| Speciality foundries spread their wings
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2010-03-18 |
| The speciality foundries Dongbu, MagnaChip, TowerJazz and X-Fab are expanding with new capabilities or alliances. |
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| 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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