September 4, 2008 - Industry News
TI moves IEEE 1149.7 interface standard forward
To allow developers to easily test and debug products with complex digital circuitry, multiple CPUs and applications software in ...
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September 2, 2008 - Industry News
E2v buys US military chip company for $65m
UK microwave and senior firm e2v Technologies has conditionally agreed to buy QP Semiconductor, a California end-of-life semiconductor supplier ...
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August 28, 2008 - Technology News
Chip design firms develop tools for solar cell production
To improve conversion efficiency, increase yield and reduce the manufacturing costs of solar cells, chip design software supplier ...
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August 22, 2008 - Technology News
Rambus works with partners on new technologies
Rambus is working closely with its potential customers at an early stage of their technology development cycle in order to get Rambus technology ...
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August 11, 2008 - Industry News
Semiconductor materials sales outstrip IC sales
The semiconductor materials market will grow by over double the amount the semiconductor industry grows because of the high rise in units/steep ...
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August 11, 2008 - Industry News
European chip sales down, but stablising, says DMASS
Europe's semiconductor market saw a modest rally in the last few months. Although there was a year-on-year fall in sales of semiconductors ...
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July 31, 2008 - Industry News
Return of glory days for semiconductor industry
It was an excellent May for the semiconductor market, reports Future Horizons, Europe's leading semiconductor market analyst company. ...
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July 30, 2008 - Technology News
UMC, Sematech partner to propel 300mm technology
Hsinchu, Taiwan-based semiconductor manufacturing foundry United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) has joined Austin, Texas-based Sematech, ...
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July 30, 2008 - Technology News
3bit/cell NAND may transform market economics
Horrible conditions in the NAND flash market have seen Micron Technology's shares sink to their lowest level for 15 years, and ...
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July 28, 2008 - Industry News
Infineon may cut 3,000 Jobs
Infineon is reported to be preparing to cut 3,000 jobs after losing $930m in Q2, principally due to losses at its DRAM manufacturing subsidiary ...
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July 23, 2008 - Industry News
Allocation, price increases and fights for wafers in 2009
Allocation, rationing, higher prices and a fight for wafers are the inevitable fate of the semiconductor industry next year, according to ...
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July 22, 2008 - Industry News
SEMI cold-shoulders 450mm
The semiconductor industry cannot afford the R&D costs for both shrinking transistors and moving to 450mm wafers according to a report from ...
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July 16, 2008 - Industry News
XMOS may make standards unnecessary
XMOS Semiconductor, the consumer electronics chip start-up, will take in its first sales revenues this month, and will have its first ...
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July 9, 2008 - Industry News
Pricing remains an issue for the semi industry
While the top 100 OEMs consumed semiconductors worth $209 billion in 2007 or a total 76% of semiconductors sold last year, pricing remains an ...
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July 9, 2008 - Industry News
Mobile phone shipments better than expected – analysts
With anecdotal evidence pointing to a slowdown in mobile phone chip shipments, market researchers at Forward Concepts said in a report ...
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July 2, 2008 - Industry News
Anomalies puzzle chip industry
"The global economy is unsettled, but the semi market is holding its own", writes Malcolm Penn, CEO of Europe’s leading chip industry ...
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July 1, 2008 - Industry News
Analog Devices claims seed record for 16bit SAR ADC
Analog Devices is claiming a record for its latest 16bit successive approximation (SAR) ADC. "It is the fastest 16bit SAR in the world" ...
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June 27, 2008 - Technology News
Can flash replace DRAM in servers?
Spansion's move into using flash to replace DRAM in servers comes from the confluence of a number of trends: flash processes matching DRAM ...
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June 25, 2008 - Industry News
Single-digit growth in semiconductor IP market pushes consolidation
Get ready for a period of single-digit growth in the semiconductor IP market, one that will encourage further consolidation, according to ...
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June 13, 2008 - Technology News
Multi-die packages versus multiple single die power LEDs
Multi-die packages are currently the ‘flavour of the month’ amongst the high power led manufacturers. Certainly for both manufacturers and ...
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June 10, 2008 - Industry News
Sometimes Watts and Volts Do Matter
Should engineers run chip companies? A few years ago it was a no-brainer. The decisions taken relied so much on making a sound technical judgment ...
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June 9, 2008 - Industry News
ARM takes on Intel for the ultra-mobile PC
ARM is going head-to-head with Intel in the ultra-mobile PC space, dubbed MIDS or mobile Internet devices. Qualcomm, Texas Instruments ...
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May 27, 2008 - Industry News
Is this the end of the fluorescent lamp?
Almost anyone who has ever worked in an office will be familiar with the cold-white, shadowless light produced by most fluorescent strip ...
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May 23, 2008 - Industry News
Who's Going To Develop IC Manufacturing Equipment?
Something pretty amazing seems to be happening in the semiconductor equipment industry, it's no longer dependent on selling equipment for ...
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May 23, 2008 - Industry News
Infineon to merge with NXP? Or Freescale?
The latest rumour to come out of the rumour-laden Infineon is that the supervisory board is discussing a merger with both NXP and Freescale ...
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