightening global economic conditions and the doom and gloom surrounding credit supplies, it is still possible to see hopeful point ...
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November 4, 2008 - Industry News
NAND flash business: Cut capacity or bleed - iSuppli
The NAND flash business is suffering a triple whammy, according to analysts iSuppli: unit demand is falling off, revenues are declining ...
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November 4, 2008 - Industry News
Chip industry marches on - Future Horizons
Future Horizons has revised its semiconductor forecast for the year to 4-5 per cent growth with four to six per cent growth for 2009."On the ...
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October 28, 2008 - Industry News
TSMC design affiliate growing rapidly
The combination of foundry plus fabless semiconductor company is going to produce the future model for the semiconductor industry as the IDM ...
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October 24, 2008 - Top Story News
Are Foundry Prices Going To Rise?
Are the foundries trying to jack up prices? Future Horizons' CEO Malcom Penn says Yes; Rich Beyer, CEO of Freescale says No; TSMC's President ...
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October 20, 2008 - Industry News
Margins To Increase At Freescale
Margin is the name of the semiconductor game these days and Rich Beyer, the new CEO of Freescale Semiconductor, sees increasing margin as one ...
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October 15, 2008 - Industry News
SEMI discovers the 'Perfect Industry'
SEMI, the semiconductor manufacturing equipment trade body, has found the 'perfect industry', able to sustain growth and profitability over ...
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October 14, 2008 - Industry News
EDA revenue down in Q2 - EDAC
Reflecting year-over-year growth in the PCB/MCM and services, offset by declines in CAE, IC physical design and verification, and ...
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October 10, 2008 - Industry News
Freescale LTE strategy has zero defects - CEO Rich Beyer
Freescale is looking to its strengths: automotive microcontrollers, power management, sensors, communications processors for networking, and ...
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October 8, 2008 - Industry News
Freescale Semiconductor plans investment, but sees consumer confidence falling
Freescale Semiconductor will use the money freed up by its impending exit from the wireless handset chip business to accelerate existing ...
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October 8, 2008 - Industry News
China dominates Asia/Pac semi industry growth - Gartner
The worsening global macroeconomic environment, further eroded consumer confidence, and cloudy visibility in the second half of the year have ...
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October 3, 2008 - Industry News
SEMI buys surplus equipment consortium
In order to support and guide the secondary market for semiconductor manufacturing equipment and related services on a global basis, ...
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October 1, 2008 - Technology News
Multicores 'easy', says Professor David May
The thorniest problem of the computer industry will be addressed by Professor David May, architect of the Inmos Transputer, Professor of ...
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September 30, 2008 - Industry News
TSMC offers 28nm process this year
TSMC is taking a big jump ahead of the rest of the foundry industry in offering prototype 28nm chips by the end of the year. The company's ...
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September 25, 2008 - Industry News
Intel chairman slams US government on R&D strategy
We’ve killed investment banking, and now we are killing engineering’, Intel chairman Craig Barrett, complains in a broadside against the US ...
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September 22, 2008 - Industry News
Private Equity Losing Interest In ICs, says John Daane
The experiences of the private equity industry in the semiconductor industry should have put them off any further investment in the chip ...
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September 19, 2008 - Industry News
Nokia-funded packaging technology from Imbera attracts investment
A new packaging technology, developed at the Helsinki University of Technology in a programme sponsored by Nokia, has attracted $23m of ...
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September 18, 2008 - Industry News
SanDisk rejects Samsung's $5.85bn takeover bid
SanDisk has rejected an unsolicited takeover bid from Samsung Electronics.
Samsung went public with its bid for the flash memory company ...
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September 16, 2008 - Top Story News
Can memory madness be cured?
Can the memory makers put their businesses on a sounder footing for next year? Following massive losses in DRAM and NAND as companies single- ...
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September 4, 2008 - Industry News
TI moves IEEE 1149.7 interface standard forward
To allow developers to easily test and debug products with complex digital circuitry, multiple CPUs and applications software in ...
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September 2, 2008 - Industry News
E2v buys US military chip company for $65m
UK microwave and senior firm e2v Technologies has conditionally agreed to buy QP Semiconductor, a California end-of-life semiconductor supplier ...
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