August 21, 2008 - Industry News
Growth seen in auto MCU market
In 2008, the worldwide automotive microcontroller unit (MCU) market is on pace to total $5.3 billion, according to Gartner Inc. The world ...
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August 21, 2008 - Industry News
Board biz no stretch for Stretch
Making chips and developing reference designs may no longer be enough to sustain traditional semiconductor companies, especially Application ...
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August 20, 2008 - Technology News
German researchers accelerate MRAM technology
A research team at the German metrology institute PTB has carried out a switching process in a magnetic medium at the highest speed theoretically ...
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August 20, 2008 - Industry News
Infineon's Bauer calls for innovation, cost control
In a maturing semiconductor industry, double-digit growth rates are a thing of the past. And strict cost management is essential to survive ...
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August 20, 2008 - Industry News
Fab-tool ratio hits parity despite lull
Japan's fab-tool book-to-bill ratio has finally reached parity, but the market for all semiconductor equipment vendors remains slow. ...
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August 19, 2008 - Technology News
IBM claims 22-nm SRAM success
IBM and its joint development partners Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Freescale, STMicroelectronics, Toshiba and the College of Nanoscale ...
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August 19, 2008 - Technology News
Will memristors prove irresistible?
The transistor was invented in 1925 but lay dormant until finding a corporate champion in Bell Labs during the 1950s. Now another ...
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August 19, 2008 - Technology News
Green Engineering: Engineering the future
Gone are the days when design was, well, design. Today it's design-for-manufacturability, design-for-quality, design-for-cost, and yes, ...
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August 19, 2008 - Industry News
SATS market seen set for major growth
The semiconductor assembly and test services (SATS) market is expected to beat the overall semiconductor industry growth rate for this year, ...
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August 18, 2008 - Technology News
Three options for designing NAND flash memory subsystems
A variety of NAND flash architectures, the constant migration to newer, more advanced process technologies, and the continual introduction of new ...
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August 18, 2008 - Technology News
If less is more, then zero is everything
In the past few months, we've seen a slew of zero-parameter analog components from leading vendors, including a zero-drift instrumentation ...
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August 18, 2008 - Technology News
Motorola employs Siimpel's MEMS tech
Siimpel Corp. has announced that its SiimpelFocus SF9x MEMS-based silicon camera technology is in the recently launched Motorola MING A1600 ...
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August 15, 2008 - Top Story News
Intel drives quarterly PC processor growth
The PC processor business shook off a weak economic climate to grow 3.1 percent in unit shipments in the June quarter, but intense price ...
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August 15, 2008 - Industry News
Rumor mill: Seagate to buy SanDisk?
The rumors were flying at the Flash Memory Summit here. The big rumor is that Seagate Technology Inc. is interested in buying all or part of ...
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August 15, 2008 - Industry News
SanDisk CEO tips rewriteable 3-D memory
At the Flash Memory Summit, SanDisk Corp.'s top executive provided more details about its efforts to devise a rewriteable 3-D memory device--a ...
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August 15, 2008 - Industry News
Infineon licenses technology for tamper-proof chips
Infineon Technologies AG has agreed to license security technology for tamper-resistant semiconductors from Cryptography Research Inc. ...
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August 14, 2008 - Industry News
European chip equipment spend increasing, says SEMI
An estimated $2.53 billion will be spent in Europe on semiconductor manufacturing equipment in 2008, according to the SEMI mid-year ...
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August 13, 2008 - Technology News
Samsung, Unidym extend carbon nanotube pact
Unidym Inc., a subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corp., has entered into a second joint development agreement with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. ...
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August 13, 2008 - Technology News
Going deep: Ocean to power grid, recharge fuel cells
Harnessing ocean power to generate electricity, hydrogen to fuel cars and heat exchangers to cool buildings is the aim of a $13.75 million ...
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August 12, 2008 - Technology News
MIPS claims first 40/45-nm USB IP
MIPS Technologies, Inc. announced what it claims is the industry's first 40nm USB PHY IP core and first USB-certified 1.8v 45nm USB PHY IP core ...
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August 12, 2008 - Technology News
First 3-D ICs debut
The world's first 3-D chip process is ready for licensing from the fabless semiconductor design house BeSang Inc. BeSang fabricated ...
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August 12, 2008 - Industry News
Actual data shows global chip market grew 12.2% in June
The global market for semiconductors was $25.52 billion in June 2008, up 12.2 percent on June 2007, according to data from World Semiconductor ...
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August 12, 2008 - Industry News
Skyworks exceeds 2 billion power amplifier module shipments
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. announced that it has shipped more than two billion power amplifier (PA) modules since the product's inception. ...
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August 11, 2008 - Industry News
Olympic Waving Torches herald new era for MEMS
When a cascade of mesmerizing tableaux unfolded on the floor of the "Bird's Nest" at the Beijing Summer Olympics opening ceremony ...
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August 8, 2008 - Industry News
Hynix, Numonyx collaborate on NAND
Intel spin-off Numonyx B.V and STMicroelectronics Inc. are teaming up with Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc. in a major push in the NAND ...
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