| MergeOptics assets complements FCI
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2010-03-10 |
| Connector and cable assemble solutions provider FCI, has acquired the assets of MergeOptics, a manufacturer of active optical cables and optical transceivers to complement its assemblies. |
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| Mobile ICs set a hard pace of change for market
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2010-02-25 |
| According to Deepak Prakash of Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc., to keep up with changing environment of the mobile ICs is the biggest challenge. |
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| Internet-driven society demands limit beyond 10GbE
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2010-02-11 |
| Electronics engineers are hitting the limits of their tools and techniques—and perhaps even physics—to keep pace with the rapidly-expanding needs of an Internet-driven society. |
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| LSI, Seagate join forces on PCIe storage solutions
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2010-02-08 |
| LSI Corp. and Seagate Technology will jointly deliver PCIe based solid-state storage (SSS) solutions for data centre and cloud computing environments. |
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| Fearless 2010 analogue forecasts
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2010-01-07 |
| Bill Schweber expects—and more of it—for both business and technical reasons (note: by "analogue", I mean DC through RF). |
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| NXP transfers CMOS IP to Virage Logic
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2009-10-14 |
| The two companies have formed a strategic alliance that includes a long-term licensing and IP development. |
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| Netbook uptake drive OEMs to up laptop battery life
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2009-09-17 |
| Netbooks shook the computing arena as they cost a couple of hundred dollars less than laptops, offered lower performance, as they were supposed to, but offered better battery life. |
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| Mobile drives merchant market processors rise
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2009-09-08 |
| In-Stat projects that the mobile market for merchant processing solutions will grow to 75.50 crore units by 2013. |
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| Sun critiques NAND flash industry
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2009-08-18 |
| Sun Microsystems Inc. Michael Cornwell technologist scolded the NAND flash industry, saying vendors are ignoring the needs of the enterprise and moving towards the "lithography death march." |
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| Elpida ventures into graphics memory
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2009-08-11 |
| Elpida Memory Inc. has acquired Qimonda AG's technology licences and a portion of the design assets related to graphics double-data rate (GDDR) memory architecture. |
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| Android gears for high definition
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2009-08-10 |
| MIPS Technologies and its partner are developing extensions to the Android OS to support high-definition video displays. |
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| AMD, HP pitch for PCIe 3.0 extensions
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2009-08-05 |
| Advanced Micro Devices and Hewlett-Packard researchers have written two extensions to the PCIe 3.0 specification to enable lower cost chips that could support multiple protocols and reduce processor overhead. |
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| Coming soon: PCIe at 8GHz
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2009-07-20 |
| PCI Special Interest Group has disclosed that the final specification for PCIe 3.0 will be released by June 2010. |
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| Intel's SoC initiative slowly making progress
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2009-07-13 |
| Intel isn't giving much detail on its initiative to become an SoC supplier, but interviews with executives show Intel is making gradual progress. |
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| India Designs: Freescale's Kirin3 connectivity microcontrollers
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2009-06-30 |
| The MCF52xx (Kirin3) family of microcontrollers that delivers larger memory and more connectivity is an important milestone in Freescale India's design accomplishments. |
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| Green movement puts memory on hot seat
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2009-06-03 |
| In servers, the notoriously voracious microprocessor is passing the power-hog mantle to the DRAM. |
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| Android's new version supports WVGA
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2009-06-02 |
| WVGA refers to an 800 to 854 x 480 pixel resolution suitable for displaying an entire Web page on a portable device. |
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| Rambus tech aims at 2011 and beyond
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2009-05-28 |
| Rambus has announced a set of interconnect technologies it says will meet the needs of main memory in 2011. |
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| Infineon-IIT Bombay team touts ESD advance
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2009-05-25 |
| The joint team was able to explain the mechanisms behind electrostatic discharge in high-voltage FET devices. |
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| SiliconBlue shines in gloomy market
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2009-05-07 |
| SiliconBlue is one of a number of promising FPGA start-ups to appear in recent years, at least some of which are rumoured to be struggling. |
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| Xilinx opens 'targeted design era' at 25
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2009-04-29 |
| Xilinx's Clement Cheung tells us more about the Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGA devices and the concept of the TDP. |
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| TSMC qualifies 0.18µm embFlash process tech
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2009-04-03 |
| The Taiwanese manufacturing giant has qualified a family of processes intended for automotive, analogue and power-sensitive applications. |
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| ARM-Intel feud heats up
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2009-03-05 |
| The Intel-TSMC deal has put Intel on a further collision course with ARM in the embedded arena. |
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| LG, Intel collaborate on MIDs
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2009-02-18 |
| Intel and LG Electronics have announced a collaboration around the design and production of mobile Internet devices based on Intel's MID hardware platform "Moorestown" and Linux-based Moblin ver 2.0 software platform. The LG device is expected to be one of the first Moorestown designs to market. |
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| Intel looks into optical interconnects
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2009-02-16 |
| Intel is looking into optical interconnects with an eye towards replacing chip-to-chip electrical interconnects. |
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| Trio to demo greener WiMAX solution
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2009-02-12 |
| The three companies integrated their reference designs and commercial products into a base station reference design. |
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| Experts discuss road to 25Gbps backplanes
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2009-02-09 |
| In as short as three years, Ethernet could move up to 40- and 100Gbps data rates using 10Gbps and eventually 25Gbps serial channels. |
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| Experts raise SI issues in high-speed design
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2009-02-05 |
| Engineers struggle with old and new signal integrity problems with high-speed serial system interfaces in the 5 to 10Gbps range, says experts at DesignCon 2009. |
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| PLX defines plan for Ethernet tunnelling in PCIe
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2008-11-26 |
| PLX Technology Inc. has defined a way to run Ethernet over its PCI Express switches. |
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| Firms demo interoperability for WiMAX, LTE apps
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2008-11-21 |
| CommAgility and AxisNT demonstrate interoperability for WiMAX and LTE wireless base band applications. |
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