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Report reveals fake chips in U.S. military hardware

More than a million suspect counterfeit electronic components have been used in 1,800 separate cases of bogus parts affecting U.S. military hardware, ...

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Out with COTS. Require all vendors to provide qualified parts with valid qualification. Get rid of ...

Cadence CEO: EDA firms must innovate beyond software

Cadence CEO Lip-Bu Tan (shown) says EDA companies must expand their focus beyond design software to offer IP while working more closely with foundries ...

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The electronics design cycle is getting totally changed as compared to past decade. It is a very ...

Former Apple, Google, Facebook engineers launch IoT startup

One-year old startup Electric Imp has developed a Wi-Fi node in a memory card physical format that it hopes will become a standard way for things to ...

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@spiralbrain From what I can see at www.eye-fi.com this is not the same. Mainly because Electric ...

Handicapping the field of possible MIPS suitors

EE Times editors contemplate the potential list of suitors if and when MIPS Technologies goes on the block, then handicap the odds of who would ...

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Weigh in on the greatest hits in electronics

This fall, EE Times will kick off a yearlong celebration of its 40th anniversary year. Through coverage and various activities online, in a special ...

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In keeping with the "Greatest Hits" theme of this survey (borrowed from the music industry), I'd ...

IHS projects rise in counterfeit chips

Counterfeit semiconductors are expected to become a more prevalent problem in the future as the semiconductor industry enters a phase of accelerating ...

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Counterfeits can be original parts that were scavenged from e-waste and remarked. In many cases, ...

Top 25 Distributors: Sellers without borders

We rank the Top 25 electronics distributors by revenue and address issues of significance to their operations, customers and suppliers.

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Do Chinese companies seeking to obtain authentic components ever purchase through US distributors ...

Landscape for board design changes beyond 10G

As systems demand interfaces capable of handling four-channel and 10-channel paths to 40/100G Ethernet, universal adoption of 10GBase-KR seems likely.

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Hanking starts building Chinese MEMS wafer fab

Hanking Group (Shenyang, China), a mining and metal processing conglomerate in the north-east of China, has begun building what could become a major ...

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Similarly Keithley, Tektronix have been purchased by an investment fund. Finally, any commercial ...

Struggle continues to plug embedded programming gap

The continuing lack of university computer science courses focusing on embedded systems programming has prompted some evangelists to take matters into ...

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In view of the troubled programmers in embedded domain, I have personally started a blog to help ...

Microchip to buy SMSC, plotting new expansion

Micochip's SMSC acquisition deal puts Microchip – long known as a “long-tail” company with 70,000 customers – on a new trajectory.

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Sure some will get pink slips for some unwanted businesses

NXP today: 'Practically a Chinese company'

Rick Clemmer, NXP’s CEO, said last week, NXP today is “practically a Chinese company.” NXP makes more money in China than in any other single country. ...

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Samsung announces quad-core Exynos processor

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has announced that it is manufacturing a quad-core application processor for smartphones and tablet computers built on a ...

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Adding two more cores does not double the speed of the overall functionality, but yes it does do ...

China mulls national CPU architecture spec

Chinese officials have kicked off a program to define a national processor architecture that could become a requirement for projects seeking ...

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Wow, I really hope they do it, because we know the important thing to have in a vital, innovative, ...

ST-Ericsson passing processors to ST, cutting staff

ST-Ericsson NV, the loss making mobile chip joint venture between STMicroelectronics and Ericsson, has announced guidelines for a new strategic ...

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Photo Gallery: Sun shines on UMC's new fab

It was a warm, sunny day in Tainan as UMC officially broke ground on its latest and largest fab to date, but there were distant clouds on the horizon for the foundry.

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Renesas to tie up with TSMC, cut jobs, say report

Renesas Electronics Corp., Japan's largest maker of logic chips, is expected to announce business partnership with foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. for the production of chips on Monday (May 28), according to reports.

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UMC breaks ground for $8-billion fab expansion

Foundry chip company United Microelectronics Corp. has held a groundbreaking ceremony for Phases 5 and 6 of its Fab 12A 300-mm wafer fab complex at Tainan, Taiwan.

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Aart de Geus on job sharing

Does the fact that Aart de Geus suddenly has company at the top of Synopsys' org chart mean he's laying the groundwork for his retirement?

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Intersil to cut 11% of workforce

Analog chip vendor Intersil said it would cut about 11 percent of its workforce as part of a plan to reduce operating expenses by about $40 million per year.

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Tough day indeed. Just when it seemed things were picking up across the industry...

Teardown slideshow: The anatomy of the LED light bulb

Tech analysis firm MuAnalysis provides a detailed look inside an LED light bulb from LG.

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I'll have to buy one to try it out. But I don't think I'll start replacing all of my bulbs with ...

Jha out as Google closes Moto Mobility buy

Sanjay Jha (shown), who helped carve out Motorola Mobility from Motorola Inc. and served as CEO since 2010, resigned as Google closed its $12.5 billion acquisition of the mobile handset maker.

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Serves him ( Jha ) right for giving Google cred by jumping to Droid in preference over home grown ...

Dell's results seen as bad news for Intel

Disappointing first quarter results and a lower-than-expected second quarter sales target by PC supplier Dell is bad news for Intel, which has forecast growth above the seasonal average for the rest of the year, according to a Wall Street analyst.

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TCL to launch motion-controlled Android TV first in China

Among the most common misconceptions about China's CE market is that the role of local vendors is to build cut-rate TV sets sold at lower prices that Chinese consumers can afford.

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Exactly, selinz. • Aside from Sony Computer Entertainment, Logitech, and Kodak have also licensed ...

IndyCar safety harnesses MEMS

IndyCar designers are improving safety using MEMS sensors fitted in a driver's ear piece to record crash data. The resulting analytics could help reduce injuries like concussions for astronauts as well as race drivers.

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Another thing I did not have room to mention in this story, is that in this year IndyCars have a ...

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Semiconductor News

Spansion sampling single-level cell NAND for embedded apps

Flash memory vendor Spansion said it began sampling the first single-level cell NAND flash memory devices to emerge from a deal with SK Hynix ...

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Synopsys names co-CEO to join de Geus

EDA and IP vendor Synopsys announced the promotion of longtime chief operating officer Chi-Foon Chan to the position of co-CEO, effective immediately. ...

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Congrats Chi-Foo. This is the move to become the sole CEO within the next 2 quarters. This co-CEO ...

TI says copper wire bonding momentum growing

Texas Instruments said it has shipped nearly 6.5 billion analog, embedded processing and wireless chips using copper wire bonding technology, a ...

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I wonder how many of the 6.5B units made it to aviation/military/automotive applications?

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Industry Watch

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Opinion

What makes a good engineering culture?

Sylvie Barak

An interesting post cropped up on Quora this week, entitled “What makes a good engineering culture?” Edmond Lau, a software engineer at the question and answer network, said the thought had occurred to him after hearing hundreds of young engineers during job interviews describe what they liked or disliked about the culture of their previous company.

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This is a good list. It is heavy on the software side, so some hardware guys should chime in. I ...

Memristor is 200 years old, say academics

Peter Clarke

Professor Leon Chua, the originator of the term memristor, has joined forces with Professor Christofer Toumazou and Themistoklis Prodomakis, both of Imperial College London, to demonstrate that such variable resistance behavior has been observed for more than 200 years.

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Quite right. Slip of the typing, finger now corrected.

HTC dials in to Taiwan’s 4G battle

Rick Merritt

HTC launched its first WiMax phone for Taiwan, providing much needed ammunition for two service providers trying to make a go of the underdog 4G technology.

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Luxury boats sink or swim by design

Sylvie Barak

Italians are well accustomed to creating luxury products for world markets, from fashion to fast cars and, of course, food. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that another luxury on Italy’s long list of high-quality exports includes Yachts for the mega-rich.

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I have to admit that I, too, was sort of put off by this article, Sylvie. Not the part about the ...

A peek at Via Tech's $49 Android PC

Dylan McGrath

Taiwanese chip set vendor Via Technologies is hawking a $49 PC system that runs Google's Android operating system and is scheduled to start shipping in July.

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raspberry pii has half the ram and a slower arm11 core but a better gpu. These small systems are ...

Fiat focusing on natural gas before electric cars

Sylvie Barak

Though not the flashiest Italian car manufacturer, automotive firm Fiat has long been a staple of the country’s industrial sector, providing vehicles to a wider mass market than its local brethren: —the Ferraris, Maseratis and Lamborghinis that cater only to the elite.

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I know I'm sounding like an annoying research director here but the timeline, any timeline - I've ...

Apple, RIM duke it out over 4FF nano-SIM

Sam Caplat

Engineers aren’t strangers to conflicts in design, and just like Linux, everyone thinks their ‘flavor’ is best. With the new 4FF nano-SIM being proposed by Apple, several manufacturers feel it’s their duty to butt in with advice, which 80 percent of those whose opinion matters, don’t agree with. RIM, Microsoft, and Nokia are all arguing in favor of different designs, but specifically, all against Apple’s.

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Apple have rarely been known for any form technical innovation. It is a sign of the pathetic nature ...

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