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Inexact processor is more power efficient

Processing circuitry that has been designed to allow imprecision has been shown to be 15 times more power efficient than conventional circuitry at ...

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DRAM sales projected to grow 3% in 2012

Thanks in no small part to the bankruptcy of Elpida Memory, the global DRAM industry is expected to partially reverse massive losses incurred in 2011, ...

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After dropping 25% last year, a 3% rise this year does not make up for much. Yes, the remaining ...

Ailing Bauer resigns as Infineon CEO

Peter Bauer (shown), CEO of chip maker Infineon Technologies, will step down at the end September for health reasons.

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I really appreciate the sincere resignation of the CEO. Good luck to Ploss.

Applied to cut jobs, move solar manufacturing to Asia

Applied Materials will cut about 250 jobs and relocate manufacturing for its solar wafer systems from Switzerland to Asia, the company said in a ...

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And that 2 bedroom flat costs about half a million to a million dollar now.

Bozotti has a dream: to turn round ST's digital problem

Carlo Bozotti, CEO of European chip company STMicroelectronics NV, has a dream. It is to have both sides of his company be successful and that means ...

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I agree Kiran...I would put my money on their analog horse

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, ...

Talk from the hip at Microchip

Microchip CEO Steve Sanghi is a straight talker. When he comments on the economy, outsourcing, technology or market trends, you’ll hear very little ...

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Ditto, as a long time user in several of the different offerings from 8 to 16 bit devices, I agree ...

TSMC pushes 28-nm Cortex-A9 to 3.1-GHz

Foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has announced it has made a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor test chip in its 28-nm ...

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The power depends on many factors......and those same factors decide frequency. How can that freq ...

SIA: March chips sales showed sequential improvement

The three month-rolling average of global chip sales improved to $23.3 billion in March, up 1.5 percent from February but down 7.9 percent compared ...

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Here comes silicene, possible graphene replacement

Science researchers have reported the growth of a single layer of silicon on top of silver, in a hexagonal 2-D form of silicon similar to the graphene ...

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No!No!No! Competition keeps prices lower! :-)

Achronix chairman: Intel foundry gambit poised for payoff

Achronix Semiconductor Corp., eight years into its startup phase, is hanging its hat on Intel’s 22-nm FinFET process technology for its survival and ...

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Why would they bother with Achronix. They would have to relearn RTL development as Achronix forces a ...

EE Times updates 'Silicon 60' list of emerging startups

EE Times has updated its list of 60 notable emerging startup companies to version 13.0 with the inclusion of 18 companies.

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The update has bought a many new names in the list surprisingly Vayavya Labs Pvt. Ltd.(Belgaum, ...

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Samsung researchers propose graphene 'barristor'

A research team from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (Yongin, Korea) has proposed a novel three-terminal device that could overcome ...

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So it only works one direction, a gated Schottky diode?

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 ...

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Another aspect of America’s drift away from its manufacturing base is the internal “brain drain” in ...

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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Commentary

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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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 ...

Industry view: iSuppli on Micron/Elpida deal

Kristin Lewotsky

Mike Howard of IHS iSuppli weighs in on rational markets, Micron's most likely integration strategy, and the one thing Elpida must not do.

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micron's stock keeps falling... investors are no fool, not buying mu's silly idea.

Reversal from the foundry model back to IDM ?

Zvi Or-Bach

One can't avoid the question: Are we facing a dramatic reversal of the trend from the Foundry model back to the IDM model?

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This sounds like a shameless advertisement. The problem is that today's fabs are so outrageously ...

 

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