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The Chip Industry is Growing Steadily under the Terminal Market

Published:2012/4/28 2:21:00 Author:Li xiao na

According to the survey of IHS iSuppli, customer’s demand for cell phone and tablet computer keeps strong now. This will help the semiconductor industry recover and grow in the year of 2012. The suitable stocks management is very essential to this industry. It is predicated that the sales of semiconductor will be 324.6 bill...   (View)

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TSMC increases capex between $8 billion and $8.5 billion

Published:2012/4/28 2:03:00 Author:Ecco

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. plans to raise its capex between $8 billion and $8.5 billion in 2012. However, TSMC needs to use more capex on developing 28-nm wafers and because it has decided to pull in the creation of a 20-nm R&D process line. TSMC had reduced its capex estimate to about $6 billion from $7....   (View)

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Smartphone sales will grow to the 502 million with 17％ rate in 2012

Published:2012/4/27 3:26:00 Author:Ecco

According to the Will Strauss principal analyst with Forward Concepts, market research firm, the world mobile phone handset shipments grew to 1.51 billion units. Compared with 2010, the units grew 6.5 percent in 2011. However, market research firm expects the unit shipmen...   (View)

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The CPU will be Replaced by SoC in the Future

Published:2012/4/27 0:49:00 Author:Li xiao na

CPU faces the challenge from SoC after more than fifty years of domination. SoC is short for System-on-chip. High integration is the biggest characteristic of Soc which integrates all the important chips into one silicon chip. Apart from the CPU, the SoC includes graphic cards, memory, USB, main control chip, power manage circuit and...   (View)

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Intersil＇s mixed-signal chip set for novel pico-projector applications

Published:2012/4/26 20:19:00 Author:Ecco

Intersil Corp. has developed a kind of mixed-signal chip sets in a reference design for novel pico-projector applications by using Micron Technologies Inc.’s liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) display. Pico-projectors could be used in myriad applications to reve...   (View)

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The two EFM32 STKs for energy-efficient Leopard Gecko and Giant Gecko-based apps

Published:2012/4/26 20:07:00 Author:Ecco

The designers of Energy Micro have developed two starter kits (STKs) to build complex battery-powered products such as portable health and fitness devices and smart accessories. The new STKs EFM32-GGSTK3700 and EFM32LG-STK3600 are based on the EFM32 Leopard G...   (View)

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GainSpan designs a new Wi-Fi reference design code for TI MSP430

Published:2012/4/26 3:19:00 Author:Ecco

The engineers of the GainSpan have designed the low-power embeed Wi-Fi connectivity for the Internet of Things. And they’ve introduced reference design code for Texas Instruments’ MSP430. Now, customers can easily use MSP430-based products to add GainSpan low power Wi-Fi connectivity. They use advanced networking features and capabilities not readily available with other Wi-Fi modules such as enterprise sec...   (View)

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Vishay develops AEC-Q200-qualified, dual-in-line thin-film resistor networks

Published:2012/4/26 1:58:00 Author:Ecco

Vishay has developed a new series of AEC-Q200-qualified, dual-in-line thin film resistor networks. They are available in 14- or 16-pin SOIC packages. The NOMCA series are characterized by low absolute TCR of ±25 ppm/℃, TCR tracking of 5 ppm/℃, tight ratio tolerances to ±0.05%, and long-term ratio stability of 0.05% after 1,000 hour...   (View)

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TI wishes the second quarter sales grow

Published:2012/4/24 2:49:00 Author:Ecco

According to the first quarter sales of Texas Instruments Inc. (April 23), its first quarter sales of $3.12 billion reduced 9 percent from the previous quarter and dropped 8 percent compared to the first quarter of 2011. The company reported a net income for the quarter of $265 million which was lessened 11 percent from the previous quarter and reduced 60 percent from the first quarter of 2011. However, the sales b...   (View)

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ST-Ericsson would transfer application processor business to ST and cut off 1,700 staffers

Published:2012/4/24 2:46:00 Author:Ecco

ST-Ericsson NV has announced a new strategic direction. They would plan to cut up to 1,700 staffers to reduce its breakeven point. ST-Ericsson NV is a loss-making mobile chip joint venture between STMicroelectronics and Ericsson. However, the company would change its main standalone application processor field to smartphone and tablet comp...   (View)

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The PC Market is Recovering Globally

Published:2012/4/24 2:13:00 Author:Li xiao na

Microsoft and AMD had released their financial reports Last week. These reports have exceeded the expectation of Wall Street, which indicates that the world’s PC market is recovering. Many elements had brought harmful effects to the PC market before, such as the unstable economy in Europe, customers’ fondness for table computer, the flood i...   (View)

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Freescale＇s Second quarter sales will grow

Published:2012/4/23 4:28:00 Author:Ecco

In the Freescale Semiconductor Inc.’s first quarter financial report, Freescale had a net loss in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for the quarter of $9 million, or 4 cents per share. The net loss was wider than the previous quarter net loss of $6 million but narrowed compared to a net loss of $148 mi...   (View)

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Altera＇s sales reduce because of inventory glut, comms weakness

Published:2012/4/23 2:12:00 Author:Ecco

According to the latest research, Altera’s first quarter sales is $383.8 million which reduces 16 percent from the fourth quarter of 2011 and downs 28 percent from the first quarter of 2011. Moreover, the company’s income for the quarter of $115.8 million downs 21 percent from the previous quarter and downs 48 percent from the year-ago quarter. However, Altera said first quarter sales came up well short of...   (View)

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ITT Set up an Assembly Service for Military Market in UK

Published:2012/4/23 1:36:00 Author:Li xiao na

ITT Interconnect Solutions has developed an assembly service for MIL-DTL-38999 specified connectors by investing £500,000 at its Basingstoke. These connectors are for the local military and space markets. ITT always pays much attention to the military/aerospace market in UK. There is an uplift in the market for 38999 connector, and IT...   (View)

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The first smartphone XOLO X900 with Intel Atom is announced in India

Published:2012/4/20 3:34:00 Author:Ecco

The first smartphone XOLO X900, which is set Intel Corp.’s Atom inside, has been announced in India. The phone is announced in Barcelona back in February. It operates with a single core 1.6GHz Atom Z2460 processor along with a 4.03 inch display, 1GB of RAM, 8MP rear camera with flash, 1.3 MP front camera and 16GB of internal memor...   (View)

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Qualcomm achieves 45％ and Intel grabs 15％ of cellular baseband market

Published:2012/4/20 3:25:00 Author:Ecco

According to the research from market researcher Strategy Analytics, Qualcomm and Intel were the two market leaders in the 2011 cellular baseband market. The top five ranking was Qualcomm, Intel, MediaTek, Texas Instruments, and ST-Ericsson, with Qualcomm leaded by dint of its dominant market position in CDMA, LTE and W-CDMA basebands. However, the global cellular baseband processor market grew 15 percent year-on-y...   (View)

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SpringSoft develops Laker 3 to make it one step closer to analog automation

Published:2012/4/20 0:43:00 Author:Ecco

Today SpringSoft develops Laker 3 which is a rebuild of the tool from the ground up. The new GUI and DRC engine (as well as supporting Calibre for sign-off checking) is based on Open Access. It should provide all users with a significant upgrade to the capabilities they have been using. However, the most interesting aspect of the release is what they call Analog Prototyping. What this does is to automatically creat...   (View)

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General Development of PCB Industry in 2012

Published:2012/4/19 22:47:00 Author:Li xiao na

PCB is the substrate that can be used to assemble electronic components. It can make the electronic components connect according to the scheduled circuit. It is called “mother of the electronic devices”. PCB was invented 1936; It...   (View)

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PE9915x DC-DC buck regulators are used for high-reliability space systems

Published:2012/4/19 21:14:00 Author:Ecco

The new PE9915x POL DC-DC synchronous buck regulators are developed to replace traditional multi-chip modules such as power FPGAs, DSPs, ASICs, and SRAMs. The new power management is designed to be smallest space-grade monolithic non-isolated distributed po...   (View)

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The Hot Spot of Semiconductor is Transferring from CPU to AP

Published:2012/4/19 4:14:00 Author:Li xiao na

Nowadays, the hot spot of semiconductor market is transferring from CPU to AP all over the world. The Snapdragon、Exynos、OMAP are leading the processor market, and Samsung has taken the largest market share. How will the industry structure change in the future? With the growing sales of intelligent device, the application pr...   (View)

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