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  Headlines and summaries from the pages of Electronic Engineering Times. Previous editions are available from the 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 News Archives.
Friday February 28, 1997Siemens taps flash to complement DRAM businessShrugging off the DRAM slump, Siemens' semiconductor group plans to move into the volume flash-memory market to complement its DRAM activities and is starting a drive to boost logic sales and improve time-to-market for new designs.
GSM group calls for 'world' phoneCellular telephone makers should develop an essentially "worldwide" mobile phone by year's end, a leading member of the Global Standard for Mobile communications (GSM) told its World Congress here last week.
Bold bid to create recording-head giantApplied Magnetics last week launched a hostile takeover bid for Read-Rite, the world's largest independent supplier of magnetic recording heads. If successful, the deal would create a $1.8 billion manufacturer of thin-film heads and head-stack assemblies for disk drives.
CompactPCI eyes lift in embedded systemsVendors hoping to bring the PCI bus architecture into the embedded-systems world are refining their strategies, and CompactPCI bus supporters think it is poised for market takeoff.
VDOnet, Progressive in streaming matchProgressive Networks has developed a Web-based video broadcast platform as part of a bid to create a de facto streaming standard for Internet and intranet full-motion video, hoping to take on companies that have staked early claims to the market, including VDOnet and Xing.
Thursday February 27, 1997Micron files SRAM dumping petitionMicron Technology Inc. said late Tuesday that it had filed an antidumping petition here covering SRAMs from Taiwan and Korea.
ACM celebrates golden time in computingIn this year of multiple industry anniversaries, the Association for Computing Machinery is turning over its annual meeting, opening here today, to an impressive lineup of luminaries in an attempt to divine the next 50 years in computing. That's a tough call in an industry propelled by continual innovation punctuated by the occasional explosion of new capabilities.
Motorola's 1-V op amp maintains its bandwidthIt may be possible to build a 1-V IC op amp, but not with a usable bandwidth or drive capability. Motorola's has tried to change that. The output of the company's just-launched MC33502 dual op amp swings to within 50 mV of a 1-V supply rail and still has a gain bandwidth product of 4 MHz.
Standalones face instrument-on-card challengeNational Instruments has come out with a new instrument-on-a-card line. First out are an oscilloscope, DMM and arbitrary waveform generator, in one or several form factors: PCI, PCMCIA or ISA.
Formal tools heat up in U.S.The fast-growing formal-verification market has a new U.S. contender, with the release of Verilog-based equivalency and model-checking tools from the U.K.-based Abstract Hardware Ltd.
Bay rethinks switching nodeIn the Switch Node architecture being rolled out this week, Bay Networks has ported all router determination microcode to a Motorola 68060, while optimizing route-forwarding microcode to a very tight implementation on a MIPS R5000.
Wednesday February 26, 1997Standards network hits WebThe American National Standards Institute (ANSI) along with government and industry partners launched a web-based service last week that pulls together thousands of international and U.S. technical specifications.
Intel offers bare die of MMX-based PentiumIntel Corp. has unveiled an unpackaged version of the recently introduced mobile Pentium processor with MMX technology.
PCI silicon supports mobile power managementWith Pentium-based portable computers becoming far too complicated for most of today's core-logic chip sets, National Semiconductor has proposed a four-chip set -- the "Mobile Solution" -- to help make this juggling act easier and less expensive.
Motorola's PowerPlus family sports two 604sTwo new board-level subsystems from Motorola's Technical Products Division extends the company's PowerPlus board architecture into the multiprocessing realm with dual PowerPC 604s.
Modules take tight packagesAn abundance of new laser transceivers dominated the recent Optical Fiber Conference in Dallas. The common dominator is their use of simplified packaging --e xtending down to such new package types as the Mini-DIL.
Scopes establish high-end marksThe white-hot rivalry in high-end oscilloscopes continues to melt existing performance records: LeCroy has released a new family of scopes that doubles the sampling rate over that of a family the company unwrapped only last October.
Tuesday February 25, 1997Cypress takes Warp to the WebIn a bold move to use the Internet for electronic commerce, Cypress Semiconductor has disclosed it will begin selling its Warp2 programmable-logic design software over its Web site. By entering a credit-card number to a unique secure server, customers can order the program, which will be shipped on CD-ROM within two weeks.
PC chip vendors board DVD bandwagonThe hint that DVD could ignite the dormant multimedia PC market is triggering an avalanche of hardware and software work. Two major announcements this week --from PC graphics mainstay ATI Technologies Inc. and video-CD vendor C-Cube Microsystems Corp. -- mark the leading edge of a landslide of offerings.
Louisiana team wins engineers' 'city' contestA team of students from a Louisiana school won the 1997 National Engineers Week Future City Competition last week.
Modem agreements center on programmingThe ability to program V.34 modem functionality in simple signal-processing blocks is driving alliances between algorithm experts and chip makers. This week, startup SmartLink will announce a pact with Analog Devices to embed modem functionality in an audio codec chip. At the same time, Motorola will offer its modem-coding expertise for use in LSI Logic's CoreWare program.
McCain opposes Net access feesTaking a page from a computer coalition, the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee has come out against proposals to assess per-minute fees on Internet Service providers.
Unipac investigates FED line for TaiwanIncreased Japanese interest in field-emission-display (FED) devices and technology has suppliers in Taiwan looking to get into the act.
Monday February 24, 1997EEs the world over see Net as job toolA worldwide collaborative Internet used by the engineering community is very much in evidence, according to an EE Times survey of dozens of industry professionals. The recently released book, 24 Hours in Cyberspace," offers a look at how the new "electronic global village" communicates over the Internet. Accordingly, we focused on the design community from America to Australia for one workday earlier this month.
As Klamath nears, MMX issues loomAiming to build MMX marketing momentum, Intel Corp. is poised to unveil Klamath--the first Pentium Pro-class CPU to use its new multimedia instruction-set extensions. However, industry sources said Klamath-equipped PCs may not hit the market in force until the third quarter, because Intel's core-logic chip set isn't expected to be available until then.
Lasers light way for all-optical networkBreakthroughs in the integration of semiconductor and optoelectronics devices are coming fast and furious. In fact, the air was so thick with semiconductor developments at last week's Optical Fibers Conference (OFC) that one MIT researcher called it "the most radical OFC in five years."
Siemens favors Dresden for 300-mm pilot lineJoining the 12-inch-fab movement, Siemens appears almost certain to build a semiconductor pilot line in Dresden for the transition to 300-mm wafer processing. Siemens, the only European-based DRAM manufacturer, will decide on the plant's site within two months.
Clipper sinks, but the crypto battle rolls onThe controversial Clipper chip may be dead, but the debate over U.S. encryption policy is as lively as ever. According to a report last week, the Defense Department will remove key-escrow software from its Fortezza crypto cards that provide authentication and privacy on a military-messaging system.
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