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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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7 years is a good time frame - I hope it goes into education, and the next generation of engineers. ...

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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ST is claiming three design wins but has not given any names -- apart from ST-Ericsson. And ...

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 ...

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

News & Analysis

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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The cost of chip fabrication is rising as we speak with double patterning litho required below ...

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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Risk and return, as usual.

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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Samueli speaks out about the end of Moore's Law. See his quote and join the discussion ...

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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ST is claiming three design wins but has not given any names -- apart from ST-Ericsson. And ...

Intel's new CEO shakes things up

Brian Krzanich outlines re-org in internal memo two days after taking the helm of the world's biggest chip maker.

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Let's see, most of the big smartphone companies use version of ARM with some customization, I cannot ...

Globalfoundries joins Qualcomm in MRAM research

Globalfoundries has signed up to an IMEC R&D program on STT-MRAM which is seen as a promising high-density, non-volatile alternative to SRAM and DRAM and for embedded use.

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Curious about qualcomm & tsmc, do they still cooperate?

Qualcomm, Samsung pass AMD in microprocessor sales

Thanks to PC sales slowdown coupled with increase in smartphone and tablet sales, AMD slipped to fourth in MPU sales for first time since 1990s.

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with all of the focus on Mobile, you'd expect AMD to make a showing there...

Taiwanese researchers take aim at environmental issues

Taiwan has long been recognized for its contributions to microelectronics, but its research labs are now working on pressing social issues.

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ST to deny rivals FDSOI access

In an interview Jean-Marc Chery, ST's CTO (shown), said his company could install its FDSOI process in multiple foundries but for now has an agreement in place that will deny certain companies access to the process.

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Semiconductor News

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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Triangulation in automotive ultrasonic park-assist systems

Ultrasonic park assist systems use ultrasonic distance-ranging methodologies to assist the vehicle driver with back-up parking, parking spot ...

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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

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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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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...but they didn't fully tear it open to check on the TI part because they could not without ...

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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According to Google finance: for the last six quarters, STM losses are considerable higher than the ...

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 was working at one of the first computer stores in the Chicago area at that time and had to put up ...

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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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

By rick.merritt on 05.22.2013

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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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

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The competition in Android market is pathetic

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Iphone5 Brings Bad Luck to Apple?

By Lavender on 05.16.2013

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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RedDragon is a kind of development board that based on STM32F4(Cortex-M4)processor and well- designed.It is runnable for all kinds of WB displays(3.2TFT/3.5

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