Micron's Steve Appleton dies in plane crash

Steve Appleton, chairman and CEO of memory chip vendor Micron Technology Inc., died in plane crash this morning in Boise, Idaho. Read Full Story

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Best in Test awards highlight advances

Test & Measurement World honored the test industry with an event held during the 2012 DesignCon show Read Full Story

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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. Read Full Story

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AMD: New faces, new road maps, new focus

AMD’s new executives announced the company’s first tablet-focused processors, revised CPU road maps and a renewed SoC focus at an annual analyst day. Read Full Story

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IBM SmartCamp startups attempt to solve world problems

With tech start-ups taking the world by storm, industry heavyweight IBM is plowing venture capital into seedling companies it believes can best solve ...

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Steve Appleton in retrospect

A retrospective on the career of Steve Appleton, Chairman and CEO of memory chip vendor Micron Technology, who died Friday in a plane crash.

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New IBM CEO sees her salary doubled

The new CEO of IBM has had her salary doubled from $800,000 to $1.5 million according to a regulatory filing.

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EE Times' Coverage of DesignCon

All the EE Times coverage of DesignCon 2012 from Santa Clara, Calif.

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Video: Did space station provides dev kit inspiration?

The latest development kit has a novel design which could have been inspired by the NASA International Space Station.

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ARM Mulls Non-Volatile Memory IP acquisition

ARM CEO Warren East (shown) says the U.K. processor IP vendor would consider acquiring non-volatile memory IP as a way to bolster its physical IP ...

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Panasonic predicts loss of $10 billion for fiscal year

Panasonic, one of the Japanese electronics giants, has said that it expects to make a net loss of 780.0 billion yen (about $10.2 billion) in the ...

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Sonics, Tensilica team to improve IP efficiency

Sonics Inc., a licensor of interconnect IP, has announced its on-chip networks will support the processor interface (PIF) from Tensilica Inc., a ...

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Microchip posts weak fiscal Q3, outlook brighter

Microcontroller chip company Microchip Technology Inc. has reported that its fiscal third-quarter profit dropped 23.5 percent year-on-year to $77.5 ...

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Elpida posts big loss, denies Micron deal

Elpida Memory President Yukio Sakamoto reportedly downplayed talk of a possible merger with Micron Technology in the wake of his company reporting ...

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Memory, DRAW, forget it. Not in this age of Apple. I do not see the value in this business unless it ...

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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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Viewpoint: 'The R&D credit doesn't work'

The R&D tax credit does not increase U.S. R&D expenditures, and the $10 billion we spend each year on the credit is mostly a financial transfer from ...

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Will the enormous contributions Baby Boom engineers have made to humanity carry forward to new generations?

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EDA/IP Weekly Roundup – Feb 1st

Elliptic, Altium, Tessera, Orora, Space Codesign and Ceva made the lineup today. See here for their news…

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When technology keeps you waiting

New bus information displays installed in preparation for the Summer Olympics in Weymouth had to be removed because they were too noisy!

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What's a good "real engineer" question?

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How to solve $16.7 billion product returns problem

The United States consumer electronics industry is battling a behemoth, escalating and unsustainable problem: product returns.

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Rebuilding America: Really? Have we given up?

EE Times editorial team has embarked on a new series of stories focused on “Rebuilding America.” Our premise is simple: Are jobs coming back to the ...

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What's private anymore?

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Speaking up for M2M radio innovation

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