March 10, 2010 - Industry News
IC Insights boosts 2010 chip growth forecast to 27%
Market research firm IC Insights Inc. increased its estimate for 2010 semiconductor growth, saying it now expects chip revenue to increase 27% ...
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December 17, 2009 - Technology News
Broadcom taps 40-nm process for high-def handsets
Broadcom Corp. is sampling its first 40 nm chip, a cellphone media processor capable of recording full 1080-progressive high definition ...
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December 15, 2009 - Technology News
How much of a lead does Intel have at 32nm?
Intel will soon be releasing their latest processor, code named Westmere, built on 32nm technology. Architecturally, the processor will be ...
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November 23, 2009 - Industry News
Workers have gone on 'unlimited strike' at Atmel's fab
Angry workers at Atmel Corp.'s fab in Rousset, France, have gone on an unlimited strike. The strike aims to protest against Atmel's decision to ...
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November 12, 2009 - Industry News
China selects Infineon chips for passports
Infineon Technologies AG has started delivering SLE 66CLX800PE security microcontrollers for use in Chinese passports. In terms of volume this ...
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November 12, 2009 - Industry News
What's next for troubled SMIC?
In just one day alone, China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) suffered three major setbacks. First, it lost a big patent ...
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October 5, 2009 - Technology News
D2S, Advantest speed up e-beam lithography
The eBeam Initiative, a forum for the promotion of chip manufacturing using e-beam lithography, has said that two of its leading members ...
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September 28, 2009 - Industry News
Global semi sales seen falling in August
Seasonally adjusted global sales of semiconductors in August are expected to show a fall from that achieved in the previous month, according to ...
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September 25, 2009 - Industry News
Intel and SoC -- try, try again
"I can easily see a time where Intel will ship more SoCs than standard microprocessors," said Paul Otellini with all the bravado appropriate ...
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September 25, 2009 - Top Story News
Industry deliberates on counterfeit chips
Facing increasing threat for critical infrastructures and applications through counterfeit semiconductors, representatives of all major ...
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September 25, 2009 - Industry News
GlobalFoundries remains bullish but roadmap slips
Foundry startup GlobalFoundries Inc. has updated its process roadmap and rolled out a customer partnership program. It appears that the ...
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September 25, 2009 - Industry News
Freescale Toulouse says no word on Intel
Intel Corp. intends to acquire Freescale Semiconductor's wireless operations in Toulouse, France, and to take over 53 out of the 236 employees ...
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September 25, 2009 - Technology News
More details emerge on printed roll-to-roll memory
More details have emerged of the printed roll-to-roll memory production being piloted by PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG (Fuerth, Germany) using technology from ...
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September 25, 2009 - Industry News
MEMS market sees unit growth despite pricing pressure
The market for MEMS microphones is poised to continue its growth — despite several retarding factors such as declining handset sales and intensified ...
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September 25, 2009 - Industry News
Europe approves $80 million aid for Dell's Poland plant
The European Commission has approved the provision of regional aid by the Polish government to Dell Products Poland to help it build manufacturing ...
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September 25, 2009 - Industry News
How to make your next design succeed by really mattering
Would anyone shed a tear if your company went away tomorrow? If not, then you have a problem: you haven't fully leveraged the power of good ...
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September 24, 2009 - Technology News
Intel debuts optical link for PCs
Intel Corp. wants to consolidate all the wired connections on your PC to a single 10 Gbit/second optical cable it calls Light Peak. It plans to ...
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September 24, 2009 - Technology News
Nanotubes pack promise of battery-free energy storage
Springs can store mechanical energy indefinitely when properly tethered, and they can operate in harsh environments, with immunity to temperature ...
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September 24, 2009 - Industry News
High-tech job losses are slowing
U.S. high-technology job losses are slowing. But on the other hand, U.S. manufacturing jobs are falling at an alarming rate. Based on U.S. Bureau ...
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September 24, 2009 - Technology News
SMIC selects Virage Logic's IP
Virage Logic Corporation and SMIC have created a radio-frequency identification optimized version of Virage Logic's AEON Embedded ...
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September 24, 2009 - Technology News
Altera in volume production of 40-nm FPGAs
Programmable logic vendor Altera Corp announced volume production of the company's 40-nm Stratix EP4SGX230 FPGAs. The Stratix IV was the industry's ...
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September 24, 2009 - Industry News
Samsung semis chief sees signs of recovery
Samsung Electronics is ramping up production of DDR3 memories and shifting manufacturing to a 40-nm process to meet what it anticipates will be ...
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September 23, 2009 - Industry News
Four positive, negative signs for the IC recovery
The IC market is recovering. But will there be a sustained uptick or another dip, especially in the fourth quarter of 2009? At present, ...
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September 23, 2009 - Technology News
PolyIC, ThinFilm announce pilot of volume printed plastic memories
PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG and ThinFilm Electronics ASA have announced they have manufactured rewritable polymer memory products in a high-volume ...
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September 23, 2009 - Industry News
E-car battery price on rapid declining curve, expert predicts
With technology and infrastructure components for electric street vehicles falling into place rather quickly, the costs for the batteries ...
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