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Nvidia to license graphics IP to other chip vendors

Offerings include the current Kepler GPU product family as well as the modem technology Nvidia acquired from Icera a few years back.

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FDSOI helps ST, Rambus reach IP settlement

Agreement covers FDSOI design, security, memory and interface technologies and settles all outstanding claims.

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Atmel pays Infineon over MCU patent dispute

After two years of legal wrangling U.S. based microcontroller company pays up over allegedly infringing 11 patents.

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Yes, I call it the epoxy patent (as in potting).

2-D electronics: researchers improve hexagonal material

Researchers from Rice and Oak Ridge labs have improved the growth of molybdenum disulfide semiconducting films for atom-thick circuits.

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With germanane, graphene, conductive plastics, and molybdenum disulfide, this is going to be the ...

Texas Instruments plans to boost China manufacturing

U.S. chipmaker plans to expand manufacturing at its Chengdu wafer fab with the support of Chinese authorities

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I think the biggest advantage is lower payroll costs. They also want to get market share in those ...

TSMC's sales stay strong in May

May chip sales at leading foundry chip maker came off the booming levels seen in April but were still up 17.2 percent over 2012.

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Chip sales: WSTS reduces 2013 market growth estimate

Alongside reporting weak global chip sales for April the SIA has reported that WSTS has reduced its estimates for chip market growth for 2013 and ...

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It is the brutal pricing in the mobile market that is holding back revenue. Smartphone and table ...

SMIC forms joint venture for 28-nm chip production

Some $3.6 billion funding has been earmarked for SMIC joint-venture to focus on 45-nm and finer geometry manufacturing.

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SMIC CEO said similarly at ...

Romanian teenager snags Intel science award

Ionut Budisteanu took home $75,000 for using artificial intelligence to create a model for a low-cost, self-driving car.

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"developed a tiny device that fits inside cell phone batteries, allowing them to fully charge within ...

Xilinx to test FinFET FPGAs in 2013

Xilinx's 'FinFast' program with foundry TSMC is aimed at delivering FPGA products made using 16-nm FinFETs in 2014, the same year that Altera will get ...

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I always liked Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick" :-)

Intel invests in Irish R&D

Intel is investing $1.5 million in the Tyndall National Institute at University College Cork to help collaboration in R&D in photonics, microsystems ...

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Help.fulguy-I have known Peter Clarke for many many years and Rick Merrit for a lesser period. They ...

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 ...

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Hardly seems worth the effort. After all, the Si wafer costs about a dime per sq cm. All the cost ...

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Bluetooth Arduino project seeks funds

Engineers from Michigan are trying to raise $80,000 for Bluetooth-enabled Arduino boards that will allow smartphones to be used to control project ...

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AMD touts trio of 2014 server chips

AMD has given some details on its 2014 portfolio of processors for enterprise and data center servers.

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Small cells gaining traction in cellular nets

AT&T, Vodaphone and other carriers are rolling out their first small cell deployments thanks in part to advances in backhaul and baseband SoCs.

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Fixed, thx

Toshiba, TSMC report ROMs with multi-level cells

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Smartphone demand makes Spreadtrum guidance soar

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Intel eDRAM attacks graphics in pre-3-D IC days

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Atmel pays Infineon over MCU patent dispute

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Mellanox adds Danish firm to buying spree

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UMC extends FinFET partnership to 10-nm

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AMS marks down 2013 revenue on order delays

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2-D electronics: researchers improve hexagonal material

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Nokia, Qualcomm invest in array camera startup

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ST, Bosch in dead heat for MEMS market lead

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Texas Instruments plans to boost China manufacturing

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Intel processor outperforms Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung

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Image sensors go organic

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TSMC's sales stay strong in May

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Hynix settles with Rambus, takes license

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Broadcom hits tera-ops with comms processor

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AMD tips 5 GHz gamer CPU, filling Haswell hole

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Commentary

How to testify in a deposition for patent litigation

Elizabeth Rader

A seasoned litigator in patent disputes shares advice for engineers about how to testify—and how not to testify--in a deposition.

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I can only imagine the pressure on the engineer before and during questioning. Engineers like to ...

Consumer electronics: From atoms to software and back

Simon Barker

How about the smartphone as a cloud resource for toys and more besides? The ubiquity of the smartphone changes the economics and multiplies the possibilities.

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Imagine the use of smartphones and the cloud to provide the intelligence for Lego Mindstorm ...

What do IBM layoffs mean for New York's chip initiative?

Dylan McGrath

Big Blue is being tight lipped as usual about how many employees are getting the ax, but at least some of the jobs being cut are in semiconductor R&D.

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But tech jobs also get shipped abroad to places with more regulation and sometimes higher corporate ...

How are you measuring that power consumption?

Bill Schweber

Engineers have to analyze the likely consumption of potential designs to establish the locus of performance, price, and power tradeoffs.

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London Calling: What is ST's plan B?

Peter Clarke

Why is STMicroelectronics segregating and exposing the finances of its better performing 'More-than-Moore" and challenged 'Moore's Law" product groups?

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All what I see is that finance corrupts and slows down technology and science !

Solid state memory gains on HDDs

Tam Harbert

Flash memory is increasingly posing a challenge to the hard disk drive in PCs and enterprise servers in the datacenter.

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I would love to run with a SSD but given the real world cost comparison with HDDs unless I need the ...
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