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Former Apple, Google, Facebook engineers launch IoT startup

One-year old startup Electric Imp has developed a Wi-Fi node in a memory card physical format that it hopes will become a standard way for things to ...

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This is great news. Look forward to working with this.

Handicapping the field of possible MIPS suitors

EE Times editors contemplate the potential list of suitors if and when MIPS Technologies goes on the block, then handicap the odds of who would ...

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I'll add an observation that a many changes to a License Core, can actually penalize the licensees. ...

Weigh in on the greatest hits in electronics

This fall, EE Times will kick off a yearlong celebration of its 40th anniversary year. Through coverage and various activities online, in a special ...

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In keeping with the "Greatest Hits" theme of this survey (borrowed from the music industry), I'd ...

IHS projects rise in counterfeit chips

Counterfeit semiconductors are expected to become a more prevalent problem in the future as the semiconductor industry enters a phase of accelerating ...

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Counterfeits can be original parts that were scavenged from e-waste and remarked. In many cases, ...

Top 25 Distributors: Sellers without borders

We rank the Top 25 electronics distributors by revenue and address issues of significance to their operations, customers and suppliers.

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Do Chinese companies seeking to obtain authentic components ever purchase through US distributors ...

Landscape for board design changes beyond 10G

As systems demand interfaces capable of handling four-channel and 10-channel paths to 40/100G Ethernet, universal adoption of 10GBase-KR seems likely.

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Hanking starts building Chinese MEMS wafer fab

Hanking Group (Shenyang, China), a mining and metal processing conglomerate in the north-east of China, has begun building what could become a major ...

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Similarly Keithley, Tektronix have been purchased by an investment fund. Finally, any commercial ...

Struggle continues to plug embedded programming gap

The continuing lack of university computer science courses focusing on embedded systems programming has prompted some evangelists to take matters into ...

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Well, in my uni all engineering students are required to be exposed to C programming in their first ...

Microchip to buy SMSC, plotting new expansion

Micochip's SMSC acquisition deal puts Microchip – long known as a “long-tail” company with 70,000 customers – on a new trajectory.

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Sure some will get pink slips for some unwanted businesses

NXP today: 'Practically a Chinese company'

Rick Clemmer, NXP’s CEO, said last week, NXP today is “practically a Chinese company.” NXP makes more money in China than in any other single country. ...

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it is interesting to see some hypocritical, western-oriented, cold war-minded comments here The ...

Samsung announces quad-core Exynos processor

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has announced that it is manufacturing a quad-core application processor for smartphones and tablet computers built on a ...

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Adding two more cores does not double the speed of the overall functionality, but yes it does do ...

China mulls national CPU architecture spec

Chinese officials have kicked off a program to define a national processor architecture that could become a requirement for projects seeking ...

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Wow, I really hope they do it, because we know the important thing to have in a vital, innovative, ...

ST-Ericsson passing processors to ST, cutting staff

ST-Ericsson NV, the loss making mobile chip joint venture between STMicroelectronics and Ericsson, has announced guidelines for a new strategic ...

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Sorry for hearing this news. Finally, the ST-E got this step to save itself. The employees are the ...

Source problems cause EUV revenue delay, says ASML

Lithography equipment developer ASML has said that a delay in the availability of illumination power sources has prompted it to push out revenue ...

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For Cymer it seems end of summer not likely, maybe end of year. It's still a big slip which will ...

Slideshow: Discovery takes victory lap before landing at Smithsonian

The workhorse of the NASA's shuttle fleet, Discovery, made its final flight this week to the Smithsonian's annex at Dulles International Airport ...

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I concur. The problem is that the space program, like almost all government programs, moved from ...

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Ring of Fire: How Japan sees it (Updated)

Tokyo residents are going crazy over the highly anticipated appearance of the solar “ring of fire,” expected at 7:35a.m., Monday, May 21st.

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I hadn't realized this was happening today. I just happened to be reading this article at 6:30 which ...

Facebook founder marries in secret ceremony

As a pinnacle to a packed week, Facebook creator and CEO Mark Zuckerberg used his profile to announce his marriage to long-time girlfriend of nine years Priscilla Chan on Saturday

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Very good Zuckerberg, don't tell everyone your business.

Handicapping the field of possible MIPS suitors

EE Times editors contemplate the potential list of suitors if and when MIPS Technologies goes on the block, then handicap the odds of who would actually acquire or merge with the IP core licensor.

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I'll add an observation that a many changes to a License Core, can actually penalize the licensees. ...

IEEE group defines body area network

The IEEE has released its 802.15.6 standard for body area networks that deliver up to 10 Mbits/second over distances as long as three meters.

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A new standard for short-range body area networks officially debuts… interesting; I wonder when this ...

IHS: DRAM's share of smartphone BoM cut in half

Although DRAM content in smartphones is on the rise, DRAM's share of the average smartphone's bill of materials has fallen by about half over the course of the past year due to declining DRAM prices, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli.

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If the price fall continues, is there a risk of finding the quality & reliability also to fall in ...

Purdue researchers use AZO for optical metamaterials

Researchers at Purdue University have shown how to create metamaterials without the traditional silver or gold previously required for creating optical metamaterials.

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pixies: The researchers claim eventually the metamaterials can be used in optical communications and ...

Report: ARM aims to take 20% of notebook PC market

Warren East, CEO of processor IP licensor ARM Holdings plc, has said he expects companies making processors based on the ARM cores will take between 10 and 20 percent of the notebook PC market in 2014 or 2015, according to a Dow Jones report. That would be much higher penetration than Intel would make into the smartphone market, the report also quoted East saying.

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According to microsoft There will be two versions of windows:one that runs only on x86/x64, fully ...

NASA, SpaceX lower expectations for historic flight to space station

SpaceX and NASA managers sought to dampen expectations in advance of the scheduled launch of a commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station.

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Better luck next week.

Living virus generates electricity

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs have discovered a way to genetically engineer a living virus to be piezoelectric, enabling self-assembling arrays of them to produce enough electricity to power small electronic devices.

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This is very good! Now nanotechnology have it's own batteries. And they can be charged while ...

ST sues InvenSense alleging patent infringement

STMicrolectronics NV has filed a complaint in the Northern District of California alleging that InvenSense Inc., a supplier of motion tracking components based on MEMS technology, infringes nine ST patents, InvenSense said Thursday (May 17).

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Update: I would have written: "...now running"

Semiconductor News

AMD plugs Trinity into embedded systems

AMD announced a family of up to eight embedded processors based on its new Trinity integrated x86 and graphics chip and a handful of users packing ...

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Marvell sees return to normalcy following Thai floods

Chip maker Marvell Technology Group said it benefited from supply chain recovery in the wake of last year's devastating floods in Thailand and that it ...

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When Intel took out an ARM licence it produced the StrongARM and PXA family of processors, but ...

Amkor plans back-end chip facility in South Korea

Semiconductor packaging and test services provider Amkor Technology said it plans to build a state-of-the-art test and packaging facility and global ...

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Foundries' 28-nm capacity build keeping Applied in the black

Dylan McGrath

Applied Materials' fiscal second quarter showing was driven largely by strong sales to foundries that are scrambling to add 28-nm capacity.

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Engineering Ferrari

Sylvie Barak

Nothing but pasta could possibly be more representative of Italian sumptuousness than Ferrari, the sexy luxury race car brand that made its debut in 1947 with the 125S, produced in Maranello, Italy, and bearing the Ferrari trademark.

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Hey, HM, see Rick's links, above! He spoke to the technical teams involved... unfortunately, I only ...

Gary Smith: The man who cried 'ESL & virtual prototype' gets the last laugh

Mike Santarini

Many years ago and in a Galaxy that seems far far away, my buddy and journalism mentor Richard Goering teamed up to provide EDA coverage for EE Times...

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I also like the idea.

Electric Imp's cool versus Cambridge's Neul in IoT

Peter Clarke

Comparing a couple of leaders in the Internet of Things domain - Electric Imp Inc. and Neul Ltd. - shows the same bases get covered but with different radio and product strategies. Which is best? There's only one way to find out.

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As I see it (and I'm no expert I hasten to add) the IOT on networks will be much like SMSs on ...

Will China hit a (great) wall? Don’t bet on it

George Leopold

Some naysayers argue that China can't innovate and that the Chinese economy is bound to "hit the wall" like Japan's export-driven economy did in the 1990s. The "hit-the-wall" proponents are wrong.

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It's not that bad, many continue to study in China at prestigious universities.

Plastic doesn't pollute, people do

Sylvie Barak

Plastic may not be the most beloved of materials to the more environmentally minded, but a tradeshow held last week in Italy aimed to mold a different opinion of the material in people's minds.

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The problem gets even worse when it comes to so-called "bio-plastics" because then people think it's ...

Indy engines still pack a 700HP punch

Charles Murray

This year, when the Indy cars line up in the grid at the "greatest spectacle in racing," they'll be using engines with less displacement than that in a Volkswagen Golf or a Toyota Camry.

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The fact that these powers can be had is testimony that the technology is there. Obviously those ...

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Sub-100$ tablet available for ordering

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Datawind's UbiSlate, a tablet costing around $60 - $80 is launched in India and is open for ordering on the UbiSlate site: http://www.ubislate.com/. Two models

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