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Nokia shifts assembly to Asia, plans to lay off 4000

Nokia shifts assembly to Asia, plans to lay off 4000

Finnish phone maker Nokia has announced it will be cutting down on its manufacturing operations in Hungary, Mexico and Finland in order to move device ...
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Product customisation? huh? Finland traditionally made the flagships, does this announcement mean ...
Cavium, Freescale roll embedded processors

Cavium, Freescale roll embedded processors

Cavium and Freescale announced 28 nm embedded processors aimed in part at data center appliances as engineers debated the future of software-defined ...
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SIA makes public technology roadmap

SIA makes public technology roadmap

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has made public its 2011 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS). , first presented in ...
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India wafer fab decision expected by end of 2012

India wafer fab decision expected by end of 2012

Details of a proposed semiconductor wafer fab to be set up in India are set to be announced by the end of the year at the latest, government officials ...
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India needs their private business leaders such as Ambanis, Tatas and Birlas to take interest in ...
Intel’s Romley poised to roil data center

Intel’s Romley poised to roil data center

Romley server boards coming from Intel in March will accelerate the growth of 10 Gbit Ethernet and attack AMD at the high-end, two of many data center ...
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VC Kleiner Perkins launches engineering student fellowship

VC Kleiner Perkins launches engineering student fellowship

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins has announced the first class of recruits for its engineering internship program, which aims to ...
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Sylvie, shouldn't we have taken KP's word when they clearly say “The caliber of students who applied ...
Nikkei: Japanese firms look to merge system IC units

Nikkei: Japanese firms look to merge system IC units

Japan's Nikkei reported that Renesas, Fujitsu and Panasonic are in negotiations to merge their system chip businesses in a deal that would sharply ...
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Actually, this deal would result in at least one and probably two additional Japanese chip firms ...
Plessey buys Cambridge spin-off for HB LEDs

Plessey buys Cambridge spin-off for HB LEDs

Plessey Semiconductors has acquired CamGaN Ltd., a University of Cambridge spin-out, for its proprietary gallium nitride-on-silicon technology.
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GaN on 8-in seems a nice inflection point.
Cree claims LED price-performance breakthrough

Cree claims LED price-performance breakthrough

Claiming a breakthrough in light-emitting diode technology, Cree announced a new product that the company claims delivers twice the lumens per dollar ...
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This is a good advancement. The move to LED lighting will happen once it is better (cheaper) than ...
User interface firm offers OpenCL benchmarking tool

User interface firm offers OpenCL benchmarking tool

Rightware Oy, a 2009 startup that has developed a licensable 3-D graphical user interface called Kanzi, has announced the availability of Basemark CL, ...
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I must say I had not heard of OpenCL (I know, I must live under a rock)! What a neat idea, I am now ...

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Rumored Japanese chip merger by the numbers

Rumored Japanese chip merger by the numbers

Merging the SoC businesses of Renesas, Fujitsu and Panasonic would create a large company, but the exact size in sales is difficult to pinpoint.
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Nikkei really likes to report a lot of rumors. Maybe they play a "buy on the rumor, sell on the ...
Nostalgic about HP test equipment

Nostalgic about HP test equipment

Any electronics engineer or technical person you speak to will know about Hewlett-Packard (HP) test equipment. And many of them will talk ...
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FujiPanaRene: clinging to the wreckage

FujiPanaRene: clinging to the wreckage

The latest plan from Japan Inc., to merge the semiconductor interests of three companies, has signs of a top-down driven reactive disaster waiting to ...
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I understand that plan is for the FujiPanaRene manufacturing operation to buy Elpida's Hiroshima ...
Viewpoint: How will the chip wars be won?  -- Part 1

Viewpoint: How will the chip wars be won? -- Part 1

For decades, silicon technology development has been shaped by the growth of the PC industry and the need to continuously increase the performance of ...
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Die stacking and 3D TSV are the future. - 1st generation was geometry - 2nd generation was ...
Book review: CHIPS 2020

Book review: CHIPS 2020

Peter Clarke reviews Chips 2020: A Guide to the Future of Nanoelectronics, which sets out to discuss the need for and means of a transition from ...
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Monolithic 3D provides ~10,000x more vertical connectivity. 3D IC as an alternative to 0.7x scaling ...
The end users speak

The end users speak

End users will sound off at the Ethernet Alliance's next Technology Exploration Forum in Santa Clara, Calif., on Feb. 16.
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A cloudy future for AMD

A cloudy future for AMD

On the heels of the company’s financial conference, there is a buzz in the air about AMD and its new management team headed by Rory Read. From the ...
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Video: Are tech jobs returning to the U.S.?

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.
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They don't want to say that, but that is their goal. Right now, the employers have the upper hand ...
Using gestures in low power, handheld devices to enhance 2-D touch displays to the third dimension

Using gestures in low power, handheld devices to enhance 2-D touch displays to the third dimension

With CES 2012 having been declared by the organizers "the year of the interface," gesture recognition and gesture control have been on full display ...
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Very interesting technology! I can see a clear use for close-range gesture/proximity detection ...
Test Engineer of the Year 2012

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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@luiz: Nice quote.. Features make the design-win, however quality "seals the deal".congrats Brad ...

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peter.clarke  02.08.2012
FujiPanaRene: clinging to the wreckage
I understand that plan is for the FujiPanaRene manufacturing operation to buy Elpida's Hiroshima ...
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Andy Pienkowski  02.08.2012
NXP Analog Switch Design and Applications
Are there any non ground referenced (floating), fast operating and high bandwidth switches available ...
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good work you have done
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WW Thinker  02.08.2012
Commentary: Japan Inc. faces choppy seas
Junko is right with "a lack of leadership, or an endemic case of indecisiveness". For ...
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prachanda.punda  02.08.2012
ADC multiple device synchronization
good one
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Finally an objective(?) writeup on the status quo behind the Playbook that doesn't mention 'zomg, ...
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Product customisation? huh? Finland traditionally made the flagships, does this announcement mean ...
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eyall  02.07.2012
The elephant in the corner
It seems to be common. I faced such organization behavior too.
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prabhakar_deosthali  02.07.2012
India wafer fab decision expected by end of 2012
India needs their private business leaders such as Ambanis, Tatas and Birlas to take interest in ...
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Actually, this deal would result in at least one and probably two additional Japanese chip firms ...
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Yup, that current limit is needed. Another interesting use for neons is they could be used as ...
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Sylvie, shouldn't we have taken KP's word when they clearly say “The caliber of students who applied ...
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Tom Phalen  02.07.2012
Viewpoint: 'The R&D credit doesn't work'
Hi G-Linder - Can you provide the evidence you mention? I am sure there is evidence that can ...
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