Latest News

Headlines for Friday, May 18, 2012

Business

Marvell sees return to normalcy following Thai floods

IHS: DRAM's share of smartphone BoM cut in half

Amkor plans back-end chip facility in South Korea

Report: ARM aims to take 20% of notebook PC market

ST sues InvenSense alleging patent infringement

Technology

Purdue researchers use AZO for optical metamaterials

NASA, SpaceX lower expectations for historic flight to space station

Living virus generates electricity

Samsung researchers propose graphene 'barristor'

Weightless standard for IoT outlined in book

Product

HiWave embeds haptic response in flat panels

Headlines for Thursday, May 17, 2012

Business

Applied sees flat to declining sales

Hybridization of processors increasingly rapidly, says report

MEMC's CFO resigns to take job at Praxair

Report: UMC benefits from TSMC 28-nm supply shortage

ESilicon set to reap rewards of Asian gamble

Taiwan expects 14% boost in IC output in Q2

Technology

NASA, commercial space industy brace for critical test

Electric Imp's cool versus Cambridge's Neul in IoT

Intel's FinFETs are less fin and more triangle

Financial

Foundry Tower piles up cash in Q1

Headlines for Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Business

Former Apple, Google, Facebook engineers launch IoT startup

GSA spies venture capital investment uptick in April

Extra!

Q&A: Nvidia’s Dally on 3-D ICs, China, cloud computing

Technology

OIF to define three 56 Gbits/s serial interfaces

Cadence tips faster Spice coming soon

UK opens Europe's largest robotics laboratory

Product

Altis foundry updates 130-nm specialty design kits

Cadence extends verification and storage IP offerings

Headlines for Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Business

Will China hit a (great) wall? Don’t bet on it

Avago, TriQuint settle litigation

DRAM sales projected to grow 3% in 2012

Nvidia upgrades Tesla, eyes cloud gaming

EMC buys memory IT startup for reported $430M

IHS: Apple iOS to reassert tablet dominance in 2012

SMIC gets government backing for second Beijing fab

Handicapping the field of possible MIPS suitors

AMD’s fires Trinity in x86 notebook battle

Design

Virtual file system speeds data access, reduces storage needs

Technology

Open Virtual Platforms Selected by EU research project

NSF's I-Corps targets 'innovation ecosystem'

MaxLinear takes Silicon Labs to court over 'false allegations'

Headlines for Monday, May 14, 2012

Business

Smartphone, tablet sales driving growth in mobile memory

Qualcomm moves to No. 5 in chip sales

Intel drives Xeon server CPU to 17W

Nvidia, IV license IPWireless 3G/4G patents

Technology

IMEC to detail memristor progress at VLSI Symposia

Design

Netronome reduces SoC power use with timing tricks

Headlines for Sunday, May 13, 2012

Product

Transphorm delivers more 600-V GaN power components

Business

Ailing Bauer resigns as Infineon CEO