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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.
Tuesday, December 23, 1997DTV silicon breaks groundPanasonic AVC American Laboratories, the North American digital-TV research facility of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., has developed a single-chip DTV video decoder. The chip is a key component in the DTV decoder set-top box that Panasonic is scheduled to premiere at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas early next month.
MCM technology puts passives in wireless appsAn advanced packaging technology developed with hefty amounts of Darpa funding for exotic multichip modules is about to see new light in an unexpected form. Dow Chemical Co. and Flextronics International are forming a company called Intarsia, which will produce and market integrated passive technology developed by MCM pioneer Nchip.
SGI, Microsoft to ally for common 3-D APIAgreeing to put aside aside differences over 3-D graphics, Silicon Graphics Inc. and Microsoft Corp. said last week that they will work together on a common set of application programming interfaces.
Samsung, TSMC license Silicon Storage flash schemeSilicon Storage Technology (SST) will soon announce it has licensed its split-gate flash-memory technology to Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) in exchange for a more-advanced manufacturing process it will use to build a host of new flash products across multiple market segments.
Monday, December 22, 1997Ruling challenges Avant! productsAvant! Corp. escaped an immediate ban on its current Aquarius placement-and-routing tools in a ruling by the U.S. District Court here on Dec. 19. But the court did ban Avant!'s legacy ArcCell products, and Judge Ronald Whyte said source code for both Aquarius and Avant!'s upcoming Apollo product must be turned over to independent experts appointed by Cadence Design Systems Inc., which had filed the suit against Avant!
X86 twist in Sun patent pactA broad patent cross-licensing deal just inked by microprocessor rivals Intel Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. specifically excludes all of Intel's x86-related patents, a source close to the company said. Officials at Intel declined to comment.
Japan sees shortcut to 0.05-micron chipThe Japan Science and Technology Corp. (JST), which is part of the the Science and Technology Agency, has begun a project that could enable production of chips with 40-nanometer gate lengths within four years, lopping a decade off of the date predicted by Moore's Law and speeding the advent of 256-Gbit DRAMs.
Clouds put damper on growth forecastRobust IC sales--rising 10 percent to 17 percent above 1997 levels--will contribute to what most economic forecasters believe will be a continuation next year of the U.S. economic expansion that's prevailed for the bulk of the decade. Forecasters see a strong economy at least through the first half.
Higher integration drives GPS 'under cover'Receivers for the global positioning satellite system have been shrinking rapidly, fueling a modest surge in handheld GPS units. Now, driven not only by increasing interest in handhelds but also by a growing embedded market, the GPS receiver is approaching the single-chip level.
Standard Micro enters core-logic fray via TexasStandard Microsystems Corp. (SMSC) plans to take on its largest investor, Intel Corp., next month when it jumps into the intensely competitive PC core-logic market. The company's Texas chip set will directly compete in the growing low-cost-PC market with Intel's 440TX desktop chip set. Intel holds a 10 percent equity stake in SMSC.
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