Challenges of testing mobile memories

I recently spoke with Cecil Ho, President of CST, about the challenges of testing mobile memories, and he gave me his perspective from his vantage point at CST. Read Full Story

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Commentary: 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 over it. Practically speaking, such business ... Read Full Story

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Test op-amps for input bias current

In this article, we discuss two methods for testing input bias current. Read Full Story

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Questions Cloud Outlook at 'New' AMD

The new AMD has plenty of passion and experience, as well as a reasonable strategy around SoCs. But it’s unclear whether those factors can propel it forward. Read Full Story

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Nokia shifts assembly to Asia, plans to lay off 4000

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 ...

post comment 1 comment last comment NitroWare
Product customisation? huh? Finland traditionally made the flagships, does this announcement mean ...

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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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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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 ...

post comment 5 comments last comment prabhakar_deosthali
India needs their private business leaders such as Ambanis, Tatas and Birlas to take interest in ...

Intel’s Romley poised to roil data center

Romley server boards coming from Intel in March will accelerate the growth of 10 Gbit Ethernet and attack AMD at the high-end, two of many data center ...

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VC Kleiner Perkins launches engineering student fellowship

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins has announced the first class of recruits for its engineering internship program, which aims to ...

post comment 4 comments last comment bpd
Sylvie, shouldn't we have taken KP's word when they clearly say “The caliber of students who applied ...

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 ...

post comment 5 comments last comment dylan.mcgrath
Actually, this deal would result in at least one and probably two additional Japanese chip firms ...

Plessey buys Cambridge spin-off for HB LEDs

Plessey Semiconductors has acquired CamGaN Ltd., a University of Cambridge spin-out, for its proprietary gallium nitride-on-silicon technology.

post comment 1 comment last comment resistion
GaN on 8-in seems a nice inflection point.

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 ...

post comment 8 comments last comment daleste
This is a good advancement. The move to LED lighting will happen once it is better (cheaper) than ...

User interface firm offers OpenCL benchmarking tool

Rightware Oy, a 2009 startup that has developed a licensable 3-D graphical user interface called Kanzi, has announced the availability of Basemark CL, ...

post comment 1 comment last comment Robotics Developer
I must say I had not heard of OpenCL (I know, I must live under a rock)! What a neat idea, I am now ...

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Opinion

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.

post comment 1 comment last comment resistion
Nikkei really likes to report a lot of rumors. Maybe they play a "buy on the rumor, sell on the ...

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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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 ...

post comment 5 comments last comment peter.clarke
I understand that plan is for the FujiPanaRene manufacturing operation to buy Elpida's Hiroshima ...

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 ...

post comment 3 comments last comment krwada
Die stacking and 3D TSV are the future. - 1st generation was geometry - 2nd generation was ...

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 ...

post comment 4 comments last comment Or_Bach
Monolithic 3D provides ~10,000x more vertical connectivity. 3D IC as an alternative to 0.7x scaling ...

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

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.?

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

With CES 2012 having been declared by the organizers "the year of the interface," gesture recognition and gesture control have been on full display ...

post comment 2 comments last comment Gaurav123
Very interesting technology! I can see a clear use for close-range gesture/proximity detection ...

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 ...

post comment 2 comments last comment sureshtheory
@luiz: Nice quote.. Features make the design-win, however quality "seals the deal".congrats Brad ...

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