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ST's strategy is a tale of two segments

ST tells analysts it is going to report financial results for both its digital and analog business segments for "transparency" but remains committed ...

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too bad he is not a hero at all..

Memory IP startup pursues FinFET, FDSOI processes

Startup is developing physical IP for geometries at 20-nm and below with an initial focus on SRAM structures for implementation in FinFET and FDSOI ...

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Bell Labs group aims at 90% energy-saving in networks

GreenTouch consortium claims the energy consumed by networks in 2020 could be reduced to 10 percent of 2010 levels while supporting large increase in ...

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The difference between wishful thinking and reality is a plan with evidence. How much energy ...

TSMC's sales boom in April

Leading foundry chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has seen its sales in 2013 running at 25 percent higher than in 2012 with the ...

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Any figures that point to how the yield in Intel's 22nm Tri-Gate process looks like ?

Intel tips 'Iris' graphics

Intel will include improved graphics processing technology called Iris in some of its Haswell processors.

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Intel: always bigger and better! http://bit.ly/IC4m9t

Slideshow: 2013 ACE Award Winners

EE Times and EDN honored the people and companies behind the technologies and products that are changing the world at DESIGN West.

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Intel names insider Brian Krzanich CEO

Chip giants stays with tradition of promoting internal candidates to top job. It also promoted Renee James to the position of president.

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Barrett was an engineer with broad experience in operations. He was the guy that invented copy ...

ARM, Sonics make interconnect licensing deal

ARM has licensed the patent portfolio of Sonics and the two companies are set to work together on multicore interconnect and power management ...

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Spansion buys Fujitsu's MCU, analog business

Previously a memory-only company Spansion is leaping into the supply of microcontroller system-chips by acquiring Fujitsu Semiconductor's MCU and ...

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Or maybe the other way round: what and how many features of interest can you fit into a flash chip ?

Infineon goes to GloFo for embedded flash

To maintain its position in automotive and security Infineon is turning to Globalfoundries to provide its MCUs with embedded flash at 40-nm.

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Teardown: Samsung Galaxy S4

TechInsights examines the innards of Samsung's latest and greatest smartphone.

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I agree with you ITguy. http://www.urbanvibes.co.id/

ARM's Segars plans to turn down power

It will be business as usual when Simon Segars takes over as CEO of ARM, but he said an explosion in data communications for the Internet of Things ...

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Yes - it's really important for Intel followers to realize that while Intel's performance/power ...

DESIGN West: AMD launches SoC embedded attack

AMD is renewing its attack on the embedded sector by bringing together GPU processing, quad-core x86 CPU and extended I/O on one chip.

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More power to them. I love AMD! http://bit.ly/IC4m9t

STMicro tops MEMS market ranking

A fast-growing market for sensors in mobile equipment has shuffled the top 30 MEMS companies in 2012, according to Yole's annual ranking.

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Missing from the article -increase in %market capture of fabless vs. IDM MEMS companies. It seems ...

Philips claims LED light efficiency record

Philips has announced it has produced the most energy efficient LED lamp suitable for general lighting. It is in tube format ready to replace ...

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Great advancement for LED lighting. I just hope the cost is in line so that it will be used.

News & Analysis

Arduino board plugs DIYers into the cloud for $69

Massimo Banzi launched a $69 Arduino board that plugs do-it-yourselfers into the cloud using a Wi-Fi chip from Qualcomm Atheros running a custom variant of Linux.

post comment 1 comment last comment DrQuine
Just the kind of kit needed by an aspiring engineer to play with at home. I hope that middle school ...

Taiwan reversing brain drain

Government funded research labs are enticing Taiwan's brightest expats to return in hopes of revitalizing the country as an innovator.

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I agree. And it also makes the world smaller, in the sense that people become more familiar with ...

Amazon buys Samsung display subsidiary Liquavista

Samsung sells electrowetting display pioneer to Amazon for an undisclosed sum.

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The Hp Z1 has a great display and benchmarks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY5DNyEOBeU

Renesas signs with IMEC for short-range radio research

Renesas is researching ultra-low power short-range radio with IMEC, targeting sensor networks for automotive and industrial purposes.

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Slideshow: Google I/O puts 7 platforms on parade

At its annual developer's conference, Google showed advances across seven major platforms--Android, Chrome, Glass, Google+, Maps, Search and Google TV.

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"Perfect is the enemy of good" - let us not forget that continuous efforts and enhancements to ...

FDSOI gains three design wins

ST claims three design wins for its fully-depleted silicon on insulator manufacturing process; a move that could draw out support from EDA software and IP providers.

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For years Taiwan semi has stayed a step behind learning from mistakes of others, taking the lead ...

Taiwan funds smartphone innovations

National Taiwan University has developed several innovations for tablets and smartphones designed to win the hearts of mass-market users.

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This is an ingenious alternative to the "SmartWatches" which are being proposed as convenient ...

Ten percent of notebooks using touch screens

Despite the sluggish uptake of Windows 8, nearly 4.6 million notebooks tapped into capacitive touch screen displays last quarter, a figure one market watcher sees rising.

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I've heard of laptop computers with removable touch screens so that they have the portability and ...

Google I/O: Larry Page talks, search box listens

No shiny new gadgets debuted, but Google did show search responding to voice recognition and CEO Larry Page gave a surprise Q&A.

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It seems that the "incremental thinking" that should be avoided most carefully is that which adds no ...

E Ink preps flexible e-paper display

E Ink is preparing to launch a 13.3-inch sized flexible e-paper display. Mass production due in 2H13.

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e-ink has been talking about lightweight flexible monochrome and color electronic pixel displays for ...

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Semiconductor News

Mellanox to acquire silicon photonics developer Kotura

Mellanox expects acquisition to enhance competitiveness, expand its ability to deliver next-generation optical connectivity.

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The Internet of Things' next wave

IoT's next wave is connectivity driven over smart grids, enabling healthcare, smart cities, asset tracking, and more.

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An overview of ZigBee's Smart Energy Profile 2.0 standard

Mentor Graphics discusses the development of smart grid connected embedded devices that comply with the Smart Energy Profile standard from the ZigBee ...

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Industry Watch

Google's flirtation with being a hardware company is over

Auction winner pays $610K for cuppa with Apple CEO Tim Cook

Google introduces new search tools to try to read our minds

Nvidia's Shield is an ambitious mistake

Tesla talking to Google about driverless electric cars

Adobe's subscription model and the future of software

Intel Iris could be a real threat to AMD and Nvidia

Nintendo's earnings disappoint as Wii U falls short

From Darling to Dog: What Wall Street Wants From Apple Now

Apple stores your voice data for two years

Opinion

London Calling: Amazon 'Coins' its own currency

Peter Clarke

Why has Amazon created its own money? A bit of fun, a short-term promotion, or could Amazon be testing the water ahead of a BitCoin-like move?

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The production of "scrip" (private currency) is common in a variety of venues ranging from folk ...

Yoshida in Japan: Ailing companies to break away from past

Junko Yoshida

After posting an annual net loss of $5.4 billion, Sharp pulled off a major reshuffle of its management team by naming a new president and chairman.

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All technology advances run in cycles. A good company will embrace that change and prepare their ...

London Calling: GreenTouch is missing chip support

Peter Clarke

The consortium chartered with improving the energy efficiency of wired and wireless networks should turn to ARM to bolster support; unless Intel wants to get in first.

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Peter, you are such a big brown noser of ARM. You should just work for them rather write these mushy ...

Yoshida in Japan: Sony no longer an electronics company

Junko Yoshida

What appears to be an economic recovery in Japan – reflected in Sony’s first annual net profit in five years announced Thursday – could be little more than a blip.

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I agree with you George. I had same experience with Sony LCD TV's and other gadgets a few years back ...

April's contest had larger than life competition

Rick Merritt

Eight caption-eers made us laugh, but only one was selected as April's big winner.

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Speaking of contests, I'm loving LPKF's #myPCB contest: http://www.lpkfusa.com/mypcb/

Munich Calling: Cadence is Ready for software

Peter Clarke

In 2012 Cadence hired Jim Ready, founder and former CTO of MontaVista Software. Right now Cadence is delivering IP core hardware but it is thinking about software. After all that's where the engineers are.

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I believe so. We cannot stop civilization process and transition to 32 bit MCUs is unstoppable, but ...

Yoshida in China: MediaTek's top exec in China resigns

Junko Yoshida

Q1 results re-affirm lead in China’s smartphone market, but departure of Hisang-cheng Lu under cloud of suspicion raises questions.

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Don't underestimate Mediatek. 5G is years away. The Chinese has their own TD-LTE standards. Pure ...

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Fujitsu releases 1-Mb, 2-Mb FRAM

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ST turns to PCM for MCU embedded memory

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ST's strategy is a tale of two segments

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M2M is dead: long live IoT

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Samsung takes 95% of Android Profits

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The competition in Android market is pathetic

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Iphone5 Brings Bad Luck to Apple?

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Recently, Apple seems to be unfortunate of experiencing “it never rains but pours” from 2012, or exactly just before the release of Iphone5. But this kind of

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Wall-E

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Before I headed to the cinema, I was worried that the film Wall-E would suffer hypocrisy by the only mechanism that would make its production possible. Yes, it

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Errors detected in C++Builder - http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0200/

By Andrey Karpov on 05.14.2013

We have checked the header files from the Embarcadero C++Builder XE3 project. In fact, it means that we have checked just a small number of inline-functions.

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More Injustice in EDA - Arrow Electronics Suing Grad Student using New York Law Firm

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Elon Musk Interview @ TED

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