| National's new CEO wants revenue growth
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2010-03-16 |
| The new CEO at the helm of National Semiconductor Corp., Don Macleod has risen through the ranks of the company and his sole mission is growth in revenue. |
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| NXP's fab-lite movement gathers momentum
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2010-03-10 |
| Fab-lite movement gathers momentum at NXP with it closing down wafer fabs ICH in Germany and ICN5 in the Netherlands, and announcing plans to close ICN6 by early-to-mid 2011. |
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| iPDK open standard released
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2010-03-08 |
| IC foundries and IDMs can use this standard to build a single iPDK that works with multiple OpenAccess-based custom design tools to cut development costs and support for vendor-specific PDKs. |
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| NXP ponders on converting wafer fab to solar facility
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2010-03-04 |
| NXP BV is pondering on converting a 6-inch wafer fab at Nijmegen, The Netherlands, to solar cell manufacture. |
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| Cypress sets up one more PSoC Lab for education
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2010-02-26 |
| Cypress and DOEACC Centre Calicut have teamed up to set up a joint programmable system-on-chip (PSoC) laboratory at DOEACC. |
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| Mephisto tools IMEC's green radios program
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2010-02-25 |
| In collaboration with Mephisto Design Automation (MDA), IMEC will use MDA's M-Design to develop mixed-signal reconfigurable radios for its green radios program |
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| TI, S3 Group's healthcare USB platform eases design
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2010-02-24 |
| Texas Instruments Inc. and S3 Group, have developed the Continua Certified USB-enabled platform for agent devices will enable OEMs to bring personal health devices to market quicker and easier. |
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| Soitec mass produces SOI substrates for cell phones
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2010-02-22 |
| Soitec has fine tuned its HR-SOI process to stabilise the base wafer resistivity in order to meet all cellular electrical specifications and will now commence volume production of the SOI substrates. |
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| ST-Ericsson lists mobile handset trends for 2010
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2010-02-16 |
| In an exclusive with EE Times, ST-Ericsson senior VP and head of strategic planning Edgar Auslander lists what the company believes are the main mobile handset trends for 2010. |
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| Optimism marks 2010 EDA forecasts
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2010-02-05 |
| EE Times lines up estimates and predictions of EDA gurus Walden Rhines, Gary Smith, and Joseph Borel for this year's EDA market. |
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| Renesas completes MCU production facility
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2010-02-05 |
| Renesas Technology Corp. has completes a new facility to increase microcontroller production capacity at the back-end process plant of Renesas Semiconductor (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (RSB), in Beijing, China. |
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| Microsemi, MagnaChip collaborate on BCD process
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2010-02-01 |
| This will improve time-to-market for new product development, while enabling the ongoing re-use of all proven low-voltage blocks and cells that Microsemi has adopted for existing products. |
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| IDT takes over silicon oscillator tech developer
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2010-01-18 |
| Integrated Device Technology Inc. (IDT) has acquired all-silicon oscillator technology developer Mobius Microsystems is an all cash agreement for the outstanding Mobius shares. |
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| Netherlands R&D centre to develop CMOS-based products
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2010-01-18 |
| It has been established as a result of Virage Logic's recent acquisition of NXP's horizontal advanced CMOS intellectual property (IP) rights and certain engineering talent and equipment. |
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| Recession forces focus on core competencies, costs
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2010-01-12 |
| Cadence president Lip-Bu Tan says the recent economic recession has focused semiconductor companies on core competencies and boosted collaborative efforts. EDA companies must deliver solutions to cut costs. |
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| Rumours: NXP puts TriMedia on sale
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2010-01-12 |
| The word is out that NXP Semiconductors is looking for buyers to take over TriMedia—the company's once most coveted VLIW multimedia processor, EE Times has learned. |
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| Then and now: The recession effect on design services
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2010-01-04 |
| Sankalp Semiconductor's CEO Vivek Pawar recounts the tough times during the recession last year and projects a bounce back in business during 2010. |
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| 2009: Tumultuous year for foundries
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2009-12-28 |
| This tumultuous year took its toll on foundry providers along with everyone else. But the damage done by the economy was magnified by the foundries' own mistakes. |
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| Cosmic Circuits taps Cadence Virtuoso 6.1
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2009-12-23 |
| The Virtuoso 6.1 has boosted Cosmic's productivity and turnaround time by 30% over its previous flow. |
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| RoodMicrotec, X-Fab ink network partnership
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2009-12-23 |
| The X-Chain will be a structured platform for X-Fab's customers for an online search of contact information and other data about qualified design and supply chain partners worldwide. |
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| TowerJazz to deliver 4G RF front-end IC for VT Silicon
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2009-12-21 |
| VT Silicon chose TowerJazz's 0.18µm SiGe process instead of a more expensive GaAs process, allowing significantly lower cost and much higher integration |
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| Global conference series makes a pit stop at India
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2009-11-17 |
| EE Times-India caught up with Rahul Arya, marketing and technical sales director at Cadence Design Systems (I) Pvt. Ltd, to discuss India's domestic semiconductor industry and to find out what Indian engineers should expect at the CDNLive!. |
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| Wolfson expands in Japan with new R&D centre
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2009-11-13 |
| Wolfson envisions solutions for revolutionary consumer electronics products with its new development centre at Yokohama. |
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| Analysis: What's next for SMIC?
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2009-11-12 |
| SMIC suffers three major blows in a day. On Nov. 10, it lost a big patent suit, its CEO and its independence. What's next for this silicon foundry vendor? |
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| On Semi enters India design scene via PulseCore
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2009-11-09 |
| On Semiconductor, in all cash deal, acquires PulseCore Semiconductor to foray into the Indian design market. |
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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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| TSMC, IMEC bring innovative ideas together
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2009-10-09 |
| The Innovation Incubation Alliance forged by IMEC and TSMC will serve as a platform for turning concepts into products. |
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| NXP reorg raises questions on future plans
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2009-10-08 |
| Questions about its long-term plans hound NXP Semiconductors after its announced sale of its TV and digital STB units to Trident Microsystems. |
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| Trident buys NXP's DTV, STB biz lines
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2009-10-07 |
| Trident Microsystems Inc. has signed an agreement to NXP Semiconductors' TV systems and STB business lines. |
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| Execs tackle ASIC, FPGA design challenges
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2009-09-22 |
| The ASIC versus FPGA debate took an interesting turn, as executives from two design tool firms offered duelling keynote address on the virtues of and challenges facing FPGA-based and ASICs-based SoCs designs |
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