Microsoft: Windows 8 on ARM to be 'no-compromise' experience

Using Windows 8 on ARM devices “out of the box” will feel the same as on x86/64 PCs, and both versions will be released at the same time, Microsoft has said. Read Full Story

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Two-faced Facebook takes ‘social’ out of social networks

Facebook, having neglected to acknowledge your fake account report in the first place, goes into your actual Facebook page and deletes the warning message that you posted to alert your friends that ... Read Full Story

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Analyst: Apple took 80% of handset profits in Q4

Apple's iPhone captured 19.1 percent of the global smartphone market share in 2011, up from 16 percent in 2010, according to Canacorrd Genuity analyst Michael Walkley. Walkley expects Apple to gain ... Read Full Story

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Next-gen video codec hits milestone

The MPEG group completed a draft of its next-generation standard, the High Efficiency Video Coding standard this week, promising 35-65 percent efficiency gains. Read Full Story

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Apple claims Motorola misusing Qualcomm license

Apple filed a lawsuit against Motorola Mobility seeking to block Motorola from asserting patents against Apple in German lawsuit, according to ...

post comment 2 comments last comment eewiz
The fight is getting interesting. If Moto & Qualcomm has some cross licensing agreement then no way ...

Analyst: Micron still in negotiations with Elpida

Memory chip vendor Micron Technology did not address rumors that it has been in talks to invest in or acquire Japan's Elpida Memory at its analyst ...

post comment 1 comment last comment resistion
Paying off some of Elpida's debt for some of its market share..could be tempting for Micron. Elpida ...

New 9-inch Amazon Kindle Fire due out in summer

Analysts have fueled rumors of an upcoming addition to Amazon’s Kindle Fire family, with the new 9-inch model set to launch later this year.

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I think one of the major driving factors behind Kindle Fire's success is the price. Any idea on the ...

Imagination technologies to see big royalty uptick

Exponential mobile computing growth and major upgrades to graphics chips are aligning to give Imagination Technologies’ royalties a huge boost, ...

post comment 1 comment last comment yalanand
Wow, looks like Imagination Tech is in sweet spot. Who is the nearest competitor to Imagination Tech ...

TI lengthened analog IC lead in 2011

Texas Instruments expanded its lead in the analog semiconductor market over No. 2 player STMicroelectronics NV in 2011, as TI's analog sales grew 5 ...

post comment 2 comments last comment yalanand
Pretty impressive performance by TI. National semiconductor acquisition has definitely helped TI to ...

Chip stocks have room to grow, says analyst

Semiconductor stocks should continue to appreciate until at least early summer, now that business is picking up and the chip market upturn has entered ...

post comment 1 comment last comment yalanand
Not sure why Intel is downgraded to "neutral" from "overweight". Does it mean that Intel's recent ...

Micron launches lower power DDR3 DRAM

Memory chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho) has launched a lower power version of the DDR3 type of DRAM under the label DDR3Lm with 2- and ...

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IMEC announces directed self-assembly process line

European research institute IMEC has co-developed a directed self-assembly manufacturing process to improve both optical and extreme ultraviolet ...

post comment 3 comments last comment any1
Good question @resistion - I don't know, but I think for critical levels of something like a memory ...

Amkor cuts workforce

Semiconductor test and packaging house Amkor Technology revealed that it took a $4 million charge in the fourth quarter of 2011 for restructuring ...

post comment 1 comment last comment resistion
Thought it could ride the TSV wave, also partnering with GlobalFoundries.

Taiwan processor firm uses compiler tester from ACE

Andes Technology Corp., a licensor of 32-bit processor technology, has itself licensed SuperTest, a compiler test and validation suite, from ACE ...

post comment 1 comment last comment goafrit
This is the future: co-opetition. Firms need to tap outside innovation to be competitive.

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Opinion

SoCs: Unsung heroes of the smartphone revolution

The smartphone revolution enabled by the convergence of voice, data and video in a single mobile device wouldn't have been possible without the SoC, ...

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Opinion: The yin and yang of designing big chips

Patrick Groeneveld is this year's chair for DAC. In this opinion piece he talks about value in synthesis and analysis tools...

post comment 1 comment last comment BrianBailey
Perhaps I could be even bolder and suggest that verification is much like the drug industry. Even if ...

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 ...

post comment 19 comments last comment hm
Aggressive marketing may be another area. If semiconductor business of this merger closely work with ...

APEC becomes big, and we're there

Power is every engineer's concern, and it's the focus of this event

post comment 2 comments last comment Steve T
Stand by---I'm working on a follow-up article fom APEC 2012 on the Picor active EMI filter and ...

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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What's in your emergency repair kit, besides tools?

It starts with duct tape, of course, but there are other small items to bring

post comment 30 comments last comment LiketoBike
Heh, depending on the length, the gauge, the current, and the nature of the item being powered, that ...

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 19 comments last comment WW Thinker
ST-E is not looking good at the moment especially considering the mega-merge happened even earlier ...

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 ...

post comment 19 comments last comment David Ashton
And since you're retired now Bob, I'm sure you would have time to give us a couple more stories? ...

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 12 comments last comment jaybus
Which makes sense for Apple. Vertical integration, it seems, really only makes sense for a company ...

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 8 comments last comment Jeff.Milrod
I think this is all very interesting... clearly we have a growing problem in our ability to advance ...

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