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Darkhorse litho technologies stay in NGL race

Darkhorse litho technologies stay in NGL race

The continually slipping target date for insertion of extreme ultraviolet lithography into volume production has enabled several other intriguing ...
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If only a small fraction of the chip layers get multiple patterning or double patterning, and most ...
Renesas rolls combo LTE/3G baseband

Renesas rolls combo LTE/3G baseband

Renesas Mobile announced one of the first integrated multimode LTE baseband processors aimed at enabling $150-300 4G devices.
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The acquisition of the Modem Design Team (~1000 people) of Nokia by Renesas Electronics in CY2010 ...
Update: New chip propels Intel into data plane

Update: New chip propels Intel into data plane

Intel is sampling Cave Creek, a chip that paired with the latest Xeon aims to win sockets from the likes of Cavium, Freescale and NetLogic in packet ...
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Altera, Xilinx Bet on High Frequency Trading

Altera, Xilinx Bet on High Frequency Trading Paid

The market for FPGA boards in high frequency financial trading is expanding both in size and in its role as a strategic technology test bed for FPGA ...
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TEL joins CEA-Leti programs on DSA, maskless litho

TEL joins CEA-Leti programs on DSA, maskless litho

Tokyo Electron Ltd., a supplier of IC and display production equipment, has joined two collaborative lithography research projects being organized by ...
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Energy Conversion Devices files for bankruptcy

Energy Conversion Devices files for bankruptcy

Solar equipment maker Energy Conversion Devices said it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and announced plans to sale several assets, ...
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Pretty sad...another US company that can't compete with Chinese government...is anyone left in solar ...
Analyst ranks chip markets by 2012 growth prediction

Analyst ranks chip markets by 2012 growth prediction

With numerous changes from 2011, some 27 IC product areas out of 33 defined by WSTS will see market growth in 2012, according to market research firm ...
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MediaTek launches platform for low-end Android phones

MediaTek launches platform for low-end Android phones

Fabless chip company MediaTek has announced the availability of a hardware and software platform for the creation of mid- and entry-level Android ...
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Mediatek is very successful to actually make the cheaper and performing designs for the 2G ...
Firm claims patent infringement by Intel, IBM, Micron

Firm claims patent infringement by Intel, IBM, Micron

Atomic Precision Systems, a little-known semiconductor equipment vendor specializing in deposition technology, has filed a patent infringement suit ...
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I think these days technology lawyers are more busy than anyone else. The courts are busy dealing ...
TI announces five radio combo chip

TI announces five radio combo chip

Texas Instruments has announced the next generation of its WiLink combo chips, the WiLink 8.0 product family; a collection of 45-nanometer single-chip ...
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Guys like CSR will eventually get acquired or might just become extinct. Looks like all the domains ...

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Multicore madness

Multicore madness

Here’s one speed limit that’s heavily enforced.
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In a typical control application we could successfully use a 6 core SOC where each core was ...
Memristor 'brouhaha' redux

Memristor 'brouhaha' redux

A battle of mathematical papers has broken out at arXiv.org on the topic of the memristor, which may be part of the future of non-volatile memory ...
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Battle of research papers! Pretty cool, doesn't happen too often as academics usually try not to ...
Expect aftershocks from Synopsys' Magma acquisition

Expect aftershocks from Synopsys' Magma acquisition

Synopsys' surprise acquisition of Magma Design Automation absolutely requires a response from the rest of the EDA market.
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It is hard to believe that something as old as Spice is causing such a dramatic change in EDA ...
Meet the authors of 'CHIPS 2020' at ISSCC

Meet the authors of 'CHIPS 2020' at ISSCC

several of the authors of CHIPS 2020: A Guide to the Future of Nanotechnology will be on hand at a launch for the book at the ISSCC upcoming in San ...
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SoCs: Unsung heroes of the smartphone revolution

SoCs: Unsung heroes of the smartphone revolution

The smartphone revolution enabled by the convergence of voice, data and video in a single mobile device wouldn't have been possible without the SoC, ...
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With SiP, you need to wait for all two or three chips to arrive, but with SoC they effectively all ...
Opinion: The yin and yang of designing big chips

Opinion: The yin and yang of designing big chips

Patrick Groeneveld is this year's chair for DAC. In this opinion piece he talks about value in synthesis and analysis tools...
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Chip design is one of the industries that rely heavily on the accuracy of tools for success. EDA is ...
Japan Inc. faces choppy seas

Japan Inc. faces choppy seas

The blueprint for proposed merger/joint venture plan has fingerprints of Japan’s bureaucrats at Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (MEITI) all ...
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"There is still a very big captive Japanese market, but the next battle could be battery/hybrid ...
APEC becomes big, and we're there

APEC becomes big, and we're there

Power is every engineer's concern, and it's the focus of this event
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Stand by---I'm working on a follow-up article fom APEC 2012 on the Picor active EMI filter and ...
EDA/IP Weekly Roundup – Feb 8th

EDA/IP Weekly Roundup – Feb 8th

Element14, Verific, Coventor, Silicon Frontline, Cadence, Breker and Elliptic made the lineup today. See here for their news…
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What's in your emergency repair kit, besides tools?

What's in your emergency repair kit, besides tools?

It starts with duct tape, of course, but there are other small items to bring
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I always carry a Leatherman Squirt ES4 electrician multit-tool. Wonderful keychain sized pocket tool ...

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Renesas rolls combo LTE/3G baseband
The acquisition of the Modem Design Team (~1000 people) of Nokia by Renesas Electronics in CY2010 ...
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Mediatek is very successful to actually make the cheaper and performing designs for the 2G ...
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Multicore madness
In a typical control application we could successfully use a 6 core SOC where each core was ...
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Pretty sad...another US company that can't compete with Chinese government...is anyone left in solar ...
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What is the cost of building such 50MW plant? Kris
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It is hard to believe that something as old as Spice is causing such a dramatic change in EDA ...
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Memristor 'brouhaha' redux
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