September 7, 2010 - Industry News
Automotive chip content growing fast, says Gartner
Semiconductor content in a variety of automotive subsystems will show varying rates of growth over the next five years, according to market ...
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September 7, 2010 - Industry News
Samsung mulls $25 bn diversification spend
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a leading integrated electronics company, is considering investing 30 trillion won in 2011 to support existing ...
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September 7, 2010 - Industry News
Micron to take over SMIC fab
Micron Technology Inc. is in talks to take over the operations of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.'s 300-mm fab in Wuhan, ...
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September 3, 2010 - Industry News
Wafer prices declined in Q2, says GSA
Falling wafer prices in the second quarter of 2010 contrasted with rising prices and allocation in the previous quarter, according to a survey ...
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September 3, 2010 - Industry News
Presto offers testing for GaAs foundry
Taiwan's Win Semiconductors Corp. and Presto Engineering company announced a strategic collaboration to deliver characterization and testing ...
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September 3, 2010 - Top Story News
GlobalFoundries Puts Rivals on Notice
Despite a sudden and disturbing lull in the IC market, GlobalFoundries Inc. is moving full speed ahead with its aggressive silicon foundry strategy. At its inaugural ...
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September 2, 2010 - Industry News
A4 chip drives AppleTV, iPod Touch
With its latest products announcements, Apple Inc. has spread its A4 microprocessor across all it non-computer products, lowering its ...
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September 1, 2010 - Industry News
Sematech completes 3-D chip pilot line
In a step towards enabling true 3-D chips, Sematech announced the completion of its 300-mm, 3-D IC pilot line. Operating at the College of ...
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September 1, 2010 - Industry News
Chip sales stay strong amid slowdown signs
The three-month average of global sales of semiconductors for July was up 1.2% from June and up 37.0% from July. The averaged figure, based on ...
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August 30, 2010 - Industry News
Apple should build a fab
Apple should think about building a wafer fab. I'm not joking or merely trying to be provocative. I'd even bet that Steve Jobs has flirted with ...
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August 30, 2010 - Industry News
How 3Par became a $2 billion company
How can a company that has never shown a profit and had flat 2010 revenues of less than $200 million suddenly become worth $2 billion ...
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August 27, 2010 - Top Story News
Apple Should Build A Fab
Apple should think about building a wafer fab. I'm not joking or merely trying to be provocative. I'd even bet that Steve Jobs has flirted with the idea. Apple should consider—and I mean just ...
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August 27, 2010 - Industry News
IC business back on track in July
After a lull, the IC industry is back on track, at least according to one analyst. June was a slow month. As reported, June's chip sales of ...
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August 27, 2010 - Industry News
Samsung likely to pass Intel in ICs
Based on its broad semiconductor product offerings and expansion plans, South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is on track to catch Intel ...
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August 27, 2010 - Industry News
Russian chipmaker calls for import ban
Russian company Sistema, which is working with STMicroelectronics on producing 90-nm ICs for television, GPS, cellphone and passport ...
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August 26, 2010 - Industry News
Graphene fabrication gets a boost
Graphene, which promises to solve many problems as silicon design rules approach the atomic scale, performs better when these pure carbon ...
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August 26, 2010 - Industry News
Russian chipmaker calls for import ban
Russian company Sistema is calling for the state to ban imports of competing ICs, according to a Reuters report that cites local newspapers ...
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August 26, 2010 - Industry News
Capacitor lead times could remain stretched through 2010
Lead times for aluminum, ceramic and tantalum capacitors could remain abnormally long through the fourth quarter of this year and perhaps ...
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August 26, 2010 - Industry News
McAfee buy moves Intel away from chip sales
A Wall Street analyst report states that Intel Corp.'s acquisition of security software vendor McAfee Inc. is a step towards diversification ...
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August 26, 2010 - Industry News
ISuppli: Apple to dominate tablet market through 2012
Apple Inc.'s iPad is set to continue dominating the tablet computer market through at least 2012, accounting for nearly two-thirds of tablet ...
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August 25, 2010 - Industry News
Huawei describes smart memory chip
Networking giants are racing to create a new generation of smart memories to speed packet processing, creating smaller, faster line cards for ...
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August 24, 2010 - Industry News
Mandating FM radio in cell phones: what are they thinking, and why?
I glanced though an article in The New York Times about a proposal (aka "deal") for changing the royalty-payment structure for songs ...
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August 24, 2010 - Industry News
McGill harnessing piezo effect in quantum dots for nano sensors
Piezoelectric effects translate mechanical motion into electricity and vice versa, energizing a variety of electronic transducer applications as ...
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August 24, 2010 - Industry News
Mentor moves tools toward 16-nanometer
A conversation with Joseph Sawicki, vice president and general manager of Mentor Graphics Corp. provided a snapshot of the conundra facing foundries ...
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August 23, 2010 - Industry News
SSDs: Still not a 'solid state' business
At one time, the next big thing that was supposed to drive the NAND flash market was solid-state storage drives (SSDs). Beyond being the next big ...
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