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Cloud-based virtualization goes mobile

Innovations by Citrix and Nvidia could take virtualization to its logical conclusion, allowing users to access their desktops from any mobile device.

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Europe launches $12 billion chip support campaign

Europe is planning to spend $12 billion to reverse the continent's decline in chip production. Recreate the success of Airbus in semiconductors, said ...

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It is indeed a very ambitious goal, especially with such a modest sum spread across the entire ...

Europe backs FDSOI fabs

A $465 million collaborative R&D project is set to support pilot lines in Dresden and Grenoble for production of fully depleted silicon on insulator ...

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Tax payer money wasted. Again and again.

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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One 300mm fab split into 3 areas with 1/3 being for FDSOI will not have scale to compete on cost in ...

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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Is the 50-75mm2 average die size something TSMC publicly makes available?

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 looked it up. I guess it depends on what you call 'born', but the first iPhone came out in June ...

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 ...

News & Analysis

Intel outlines 3-D NAND transition

Intel and IM Flash Technologies executive says 2-D NAND flash memory can scale to 10-nm and that 3-D NAND needs to be manufactured with at least 32 layers to be economic.

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SanDisk seems stuck at 19 nm for ...

Research gap threatens innovation, experts warn

The decline of big corporate R&D groups such as Bell Labs has created a hole in the innovation pipeline said Bill Spencer (pictured) at an event celebrating the 40th anniversary of Ethernet.

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isn't it a problem of funding and patents. patents are nice if you have them but if you need to use ...

Volkswagen to lead MCU energy benchmark group

Working group extended to establish energy efficiency benchmark for automotive microcontrollers. Volkswagen is to chair group with 11 chip companies contributing so far.

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SOI wafer supplier sees cash halved

Soitec has seen cash resources fall by 50 percent as it made net loss that was 80 percent of sales in financial year to end of March 2013.

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Intel Haswell packs integrated voltage regulator

Integration eliminates as many as seven external third party chips—one of many power improvements driven by competition with ARM.

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Efficiency and thermal management is always a consideration, whether you have VRM as a stand-alone ...

Broadcom: Time to prepare for the end of Moore’s Law

CTO Henry Samueli says Broadcom is starting to prepare customers for the end of CMOS scaling in the next 15 years, and it is working out plans for 3-D chip stacks.

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Exactly, it should have been called Moore 's Forecast not a law

Intel pushes for more research beyond 10-nm

Intel's director of component research says more varied research is needed to catch the next opportunity beyond conventional silicon.

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I saw the Intel talk. As usually no useful information was given...just a lot of hot air ...

25% of notebooks to feature touchscreens by 2016

Thanks to falling prices and a push from Intel, 2013 is expected to be the start of a booming growth spurt for touch-screen equipped notebooks.

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Broadcom’s CTO on Ethernet’s six key directions

As the industry celebrates the 40th anniversary of Ethernet, Broadcom CTO Henry Samueli talks about six directions in which it is heading.

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anyone know if BRCM is trying to (and/or want to) play in wireless medical device spaces?

Europe backs FDSOI fabs

A $465 million collaborative R&D project is set to support pilot lines in Dresden and Grenoble for production of fully depleted silicon on insulator manufacturing process.

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Tax payer money wasted. Again and again.

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Semiconductor News

Optimizing power supplies for test applications

Although a review of a power supply’s specifications should always be a part of the selection process, other characteristics should also be ...

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Broadcom rolls lower-cost 5G Wi-Fi combo chips

New ICs bring 802.11ac Wi-Fi capability to entry level consumer devices, including PCs, notebooks, tablets and smartphones.

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AMD launches 3 mobile APUs

Additions to AMD's lineup of mobile accelerated processing units include chips formerly codenamed Temash, Kabini and Richland.

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I can see why anyone would buy the current Intel Atom after 2 days when I can buy a Temash. Check ...

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Industry Watch

Microsoft caught lying about tablet size in comparison to Apple's iPad

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

Opinion

Brussels Calling: Qualcomm wins in a wasteful industry

Peter Clarke

Is there a difference between the U.S. and Europe on green and sustainability issues? It appears there is to judge from an interaction at the IMEC Technology Forum here yesterday.

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Understood Peter! I do give credit to the European initiatives where it is due, as in WEEE and RoHS. ...

Google Glass: 11 lessons in (semi) transparent design

Rick Merritt

It’s still a pretty secretive project considering it involves 2,000 third parties, but I did manage to learn a few interesting lessons about Project Glass at Google I/O.

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The privacy issues will prove to be a larger stumbling block than the technology issues -- even the ...

London Calling: ST's Bozotti seeks another term

Peter Clarke

I witnessed the unusual sight last week of seeing a CEO discussing his employment with the financial community.

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Bozotti is just a joke. And so is STM, a messy company with over complex alliances to challenge its ...

Girish Mhatre reflects on the early days of EE Times

Girish Mhatre

A former EE Times editor-in-chief ('82-'88) and publisher reflects on the days when Gordon Moore keynoted industry conferences and the home PC was a strange notion.

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I remember those days also, all too well! I was probably one of the earliest subscribers; when did ...

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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An interesting point. If Amazon did decide to pay staff in Coin could the company argue that ...

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 – As a research consortium we welcome any and all companies to come join us in our efforts to ...

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Can STM32F103VET6(development board) with MP3 match a 3.2"TFT Touch Panel? Yes! If you love this too, come to visit us!

By WangBao Electronics on 05.24.2013

STM32F103VET6(development board) with MP3+3.2"TFT Touch, just need $75. It's so cheap! Come to visit our

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By toyswillmickeal on 05.22.2013

The Bowser doll of Super Mario plush toys is an official version. They are made in high-quality using environmental protection material. Children can play with

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End of Moore's Law

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Finally someone speaks out honestly about this.

Broadcom CTO Henry Samueli at #ethernet40 celebration:

Moore’s Law is coming to an

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Normally, in Ethernet World, bit rate is referring to both downlink and uplink separately. So, ...

Iron Man Action Figure

By toyswillmickeal on 05.20.2013

The second generation Iron Man red action figure can shine in two places: the round white lights on his eyes and palms. What is more, the lights are sound

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How do you think of this 7"TFT LCD Module?

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Hello, everyone.

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Samsung takes 95% of Android Profits

By eewiz on 05.16.2013

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2268642/samsung-takes-95-percent-of-all-android-profits

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

By hwswman on 05.08.2013

Big Company Arrow Electronics together with Transim is trying to claim rights to any web based circuit simulation, and they are now starting to sue small time

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