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Thursday, July 2, 1998Summit acquires ProSoft to improve co-verification offerings(3:00 p.m., EDT, 7/2/98)Summit Design Inc. is in the process of acquiring ProSoft Oy, a Finnish software company, for approximately 250,000 shares of Summit common stock, or roughly $3.75 million. Rockwell Semi sees slow transition out of commodity pricing(3:00 p.m., EDT, 7/2/98)Dwight Decker, president of Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, said he is ready to make an aggressive push next year with a renamed independent semiconductor company spun off by Rockwell International Corp. Doubts cloud South Korea's reforms(3:00 p.m., EDT, 7/2/98)The Korean government has announced new steps to encourage foreign investment that could boost its ailing conglomerates at the center of the Asian financial crisis. But some observers said the reforms amount to little more than a "survival strategy." Florida commission rules on DSL deployment(9:00 p.m., EDT, 7/1/98)Supra Telecommunications and Systems Inc., a minority-owned competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) serving the greater Miami area, won a key ruling June 30 from the Florida Public Service Commission (PSC) that may force BellSouth to allow Supra to provision Digital Subscriber Line services through BellSouth facilities. The ruling has been called a precedent, as it marks the first time a state has ordered a Baby Bell to open its central offices to other carriers for xDSL. Pioneer demos purple laser(9:00 p.m., EDT, 7/1/98)Pioneer Electronic Corp. has demonstrated a 410-nm purple laser beam at room temperature that uses the company's gallium-nitride compound. Storage industry collaborates on benchmarks(9:00 p.m., EDT, 7/1/98)A number of major companies involved in various aspects of the storage industry have banded together to create benchmarks that will aid users who pick disk arrays and other types of storage. The Storage Performance Council, formed this week, expects to have its first benchmark in about a year. U.S. companies undeterred by Japan's financial woes(9:00 p.m., EDT, 7/1/98)U.S.-based electronics companies here have watched sales nosedive as a result of Japan's stubborn economic malaise, a situation that has worsened in the last several months as the yen has dropped in value. As grim as the picture looks for the Japanese economy, several U.S. companies say they will continue to make strategic moves in Japan in hopes of getting a piece of the billions in proposed spending on a government-backed economic stimulus package and gaining access to new technologies by forging alliances with Japanese semiconductor vendors. Wednesday, July 1, 1998Programmable chip combines analog, logic, controller functions(3:00 p.m., EDT, 7/1/98)Semiconductores Investigacion y Desino SA (SIDSA) has completed the development of a family of mixed-signal programmable system chips. Each includes programmable analog signal paths, SRAM-based programmable logic, and an 8051 microcontroller core diffused on the same die. Lucent researchers explore the limits of MOS transistors(3:00 p.m., EDT, 7/1/98)As researchers at Lucent Technologies Bell Labs continue to push the scaling limits of conventional MOS transistors, they are running into fascinating , yet inexplicable phenomena. Sen. McCain joins space station critics(3:00 p.m., EDT, 7/1/98)Another key lawmaker is raising questions about the skyrocketing cost of the International Space Station. Atmel to cut work force(3:00 p.m., EDT, 7/1/98)Joining the ranks of semiconductor firms stung by overcapacity, Atmel Corp. announced that it will lay off 10 percent of its work force and take a $70 million restructuring charge in its second quarter. Chip sales fell 12.8 percent in May(12:35 a.m., EDT, 7/1/98)Worldwide sales of semiconductors fell 12.8 percent in May 1998 from the year-ago period, according to World Trade Semiconductor Statistics information that appeared on the Semiconductor Industry Association's Web site. Symbian offers development environment for EPOC32 operating system(9:00 p.m., EDT, 6/30/98)Despite its recent arrival on the embedded scene, the new EPOC32 operating system will offer a wealth of tools for developers. NEC faces system-on-a-chip challenges(9:00 p.m., EDT, 6/30/98)System-on-a-chip designs pose plenty of challenges. For its part, NEC Corp. wants to have about 15 percent of its semiconductor revenues from system-on-a-chip designs by the year 2001. And while NEC executives are eager to squarely face the shift to SoC designs, their struggles are just beginning. TSSI launches STIL-based design-to-test suite(9:00 p.m., EDT, 6/30/98)Test Systems Strategies Inc. (TSSI) has become one of the first design-to-test companies to roll out a series of software products based on STIL, the IEEE P1450 Standard Test Interface Language. Tuesday, June 30, 1998Embedded memory generator targets foundry processes(3:00 p.m., EDT, 6/30/98)Dolphin Integration SA has introduced a variant of its Rag-Time memory-generator technology that will produce SRAM, DRAM and ROMs targeted at a variety of CMOS logic-process technologies available from foundry semiconductor companies. PC-Tel puts DAA duties in silicon(3:00 p.m., EDT, 6/30/98)PC-Tel Inc., one of the first vendors to support high-speed modem features in host microprocessors, is launching a new modem chip set with Data Access Arrangement duties implemented in silicon. Rockwell restructuring puts semiconductor business on its own(12:00 noon, EDT, 6/30/98)Rockwell International Corp. said on Monday that Rockwell Semiconductor Systems will be spun off to shareholders as an independent company. Industry analysts saw a touch of anxiety in Rockwell International's decision to get rid of its semiconductor business. How LSI Logic snapped up Symbios(12:00 noon., EDT, 6/30/98)Logic Corp. wasted no time moving in on Symbios Inc. (Fort Collins, Colo.), after Adaptec Inc. dropped its acquisition efforts< on June 25. This past weekend, LSI assembled a $760 million cash offer for Symbios, which was accepted on Sunday evening by Symbios' parent, Hyundai Electronics America Inc., and announced early Monday. Fujitsu affirms commitment to DRAM customers(9:00 p.m., EDT, 6/29/98)Fujitsu Ltd. and Fujitsu Microelectronics Inc. said on Monday that their companies have no intention of exiting the memory business, and asserted that they intend to remain a leader in the development of fast DRAM technology. Micromachined parts readied for HDTV(9:00 p.m., EDT, 6/29/98)Silicon Light Machines, a two-year old startup that uses micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) techniques to form pixels on a silicon chip, has enhanced its Grating Light Valve (GLV) technology to come up with a method that uses only single-dimensional arrays to create an image. Motorola enters venture to commercialize the bio-chip(9:00 p.m., EDT, 6/29/98)Motorola Inc. and Packard Instrument Co. will spend $19 million over the next five years to commercialize bio-chip technology in an effort to improve the process of decoding genes. USB bandwagon finally appears ready to roll(9:00 p.m., EDT, 6/29/98)"There are 50 million PCs out there with USB connector ports. Most of them are totally empty." Monday, June 28, 1998@Home pact with telco carrier may be first of many(3:00 p.m., EDT, 6/29/98)Internet backbone specialists weaned on cable-TV hybrid-fiber/coax infrastructures are spreading their wings this month, showing that they are willing to play with telephony networks developed by competitive local-exchange carriers (CLEC). Cirrus chip integrates read-channel, controller functions(3:00 p.m., EDT, 6/29/98)Increasing the integration of a disk drive's electronics, Cirrus Logic Inc. has combined a drive's read channel, disk controller and microcontroller onto a single CMOS die. It is the first device based on an ARM processor to target the growing hard-drive industry. Behavioral breakthrough promised by Meropa(3:00 p.m., EDT, 6/29/98)Armed with new technology that promises to make behavioral synthesis more practical and predictable, startup Meropa Inc. is preparing to release what it regards as ground-breaking software. The company believes it has achieved sufficient breakthroughs to challenge synthesis giant Synopsys Inc. in the marketplace. DAC X-Tek shows graphical modeling approach(3:00 p.m., EDT, 6/29/98)A new type of high-level modeling tool, X-CDE (pronounced "exceed") from X-Tek Corp., promises a graphical alternative to behavioral HDL design. The tool offers design entry, transaction-based simulation, performance modeling and automatic generation of synthesizable HDL code. DAC Startup puts MPEG-2 encoder in fast forward(11:45 p.m., EDT, 6/26/98)Attacking what some see as the first real market for digital video in the consumer-electronics space, a startup here hopes to steal a march on larger, more established players by rolling out a key silicon ingredient for digital recording: a low-cost, highly integrated MPEG-2 encoder. Bell Labs Design Automation unit is on the block(11:45 p.m., EDT, 6/26/98)Bell Labs Design Automation, which leveraged a renowned research legacy to create a boutique of well-regarded deep-submicron tools but struggled to gain market acceptance, is on the block, a company official confirmed last week. AT&T-TCI combo promises all-packet net to the home(11:45 p.m., EDT, 6/26/98)With its $48 billion bid to buy cable TV operator Tele-Communications Inc., AT&T Corp. in one fell swoop has turned the concept of a hybrid telephony and cable TV network from pipe dream to competitive threat. This new direction in AT&T's local-access strategy could have wide implications for the deployment of packet-switched data services over both kinds of networks. Navy spy satellite comes in from the cold(11:45 p.m., EDT, 6/26/98)Five days after the Soviets shot down U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers over Soviet territory in May 1960, President Dwight Eisenhower approved the launch of a secret electronic intelligence, or Elint, satellite to spy on Soviet air defenses. The Galactic Radiation and Background (Grab) satellite, launched on June 22, 1960, was the first U.S. reconnaissance satellite, ushering in an era of high-tech spying from space that would provide U.S. leaders with real-time intelligence from nearly any spot on Earth. Compaq will use Rambus memories in Alpha-based servers(11:45 p.m., EDT, 6/26/98)Compaq Computer Corp. (Houston) will announce on Monday that it plans to use Direct Rambus DRAMs in future AlphaServer designs, defying the conventional wisdom that the Rambus architecture is not well-suited to multi-gigabyte memory systems. TI revs C54X DSP, ADI grabs design wins(11:45 p.m., EDT, 6/26/98)Asserting its dominance in the market for digital signal processors, Texas Instruments Inc. has announced a new version of its popular C54X series — one with an increased Mips rate, lower power consumption and smaller form factor. Elsewhere, Analog Devices Inc. is announcing user endorsements for its second-generation Sharc processor, which it claims offers the DSP industry's highest floating-point performance. |
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