The Integrated Circuit Turns 50 Here's to not taking time off. Back in the summer of 1958, Jack Kilby, a new employee at Texas Instruments, hadn't accrued enough vacation time ... Green Tech Media
Vishay goes hostile with International Rectifier bid Vishay Intertechnology Inc. said it has increased its all-cash offer to buy International Rectifier Corp. to $23 a share and will take its ... Market Watch
Disconnects in the Semiconductor Industry There seems to be a misconception between semiconductor revenues and other business sectors of the industry, namely equipment, chemicals, ... Seeking Alpha
Fujitsu looks for allies in chip making Fujitsu's microchip unit said Wednesday that it was in talks with other chip makers at home and abroad on potential alliances ranging from ... International Herald Tribune
Lawsuit alleges Nvidia hid chip defects A lawsuit filed alleges Nvidia lost more than $3 billion in market value because it concealed defects in its graphics chips. The complaint filed ... CNet News
Hynix and PSC cutting memory production output Continued overcapacity in the DRAM and NAND memory markets has not been resolved by earlier announcements in 2008, by a large number of ... Fabtech
X-fab signals industry slowdown in Q3 Foundry group X-fab Silicon Foundries (Erfurt, Germany) is predicting a significant slowdown in the third quarter of the year, as it reported ... EETimes
Lightning growth seen for quantum dots The global market for quantum dot (QD) technology is expected to increase at a compound annual rate of nearly of 91 percent over the next five ... EETimes
Artigo -- VIA's DIY Micro-PC Revealed to the public for the first time at CES 2008 in Las Vegas, VIA's Artigo ultra small "do it yourself" desktop will immediately catch ... The Future of Things
Seiko Epson Says Resin Bumping Reliable Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo) has disclosed technical details and reliability results concerning its proprietary resin-based gold bumping ... Semiconductor International
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 ... CyberMedia India Online
Has fab-tool sector hit the bottom? International Rectifier Corporation has started making prototype devices using a proprietary gallium nitride (GaN)-based power device ... EETimes
Installation 10 Times Faster The round KDP/R Cable Entry Plate from Murrplastik Systems, Inc. makes cable and pneumatic hose installation up to 10 times faster than ... Product Design & Development
R&D Circuits Welcomes Mike Moore to the Sales Team James V. Russell, President and Thomas N. Bresnan, Sales Manager of R&D Circuits announce the addition of Michael Moore to the Account ... R&D Circuits
Tronics Microsystems Acquires MedTech Development Tronics Microsystems SA announced that it has acquired all the assets of MedTech Development LLC, a full-service design and development ... Tronics Microsystems
