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Bluespec continues to attract venture money

Bluespec continues to attract venture money

EDA may not be loved by Wall Street, but high-level synthesis companies have attracted a number of venture companies…
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$1.5M is chump change. WTH? This such an important segment of the tool chain for improving ...
Rebuilding America: Proposals emerge to fix 'dysfunctional' R&D tax credit

Rebuilding America: Proposals emerge to fix 'dysfunctional' R&D tax credit

The R&D tax credit, a key incentive for spurring investment in U.S. innovation and manufacturing, needs a major overhaul, a tax expert says.
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eric988, you are referring to Sarbanes-Oxley reporting and accounting requirements?
Apple snatches Smartphone lead from Samsung in Q4

Apple snatches Smartphone lead from Samsung in Q4

Apple and Samsung Electronics continued their game of tag at the top of the smartphone shipment table, with Apple taking back the top spot for ...
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I think next quarter might be different. The latest model of Samsung phones are almost as good.
Globalfoundries CEO says company is back on track

Globalfoundries CEO says company is back on track

Globalfoundries CEO Ajit Manocha has praised his firm for what he called a “remarkable quarter” in Q411, and promised that the foundry was on track to ...
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Global except for India. What gives Ajit?
Foundry, logic customers drive KLA orders rebound

Foundry, logic customers drive KLA orders rebound

Semiconductor capital equipment vendor KLA-Tencor posted declines in sales and profit for the quarter ended Dec. 31, but reported a significant ...
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Cisco rolls more routers for smart grids

Cisco rolls more routers for smart grids

Cisco Systems is shipping its first routers geared for networks of smart meters, initially focusing on a co-development deal with meter maker Itron.
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HOW WILL CISCO AND OTHERS CONTINUE TO WORK IN THIS AREA NOW THAT A CALIFORNIA HEALTH DEPARTMENT ...
MagnaChip buys IGBT module maker

MagnaChip buys IGBT module maker

Analog and mixed-signal chip vendor MagnaChip Semiconductor said it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held semiconductor ...
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Marvell cuts quarterly sales target

Marvell cuts quarterly sales target

Chip maker Marvell Technology Group cut its sales target for the quarter ending Jan. 28, saying revenue would be lower than expected because of disk ...
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Nokia bleeds $1.38 billion in Q4; sales drop 21 percent

Nokia bleeds $1.38 billion in Q4; sales drop 21 percent

Nokia had some good news and bad news for financial investors on Thursday (Jan. 26), announcing that though it had managed to sell over 1 million ...
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Windows Phone still can't help. This is damn worrying.
Pentek tips Virtex-7 boards

Pentek tips Virtex-7 boards

Pentek is sampling XMC modules using Virtex-7 FPGAs, claiming the Onyx boards deliver nearly double the performance and bandwidth of its Cobalt ...
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Speaking up for M2M radio innovation

Speaking up for M2M radio innovation

Luke D'Arcy, vice president of marketing at Neul Ltd. (Cambridge, England), has argued that some standards bodies are not addressing the need for ...
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Perhaps my real issue with this is the idea that ONE unified standard, all the way up the ISO ...
Targeting RF key security

Targeting RF key security

How secure are your RFID car key and other devices—to be afraid, or not?
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That's why I NEVER leave my car unattended without a steering wheel lock. Even if some mutt managed ...
Who are Imagination's four missing customers?

Who are Imagination's four missing customers?

Imagination has named four of eight licensees signed up so far for graphics cores from its PowerVR Series 6 family. Who are the missing four ...
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@hammerd2 Thanks.. so that's Intel Apple, Sony and Fujitsu...with Samsung to come followed by ...
Turning down the noise: When 'low' keeps getting lower

Turning down the noise: When 'low' keeps getting lower

The desire to extend a wireless product’s battery life by reducing power consumption is driving IC manufacturers to develop devices that operate at ...
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- and as we push the boundaries to produce more and more cheaply-made digital logic-driven devices ...
DIY days: better, worse, or just very different?

DIY days: better, worse, or just very different?

How does today's do-it-yourself experimenter situation compare to "back in the day"?
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@ "...have you unsoldered a 16pin IC without a fairly specialized setup recently?" A hot air gun is ...
Obama visit to Intel facility irks workers told to stay home

Obama visit to Intel facility irks workers told to stay home

While President Obama’s visit to Intel’s manufacturing facility in Chandler, Arizona may be a huge boon to the chip firm, it is slightly less of a ...
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The real sad statement is that anyone felt the need to send 1,500 workers home to ensure the ...
Who says old dogs can’t learn new tricks?

Who says old dogs can’t learn new tricks?

Why should young apps developers get all the publicity? How about a chip designer in his 40s who went "new school" and created a smartphone app that ...
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The App warns you about not to text while driving the moment you login to turn on the app.
The elephant in the corner

The elephant in the corner

Why do so many IC design teams commit to development schedules they know are not possible to meet?
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My observation has been that sales or marketing will promise anything to get the order, and then ...
EDA/IP Weekly Roundup – Jan 25th

EDA/IP Weekly Roundup – Jan 25th

Mentor Graphics, Packet Plus, Synopsys, Carbon Design and Arteris made the lineup today. See here for their news…
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Time to play hard ball on tech manufacturing

Time to play hard ball on tech manufacturing

It's time for policy makers to play hard ball with multinational corporations that outsource manufacturing, design and R&D jobs. If they don't, ...
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Here is some scary math to get you thinking. At the end of WW II Japan had a population 80 % of the ...

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Controller PCB problem solved
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Relevance of power supplies
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Here is some scary math to get you thinking. At the end of WW II Japan had a population 80 % of the ...
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Engineering salaries on the rise
"The response rate for Electrical/Electronics Engineers is too small to disclose." Guess there's a ...
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Global except for India. What gives Ajit?
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$1.5M is chump change. WTH? This such an important segment of the tool chain for improving ...
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Perhaps it is indeed filings in multiple countries, but I see that perhaps it was just a fabrication ...
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Bert22306  01.27.2012
Speaking up for M2M radio innovation
Perhaps my real issue with this is the idea that ONE unified standard, all the way up the ISO ...
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WKetel  01.27.2012
The elephant in the corner
My observation has been that sales or marketing will promise anything to get the order, and then ...
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@ "...have you unsoldered a 16pin IC without a fairly specialized setup recently?" A hot air gun is ...
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Could they just use AFDX?
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I think next quarter might be different. The latest model of Samsung phones are almost as good.
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They use programmable Attenuation boxes to simulate real world interference.
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Life of Foxconn workers in china

By eewiz on 01.16.2012

Came across this video where they interview many young people who work at foxconn factory at shenzen china.

http://vimeo.com/27982653
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Patent 8,090,532 - Pedestrian route production

By phoenixdave on 01.06.2012

Another unique patent, this one from Microsoft.

I wonder how the product manufacturer would address potential liability if, for instance, a person

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Don't get me started on patents for software and 'business ideas'. They were pretty ingenious in the ...

Has anyone tried out www.everythingRF.com?

By raghavkap on 01.01.2012

What do you think of the website?

everything RF is a search engine for RF & Microwave components.

everything RF lists complete

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Looks quite interesting. They should also include reference literature required for RF design. I ...

 

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