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The CMOS Image Sensors Market has Rebounded

Published:2012/5/14 2:44:00 Author:Li xiao na

Compared to $5.8bn in 2011, the sales of CMOS sensors will grow 8% to $6.3bn this year. This is the first back-to-back annual sales gain for CMOS image sensor since 2006. Because of the inventory corrections in camera cell phones, CMOS image sensor sales declined16% in the 2009 downturn and fell 14% in 2007. The sales of CMOS image...   (View)

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The Electrical Goods Manufacturing has Grown in Q1

Published:2012/5/11 3:13:00 Author:Li xiao na

Manufacturing output had a slight, but surprising increase in March this year. Compared with last month, the seasonally adjusted manufacturing output rose by 0.9% in March. The growth rate of the electrical equipment(View)

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Nvidia works with LLVM developers to CUDA compiler to open source

Published:2012/5/10 20:01:00 Author:Ecco

Nvidia Corp. announced a LLVM which is a popular open source compiler to support Nvida GPUs. According to Nvidia, they would provide the source code for its CUDA low-level virtual machine (LLVM)-based compiler to academic researchers and software-to...   (View)

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Synopsys Acquire RSoft to Extend its Business Scale

Published:2012/5/9 22:21:00 Author:Li xiao na

The EDA and IP vendor Synopsys Inc has acquired the photonic design company RSoft. Established in 1990, RSoft markets a component design suite, a system simulation tool, and a network modeling tool. RSoft’s software can be applied in many areas, such as telecommunication, semiconductor and optical areas. The combination of Synopsy...   (View)

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The researchers at Fraunhofer develop microprojector for smartphones

Published:2012/5/9 20:50:00 Author:Ecco

The German research institution Fraunhofer IOF’s researchers have developed hundreds of microprojectors which can be used to project images from smartphones and similar small devices. Even on curved screens, the design of slim LED projection systems also can offer bright images. The special thing about the LED projector: the enti...   (View)

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Samsung and Qualcomm build Alliance Wireless Power

Published:2012/5/9 20:38:00 Author:Ecco

Mobile technology companies Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Qualcomm Inc. have got an agreement named Alliance Wireless Power (A4WP). The alliance is built to improve global standardization of wireless power transfer for the charging of consumer electronic equipment. According to Qualcomm’s report, the A4WP will focus on a new wireless power transfer technology which provides spatial freedom for charging ...   (View)

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IEEE Tries to Develop a System to Measure Cameraphone Image-quality

Published:2012/5/9 0:10:00 Author:Li xiao na

A test suite which can help customers assess the picture quality of cellphone cameras will be released by IEEE. The suite will consist of a variety of metrics, probably simplified to a single score. The IEEE P1858 was officially re-launched in March. The P1858 has acquired the project and related asset from 13A which is the precursor of P1858. IEEE tries to provide the customers with a more accurate and...   (View)

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Mentor Graphics pushed new Solutions for the Verification of USB SuperSpeed （3.0） Products

Published:2012/5/8 21:34:00 Author:Ecco

Mentor Graphics Corp., a leader in high-performance system verification solutions, pushed hardware and software solutions to improve the verification of Universal Serial Bus (USB) SuperSpeed (3.0) products. These new solutions are connected to a Veloce® emulator to allow designers to test their USB SuperSpeed peripheral devices integrated on their System-on-Chip (SoC) designs. The solutions also enable designer...   (View)

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Murata uses CMOS PAs of Black Sand for 3G communications

Published:2012/5/8 3:21:00 Author:Ecco

Japanese Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd., the power supplies giant, has selected Black Sand Technologies Inc.’s CMOS power amplifiers for use in RF front-end modules. They are widely used in 3G mobile phone handsets applications. Black Sand integrates the PA together with other RF front-end components into a single module to make better opt...   (View)

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The Sensor is Entering Intellectual Age

Published:2012/5/8 1:00:00 Author:Li xiao na

The sensor has been playing an important role in the industrial field since the world entered the intellectual age. Sensor is the main way for information transmission. Currently, sensor also drives the development of economy and society. Every country in the world pays much attention to the development of sensor. We can believe that the sens...   (View)

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IPC is Launching a Survey about on-shoring

Published:2012/5/7 9:04:00 Author:Li xiao na

A survey, aims to measure the impact of “on-shoring”, has been taken by IPC. IPC is a team that represents printed circuit board manufacturers and other electronics firms. “on-shoring” refers to the migration of electronics manufacturing operations back to the US from overseas. IPC will compile data to quantify on-shoring in terms of both lo...   (View)

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Semi probe card revenue will grow flat for 2012

Published:2012/5/4 0:43:00 Author:Ecco

According to the market watcher VLSI Research Inc, probe card sales grew by 17 percent in 2011 to reach $1.17 billion, among the highest totals for the segment ever. But 2011 probe card sales came up short of the all time record of $1.36 billion set in 2007. Micronics Japan Co. Ltd. was the t...   (View)

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Smart Memory brings Breakthrough to the User Interface

Published:2012/5/3 21:51:00 Author:Li xiao na

Next-generation augmented reality displays can recognize user’s context-sensitive voice-and gesture command with total-surrounding awareness of other people, places and things. What is more, the smart memory must be used to stop advanced user-interfaces’ dependence on cloud connectivity. Kispert, the CEO of Spansion Inc, points out...   (View)

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Release 8 of the Android NDK supports MIPS

Published:2012/5/3 21:19:00 Author:Ecco

MIPS has been pushing hard to break into the Android space in the past year. And its customers use the Android platform for a plethora of cheaper CE devices, like the $99 tablets featured at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Now, MIPS Technologies Inc. has welcomed Google Inc.’s release of a na...   (View)

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Freescale would get Most Innovative Process Technology Insight Award

Published:2012/5/3 2:04:00 Author:Ecco

According to the Technical analysts and consulting firm UBM TechInsight, Free scale Semiconductor Inc. would get the Most Innovative Process Technology Insight Award for its PK60X256VLQ100 Kinetis ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller (MCU). UBM TechInsights, based in Ottawa, Canada, is owned by UBM plc. And the company also owns and publishes ...   (View)

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Five companies are linked to Indian fab plan

Published:2012/5/2 21:11:00 Author:Ecco

According to a latest report from Hindu Business Line, five chip companies have expressed an interest in supporting the Indian government’s plan to get one or more semiconductor wafer fabs constructed on the sub-continent. And the five companies are: GlobalFoundries, STMicrolectronics, Russia’s Sitronics JSC and a consortium comprising Jaypee Associates, IBM and Tower Semiconductor Ltd., Infineon Technologies. (View)

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Photomask market is expected to grow to $3.35 billion in 2012 with 7％ rate

Published:2012/5/2 3:25:00 Author:Ecco

The fab tool vendor trade group SEMI expected that the worldwide semiconductor photomask market would grow to $3.35 billion in 2012 with 7 percent growing rate from 2011.According to SEMI data, 2011 was a record year for mask/reticle making equipment, with sales growing 36 percent year-over-year from the previous record year of 2010 to reach $1.11 billion. However, the growth in the (View)

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Power Management is Moving from Static to Dynamic Control

Published:2012/5/2 2:51:00 Author:Li xiao na

Many engineers may not pay much attention to the power design, because they do not necessarily deal with power management issues everyday. Nowadays, the power supply and board power management is becoming more and more important. IBA is short for intermediate but architecture, which is the most advanced power system today. It is composed of bus converters and digital point-of-load converters. Large comp...   (View)

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Pixel Qi will produce a new display to beat iPad display

Published:2012/5/2 0:58:00 Author:Ecco

Pixel Qi Corp. is a professional company which aims to develop reflective liquid crystal displays that can be read in sunlight thereby saving power. The company recently issued a new products introduction. It indicated that the company could produce a screen with higher image quality than the iPad 3 retina screen. The company said t...   (View)

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Dialog plans to use Intrinsic-ID on-chip security technology

Published:2012/4/28 3:19:00 Author:Ecco

Fabless chip company Dialog Semiconductor plc announced that they had integrated security technology into its SC14453S voice-over-IP processor from startup Intrinsic-ID BV. Dialog (Kirchheim-unter-Teck, Germany) plans to use the Intrinsic-ID technology to ensure that only authenticated software can run on the SC14453S platform....   (View)

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