August 21, 2008 - Technology News
A streamlined method of PCI Express interconnect compliance testing
The "need for speed" is still the driving force in all digital products. This has forced us into the transition from wide, "slow," parallel ...
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August 20, 2008 - Industry News
iSuppli to NAND market: Don’t count on second-half revenue growth
A battle is brewing in the NAND market as the industry’s major player fight each other for the little, if any, growth the flash segment may ...
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August 19, 2008 - Industry News
IBM, partners claim smallest SRAM memory cell
IBM Corp researchers in Yorktown Heights, NY along with development partners Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD), Freescale, ...
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August 18, 2008 - Industry News
Vishay offers $1.6B for International Rectifier in unsolicited bid
Malvern, Pa-based discrete and passive semiconductor company Vishay Intertechnology Inc said today it has made a non-binding bid to ...
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August 15, 2008 - Industry News
Philips completes TSMC share divestiture
Amsterdam, The Netherlands–based Royal Philips Electronics reported today that it has sold approximately 383 million shares of common stock in ...
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August 15, 2008 - Industry News
MIPS plans 15% layoff on $108.5M loss
MIPS Technologies will cut some 75 employees, mostly from analog business and corporate positions, after reporting a fiscal Q4 loss of $108.5 ...
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August 15, 2008 - Technology News
Integrated ORing controller and MOSFETs run fast and cool for redundant supplies
In their quest for near-100% uptime, designers of high-availability-system applications, such as telecom and datacom servers, employ ...
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August 8, 2008 - Technology News
Revisiting electronic ink
When EDN looked at electronic ink seven years ago, there were two visible commercial approaches to delivering display information. E Ink's ...
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August 8, 2008 - Technology News
Dumping the noise
I recently completed designing an ultrasonic receiver that accepted signals in the 100- to 200-kHz band, downconverted the signal to an ...
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August 7, 2008 - Industry News
Hynix, Numonyx expand joint NAND development work
To broaden their NAND product lines and bring future product and technology innovations to market that are designed to address ...
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August 7, 2008 - Industry News
Elpida, Chinese venture group to spend up to $5B on China DRAM plant
To meet the growing demand for DRAM in the Chinese market, Tokyo-based DRAM giant Elpida Memory Inc and China-based Suzhou Venture Group Co ...
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August 6, 2008 - Industry News
Recipe for growing sales in emerging electronics and high-tech markets
Former World Bank economist Antoine van Agtmael coined the phrase “emerging markets” in 1981 to describe business and market ...
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August 5, 2008 - Industry News
Intel, Samsung, TI, Toshiba maintain top spots in IC Insights semi ranking
While Intel, Samsung, Texas Instruments and Toshiba maintained their top four spots in IC Insights’ top 20 semiconductor supplier ranking for ...
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July 31, 2008 - Industry News
Oki transfers 95% of semiconductor business to Rohm
Further shaking up Japan’s chip industry, Kyoto-based Rohm Co Ltd will take control of Tokyo-based Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd’s ...
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July 30, 2008 - Industry News
Intel makes third solar move with investment in thin-film materials supplier
Marking its third foray into the solar energy arena this year, chip giant Intel Corp through its Intel Capital investment arm has invested $12.5 ...
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July 29, 2008 - Industry News
Will AMD separate manufacturing and design?
The verdict is still out, with some industry experts for a fab spin off and some against it. Either way, AMD admits its recent promotion of ...
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July 28, 2008 - Industry News
Biometric security to drive $7.3 billion in five years, says ABI
A new study by ABI Research concludes that biometric-security applications will account for $7.3 billion of spending in 2013, up ...
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July 28, 2008 - Technology News
Inspecting electronic materials—atom by atom
The advantages of imaging individual atoms in electronic materials are obvious. As you learn more about the subtle impact of small ...
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July 28, 2008 - Industry News
Fujitsu expands in Texas, Semtech in China
Fujitsu Network Communications announced today that it will add 67 jobs in its Richardson, Texas, headquarters in order to better serve its ...
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July 25, 2008 - Technology News
Carbon nanotubes may have a darker side
The apparent harmlessness of carbon nanotubes has so far kept them outside the growing debate about the potential hazards of ...
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July 25, 2008 - Technology News
Microcontroller detects pulses
While recently designing an automatic test station employing a microcontroller, I faced a nonstandard task: Detect the presence or ...
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July 25, 2008 - Technology News
Crossing the river: The hazards of crossing a split-plane gap with a high-speed signal
Cross a river without a bridge, and your clothes get soaked. Cross a split-plane gap with a high-speed signal, and your whole development ...
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July 25, 2008 - Technology News
The secret, nonspectral lives of analog-input filters
Analog-filter designs manage an uncommonly large number of core parameters compared with designs of other analog-circuit-block types. ...
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July 24, 2008 - Industry News
Outsourcing services now a key part of manufacturing chain, Gartner reports
The continued industry movement toward fabless business models plays directly into the hands of the semiconductor assembly and test services ...
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July 24, 2008 - Industry News
Results roundup: Linear Tech bucks economic trends with record results
Showing seeming imperviousness to prevailing economic conditions, Linear Technology today announced record revenue and earnings for both its ...
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