November 20, 2008 - Industry News
Consumer spending damaging semi sales, growth to return in 2010, SIA reports
Consumers are firmly positioned in the driver's seat when it comes to worldwide semiconductor sales -- and that's a negative in the current ...
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November 20, 2008 - Industry News
KLA-Tencor lays off 900
The announcement came just days after Applied Materials Inc, a KLA-Tencor capital equipment vendor competitor, announced plans to cut 1,800 jobs ...
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November 19, 2008 - Industry News
Electronics supply chain sales contract in September, IPC reports
September saw a sharp drop in US consumer spending, which accounts for two-thirds of US economic activity. This drove Q3 gross domestic product ...
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November 18, 2008 - Industry News
2009 equipment sales could hit lows not seen since 2003, Gartner warns
Gartner Inc today lowered its capital and equipment spending forecast for the second time in as many months, warning that the next year could ...
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November 14, 2008 - Industry News
Engineer salaries: A look at global compensation
Engineers worldwide reported varying levels of job satisfaction as their salaries struggle to keep pace with inflation, according to a ...
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November 14, 2008 - Technology News
Solid-state drives challenge hard disks
Judging from both direct feedback and EDN’s Web-site-traffic statistics, engineers have broad interest in the tug of war between currently ...
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November 14, 2008 - Technology News
As design outsourcing matures, challenges appear
There has been much angst about design outsourcing in recent years, most of which has come from US-based designers who have lost or who fear ...
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November 14, 2008 - Industry News
Worldwide product innovation despite varying standards
For a multinational electronics manufacturer, selling products to countries all over the world means contending with an array of ...
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November 14, 2008 - Technology News
Tech innovation addresses societal, environmental challenges worldwide
Intensive research and development in nanoelectronics and nanotechnology is critical for tackling societal and environmental challenges facing ...
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November 11, 2008 - Industry News
Nokia cuts R&D jobs
As forecasts for lower mobile phone sales in Q4 and 2009 continue to be made, Nokia today announced plans to cut more than 600 jobs and close ...
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November 11, 2008 - Technology News
Power-stingy digital accelerometers yield benefits in gesture-driven consumer devices
Features involving a device’s motion, such as a tap-to-mute capability on a cell phone or a user-input feature on a gaming controller, can serve ...
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November 6, 2008 - Industry News
Freescale, Samsung partner on LED display technology
With an eye on the European Union's ROHS electronics directive, Freescale Semiconductor and Samsung Electronics have collaborated to address the ...
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October 28, 2008 - Industry News
Semiconductor industry can expect 'long, dark season' for OEMs, Gartner reports
The coming holiday season will be less than jolly for many members of the electronics supply chain. Bucking the usual trends, several OEMs have ...
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October 22, 2008 - Industry News
TI cuts wireless investments, plans to sell cellular baseband operation
Texas Instruments Inc will put its focus largely on analog and embedded processing as it moves forward, announcing plans to reduce its ...
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October 22, 2008 - Industry News
Electronic supply chain sales recover in August, IPC reports
US consumer confidence showed continued growth in August. US new orders for computer and electronic products rebounded in August while ...
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October 20, 2008 - Technology News
What does green mean?
Wading through the alphabet soup associated with environmental compliance - RoHS, REACH, WEEE and EuP is daunting for many companies. Industry ...
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October 20, 2008 - Technology News
A turn-off: Power management complicates life for verification engineers
There is intense pressure on all levels of chip engineering to reduce power consumption. That situation, in turn, has led to increasingly ...
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October 13, 2008 - Industry News
Tech's future with McCain or Obama
Welcome to This week in gEEk, EDN's short review of the week's happenings.
As the Dow played limbo this week, dipping below 8000 and offering ...
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October 10, 2008 - Industry News
Micron cutting workforce by 15%, ramping down NAND ops
As part of its restructuring, Micron said it will reduce its global workforce by approximately 15% over the next two years, most of which ...
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October 8, 2008 - Technology News
Transimpedance-amplifier-noise issues
How much noise is too much noise in a photodiode-preamplifier circuit? You can derive the noise performance of a transimpedance amplifier ...
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October 8, 2008 - Technology News
Why tout a demo board nobody can buy?
Recently, my buddy Dave was trying to make a remote-control airplane that would transmit high-definition video to the operator on the ground. ...
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October 7, 2008 - Technology News
Gigahertz-class processor stresses energy efficiency for applications with varying usage scenarios
Freescale’s MPC8536E PowerQUICC (quad-integrated-communications-controller) III processors include advanced power- and energy- ...
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October 7, 2008 - Technology News
On time, every time: embedding real-time performance
High-speed graphics, user interfaces, and networks represent the norm in embedded-system designs, and these performance issues dictate the use ...
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October 7, 2008 - Industry News
China continues to dominate Asia/Pac semi industry growth, but India, Vietnam gaining
As Gartner lowers its forecast for Asia/Pacific semiconductor growth, it notes the China/Hong Kong market is expected to continue to experience ...
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October 7, 2008 - Industry News
Virtualization: silicon and software salvation or technological tower of Babel?
Stable, robust code speaks one language; new CPUs speak another. Is a software rewrite necessary to resolve the seeming contradiction, or ...
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