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MEMS market will have 13％ CAGR to 2017, says Yole

Published:2012/7/6 2:15:00 Author:Ecco

The market research firm Yole Developpement SA (Lyon, France) has made a report which indicates that the worldwide market for microelectromechanical systems components (MEMS) will be worth about $11.5 billion in 2012. It increase about 12.7 percent co...   (View)

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Report: TSMC has no plan to buy Renesas fab

Published:2012/7/5 2:48:00 Author:Ecco

According to a Focus Taiwan news report, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has no plan to acquire a wafer fab from struggling Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp. Renesas has been making losses since its formation in 2010 as a joint venture that also includes the chip making interests of Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric...   (View)

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SIA reported shrinking of chip market versus 2011

Published:2012/7/5 1:09:00 Author:Ecco

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) made a report about the three-month average of worldwide sales of semiconductors. The report indicated that the sales reached $24.39 billion for the month of May 2012, 3.4 percent ...   (View)

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Qualcomm signs Samsung, UMC for 28-nm chips

Published:2012/7/4 2:56:00 Author:Ecco

A Taiwan Economic News report indicates that Qualcomm Inc., the mobile processor supplier, has signed up foundry United Microelectronics Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for 28-nm chips. According to the report, UMC (Hsinchu, Taiwan) is expected to start supplying Snapdragon S4 processors...   (View)

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Intel appeals against $1.3 billion fine from European Commission

Published:2012/7/4 1:34:00 Author:Ecco

Intel Corp., the world's largest chip maker, got a fine from the European Commission in 2009. The fine was originally set at 1.1 billion euro after European Commission found Intel guilty of anti-trust offe...   (View)

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The vacuum transistors at low voltage have been developing

Published:2012/7/3 3:04:00 Author:Ecco

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh try to develop a device that allows a switch back to vacuum, in contrast to the solid-state, as the medium for electron transport in transistors. The team comes up with a MOS vertical structure with a triple layer of metal/silicon dioxide/silicon exposed on the side ...   (View)

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Infineon ranked first in power chip market

Published:2012/7/3 1:34:00 Author:Ecco

The market analyst IMS Research Ltd indicated that Infineon Technologies AG ranked at the top in power semiconductor market which grew by 9 percent to just under $18 billion in 2011. IMS also said that the market did well in the fi...   (View)

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UMC has licensed IBM technology to implement 20-nm FinFETs

Published:2012/7/2 3:02:00 Author:Ecco

Taiwanese chip foundry United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) said that it has licensed technology from IBM Corp. to expedite the development of its 20-nm CMOS process, including FinFET 3-D (View)

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SL Power launches external switch-mode power supplies with120 or 130 watts

Published:2012/7/2 0:53:00 Author:Ecco

SL Power Electronics launches its CENB1121 & CENB1130 (for ITE) and MENB1121 & MENB1130 (for Medical) external switch-mode power supplies that deliver 120 and 130 watts respectively of total p...   (View)

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Newport Media provides products for smartphones

Published:2012/6/29 3:24:00 Author:Ecco

Newport Media Inc. (Lake Forest, Calif.)s, a fabless chip company, has won design chance for its digital television receiver SoCs in smartphones and feature phones from Samsung, HTC, LG, Motorola and ZTE. The chips are specifically for reception of Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB) transmissions which meet th...   (View)

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Report: Qualcomm has not ruled out owning wafer fabs

Published:2012/6/29 2:25:00 Author:Ecco

A Bloomberg report indicated that Qualcomm Inc. (San Dieo), the world's largest fabless chip company, has not ruled out owning a wafer fab or putting large amounts of cash down to ensure the firm’s supply of semiconductor chips. Qualcomm has suffered a shortage of 28-nm Snapdragon (View)

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Maxim spends $200M to upgrade U.S. chip making

Published:2012/6/28 2:42:00 Author:Ecco

According to Analog and mixed-signal chip company Maxim Integrated Products Inc., it schemes to spend $200 million to upgrade its U.S. wafer fabs in Beaverton, Ore.; Dallas and San Antonio, Texas; and San Jose. However, the data of the investment is not provided now. The investment would be used to upgrade manufacturing equipm...   (View)

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Google launches 7-inch tablet with Android 4.1

Published:2012/6/27 21:47:00 Author:Ecco

Google Inc. will launch a 7-inch media tablet, made by Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc. in the occasion of its Google I/O developer event here Wednesday (July 27). The tablet will be sold at $199. Hugo Barra, Google's product management director for Android, indicates that the Nexus 7 features an Nvidia Tegra 3 chip ...   (View)

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ST provides the samples of STM32 F3 series

Published:2012/6/27 1:56:00 Author:Ecco

STMicroelectronics NV (Geneva, Switzerland) has made an announcement which indicates that it has started delivering samples of its STM32 F3 series of microcontrollers. The products have the functions of a variety of analog peripherals and DSP capability. STM32 F3 series MCUs are system-on-chip devices based on the Cortex-M4 c...   (View)

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Wolfson provides audio hub for Samsung smartphone

Published:2012/6/26 22:34:00 Author:Ecco

Samsung's Galaxy S III smartphone has used a WM1811 audio hub IC which is produced by Wolfson Microelectronics plc (Edinburgh, Scotland). Wolfson is a mixed-signal fabless chip company. Wolfson made a net loss of $6.2 million on sales revenue of $30.3 million in the first quarter of 2012, so there is hope that the Samsung design win can help drive Wolfson towards profitability. The Galaxy range of Andro...   (View)

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Sony, Panasonic work together to develop OLED displays

Published:2012/6/26 3:39:00 Author:Ecco

Japanese consumer electronics giants Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. have made an agreement on the cooperation of developing organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels and modules for TVs and large-sized displays. The two companies plan to finalize the mass production of next-generation high-resolution OLED panels and modules in 2013. <...   (View)

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KKP will provide 50 billion yen for Renesas

Published:2012/6/26 1:48:00 Author:Ecco

There is a Nikkei report indicating that struggling Japanese chip company Renesas Electronics Corp. is to seek a 50 billion yen (about $620 million) investment from private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR). The earlier report from Reuters says that Renesas' two parent companies – Hitachi and Mitsubishi – have a...   (View)

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Freescale, Vivante and Rightware form a team on automotive display

Published:2012/6/25 3:12:00 Author:Ecco

Since Rightware Oy (Espoo, Finland), Freescale semiconductor Inc. (Austin, Texas) and Vivante Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) develop an automotive infotainment and instrumentation display platform, automotive displays have been getting a lot more dynamic and flexible and long gone are the days of a physical needle twitching in front of circ...   (View)

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Sony plans to spend $1-billion on stacked CMOS sensor

Published:2012/6/25 2:06:00 Author:Ecco

According to Sony Corp., it has planed to spend about 80 billion yen (about $1 billion) by September 2013 in expanding its manufacturing capacity for stacked CMOS image sensors. Sony Semiconductor has alrea...   (View)

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Microsoft launched 10.6-inch tablet with picking ARM and Intel

Published:2012/6/20 3:59:00 Author:Ecco

Microsoft has launched a 10.6-inch tablet in a 16:9 aspect ratio. They are available in two options, one powered by Intel’s 22-nm Ivy Bridge processor running Windows 8, and another Surface powered by an ARM chipset and Windows RT. The Windows RT version includes a built-in kickstand with 9.3-mm thickness, 676 grams weight, a...   (View)

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