What do IBM layoffs mean for New York's chip initiative?

Big Blue is being tight lipped as usual about how many employees are getting the ax, but at least some of the jobs being cut are in semiconductor R&D. Read Full Story

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Intel eDRAM attacks graphics in pre-3-D IC days

Intel shared insights into its eDRAM technology, expected to challenge discrete graphics sockets in high end notebooks this year. Read Full Story

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London Calling: What is ST's plan B?

Why is STMicroelectronics segregating and exposing the finances of its better performing 'More-than-Moore" and challenged 'Moore's Law" product groups? Read Full Story

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Intel processor outperforms Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung

Market research firm publishes benchmark tests of Intel's latest application processor, the Z2580 CloverTrail, and compares it with competitors' ARM-based offerings. Read Full Story

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Small cells gaining traction in cellular nets

AT&T, Vodaphone and other carriers are rolling out their first small cell deployments thanks in part to advances in backhaul and baseband SoCs.

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Atmel pays Infineon over MCU patent dispute

After two years of legal wrangling U.S. based microcontroller company pays up over allegedly infringing 11 patents.

post comment 5 comments last comment SPLatMan
Yes, I call it the epoxy patent (as in potting).

Toshiba, TSMC report ROMs with multi-level cells

Toshiba, TSMC both reported multi-bit per memory cell ROMs at the Symposium on VLSI Circuits held in Kyoto, Japan, last week.

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Smartphone demand makes Spreadtrum guidance soar

Demand for smartphone chips from Chinese fabless chip vendor causes it to provide a major uplift to Q2 sales guidance.

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Nokia, Qualcomm invest in array camera startup

Pelican Imaging has secured $20 million in funding from Qualcomm Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners and current investors.

post comment 4 comments last comment Frank Eory
I'm really looking forward to better cameras in mobiles. The smartphone camera is often woefully ...

Signal-distortion-from-high-K-ceramic-capacitors

Multilayer ceramic capacitors offer high volumetric efficiencies and low equivalent series resistances at attractive prices.

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Media tablet is your next TV

That idea of “the media tablet as your next TV” is the premise on which a number of companies — software and hardware developers included — are ...

post comment 20 comments last comment Bert22306
It's a paradigm shift. Instead of tying up spectrum on one-way broadcasts, you distribute the vast ...

ST, Bosch in dead heat for MEMS market lead

Market watcher IHS iSuppli branded InvenSense the most successful MEMS startup ever in its latest report on the MEMS market.

post comment 4 comments last comment SpeedEvil
Accellerometers do not have drifts measured in milligrams. Should be milligee.

Maxim’s CEO on analog, Intel, Samsung and more

Maxim chief executive Tunc Doluca talks about his new 90nm analog process, his integration strategy, Intel, Samsung and China.

post comment 4 comments last comment docdivakar
Nice to see a dedicated analog engineer lead the company. It remains to be seen where Maxim grows in ...

Broadcom hits tera-ops with comms processor

Broadcom's former NetLogic group leapfrogged rival Cavium by sampling the first comms processor to handle a trillion operations per second.

post comment 4 comments last comment rick.merritt
Great observations and questions Mike. I have no doe size, cost or power numbers from Broadcom. ...

DRAM makers turn to new process for sub-nm cells

Buried metal wordline with fin-shape access transistors has the potential to overcome predictions that DRAM memory cells would hit a scaling wall at ...

post comment 9 comments last comment Phononscattering
The claims in your patent only mention this stack to be deposited on a semiconductor substrate, not ...

UMC extends FinFET partnership to 10-nm

UMC will send researchers to Albany, New York, to work on the development of 10-nm FinFET process technology with IBM.

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UMC found out IBM's process was not manufacturable so they decided to develop their own. Hope it ...

AMS marks down 2013 revenue on order delays

Austrian analog IC and sensor vendor has lowered its growth estimate for 2013 because certain customers are pushing orders out. The company has also ...

post comment 1 comment last comment Robotics Developer
I would think that AMS should not have been surprised by a push out from customers given the current ...

Convert your smart phone into a signal generator

Signal generators are handy, but rather than carry around another device, use the computing power and capabilities of a smart phone.

post comment 2 comments last comment Frank Eory
Perhaps suitable for emergencies, but there are far better commercial products that can turn your ...

Leverage USB 3.0 for machine vision

While USB 2.0, the most ubiquitous and versatile interface standard in the computing and consumer markets, also plays in the machine vision market, it ...

post comment 2 comments last comment Youself
forget it... USB 3.0 takes FAR too much current. Non starter for anything with a battery in it.

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How to testify in a deposition for patent litigation

A seasoned litigator in patent disputes shares advice for engineers about how to testify—and how not to testify--in a deposition.

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Nokia, Samsung, Apple victims of smartphone 'tipping point'

In the smartphone market, we’ve seen a few critical data (and possible tipping) points in the past few months alone.

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When the industry is shipping more smartphones than feature phones, we are not only talking about ...

Terms of engagement

Questions about how we seek and share information online have been swirling around in my head for the last several days.

post comment 4 comments last comment Frank Eory
It's far from just the Verizons of the world -- also Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Apple & Facebook. ...

Consumer electronics: From atoms to software and back

How about the smartphone as a cloud resource for toys and more besides? The ubiquity of the smartphone changes the economics and multiplies the ...

post comment 1 comment last comment peter.clarke
Imagine the use of smartphones and the cloud to provide the intelligence for Lego Mindstorm ...

iPhone forecast raises eyebrows

Some people in the electronics supply chain are scratching their heads wondering how Apple's iPhone 5 forecast is holding up.

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Code: The good and the ugly

Careful C craftsmanship creates correct code. Saying it five times fast is easier than doing it.

post comment 2 comments last comment chanj
Most developers prepared for interview with sophisticated algorithm such as linked list and binary ...

Energy-harvesting shock absorbers coming to a car near you

With solar and wind harvesting technologies thriving, researchers are seeking other energy sources for which they can create harvesting devices.

post comment 3 comments last comment Gopal Miglani
Wasn't this patented by Bose a few years ago. Whatever happened to that? See ...

How are you measuring that power consumption?

Engineers have to analyze the likely consumption of potential designs to establish the locus of performance, price, and power tradeoffs.

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A guide to greener electronics

When Greenpeace released a global Guide to Greener Electronics last November, it carried a refreshing surprise.

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Solid state memory gains on HDDs

Flash memory is increasingly posing a challenge to the hard disk drive in PCs and enterprise servers in the datacenter.

post comment 4 comments last comment Robotics Developer
I would love to run with a SSD but given the real world cost comparison with HDDs unless I need the ...

What were they thinking: A place to sleep

An interesting little patent today that shows how simple a patent can be...

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Five trends spotted at this year’s Computex

Attendance of Computex ended this week was flat compared to a year ago. But this year’s Computex was more revealing than met the casual eye, with ...

post comment 6 comments last comment junko.yoshida
No, they lack baseband technology.

Data center demand drives silicon photonics to market

After a decade of research, conversion of electrical signals to light for high speed transmission is edging into production

post comment 2 comments last comment resistion
Silicon-III-V photonics more accurate description.

London Calling: How will TSMC cope after Chang?

TSMC could be set to annouce Morris Chang's successor as CEO sometime toward the end of 2013. But whoever gets the job will be trying to fill the ...

post comment 1 comment last comment HS_SemiPro
Mr. Chang's shoes will not be easy to fill, it happens to every company, after the original ...

Startup lessons for interesting times

Simon Barker, who was EE Times' Student Entrepreneur, is back. He is now two years into his engineering career with thoughts on what it takes to drive ...

post comment 9 comments last comment Frank Eory
Glad to hear things are going well Simon and I look forward to your future blogs.

DAC Keynote: Gregg Lowe

Gregg Lowe of Freescale gave the first of the keynotes at DAC 2013. He says that the Internet of Things will create several challenges such as power ...

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