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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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ST adds 32-bit MCU to 9-axis inertial sensor

ST adds 32-bit MCU to 9-axis inertial sensor

STMicroelectronics NV has added a 32-bit microcontroller to its iNemo inertial sensor to create a smart multi-sensor module. The module is sampling ...
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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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I am not certain if Toshiba has indeed been able to keep its head above the water. It has its own ...
Nvidia takes Rambus license

Nvidia takes Rambus license

Nvidia signed a five-year deal to license patents from memory technology licensor Rambus. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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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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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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Click through for details. Basically it defines a separate control plane that via software can be ...
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 ...
Nokia shifts assembly to Asia, plans to lay off 4,000

Nokia shifts assembly to Asia, plans to lay off 4,000

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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Nokia mostly sells phones in Asia. This atleast can save some shipping cost!
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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The LEDs are supposed to have a life of 25 years. If the associated electronics also lasts that long ...
Researchers develop novel form of hafnium oxide

Researchers develop novel form of hafnium oxide

A research team working under Andrew Flewitt at the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge has developed a novel form of hafnium ...
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As far as I am aware it is pretty universally carefully engineered hafnium oxide used in HKMG. Not ...

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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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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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The failure of the established semiconductor industry of Japan to keep up with the rise of lower ...
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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I was hired by HP as a Production Engineer in 1965 in Loveland CO. One of the products I was ...
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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The Japanese are getting old and comfortable but mega catastrophe like last years Tsunami still ...
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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Hi Zvi, don't you think there needs to be a fundamental shift in IC vendors' business model -that ...
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 ...

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