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Micron's Steve Appleton dies in plane crash

Steve Appleton, chairman and CEO of memory chip vendor Micron Technology Inc., died in plane crash this morning in Boise, Idaho.

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I had the great pleasure of working for Micron in the San Jose Design Center, and worked with Steve ...

TSMC plans 3-D IC assembly launch early in 2013

Leading IC foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. plans to announce 3-D IC assembly service as a general offering at the beginning of ...

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TSMC seems to have a lot of cash to cushion this type of investment when 3D is not necessarily ...

ARM tips 'gods and giants' roadmap

Processor and related IP licensor ARM Holdings plc has disclosed the names, but little else, on the roadmap of cores it is working on in 2012 and ...

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Yes Warren East did indicate when to expect Atlas/Apollo. I quote him in copy "We expect Atlas, ...

Automating the MEMS design processes

With the MEMS market growing at an annual compound growth rate of 50 percent, electronic design automation tools from Coventor are adding scripting to ...

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I am just wondering how is the simulation of the mechanical part done. It is easy to simulate the ...

Freescale's CEO sees light at end of the tunnel

Freescale Semiconductor CEO Rich Beyer said the semiconductor industry is close to the end of the current downturn on a day when his company reported ...

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Good sign! Hope this prediction can really become true. Besides the inventory issue, what is the ...

European startup attempts many-core revolution

French startup Kalray is attempting to break through the many-core barrier with a 256-core processor array integrated on a 28-nm CMOS chip.

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Don't forget Martin Marietta with their Geometric Arithmetic Parallel Processor (GAPP) in 1988. A ...

Startup proposes processor on DRAM process

Venray Technology has proposed building a small microprocessor on a DRAM process to save power.

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This thing is going to rock the world.

Intel shuffles execs, names COO

Intel announced the promotions of Brian Krzanich to chief operating officer and Dadi Perlmutter to chief product officer.

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Patricia Sellers wrote a couple of nice pieces on Sean Maloney last year. His passion for his work ...

EDA/IP Weekly Roundup – Jan 18th

Agilent, ASELTA Nanographics, Carbon Design Systems, lots of space people and David Yeh made the lineup today. See here for their news…

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TSMC's 28-nm process in trouble, says analyst

Mike Bryant, technology analyst with Future Horizons Ltd. has said that foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. is in trouble with its ...

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It sounds like there is no clear story here, one says no yield and another says on target for defect ...

Mentor and Freescale partner on virtual platforms

Tools and IP begin the blur the line and Mentor and Freescale provide another example of that..

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This kind of development suite was really a need for Freescale products, Mentor Graphics has very ...

Taiwan now the world's leading chip maker

As of July 2011 Taiwan held 21 percent of the world's installed wafer fabrication capacity, surpassing Japan and Korea and taking the top spot for the ...

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True. That is why TSMC could not afford to forgo the joint venture among IBM/Intel/SUNY/Global ...

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ARM Mulls Non-Volatile Memory IP acquisition Paid

ARM CEO Warren East (shown) says the U.K. processor IP vendor would consider acquiring non-volatile memory IP as a way to bolster its physical IP ...

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Sonics, Tensilica team to improve IP efficiency

Sonics Inc., a licensor of interconnect IP, has announced its on-chip networks will support the processor interface (PIF) from Tensilica Inc., a ...

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Microchip posts weak fiscal Q3, outlook brighter

Microcontroller chip company Microchip Technology Inc. has reported that its fiscal third-quarter profit dropped 23.5 percent year-on-year to $77.5 ...

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NXP gives sneak peek at new engineering workbench app

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Video: HP's Prith Banerjee discusses HP labs, ARM servers and optical interconnects

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AMD: New faces, new road maps, new focus

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Elpida posts big loss, denies Micron deal

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ASPs weigh as Hynix' losses reduced in Q4

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CMOS timing startup raises $2.3 million

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U.K. to spend $120 million on graphene institute

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Infineon profits trimmed by lower sales

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Qualcomm, Ericsson demo LTE-to-3G handover

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Cadence a billion dollar company once again

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U.S. probes Qualcomm's foreign business practices

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HP R&D chief shows road to terabyte backplane

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HP rolls OpenFlow code for its switches

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New versions of Wi-Fi expected to boost tablets

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Mali graphics to lead in smart TVs, says ARM's East

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CEA-Leti opens 3-D IC packaging service

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Movidius teams with Toshiba on 3-D camera system

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Steve Appleton in retrospect

Peter Clarke

A retrospective on the career of Steve Appleton, Chairman and CEO of memory chip vendor Micron Technology, who died Friday in a plane crash.

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Where's everybody? Am I the only poster here? Common, let's talk. I guess most people are too busy. ...

Video: Are tech jobs returning to the U.S.?

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EE Times hit the exhibition floor at DesignCon 2012 to get engineers' perspectives on whether high-tech jobs are coming back to the U.S.

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I believe that only when the US can offer competitive incentives, only then we can keep the tech ...

EDA/IP Weekly Roundup – Feb 1st

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Elliptic, Altium, Tessera, Orora, Space Codesign and Ceva made the lineup today. See here for their news…

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How to solve $16.7 billion product returns problem

David Douthit

The United States consumer electronics industry is battling a behemoth, escalating and unsustainable problem: product returns.

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You are citing one of the best ways Manufacturers and Retailer can reduce non defective returns, ...

Speaking up for M2M radio innovation

Peter Clarke

Luke D'Arcy, vice president of marketing at Neul Ltd. (Cambridge, England), has argued that some standards bodies are not addressing the need for innovation at the RF level for machine-to-machine communications and the Internet of Things.

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Also, I'd note that if the M2M scenarios discussed must involve use of comparatively low frequency ...
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