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Altis foundry updates 130-nm specialty design kits

Altis foundry updates 130-nm specialty design kits

Altis Semiconductor SA, the specialty foundry bought by French entrepreneur Yazid Sabeg from IBM and Infineon in 2010, has announced the release of ...
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I think this help in achieving space grade and mil grade components for the existing unsupported ...
Cadence extends verification and storage IP offerings

Cadence extends verification and storage IP offerings

EDA software vendor Cadence announced a couple of extensions in its offering of intellectual property at the Cadence Live European user conference on ...
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The process changes here are for the developments to be incorporated in the design environment. The ...
IHS: Apple iOS to reassert tablet dominance in 2012

IHS: Apple iOS to reassert tablet dominance in 2012

Apple's iOS operating system is expected to reassert commanding leadership of the worldwide tablet space in 2012, following a temporary dip in market ...
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"Apple's robust ecosystem took years to develop, beginning with the iPod and the iTunes music store ...
DRAM sales projected to grow 3% in 2012

DRAM sales projected to grow 3% in 2012

Thanks in no small part to the bankruptcy of Elpida Memory, the global DRAM industry is expected to partially reverse massive losses incurred in 2011, ...
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After dropping 25% last year, a 3% rise this year does not make up for much. Yes, the remaining ...
SMIC gets government backing for second Beijing fab

SMIC gets government backing for second Beijing fab

Chinese foundry SMIC said its Beijing subsidiary reached a deal with the Beijing municipal government that will result in a second 300-mm fab in ...
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EMC buys memory IT startup for reported $430M

EMC buys memory IT startup for reported $430M

Enterprise IT hardware, software and services provider EMC has acquired XtremIO, a three-year old Israeli startup that develops flash memory ...
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EMC might look forward in using the flash in the storage environment where data access time is ...
AMD’s fires Trinity in x86 notebook battle

AMD’s fires Trinity in x86 notebook battle

AMD launched its 32nm Trinity CPUs with upgraded x86 and graphics cores going head-to-head in notebooks and desktops with Intel’s 22 nm Ivy Bridge ...
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So why is AMD even around? I mean they are failing to keep up with Intel who is failing to get a ...
Nvidia upgrades Tesla, eyes cloud gaming

Nvidia upgrades Tesla, eyes cloud gaming

Nvidia announced its latest graphics board for use highly parallel technical and scientific jobs along with new technology for cloud-based gaming ...
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Nvidia rally rocks. After great into tablets again all eyes on them.
Weigh in on the greatest hits in electronics

Weigh in on the greatest hits in electronics

This fall, EE Times will kick off a yearlong celebration of its 40th anniversary year. Through coverage and various activities online, in a special ...
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MaxLinear takes Silicon Labs to court over 'false allegations'

MaxLinear takes Silicon Labs to court over 'false allegations'

RF and mixed-signal chip vendor MaxLinear said it filed a declaratory judgment complaint against Silicon Laboratories Inc. in U.S. federal court.
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Will China hit a (great) wall? Don’t bet on it

Will China hit a (great) wall? Don’t bet on it

Some naysayers argue that China can't innovate and that the Chinese economy is bound to "hit the wall" like Japan's export-driven economy did in the ...
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wake up, encourage or create incentive won't help anymore. what americans need to do is live in a ...
Plastic doesn't pollute, people do

Plastic doesn't pollute, people do

Plastic may not be the most beloved of materials to the more environmentally minded, but a tradeshow held last week in Italy aimed to mold a different ...
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I fully concur with him. One of the really nice features of plastic is that, where this is needed, ...
Test equipment market snapshot

Test equipment market snapshot

Grab your lunch and head to Frost&Sullivan’s webinar tomorrow, May 16th on the test equipment market.
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New companies at DAC for the first time in 2012

New companies at DAC for the first time in 2012

This is the first of a series of blogs preparing you for DAC this year. This one lists the new companies exhibiting for the first time...
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Hi, Brian! A quick clarification for Space Codesign ... #417 is our demo suite, our exhibit will be ...
Autonomous cars: Sooner than we think?

Autonomous cars: Sooner than we think?

In the short term, vehicles will be able to take over many driving functions—but full autonomy may be farther down the road.
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No they don't. There must be a driver, with a driver's license, behind the wheel of these ...
Indy engines still pack a 700HP punch

Indy engines still pack a 700HP punch

This year, when the Indy cars line up in the grid at the "greatest spectacle in racing," they'll be using engines with less displacement than that in ...
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I have often wondered how these engines can run at those speeds and not blow apart. I heard (don't ...
Industry view: iSuppli on Micron/Elpida deal

Industry view: iSuppli on Micron/Elpida deal

Mike Howard of IHS iSuppli weighs in on rational markets, Micron's most likely integration strategy, and the one thing Elpida must not do.
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If iPhone is any indicator, DRAM does not have a growth market there.
Reversal from the foundry model back to IDM ?

Reversal from the foundry model back to IDM ?

One can't avoid the question: Are we facing a dramatic reversal of the trend from the Foundry model back to the IDM model?
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I don't think you will see a lot of companies building their own fabs now. The costs are too great ...
Best of the web – May 11

Best of the web – May 11

Blogs from around the web that made my “best of the web” list this week…
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Why China?

Why China?

We all pay abject lip service to China. The business community and the media are equally in thrall to the world’s second largest – and fastest growing ...
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Congratulations Junko! It's sounds like a very exciting new assignment and journey is ahead for ...

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Sub-100$ tablet available for ordering

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