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Former NXP fab workers to get EU support

Workers at a Nijmegen wafer fab made redundant by NXP in 2009 look set to get help getting back into employment from the Europe Union.

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A4 chip drives AppleTV, iPod Touch

Apple has designed out Intel and spread its A4 processor across all it non-computer products, lowering design and manufacturing costs.

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Rick - If you look at what has been done with the Beagleboard, running a Ti OMAP (same ARM Cortex A8 ...

ARM, GlobalFoundries to accelerate 28-nm foundry era

GlobalFoundries said that it plans to get a jump on the 28-nm process era, making good on a previous promise, and taped-out a qualification vehicle ...

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Analysis: Intel's wireless move no guarantee of success

Intel pays $1.4 billion for a ticket to bet on itself in the convergence of computing and communications. And Infineon gets richer and 30 percent ...

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Are you kidding me? Are there any Guarantees in life? How about Business? This is the dumbest point ...

Apple should build a fab

With Apple and its key foundry partner, Samsung Electronics, on a collision course in several end-user markets, Apple should consider building its own ...

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Apple is employing A4 processor in newly announced Apple TV. They may use them in latest iPods. ...

China's Godson MPU aims for 28-nm

A chief architect of China's microprocessor initiative described an ambitious set of new Godson CPUs including a server chip with vector processing ...

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I AGREE WHOLLY.STD.CHINESE PRICING WOULD MAKE IT LOW. OTHER THINGS/CRITERIA TO BE WATCHED WHICH MAY ...

Canon develops 120-megapixel CMOS sensor

Canon Inc. has announced it has developed a CMOS image sensor with more than 120 million pixels, and claimed it is the world's highest resolution ...

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I would love to have this amount of resolution, but as one commentor, seliz said, you wouldn't want ...

Android processor shines light on dark silicon

A prototype Android processor shows how an array of fine-grained, application-specific cores can relieve what one researcher called the growing ...

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Question for anyone here. If we're heading for the ever more serious "dark silicon" challenges that ...

Renesas assigns patents to Acacia for licensing

Chip company Renesas Electronics Corp. has entered into a patent licensing agreement with Acacia Research Corp., a patent portfolio holder and ...

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Does anyone think the licensing model, wherein a company with a portfolio of patented IP is ...

SSDs: Still not a 'solid state' business

Despite bold growth predictions, solid state drives remain mired in the early adoption phase and some now fear they will never have the market impact ...

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I saw three SSD comments that need further exploration. One, crashing disk drive because of airline ...

Samsung lengthens lead as DRAM market surges in Q2

Samsung expanded its lead in the second quarter as overall DRAM revenue surged 14.4 percent compared to the first quarter, according to iSuppli.

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properly speaking,Changes in price of memory chip?

Hot Chips: Inside AMD's two new x86 cores

A peak inside AMD's Bulldozer and Bobcat cores provides a glimpse at the competitive landscape in x86 processors in 2011 and beyond.

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It's not the matter of who created the most powerful CPU. It's the matter of remaining in profitable ...

Will Broadcom follow Marvell into powerline?

Broadcom might snap up Gigle Networks or Spidcom to follow rival Marvell into powerline networking.

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I think Broadcom will have to move into this area or leave opportunities on the table for Marvell. ...

Analyst: All signs point to IC downturn

IC industry capacity utilization will peak during the third quarter, then decline in the fourth quarter, says an analyst who believes that the chip ...

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Most analysts have very fluid predictions which go with the flow, as it were. They appear to be ...

What's inside the Blackberry Torch?

Research in Motion's new Blackberry Torch contains parts made by CSR, Synaptics, Samsung and Sandisk, among others, according to a teardown analysis ...

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Greetings all. the details on the parts are very useful, however there is a main component ...

News & Analysis

MEMS tackle HVAC/automatic-transmission markets

MEMS startup Microstaq is pioneering promising new markets, using its micro-valve as a pilot to control the large flows necessary to tackle the lucrative heating, ventilation and air-conditioning markets with MEMS-control of automotive transmissions on the horizon.

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Smart grid powers Cisco bid for Arch Rock

Cisco Systems intends to buy wireless sensor networking startup Arch Rock as part of its growing portfolio of products for smart electric grids.

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IMEC launches cancer lab-on-chip project

European research institute IMEC and its project partners have launched a European collaborative research project to build a lab-on-a-chip for the detection of tumor cells in blood.

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As the rising threat from cancer is increasing health concerns day by day in modern societies, more ...

July 'actual' chip sales are above trend

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GlobalFoundries puts rivals on notice, tips 20-nm process

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IBM claims fastest MPU

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Rice's silicon memristor aims to beat HP

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ARM, GlobalFoundries to accelerate 28-nm foundry era

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AppleTV one small step toward Web-a-vision era

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Gartner raises 2010 chip market forecast

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Semiconductor News

Lime offers design kit for multi-transceiver

Lime Microsystems has introduced a design kit and reference design for its multi-band, multi-standard RF transceiver IC for femtocells, the LMS6002D.

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Startup offers 'variability' modeling service

Gold Standard Simulations Ltd., a spin-off from the University of Glasgow, offers to help chip designers model how circuits made from variable ...

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Industry Watch

IBM unveils what it says is world's fastest microprocessor

Why Apple chucked Intel for A4 in the new AppleTV

Is Nvidia's pro graphics market share sustainable?

Intel looks beyond PCs

McAfee deal could lift Intel stock by 3%

Icahn increases stake in Motorola

Paul Allen sues Apple, Google, others over patents

Intel said to be near deal for Infineon wireless unit

Opinion

Apple should build a fab

Mark LaPedus

With Apple and its key foundry partner, Samsung Electronics, on a collision course in several end-user markets, Apple should consider building its own fab to make the A4 chip for its iPad and iPad.

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Apple is employing A4 processor in newly announced Apple TV. They may use them in latest iPods. ...

The future of SoC verification: Enterprise computing?

Ron Wilson

The next generation of verification tools may be less about simulation or formal analysis, and more about managing and merging data sets, scheduling resources and mining data sets. If that list sounds familiar, it could be because what we are really seeing is the gradual convergence of verification with enterprise computing.

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eewiz: I agree that cloud computing needs to be applied to EDA design methodologies. A few brave EDA ...

Lighting and System Design: Coming soon to a computer near you

John Donovan

To help engineers catch up with the latest developments in lighting technologies and applications, Digi-Key and EE Times are presenting a virtual conference titled "Lighting and System Design" on Aug. 26.

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All said, there are still challenges abound in the LED market which are a deterrent to its smooth ...

Student Entrepreneur: Why is harvest not the focus?

Simon Barker

PhD student Simon Barker explains why he is working on launching a company that does not operate in the domain of his study, energy harvesting.

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Hi Kris, You're certainly right that both are hard work and it is something I will be monitoring ...

How strong are your IP assets?

Thomas Marlow

There is no question that a portfolio of patents can provide tremendous value to a company. In fact, many will agree that trying to compete in a high technology industry without adequate patent protection is insane if not merely futile.

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Assigning a patent to its most relevant revenue stream is a fine start, but you must also look at ...

SpaceX and the new space race

George Leopold

SpaceX and other commercial vendors deserve a shot at ferrying astronauts and supplies into orbit.

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Another update: According to reports, SpaceX has requested Oct. 23 as the launch date for its second ...

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Multistandard demodulation using the turbo principle.

By dspSurfGuy on 09.02.2010

Radio spectrum is likely to become increasingly congested, especially in the unlicenced bands where multiple standards, eg 802.xx and its variants, compete for ...

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Get set to swarm: Coming changes to the way we work. EET 8/16/2010

By Beaker on 09.02.2010

This article is the fodder for many future Dilbert cartoons. I thought the Internet bust and the Great Recession rendered these buzzword soothsayers null and ...

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What is CoIDE ?

By topcoder on 09.01.2010

CoIDE is a new, free and highly-integrated software development environment for ARM cortex M3 and M0 based microcontrollers, which includes all the tools ...

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Upgrade-Safe Customizations

By lifewingmate on 08.30.2010

Enterprise software, both legacy and new, handles upgrading customized software very poorly. Some software allows customizations, but forget about upgrading to ...

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Although very noble goal for the user sake, and this effort needs to recognized and applauded by ...

CoIDE is away from the traditional ARM development IDE

By topcoder on 08.30.2010

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Windows Embedded Compact (Windows CE) Live Chat Tomorrow!

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Just a note that we'll be hosting an online chat tomorrow concerning Windows Embedded CE! Members of the development team will be on hand ready to ...

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Job Search Tracking Tools

By MarkWehrmeister on 08.29.2010

Although the economy is hopefully turning around, most of you at one time or another will have to look for your next job. As engineers, what tools do you use ...

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I always used paper and folders. I would keep a copy of the job listing, all email correspondence, ...

Another patent lawsuit against the growth of Internet and data communication

By chanj on 08.27.2010

There were lawsuit against PoE maker.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/021108-network-1-poe-patent-suit.html
Now, there is lawsuit against web ...

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"Paul Allen Sues the Web" was my favorite headline (from Wired I think). One of his quotes, through ...

Linking PCs and TVs

By Bob Virkus on 08.27.2010

Steve Jobs has called the AppleTV a hobby. That hobby and the basic premise of streaming movies from the Web to your TV is set to explode. Boxee, Roku, Hulu and ...

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I see this as more of a win for Netflix than for Apple. I can't believe that Jobs is happy about ...

Micro-controller Minimum Module to start Working with Controllers.

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What do you require to start working with micro-controller? The answer is very simple, it requires only a Controller Chip 89C51 or 89C51 or 89V51RD2 or 89C51RD2 ...

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