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SRC clears path to 14-nm with directed self-assembly

Researchers at Stanford University claim to have perfected a novel self-assembly lithography technique for creating the irregular patterns necessary ...

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Directed self-assembly is not the whole answer, but it is an answer and its one that has the ...

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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Part of the problem is that the Aerospace/Military industry is working with products that were ...

DRAM sales projected to grow 3% in 2012

Thanks in no small part to the bankruptcy of Elpida Memory, the global DRAM industry is expected to partially reverse massive losses incurred in 2011, ...

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After dropping 25% last year, a 3% rise this year does not make up for much. Yes, the remaining ...

Ailing Bauer resigns as Infineon CEO

Peter Bauer (shown), CEO of chip maker Infineon Technologies, will step down at the end September for health reasons.

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I really appreciate the sincere resignation of the CEO. Good luck to Ploss.

Applied to cut jobs, move solar manufacturing to Asia

Applied Materials will cut about 250 jobs and relocate manufacturing for its solar wafer systems from Switzerland to Asia, the company said in a ...

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And that 2 bedroom flat costs about half a million to a million dollar now.

Bozotti has a dream: to turn round ST's digital problem

Carlo Bozotti, CEO of European chip company STMicroelectronics NV, has a dream. It is to have both sides of his company be successful and that means ...

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I agree Kiran...I would put my money on their analog horse

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, ...

Talk from the hip at Microchip

Microchip CEO Steve Sanghi is a straight talker. When he comments on the economy, outsourcing, technology or market trends, you’ll hear very little ...

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Ditto, as a long time user in several of the different offerings from 8 to 16 bit devices, I agree ...

TSMC pushes 28-nm Cortex-A9 to 3.1-GHz

Foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has announced it has made a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor test chip in its 28-nm ...

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The power depends on many factors......and those same factors decide frequency. How can that freq ...

SIA: March chips sales showed sequential improvement

The three month-rolling average of global chip sales improved to $23.3 billion in March, up 1.5 percent from February but down 7.9 percent compared ...

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Here comes silicene, possible graphene replacement

Science researchers have reported the growth of a single layer of silicon on top of silver, in a hexagonal 2-D form of silicon similar to the graphene ...

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No!No!No! Competition keeps prices lower! :-)

Achronix chairman: Intel foundry gambit poised for payoff

Achronix Semiconductor Corp., eight years into its startup phase, is hanging its hat on Intel’s 22-nm FinFET process technology for its survival and ...

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Why would they bother with Achronix. They would have to relearn RTL development as Achronix forces a ...

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Former Conexant CEO tapped to lead Lantiq

Dan Artusi, a former CEO of both Silicon Laboratories and Conexant Systems, was named to the same position at German broadband and networking chip ...

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Murata completes takeover of VTI with name change

The takeover of MEMS manufacturer VTI Technologies Oy here by Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. was completed with a name change to Murata Electronics Oy.

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Intel to spend $40 million on international university research

Intel CTO Justin Rattner announced that the company plans to plow more than $40 million into a worldwide network of university research centers over ...

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Renesas still struggling with restructuring plan

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IMU integrates accelerometer, gyro

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ARM CTO looks at architecture scaling for 2020 solutions

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Slideshow: Sun shines on UMC's new fab

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Reports: Renesas to tie up with TSMC, cut jobs

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UMC breaks ground for $8-billion fab expansion

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Spansion sampling single-level cell NAND for embedded apps

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Intersil to cut 11% of workforce

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Synopsys names co-CEO to join de Geus

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Teardown slideshow: The anatomy of the LED light bulb

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TI rolls high data rate CAN transceivers

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Dell's results seen as bad news for Intel

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TCL to launch motion-controlled Android TV first in China

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Inexact processor is more power efficient

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TI says copper wire bonding momentum growing

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Jha out as Google closes Moto Mobility buy

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ST works with startup on 'permanent' in-ear audio

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Chromebox: Why it's unjustifiable

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Life is full of coulda’s and woulda’s. Many engineers have stories to tell about their brilliant technologies (and products), but somehow the project got cancelled. Later on, their invention is often wistfully described as it was “before its time.”

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Point taken, Frank. My use of "cluelessness" was not meant to imply lack of intelligence. However, ...

Aart de Geus on job sharing

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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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