February 8, 2012 - Industry News
FujiPanaRene: clinging to the wreckage
There was a hint that something was in the air when the Japanese consumer electronics giants reported fairly uniformly disastrous financial ...
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February 8, 2012 - Industry News
Nikkei: Japanese firms look to merge system IC units
Japanese chip vendors Renesas Electronics Corp., Fujitsu Ltd. and Panasonic Corp. are in discussions about the possibility of integrating their ...
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February 7, 2012 - Industry News
Google poaches Apple exec
Seemingly putting to rest any rumored "no poaching" agreement between Silicon Valley's tech giants, Google has hired away a senior Apple director for ...
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February 7, 2012 - Industry News
Rambus buys memory startup
Chip technology licensor Rambus Inc. has announced it has acquired Unity Semiconductor Corp., a developer of non-volatile memory technology for ...
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February 6, 2012 - Top Story News
Global Chip Sales Squeeze Growth
Global sales of semiconductors grew in 2011 by 0.4%. The December results came in much as expected but produced a weak fourth quarter. The December actual sales were up 12.0% sequentially – which is above trend – but still below the actual ...
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February 6, 2012 - Industry News
Trace carcinogens found in Korean wafer fabs
Cancer-inducing chemicals were found in chip making facilities belonging to Samsung, Hynix and Fairchild Semiconductor, according to local reports that ...
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February 6, 2012 - Industry News
Appleton's death could delay DRAM consolidation
The death of longtime Micron Technology Inc. Chairman and CEO Steve Appleton could throw a kink in rumored collaboration talks between Micron and Japan's ...
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February 6, 2012 - Industry News
Micron appoints Durcan CEO
Micron Technology Inc. appointed D. Mark Durcan CEO, one day after longtime leader Steve Appleton was killed in a plane crash. Durcan assumed the duties ...
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February 6, 2012 - Industry News
Steve Appleton in retrospect
Steve Appleton, who died in a plane crash, worked for Micron Technology Inc. throughout his professional career. And soon after he took the top job there ...
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February 3, 2012 - Industry News
Lines blurring between digital, analog design worlds
Lines are blurring between the once distinct areas of digital and analog design, necessitating new tools and new ways of design collaboration, ...
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February 3, 2012 - Industry News
U.K. to spend $120 million on graphene institute
The U.K. government has said it will spend £70 million (about $120 million) to fund a national institute of graphene research and commercialisation ...
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February 3, 2012 - Top Story News
TSMC Plans 3-D IC Assembly Launch Early 2013
Leading IC foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. plans to announce 3-D IC assembly service as a general offering at the beginning of 2013. The technology is called COWOS internally, standing for chip on wafer on substrate and Marced ...
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February 3, 2012 - Industry News
The R&D credit doesn't work
The R&D tax credit expired on Dec. 31, 2011, and its passing produced hardly a noticeable ripple throughout the high-tech industry. That's not because ...
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February 2, 2012 - Industry News
Broadcom beats estimates
Chip vendor Broadcom Corp. reported fourth quarter results and gave first quarter guidance that beat analysts' expectations. Broadcom reported fourth ...
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February 2, 2012 - Industry News
Wanted: 3-D IC standards within six months
Standards for 3-D chip stacks need to be in place within six months to stay ahead of chips rolling out in 2013, said a Qualcomm executive driving ...
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February 1, 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 ...
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February 1, 2012 - Top Story News
Wanted: 3-D IC Standards Within 6 Months
Standards for 3-D chip stacks need to be in place within six months to stay ahead of chips rolling out in 2013, said a Qualcomm executive driving some of the efforts. The good news is Jedec released in early January an initial standard for Wide I/O ...
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January 31, 2012 - Industry News
Automating the MEMS design processes
With the market for micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) chips growing at a 50 percent annual growth rate, according to Goldman Sachs (New York), ...
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January 30, 2012 - Top Story News
TSMC Returns Fire Over 28-nm Process Issues
Foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has hit back at analysts who have said it has yield problems with its 28-nm CMOS manufacturing processes. Maria Marced, president of TSMC Europe, repeated what has been said before by herself and other ...
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January 30, 2012 - Industry News
Foundry, logic customers drive KLA orders rebound
Semiconductor capital equipment vendor KLA-Tencor Corp. posted declines in sales and profit for the quarter ended Dec. 31, but reported a significant ...
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January 30, 2012 - Industry News
Globalfoundries CEO says company is back on track
Globalfoundries CEO Ajit Manocha has praised his firm for what he called a "remarkable quarter" in Q411, and promised that the foundry was on track ...
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January 30, 2012 - Industry News
Rebuilding America: Proposals emerge to fix 'dysfunctional' R&D tax credit
As the debate over how to revive U.S. manufacturing heats up, tax and other proposals are emerging to provide incentives for technology companies to ...
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January 27, 2012 - Industry News
Micron's president to retire
D. Mark Durcan, president and chief operating officer at memory chip vendor Micron Technology Inc., will step down at the end of Micron's current fiscal ...
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January 27, 2012 - Industry News
LSI beats estimates
Storage and networking chip vendor LSI Corp. delivered fourth quarter sales and first quarter guidance that exceeded analysts' expectations. LSI reported ...
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January 27, 2012 - Industry News
Teradyne reports uptick in orders in Q4
Automatic test equipment vendor Teradyne Inc. reported fourth quarter sales that exceeded analysts' expectations and said order bookings improved by ...
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