Micron's Steve Appleton dies in plane crash

Steve Appleton, chairman and CEO of memory chip vendor Micron Technology Inc., died in plane crash this morning in Boise, Idaho. Read Full Story

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Best in Test awards highlight advances

Test & Measurement World honored the test industry with an event held during the 2012 DesignCon show Read Full Story

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Video: Are tech jobs returning to the U.S.?

EE Times hit the exhibition floor at DesignCon 2012 to get engineers' perspectives on whether high-tech jobs are coming back to the U.S. Read Full Story

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AMD: New faces, new road maps, new focus

AMD’s new executives announced the company’s first tablet-focused processors, revised CPU road maps and a renewed SoC focus at an annual analyst day. Read Full Story

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Appleton's death could delay DRAM consolidation

The death of longtime Micron Technology Chairman and CEO Steve Appleton could throw a kink in rumored collaboration talks between Micron and Japan's ...

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Micron appoints Durcan CEO

Micron Technology appointed D. Mark Durcan CEO, one day after longtime leader Steve Appleton was killed in a plane crash.

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Steve Appleton in retrospect

A retrospective on the career of Steve Appleton, Chairman and CEO of memory chip vendor Micron Technology, who died Friday in a plane crash.

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New IBM CEO sees her salary doubled

The new CEO of IBM has had her salary doubled from $800,000 to $1.5 million according to a regulatory filing.

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ARM Mulls Non-Volatile Memory IP acquisition

ARM CEO Warren East (shown) says the U.K. processor IP vendor would consider acquiring non-volatile memory IP as a way to bolster its physical IP ...

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Adding non-volatile memory on chip with the processor can have some advantages especially in ...

IBM SmartCamp startups attempt to solve world problems

With tech start-ups taking the world by storm, industry heavyweight IBM is plowing venture capital into seedling companies it believes can best solve ...

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EE Times' Coverage of DesignCon

All the EE Times coverage of DesignCon 2012 from Santa Clara, Calif.

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Video: Did space station provides dev kit inspiration?

The latest development kit has a novel design which could have been inspired by the NASA International Space Station.

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This is very nice. They need to send many of these units to top engineering schools and many cool ...

TSMC plans 3-D IC assembly launch early in 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 ...

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TSMC seems to have a lot of cash to cushion this type of investment when 3D is not necessarily ...

Panasonic predicts loss of $10 billion for fiscal year

Panasonic, one of the Japanese electronics giants, has said that it expects to make a net loss of 780.0 billion yen (about $10.2 billion) in the ...

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Sad to see this. Japanese companies are going down. I worked in Japan for a Japanese MNC R&D for ...

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Test Engineer of the Year 2012

Broadcom's Brad Davis takes home the award at this year's DesignCon for design-verification testing on mobility system on chip (SOC) designs, inclding ...

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Viewpoint: 'The R&D credit doesn't work'

The R&D tax credit does not increase U.S. R&D expenditures, and the $10 billion we spend each year on the credit is mostly a financial transfer from ...

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The passion

Will the enormous contributions Baby Boom engineers have made to humanity carry forward to new generations?

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Every generation has its own set of doer's. What changes is the medium in which they innovate. ...

EDA/IP Weekly Roundup – Feb 1st

Elliptic, Altium, Tessera, Orora, Space Codesign and Ceva made the lineup today. See here for their news…

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When technology keeps you waiting

New bus information displays installed in preparation for the Summer Olympics in Weymouth had to be removed because they were too noisy!

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What's a good "real engineer" question?

There are quick ways to separate the real techies from wannabes

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How to solve $16.7 billion product returns problem

The United States consumer electronics industry is battling a behemoth, escalating and unsustainable problem: product returns.

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As far as reselling refurbished units, I've been the unlucky purchaser of some of these products and ...

Rebuilding America: Really? Have we given up?

EE Times editorial team has embarked on a new series of stories focused on “Rebuilding America.” Our premise is simple: Are jobs coming back to the ...

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I applaude Junko's spirit and bravery for even proposing the US try to bring back high tech ...

What's private anymore?

I was reading this opinion piece in the NY Times today on "Privacy, Technology, and Law," and it wrestles with the question of what is protected as ...

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Whatever powers we grant to police will be abused at some point. Our rules of evidence try to ...

Speaking up for M2M radio innovation

Luke D'Arcy, vice president of marketing at Neul Ltd. (Cambridge, England), has argued that some standards bodies are not addressing the need for ...

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