| IC manufacturing equipment suppliers rated
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2008-03-24 |
| According to VLSI Research the top ten IC manufacturing equipment suppliers recorded combined revenues of Rs.132,252.61 crore ($33.5 billion) last year, a 10 percent increase over the previous year. |
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| HP, U.K. group develop GPS-based software devt platform
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2008-02-28 |
| In an R&D project called Mediascape, U.S.-based HP Labs, together with a team of U.K. researchers developed a location-based interactive software devt platform. |
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| MEMS market grew 9% in 2007
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2008-02-05 |
| Yole Développement reported that MEMS market grew 9 per cent to Rs.27,634.87 crore ($7 billion) in 2007 |
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| E-paper display tech on the move
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2008-02-01 |
| E-paper comprises of a number of reflective-display tech, such as particle displays, LCDs and MEMS displays. But almost all the e-paper tech are relatively immature and at the beginning of their evolution of capabilities |
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| Samsung invests multimillion dollars in Israeli startup
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2008-01-31 |
| Samsung Ventures Investment has invested multimillion dollar in an Israeli Tech Company, Micro Components that designs, manufactures, and markets packaging for high power microelectronic components. |
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| Freescale, Microstaq address HVAC energy issues
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2008-01-24 |
| Freescale and Microstaq have partnered to develop an intelligent refrigerant superheat control system to improve HVAC and refrigeration system energy efficiency and reliability, while enabling predictive system maintenance. |
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| Freescale opens advanced 200mm MEMS facility
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2008-01-17 |
| Freescale has built an advanced MEMS 200mm production line at its Oak Hill Fab in Austin to explore and integrate new MEMS capabilities and address challenges, such as power, cost and form factors |
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| NIST develops MEMS measurement tech
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2008-01-15 |
| NIST has developed what it claims as a set of testing procedures for MEMS-sized structures using optical non-contact instrumentation |
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| ITC to investigate four IC complaints
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2008-01-08 |
| The U.S. ITC has announced that it will institute an investigation of certain products based on complains filed by IBM, Knowles Electronics, Tessera and Seoul Semiconductor. |
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| New technique enables wafer-level calibration
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2007-12-17 |
| VTI Technologies have developed what it claims as a new technique called "chip-on-MEMS" that bonds ASIC dice atop an entire MEMS wafer before dicing |
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| WTC sees RF MEMS switch market explode
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2007-11-26 |
| According to Wicht,RF MEMS switch market will explode over the next years and most devices will be used in test equipment for the IC industry, followed by mobile phones and telecom infrastructure |
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| MEMS target CE market
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2007-11-23 |
| MEMS chips are now entering the consumer electronics mainstream. Most recently, we're seeing MEMS technology being used in Nintendo's Wii and Apple's iPhone, and this may just be the beginning |
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| RFMD acquires Sirenza, sets up Multi-market Products Group
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2007-11-22 |
| RF Micro Devices has announced the establishment of the Multi-Market Products Group (MPG), following RFMD's successful completion of the acquisition of Sirenza Microdevices. |
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| Industrial sensors perform precision measurements
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2007-11-16 |
| The devices being used in industrial apps are designed and manufactured not only by sensor specialists but also by semiconductor companies such as ADI, Dallas Semiconductor, Maxim and TI. |
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| Penguin addresses dust clogging in MEMS devices
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2007-11-12 |
| Omron has developed an airflow sensor with an innovative mechanical architecture, which claims to have solved the problem of dust and other particulate clogging for MEMS airflow sensors |
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| Researcher creates ultrathin yet ultrastrong material
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2007-10-22 |
| A professor at University of Michigan has claimed that he was successful in transferring the intrinsic strength of nanomaterials to a macroscopic material with a new type of polymer glue and a new type of uniform layer-by-layer assembly method. |
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| Energy harvesting embraces many techniques
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2007-10-12 |
| The importance of energy harvesting has motivated the German federal government to include the topic in its about Rs.2,770.71 crore ($685 million) research support program. |
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| MediaTek acquires ADI's cellular chipset biz
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2007-09-12 |
| MediaTek has acquired the assets related to the ADI's Othello radio and SoftFone baseband chipset product lines, as well as certain cellular handset baseband support operations. |
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| Experts: Engineers need to harness natural processes
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2007-09-07 |
| Biomed experts laid out two innovation paths for engineers in the medical sector ?mimic natural forces to bring new tech to life and to drive the app of computing to health care. |
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| Report: MEMS activities in China moves to high-value
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2007-09-04 |
| The fast development of China?s Micro/Nanotechnology business poses threats but also offers opportunities to western companies, according to the enablingMNT industry report. |
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| Akustica debuts tiny MEMS mic for cellphones
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2007-08-01 |
| Akustica has unveiled what it claims as the world?s smallest microphone that uses a MEMS diaphragm and on-chip complementary CMOS analogue circuitry |
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| Auto, CE needs to sustain MEMS sensor growth
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2007-07-25 |
| The increasing demand from end-user markets such as automotive, medical and consumer electronics is driving the MEMS sensor market which is expected to reach Rs.17,140.50 crore ($4.2 billion) by 2012, stated a new F&S report |
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| Balda's partner produces iPhone's touchscreen
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2007-07-10 |
| A keen observation has revealed that Balda's Taiwan-based partner, TPK Holding, is behind the touchscreen display module used in iPhone. |
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| SoftMEM's tools add MEMS to EDA software
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2007-07-03 |
| SoftMEM's toolsets, when integrated with existing EDA tool sets, enables EEs to co-design electronics-with-MEMS chips without having to have the deep MEMS knowledge of a guru |
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| Euro fabs turn to niche apps to avoid TSMC
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2007-07-02 |
| TSMC's two-pronged strategy to roll out a series of 45nm manufacturing process variants and to invest in 180nm manufacturing is putting increasing pressure on its European competitors. |
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| IMEC energy harvester yields power from vibrations
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2007-06-25 |
| IMEC announced it has built a piezo-based energy harvester prototype that generates energy from mechanical vibrations. |
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| Nano, MEMs tech push energy harvesting apps
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2007-06-19 |
| Energy harvesting start-ups are looking to partner with power management chip makers like TI, Nordic Semiconductor and ST that are positioned to enter the energy harvesting market, reported Darnell group. |
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| Report: Inertial MEMs market to grow by 13% by 2011
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2007-06-11 |
| Yole has predicted the interial MEMS market to grow by 13 per cent by 2011 and identified key trends in the growth of inertial MEMS sales |
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| Wii wins the console war
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2007-06-08 |
| Nintendo Co.'s Wii game console outsold Playstation 3 by more than five times in Japan last month fuelling doubts over Sony's earnings recovery. |
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| Designers eye gaming platforms
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2007-06-08 |
| Atari retrospective teardown provided the perspective necessary to predict where gaming boxes are headed and what opportunities may lay ahead for chip and software designers in next-generation platform designs. |
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