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Opinion: Leaving China is Google’s only choice
Published on March 13th, 2010.
In the wake of China's latest threat, Google has no choice but to pack up and leave the country, wholesale.Filled under EETimes Latest News, latest news. No Comments.
Khronos moves OpenGL graphics API to v4.0
Published on March 12th, 2010.
The Khronos Group, an industry consortium focused on developing multimedia standards and application programming interfaces (APIs), has announced the release of the OpenGL 4.0 specification; an update to a widely adopted 2-D and 3-D graphics API.Filled under EETimes Latest News, latest news. No Comments.
Email: Is energy harvesting for WSNs overhyped?
Published on March 12th, 2010.
A marketing professional with an interest in wireless sensor networks suggests a couple of questions to be put to the panel due to take place at Embedded Systems Conference.Filled under EETimes Latest News, latest news. No Comments.
End of conflict at ST-Ericsson Caen
Published on March 12th, 2010.
An official statement from France's Ministry of Industry announced the end of balance-of-power between ST-Ericsson, the 50/50 joint venture between Ericsson and STMicroelectronics NV, and 114 employees at its site in Caen, in the French region of Normandy. An agreement was signed on March 11.Filled under EETimes Latest News, latest news. No Comments.
Digi-Key adds price, availability to NXP datasheet simulator
Published on March 12th, 2010.
Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corp. has teamed up with EDA company Transim Technology Corp. and NXP BV to launch the NXP Simport Design Center.Filled under EETimes Latest News, latest news. No Comments.
Email: Is there still room for startups in WSN?
Published on March 12th, 2010.
A postgraduate student from Newscastle in the northeast of England writes asking if there is room left for startups to make an impact in wireless sensor networks. If so, he asks that the industry to save a space for him while he finishes his PhD.Filled under EETimes Latest News, latest news. No Comments.
Defendants in Samsung ’secrets’ case deny charges, says report
Published on March 12th, 2010.
Nineteen semiconductor engineers and managers indicted for stealing process technology and market planning details from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and passing them to Hynix Semiconductor Inc. have all pleaded not guilty in court in Seoul, according to a Yonhap report.Filled under EETimes Latest News, latest news. No Comments.
GlobalFoundries’ plans for 2010 capex of $2.5 billion
Published on March 12th, 2010.
Abu Dhabi backed foundry GlobalFoundries Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) is planning to spend $2.5 billion to increase its 300-mm wafer manufacturing capacity by 50 percent in 2010, according to Udo Nothelfer, company vice president and general manager of Fab 1 in Dresden, Germany.Filled under EETimes Latest News, latest news. No Comments.
Macleod changes focus to revenue growth at National
Published on March 12th, 2010.
Don Macleod has risen through the ranks of National Semiconductor Corp. to take on the CEO role late last November and has become the man with a mission " growth in revenue.Filled under EETimes Latest News, latest news. No Comments.
National’s sales, earnings rise
Published on March 11th, 2010.
National Semiconductor Corp. reported sales of $362 million in the quarter, up 5 percent from $345 million in the previous quarter and up 24 percent from $292 million reported in last year's third fiscal quarter.Filled under EETimes Latest News, latest news. No Comments.
SunPower, Toshiba ink 32MW solar supply deal
Published on March 11th, 2010.
Under a strategic supply agreement, Toshiba Corp. will order 32 megawatts of high-efficiency solar panels from SunPower Corp. in 2010.Filled under EETimes Latest News, latest news. No Comments.
Barriers restrict China PV market growth
Published on March 11th, 2010.
Several hurdles still need to be overcome for the China PV market to reach its full potential according to IMS Research market report.Filled under EETimes Latest News, latest news. No Comments.
Startup seeks to merge IC floorplanning, IP sourcing
Published on March 11th, 2010.
Serial entrepreneur George Janac had formed EDA company Parallel Engines Corp. with the claimed intention of merging semiconductor IP and EDA into a single set of tools. The company said it would deliver tools with bundled IP models.Filled under EETimes Latest News, latest news. No Comments.
Analyst: Canon’s litho hopes tied to nano-imprint
Published on March 11th, 2010.
A prominent semiconductor capital equipment analyst said Canon's seventh attempt to penetrate the 193-nm lithography market has apparently failed and the company's "great white hope" rests on an undisclosed relationship with nano-imprint lithography vendor Molecular Imprints.Filled under EETimes Latest News, latest news. No Comments.
Organic-silicon hybrid aims at optics
Published on March 11th, 2010.
European Union's Silicon-Organic Hybrid Fabrication Platform for Integrated Circuits (SOFI) aims to bring photonics to silicon complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) chips with organic polymer filled silicon waveguides for carrying optical signals at up to 100-GHz.Filled under EETimes Latest News, latest news. No Comments.
Applied continues to expand in Asia
Published on March 11th, 2010.
Fab tool giant Applied Materials Inc. has opened its expanded Tainan Manufacturing Center in Tainan, Taiwan.Filled under EETimes Latest News, latest news. No Comments.
ADI’s Fishman pitches analog investors
Published on March 11th, 2010.
While skeptics argue that Jerald Fishman, Analog Devices Inc. president and CEO, faces big challenges in talking up his company's value to investors in a tough market, Fishman remains undaunted.Filled under EETimes Latest News, latest news. No Comments.
Synopsys discreetly acquires Gemini
Published on March 11th, 2010.
No news announcement. No press release. Yet, Synopsys Inc. has acquired Gemini Design Automation (Fremont, Calif.), a start-up company focused on the challenges of verifying complex analog and mixed-signal designs.Filled under EETimes Latest News, latest news. No Comments.
GlobalFoundries’ Dresden fab to run 22-nm CMOS
Published on March 11th, 2010.
Fab 1 in Dresden, Germany, belonging to GlobalFoundries Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.), is starting work to help develop 22-nm CMOS process and will run the process in volume. It is not clear whether the 22-nm will include a departure from the gate-first high-K metal gate (HKMG) CMOS processes currently being brought up at 32- and 28-nanometers.Filled under EETimes Latest News, latest news. No Comments.
Analyst: High price hardware will kill Google Chrome
Published on March 10th, 2010.
Mobile systems using Google's Chrome software will be more expensive than competing mini-notebooks using Intel processors and Microsoft Windows--one reason why Chrome will not be successful in an expanding mobile systems market that will see multiple winners, according to an International Data Corp. analyst.Filled under EETimes Latest News, latest news. No Comments.