Gallery: Fujitsu from supers to teddy bears

Fujitsu’s corporate labs demoed a sampler of its latest work in everything from world-class supercomputers to smartphones—and even a robotic teddy bear—at an annual forum here. Read Full Story

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A short history of spread spectrum

What do the actress, pianist, German, and inventor have in common? It sounds like the start to a bad joke but the answer is frequency hopping spread spectrum technology Read Full Story

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Time to play hard ball on tech manufacturing

It's time for policy makers to play hard ball with multinational corporations that outsource manufacturing, design and R&D jobs. If they don't, manufacturing will cease to be the engine of U.S. ... Read Full Story

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Testing modern MIMO Wi-Fi and LTE radios

Testing MIMO radios requires new-generation over-the-air (OTA) technology. Read Full Story

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News and Analysis

News & Analysis

Bluespec continues to attract venture money

EDA may not be loved by Wall Street, but high-level synthesis companies have attracted a number of venture companies…

post comment 3 comments last comment garydpdx
An interesting thought but the largest number that I've seen in crowdsourcing stories (on ...

Rebuilding America: Proposals emerge to fix 'dysfunctional' R&D tax credit

The R&D tax credit, a key incentive for spurring investment in U.S. innovation and manufacturing, needs a major overhaul, a tax expert says.

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I am really intrigued by Rashkin's comment. You write: Rashkin told Congress that the current ...

Apple snatches Smartphone lead from Samsung in Q4

Apple and Samsung Electronics continued their game of tag at the top of the smartphone shipment table, with Apple taking back the top spot for ...

post comment 7 comments last comment kinnar
Benefit of Android should be taken only by Samsung, other companies will also be getting much share ...

Globalfoundries CEO says company is back on track

Globalfoundries CEO Ajit Manocha has praised his firm for what he called a “remarkable quarter” in Q411, and promised that the foundry was on track to ...

post comment 5 comments last comment Oscar Law
In order to ramp the product in 32nm and below, the fabless design house need the design expertise ...

Foundry, logic customers drive KLA orders rebound

Semiconductor capital equipment vendor KLA-Tencor posted declines in sales and profit for the quarter ended Dec. 31, but reported a significant ...

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Cisco rolls more routers for smart grids

Cisco Systems is shipping its first routers geared for networks of smart meters, initially focusing on a co-development deal with meter maker Itron.

post comment 4 comments last comment kinnar
Why not to use their own line they have for metering purpose, instead of using wireless links. PLCC ...

MagnaChip buys IGBT module maker

Analog and mixed-signal chip vendor MagnaChip Semiconductor said it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held semiconductor ...

post comment 2 comments last comment kinnar
IGBTs will have to compete with Power MOSFET as PMOSFETs are getting more accepted compared to ...

Marvell cuts quarterly sales target

Chip maker Marvell Technology Group cut its sales target for the quarter ending Jan. 28, saying revenue would be lower than expected because of disk ...

post comment 1 comment last comment goafrit
A believable excuse but that may not matter.

Nokia bleeds $1.38 billion in Q4; sales drop 21 percent

Nokia had some good news and bad news for financial investors on Thursday (Jan. 26), announcing that though it had managed to sell over 1 million ...

post comment 6 comments last comment goafrit
Nokia has only Lumia now - Mr Elop days are being counted. I do not think Nokia can recover.

Pentek tips Virtex-7 boards

Pentek is sampling XMC modules using Virtex-7 FPGAs, claiming the Onyx boards deliver nearly double the performance and bandwidth of its Cobalt ...

post comment 1 comment last comment goafrit
Yes, we have noticed that for Virtex 7. It is a very solid piece of engineering and will do well, if ...

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Opinion

Rebuilding America: Really? Have we given up?

EE Times editorial team has embarked on a new series of stories focused on “Rebuilding America.” Our premise is simple: Are jobs coming back to the ...

post comment 2 comments last comment EREBUS
I agree, without a nation wide plan with integrated product development, education, technical ...

Speaking up for M2M radio innovation

Luke D'Arcy, vice president of marketing at Neul Ltd. (Cambridge, England), has argued that some standards bodies are not addressing the need for ...

post comment 4 comments last comment t.alex
It makes more sense if this standard body is where all the companies come together and agree to ...

Targeting RF key security

How secure are your RFID car key and other devices—to be afraid, or not?

post comment 1 comment last comment Test_engineer
That's why I NEVER leave my car unattended without a steering wheel lock. Even if some mutt managed ...

Who are Imagination's four missing customers?

Imagination has named four of eight licensees signed up so far for graphics cores from its PowerVR Series 6 family. Who are the missing four ...

post comment 3 comments last comment peter.clarke
@hammerd2 Thanks.. so that's Intel Apple, Sony and Fujitsu...with Samsung to come followed by ...

Turning down the noise: When 'low' keeps getting lower

The desire to extend a wireless product’s battery life by reducing power consumption is driving IC manufacturers to develop devices that operate at ...

post comment 1 comment last comment sharps_eng
- and as we push the boundaries to produce more and more cheaply-made digital logic-driven devices ...

DIY days: better, worse, or just very different?

How does today's do-it-yourself experimenter situation compare to "back in the day"?

post comment 19 comments last comment EREBUS
I would say its about the same. Yes you cannot deal directly with components like we used to, but ...

Obama visit to Intel facility irks workers told to stay home

While President Obama’s visit to Intel’s manufacturing facility in Chandler, Arizona may be a huge boon to the chip firm, it is slightly less of a ...

post comment 18 comments last comment Duane Benson
The real sad statement is that anyone felt the need to send 1,500 workers home to ensure the ...

Who says old dogs can’t learn new tricks?

Why should young apps developers get all the publicity? How about a chip designer in his 40s who went "new school" and created a smartphone app that ...

post comment 7 comments last comment TKTSTPR
The App warns you about not to text while driving the moment you login to turn on the app.

The elephant in the corner

Why do so many IC design teams commit to development schedules they know are not possible to meet?

post comment 23 comments last comment WKetel
My observation has been that sales or marketing will promise anything to get the order, and then ...

EDA/IP Weekly Roundup – Jan 25th

Mentor Graphics, Packet Plus, Synopsys, Carbon Design and Arteris made the lineup today. See here for their news…

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Life of Foxconn workers in china

By eewiz on 01.16.2012

Came across this video where they interview many young people who work at foxconn factory at shenzen china.

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Patent 8,090,532 - Pedestrian route production

By phoenixdave on 01.06.2012

Another unique patent, this one from Microsoft.

I wonder how the product manufacturer would address potential liability if, for instance, a person

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Don't get me started on patents for software and 'business ideas'. They were pretty ingenious in the ...

Has anyone tried out www.everythingRF.com?

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What do you think of the website?

everything RF is a search engine for RF & Microwave components.

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Looks quite interesting. They should also include reference literature required for RF design. I ...

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