February 2, 2012 - Industry News
CEA-Leti opens 3-D IC packaging service
French research institute CEA-Leti has announced the launch of a 3-D packaging platform and service that provides industrial and academic partners ...
EDN
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January 25, 2012 - Industry News
Bullish Penn sees chip market growth of 8% in 2012
Malcolm Penn, founder and chief analyst with semiconductor market analysis firm Future Horizons Ltd, has predicted that the global chip market will ...
EDN
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January 24, 2012 - Industry News
Bullish Penn sees chip market growth of 8% in 2012
Malcolm Penn, founder and chief analyst with semiconductor market analysis firm Future Horizons Ltd, has predicted that the global chip market will ...
EDN
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January 12, 2012 - Industry News
EDA sales continued double-digit boom in Q311
The EDAC Market Statistics Service has announced that the EDA industry revenue increased 18.1% for 3Q11. Sequentially EDA revenue for 3Q11 increased ...
EDN
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January 9, 2012 - Industry News
ST-Ericsson describes three-chip stack
ST-Ericsson and a French research institute will describe this week a chip stack made up of three die including a Wide I/O DRAM. The effort, using ...
EDN
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January 6, 2012 - Top Story News
Get Off the Sidelines
Progress: It's what engineers do. They advance, they grow, and they move forward. To engineers, there is nothing more defeating than standing still or, worse, taking a step back. Yet, for many engineers, 2011 was a year ...
EDN
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January 6, 2012 - Industry News
Future of computers - Part 2: The Power Wall
The Captain had the lard put on the logs in the boiler, and the old lady watched in excitement as the fire in the boiler grew hotter, the great ...
EDN
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January 4, 2012 - Industry News
Global chip sales continue to slip in November
The three-month average of worldwide sales of semiconductors was $25.13 billion for the month of November 2011, a decrease of 2.4% from the prior ...
EDN
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December 13, 2011 - Industry News
Bill McClean: Don't broad-brush the semiconductor market
Bill McClean, president of market-research company IC Insights, spoke to EDN in November on 2011's estimated semiconductor-industry growth, ...
EDN
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December 13, 2011 - Industry News
ST-Ericsson describes three-chip stack
ST-Ericsson and a French research institute will describe this week a chip stack made up of three die including a Wide I/O DRAM. The effort, ...
EDN
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December 9, 2011 - Industry News
IEDM: Sony game exec lays out chip needs
Chip makers need to advance image recognition, display, and MEMS technologies to deliver the next-generation of immersive gaming ...
EDN
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December 5, 2011 - Industry News
3-D IC standards are great, but do we care?
Next month's DesignCon 2012, which will take place in Santa Clara, CA, will host many interesting panels, including "Why do we need 3-D design standards ...
EDN
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December 5, 2011 - Industry News
US chip firms beat rivals in 2011, says IHS
Chip companies from the Americas region, which in terms of the semiconductor industry is dominated by the United States, are set to ...
EDN
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December 2, 2011 - Top Story News
3-D IC Standards Are Great, But Do We Care?
Next month's DesignCon 2012, which will take place in Santa Clara, CA, will host many interesting panels, including "Why do we need 3-D design standards?" As cutting edge and exciting as that title sounds, it may ...
EDN
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December 2, 2011 - Industry News
US chip firms beat rivals in 2011, says IHS
Chip companies from the Americas region, which in terms of the semiconductor industry is dominated by the United States, are set to ...
EDN
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November 1, 2011 - Industry News
Global chip sales show September growth
The Japanese recovery and continued demand for mobile personal electronics helped the three-month average of worldwide sales of semiconductors in ...
EDN
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October 25, 2011 - Industry News
Cadence CEO: Chip execs eye China, India
Chief executives of companies, including semiconductor companies, are in the process of asking themselves on how best to address the Chinese and ...
EDN
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October 11, 2011 - Industry News
IEF: Japan can rise again, says exec
The Japanese semiconductor industry, which has been in decline for more than 20 years, needs to select key technology areas and refocus to ...
EDN
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September 21, 2011 - Industry News
Forecast Sees Hard Year, Fewer Chip Makers
Under clouds of uncertainty about the global economy and mobile systems transitions, semiconductor sales will "muddle along" to growth of no more ...
EDN
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September 9, 2011 - Industry News
Chip-and-package co-design relieves pressure on complex designs
The vise is closing down on design departments. Manufacturers want more capabilities in their products than ever before. It's imperative for ...
EDN
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September 8, 2011 - Top Story News
Q3 Wafer Starts Remaining Stable
Third quarter wafer production starts for semiconductor firms remain mostly stable after significant cuts two months ago, according to a Wall Street analyst. Craig Berger, an ...
EDN
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September 1, 2011 - Top Story News
3D ICs Without TSVs?
Two assumptions have become accepted truths in SOC planning: first, that the way forward involves 3DICs; and second, that 3DICs require TSVs. One result has been a tremendous ...
EDN
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September 1, 2011 - Industry News
3D ICs without TSVs?
Two assumptions have become accepted truths in SOC planning: first, that the way forward involves 3DICs; and second, that 3DICs require TSVs ...
EDN
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August 31, 2011 - Top Story News
GlobalFoundries Charts Road to 14 nm
In the latest look down its road map, GlobalFoundries claims it is shipping thousands of 32-nm wafers a week, gearing up multiple 28-nm offerings for 2012 and planning first ...
EDN
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August 24, 2011 - Industry News
Silicon Labs tips TV tuner for China
Analog and mixed-signal IC maker Silicon Laboratories Inc introduced a new silicon TV tuner chip designed to offer the optimal balance of performance ...
EDN
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