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Intel pushes for more research beyond 10-nm

Intel's director of component research says more varied research is needed to catch the next opportunity beyond conventional silicon.

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The last statement flies in the face of today's stock holder, who wants short term performance. It ...

Qualcomm, Samsung pass AMD in microprocessor sales

Thanks to PC sales slowdown coupled with increase in smartphone and tablet sales, AMD slipped to fourth in MPU sales for first time since 1990s.

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with all of the focus on Mobile, you'd expect AMD to make a showing there...

ST to deny rivals FDSOI access

In an interview Jean-Marc Chery, ST's CTO (shown), said his company could install its FDSOI process in multiple foundries but for now has an agreement ...

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FDSOI gains three design wins

ST claims three design wins for its fully-depleted silicon on insulator manufacturing process; a move that could draw out support from EDA software ...

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ST (not TS) seems to be betting the digital part of the house on FDSOI. For BigD, paricularly low ...

Embedded flash startup in production at three foundries

Stealthy startup offers non-volatile memory IP for use in unmodified logic processes and claims to be already in volume production at three foundries.

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Altera to buy Enpirion for on-chip power conversion

FPGA vendor has bought privately-held 2001 startup to gain access to highly-integrated PowerSoc technology.

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I suspect this will give Altera an important edge, especially when they master to build it in: a ...

Energy Micro adds Cortex-M4 based MCUs

Norwegian fabless chip company adds microcontroller family based on the full Cortex-M4 core including floating-point unit and SIMD instructions

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Multicore debug goes heterogeneous at PMC-Sierra

Startup multicore debug tool developer reveals PMC-Sierra as lead partner for a heterogeneous debug and development system.

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ADI names Vincent Roche CEO

Following the unexpected death of Jerald Fishman, CEO of Analog Devices Inc., the company has announced Vincent Roche as CEO, effective immediately.

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Good to see they are promoting from within. Wish them all of the luck.

Intel unveils Silvermont SoC microarchitecture

Several 22-nm SoCs using low-power microarchitecture expected by later this year.

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same comment... MIPS/mW is one metric, but also $/MIPS ... we haven't heard whether this is a $20 or ...

Intel, Qualcomm pioneer MEMS performance standard

"Under MIG's guidance and through the tireless leadership of Intel and Qualcomm Technologies, the sensor industry has acknowledged an important ...

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Starting with a common language for performance spec is a great beginning. The fact that quite a ...

Qualcomm rises in 2012 analog chip market

The market for analog ICs took a hit in 2012 but Qualcomm's position supplying to smartphone and tablet computer makers helped it outperform its ...

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As seen in the case of Qualcomm, although it is, of course, actively pursuing emerging wireless ...

Semiconductor News

AMD launches three mobile APUs

Additions to AMD's lineup of mobile accelerated processing units include chips formerly codenamed Temash, Kabini and Richland.

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Broadcom: Time to prepare for the end of Moore’s Law

CTO Henry Samueli says Broadcom is starting to prepare customers for the end of CMOS scaling in the next 15 years, and it is working out plans for 3-D ...

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there is much bandwidth wsated today due to losses in copper btwn chips. agree with Samueli that we ...

Triangulation in automotive ultrasonic park-assist systems

Ultrasonic park assist systems use ultrasonic distance-ranging methodologies to assist the vehicle driver with back-up parking, parking spot ...

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Broadcom’s CTO on Ethernet’s six key directions

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Europe backs FDSOI fabs

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Marvell rolls quad-core LTE combo chip

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Globalfoundries joins Qualcomm in MRAM research

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Taiwanese researchers take aim at environmental issues

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Android drives cameras to GPUs, plans IR support

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Samsung 45-nm embedded flash coming in 2014

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ST to deny rivals FDSOI access

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Imperas launches multicore software development tools

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Renesas signs with IMEC for short-range radio research

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Arduino board plugs DIYers into the cloud for $69

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FDSOI gains three design wins

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ST turns to PCM for MCU embedded memory

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Amazon buys Samsung display subsidiary Liquavista

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Slideshow: Google I/O puts 7 platforms on parade

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Taiwan funds smartphone innovations

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ST's strategy is a tale of two segments

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Intel's new CEO shakes things up

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Brian Krzanich outlines re-org in internal memo two days after taking the helm of the world's biggest chip maker.

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those comments were based on being inside Intel

London Calling: ST's Bozotti seeks another term

Peter Clarke

I witnessed the unusual sight last week of seeing a CEO discussing his employment with the financial community.

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What do readers think? Has Carlo Bozotti done a good job as CEO of ST? Has he taken too many risks ...

Girish Mhatre reflects on the early days of EE Times

Girish Mhatre

A former EE Times editor-in-chief ('82-'88) and publisher reflects on the days when Gordon Moore keynoted industry conferences and the home PC was a strange notion.

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I was working at one of the first computer stores in the Chicago area at that time and had to put up ...

Could Intel enable $200 Ultrabook?

Dylan McGrath

Market research firm IHS believes the chip giant could reinvigorate the PC industry--if it's willing to sacrifice its own margins.

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That system with a $200 BOM is not a $600 notebook, it's a $300 notebook. Hardware profit margins ...

Taiwan reversing brain drain

R Colin Johnson

Government funded research labs are enticing Taiwan's brightest expats to return in hopes of revitalizing the country as an innovator.

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In general, people will go where they can thrive, in particular, when they see more opportunities. ...

London Calling: Amazon 'Coins' its own currency

Peter Clarke

Why has Amazon created its own money? A bit of fun, a short-term promotion, or could Amazon be testing the water ahead of a BitCoin-like move?

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Will Amazon soon pay employees salary and shareholders using Amazon Coins? A currency similar to ...
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