National's sales, earnings rise
National Semiconductor Corp. reported sales of $362 million in the quarter, up 5 percent from $345 million in the previous quarter and up 24 percent from $292 million reported in last year's third fiscal quarter. |
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Organic-silicon hybrid aims at optics
European Union's Silicon-Organic Hybrid Fabrication Platform for Integrated Circuits SOFI aims to bring photonics to silicon complementary metal oxide semiconductor CMOS chips with organic polymer filled silicon waveguides for carrying optical signals at up to 100-GHz. |
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Report to urge U.K. state funding for tech, says FT
Hermann Hauser, a partner at Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd. Cambridge, England, is expected to recommend that the U.K. government help establish three technology centers costing £300 million about $450 million over the next five to ten years, according to a Financial Times report. |
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Ralink, TrendChip merge to form wireless, broadband IC player
Ralink Technology Corp. Hsinchu, Taiwan, a developer of wireless chips, has announced an agreement to take over the broadband chipset supplier TrendChip Technologies Corp. Hsinchu, Taiwan. |
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Silicon Hive launches parallel platform, licenses LSI
Silicon Hive BV Eindhoven, The Netherlands has introduced another manifestation of its parallel processing hardware acceleration technology called HiveLogic and announced it has licensed the platform to LSI Corp. Milpitas, Calif.. |
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Startup seeks to merge IC floorplanning, IP sourcing
Serial entrepreneur George Janac had formed EDA company Parallel Engines Corp. with the claimed intention of merging semiconductor IP and EDA into a single set of tools. The company said it would deliver tools with bundled IP models. |
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Broadcom takes stake in multicore pioneer Tilera
Broadcom Corp. Irvine Calif. has made an investment in multicore processor developer Tilera Corp. San Jose, Calif.. |
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Analog Devices offers WSN transceiver
Analog Devices Inc. has announced today the availability of an RF transceiver targeting short-range wireless systems in the 2.4-GHz ISM band. |
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Applied continues to expand in Asia
Fab tool giant Applied Materials Inc. has opened its expanded Tainan Manufacturing Center in Tainan, Taiwan. |
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Comment: Surviving the mobile systems stampede
Two words of advice for system makers who want to survive a coming stampede of new mobile systems thundering on the horizon—think different. |
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Graphene's the right stuff for organic LEDs, says Stanford team
A Stanford team is claiming successful demonstration of an inexpensive, solution-based spin-coating dispersion technique for fabricating graphene anodes for organic LED displays, promising to sidestep indium tin oxide electrode shortages and clear the way for development of flexible OLEDs. |
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Qualcomm, others invest $46M in AMEC
Chinese fab tool specialist Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. AMEC has closed its Series D financing round by securing $46 million from existing investors. |
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Specialty foundries expand their wings
The specialty foundries are expanding their wings with new capabilities or alliances. |
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FormFactor opens Singapore plant
Seeking to cut costs amid losses, FormFactor Inc. has announced the official opening of its new wafer probe card manufacturing facility and global business center in Singapore. |
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PC shipments actually grew in '09, says iSuppli
Thanks to a better than expected fourth quarter, PC shipments eked out marginal growth in 2009, defying a widely held belief that the market would contract after a terrible start to the year, according to market research firm iSuppli. Market research - iSuppli - Personal computer - Business - Marketing and Advertising |
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Source: Samsung explores gate-last high-k
In a major departure, South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is reportedly exploring an alternative in high-k dielectrics: It is looking at gate-last technology, according to sources. South Korea - Samsung Group - Asia - Government - Technology |
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Point/Counterpoint: Do you support patent reform
For more than five years, the U.S. Congress has tried to forge a compromise on how to update the U.S. patent system. What follows are views representing two sides in the debate. Patent - Intellectual property - Law - Services - Patent Services |
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Cisco rolls router for 100 Gbit core networks
Cisco Systems announced its next generation core router, the CRS-3 which can route 100 Gbit/second streams and sports an aggregate throughput of up to 322 Terabits/second. CiscoSystems - Router - Throughput - Data Communications - Cisco |
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Software makes data centers greener
Data centers can go green without adding hardware by installing the artificially intelligent AI inference engine in the Sentilla Energy Manager software. Data center - Artificial intelligence - Inference engine - Business - Databases |
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