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Archived News from Jan 2012 to Dec 2012

December 2012

2013: Stable growth for NAND flash memory is forecasted

Optical transceiver market to grow by 7% to reach $2B in 2013, as per Infonetics

ISO approves latest version of the Ada programming language

Year 2012: 28nm super success and 14nm and 16nm are ready for big in 2013

India’s own OS under development can boost the Indian IT industry

ABI: Wi-Fi enabled device shipments reach 5B in 2012 and 10B by 2015

Small cells in public venues to grow CAGR 67% to $3.1B in 2018, estimates ABI

IDT not acquiring PLX

Riscure accredited as independent testing lab for DPA tests

IBM develops IT systems to support electric car charging anywhere in EU

ZigBee Alliance adds energy harvesting battery-free option in its new specs

Top IT software/systems predictions by Gartner for 2013

OLED display shipments are expected to reach 191 million in 2012

Iton has selected Cypress' 2.4-GHz WirelessUSB-NL radio-on-a-chip

Dongbu HiTek boasts of two big wins in China mobile device market

Imec and Synopsys collaborate on TCAD models of 10nm FinFET

ABI: RF power amplifier sales for wireless infrastructure to reach $2.4B in 2012

ST Microelectronics to focus on sensor, analog, discrete power and embedded

WBA and Small Cell Forum to work on integrating Wi-Fi and small cells

Infonetics: 100G to rise from 5% of deployed wavelengths in 2012 to 37% in 2015

High speed CompactFlash memory cards from Toshiba for digital cameras

Gartner: Semiconductor chip fab equipment spending to fall by 9.7 percent in 2013

The tricky semiconductor market is tough nut to crack for market analysts

Solar PV market 2013: Drop in revenue, growth in installations

Volvo cars to use Ericsson's connected vehicle cloud

Most viewed VLSI design verification papers by Aldec

Sony to support Watchdata in developing NFC solutions

Go green by turning car shelters into EV charging stations

Global DDoS prevention appliance revenue to reach $272 million in 2012

Standard for NAND flash device interface interoperability by JEDEC and ONFI

Cosmic’s Nebula 2012: Winners of analog circuits design contest

Radisys, SK Telesys and Mindspeed integrate VoLTE for small cell base stations

Cochlear and NXP extend partnership on hearing aid electronics

Toshiba enters wireless charging IC market

Panasonic started HIT solar module production in Malaysia

Low cost tablet makers to cut cost by smart sourcing and supply chain tricks

CEVA' bid better than Imagination, says MIPS

Temperature characteristics-free crystal device uses atomic diffusion bonding tech

Vivante claims its IP cores are widely adopted in ADAS automotive applications

Quad core processor, a norm in mobile and PCs in 2013-14

New updated IEEE 802 wireless standards supporting smartgrid

TÜV Rheinland to hire 600 engineers and other staff in next 3 years

ST readies 28nm FD SoI fab to compete better in convergence market

TI's Jacinto 5 powers Audi car's infotainment system

Fujitsu uses Wind River' software to develop its disk storage systems

NXP and Gemalto are the highest ranked smart card and IC vendors, as per ABI

IEEE 802.11ac Wi-Fi: Trends, Technologies and Reliability

IBM gets further closer to photronics chip; combination of photonics and electronics

Toshiba develops STT-MRAM chip outperforming SRAM in power consumption

SMIC to supply CMOS wafers to produce MLU for Crocus

68% notebook PCs quadcore based by 2016 compared to 13% in 2012

Dynax Semiconductor to make GaN devices using Aixtron's equipment

DLNA, HomePlug, MoCA and Wi-Fi to conduct live demo at CES 2013

Semiconductor companies Sony and Renesas reported no damage from Earth Quake

Semiconductor tops the top-100 innovators by Thomson Reuters for 2012

Medical Electronics chips: Precision along the signal chain in a single IC is the focus

Telecom n/w implementation: 100G; full speed, 400-500G; normal, and 1T; not-in-hurry

Cambridge Consultants to develop subscriber equipment for Iridium NEXT

Webinar on medical electronics by ADI

IEEE Fellows from semiconductor domain conferred in 2012

Windows 8 fail to provide launch boost for the PC market

November 2012

STMicroelectronics and 3H partner in offering digital TV for Inner Mongolia

Panasonic to license its high-speed powerline communication tech from Jan 2013

Berg Insight: Revenues for mobile location platforms to reach € 330 million in 2017

Event to learn latest PCB design at Bangalore on Dec 4, 2012

Sensors from ST and PNI used in Wii U

In 30GHz+ scopes, the differentiator is compound semiconductor material

The 4th leader in EDA space Berkeley emerging faster

Touch sensor market prediction by DisplaySearch: In-cell and DITO hold better future

Tech to hide from infrared camera

20nm FPGA follows successful production of 28nm

Walking robot by Toshiba for nuclear plants and such hazardous zones

Online video to push the 3G/4G traffic and the smart phone sales

Smartphones to consume more flash mem chips than feature phones

Tough choice for MIPS between CEVA and Imagination

Top 5 semiconductor markets 2012: Comp, Comm, Cons, Auto, and Industrial electronics

MEMSIC receives acquisition proposal from IDG

Top 5 global flat TV companies 2012: Samsung, LG, Sony, Sharp, and Panasonic

CEVA joins HSA Foundation

Course on IC layout design by University of Pune

Intel's Paul Otellini to retire

SiS touch controllers powers touch feature of Windows 8 systems

Solar Polysilicon price falls steeply in October

verificationacademy.com features coverage cookbook

Broadcom' wireless chips used in Wii U gaming device

Infineon automotive TriCore MCU reach 100 million count by shipment

Graphene on nm scale SiC steps by Georgia researchers

Chirality problem of nanotubes solved by group of scientists

Accellera invites nominations for awards in EDA and IP standard creation

MonetizeLTE.com for ideas to monetize LTE services

Data center security appliance to grow to $2.7 billion by 2016, forecasts Infonetics

TI trims employee-size to align its biz more on non-mobile tech

Toshiba resumes production at semiconductor fab in Thailand

Gartner estimates 1.2 Billion of smartphones and tablets to be sold in 2013

WiFox: WiFi performance boosted by 700%

Micron and AgigA Tech collaborate on NVDIMM

Symmetricom’s SoftClock is certified for Cavium’s OCTEON Fusion

Creonic GmbH joins Aldec's UNITE Programme as IP Partner

Broadcom contributes NFC software stack to Android Open Source project

MIPS goes to Imagination Technolgies

Fujitsu to start volume production of GaN power devices by the 2nd half of 2013

Infineon promotes its DCLB interface for NFC communication

T&M expert Anritsu opens 100% India subsidiary in Bangalore

Top 20 semiconductor companies 2012 ranking update by IC Insights

Low cost and mainstream PCs are more in demand compared to high-end, as per IHS

3G/4G SON software and 2G/3G optimization software sales to grow 16% in 2012

Doc by JEDEC and ONFI defines standard for NAND device interface interoperability

NXP claims its secure MCUs holds major share in Germany’s eHealthcard deployment

Aldec to present paper related h/w and s/w co-verification at an event on 19th Nov

RFMD to acquire Amalfi Semiconductor

LEDinside: LED package industry to grow 9.6% YoY at US$11.27 billion in 2013

Notebook shipment down by 4.6% and ultrabooks estimated to grow by 30%

Opto-sensor-discrete semiconductor market to grow only by 2% in 2012

Imec and Nantero to make non-silicon memory using carbon nanotubes

Femtocell survey by Infonetics projects 211K femtocell subscribers by 2013

ST plans aggressively to deploy ARM Cortex-A57 Processor

Huawei opts Broadcom's small cell baseband processor silicon

Cadence tapes out 14-nm ARM Cortex-M0 test-chip using IBM’s FinFET process

IDT develops wireless power IC based on Qualcomm's WiPower tech

ST uses Synopsys TetraMAX ATPG and Yield Explorer to ramp chip yield

Error-free Chip-to-Chip signal transmission at Gb/S speed using redriver

Open-Silicon uses Cadence Encounter to achieve 2.2 GHz on dual-core Cortex -A9

BittWare supports Altera's SDK for OpenCL on the S5-PCIe-HQ board

NFC tag IC features UID ASCII mirror and NFC counter

MEMS accelerometer sensor from MaruLSI embeds Kilopass NVM XPM IP

Hardware enforced security based on the ARM TrustZone secure arch

Chipmakers cut commodity DRAM and increase mobile and server DRAM

Windows 8 not to trigger DRAM demand like its predecessors

GPS devices forecasted to grow from $6.5B in 2011 to over $8B in 2017

ISA Chairman: India strong in semiconductor and software but not putting it together

Infonetics: Sales of MoCA set-top boxes rose 33% in 1H12 over 2H11

Linaro's list of members grows big

Free white paper on IP packet networks by Infonetics

Agilent sets up terahertz lab at the University of Leeds

Cadence claims its customers reduced verification time from months to weeks

October 2012

Infineon continues to top power semiconductor vendor ranking

Altera benchmarks complex Floating-Point DSP designs on 28 nm FPGAs

ST hosts IEEE workshop in Noida

Speakers at CDN Live: Exciting time for semiconductor industry

Vision-processor SoC from ST based on Mobileye' tech deployed in one million vehicles

Total communications IC market forecasted to reach $114.4 billion in 2014

Consortia working on next phase of non-CMOS switch development

e-models of KEMET’s CBR Series capacitors for circuit simulation

ST's experts win cryptography competition by NIST

CEVA and Galileo partnering to offer software-based GNSS for the CEVA DSP platforms

Primax uses IDT' chips in its wireless charging products

Mobiveil to add support for the RapidIO 10xN specs to its SRIO digital IP controllers

Mindspeed's Comcerto processor selected by Genexis for its CPE products

Synopsys' 3D chip design tools supports TSMC’s CoWoS reference flow

M2M Software Platform revenues to reach $3.85 billion by 2017, says ABI Research

Top six Wi-Fi IC vendors: Broadcom, Qualcomm, MediaTek, Marvell, Intel, and TI

Yocto Project added to Auto IVI software platform by Wind River

ABI: Wireless infrastructure revenues still a downtrend in Q2-12

HP ProLiant Gen8 servers using AMD Opteron 6200 processors achieved highest Vmmark

CEVA and NXP Software partnership to deliver HD voice processing solutions

Avago announces multiple design-wins for its products based on FBAR filter tech

Foundry-first Reference Flows from TSMC supporting 20nm and CoWoS

Telehealth fitness (“Fit”) shirt to be displayed by Maxim at electronica 2012

New method discovered to estimate remaining charge in battery

Ipan Ipan chooses IDT’s power transmitter for Qi-certified wireless charging solution

Solar International awards SoloPower with Solar Industry Award

MEMS: Small improvement in performance cause big change in applications

Bridgelux made LED arrays at two new retails stores of Future Group

Combo motion sensor market to surge >700% in 2012 pushed by tablets and smartphones

Reduce switching loss thru’ asymmetrical parasitic inductance in power conversion circuits

Core Logic implements Calypto’s PowerPro tool for advanced RTL power reduction

ZigBee Alliance rejoices its 10 years of success

4K TVs may act as transitional step to AMOLED TVs; low consumer demand to 4K: IHS

IPC’s conference on Indian electronics manufacturing industry in Bangalore

Server and mobile DRAM production ratio to account >40% in 2012: TrendForce

Synopsys acquires emulation expert EVE

ST’s body-wear sensor powers Preventice’ Remote Monitoring System

TEL participates in imec’s bio-research program Human++

4G data price is 20% higher than 3G, says ABI Research

Vendors may get squeezed out in Indian managed services market: ABI Research

7.5%-11% rise in 2H Sept mainstream NAND Flash contract prices: TrendForce

Counterfeit incidents maintain record rate in 2012: IHS

Indian Green IT and Sustainability initiatives to reach $70bn by 2015: Gartner

Synopsys IC Compiler helped Open-Silicon attain 1.3GHz performance on ARM Cortex-A9

ST picks Agilent’s 3-D EM Simulation software for ESD development in 40-nm Ics

2nd half not as good as 1st half of 2012 for semiconductor foundries, forecasts IHS

Semiconductor basics: IIT Bombay offers IC manufacturing course

Avnet completes the acquisition of Magirus Group

Vehicles with safety and security telematics solutions to reach 49% in 2017: ABI Research

Sharp’s WirelessHD adapters utilize Silicon Image’s technologies

Webinar on JESD204B serial interface’s benefits: Intersil to join Avago and Avnet

SPI 2012 saw low turnout and popularity: EnergyTrend

steute picks Energy Micro’s EFM32 Tiny Gecko to power its RF95 radio position switch

September 2012

Micrium's uC/TCP-IP stack integrates Mocana’s SSL solution

Mobile core gateway spend raised by 14% in 1H12: ABI Research

Sysgration selects Cypress's 2.4-GHz WirelessUSB-NL solution

Rambus signs 6-year patent license agreement with Fujitsu

MoSys to discuss on networking memory solutions at Linley’s conference

N. American semicon equipment industry posts August 2012 book-to-bill ratio of 0.84: SEMI

IPC looks for papers, course proposals and exhibitors for the 1st ESTC and exhibition

PV Taiwan 2012 to showcase latest trends and technology in solar PV manufacturing

Ubee-AirWalk selects Wind River’s VxWorks for its enterprise femtocell on Sprint network

Tim Lu joins Exar as Asia VP of Sales

Avnet Express promotes Andy Thorne to VP, global e-Commerce merchandizing

MHL technology standard included in the finalist for 2012 Mobile Excellence Award

AIXTRON’s reactors ordered by AZUR SPACE Solar for CPV solar cells

Ericsson expands OSS/BSS offerings by acquiring ConceptWave

NETGEAR’s Push2TV wireless display adapter powered by Cavium’s media SoC

Imec and Solvay achieves organic photovoltaic module’s efficiency of 5.5%

Toyota’s eQ electric car to use Panasonic’s lithium-ion batteries

By 2016, cloud-based security services to rise 83%: Infonetics

MHL Consortium and Futuresource focuses on trends in mobile industry

MEMS sensor market in mobile devices to reach $2.8b in 2017: ABI Research

Mobile threats explodes mobile app security market to $389m by 2012: ABI Research

9 out of 10 media tablets made by contract or outsourced manufacturers in 2012: IHS

Xilinx acquires Modesat Communications to strengthen wireless backhaul solutions

Micron captures 20% share in NAND flash market for the 1st time: IHS

Concentrated PV (CPV) to grow swiftly to reach 1.2 GW in 2016, expects IHS

4G couldn’t help the fall of Europe’s mobile network capital expenditure: ABI Research

IEC and IEEE publishes new global standards for condition monitoring at nuclear plants

ABI Research rates Qualcomm ahead of Broadcom in GPS IC vendor market

MEMC and Conergy ends wafer supply agreement

DRAM usage in smartphones to surge by 50% in 2012: IHS

LTE subscribers overtakes WiMAX subscribers in 2Q12: ABI Research

Magnetic sensors play a key role in green energy initiatives: IHS

Cadence’s Allegro PCB technology uses Microsoft SharePoint

Many iPhone 5 components vary while most suppliers remain the same: IHS teardown analysis

Semiconductor and software: Lot more to come

Sony announces spec. changes to CMOS image sensors and imaging modules

DJSI names TSMC as the semiconductor sector leader

Taiwan’s domestic solar demand weakened by the steep dive in FiT, says TrendForce

BTU to showcase thermal processing solutions at PV Taiwan

PCs account for 49.0 percent of DRAM shipments, the downtrend continues

Tablet display shipments in 2012 to go up by 56% globally, reports IHS

Analog’s Jerry Fishman continues as CEO; Vincent Roche promoted as President

Ericsson’s new R&D center opened in Nanjing, China

Cypress Semiconductor finally wins in acquiring Ramtron

Strong wireless sensor network market, Zigbee leading: ABI Research

ABI Research places NXP, Ingenico and Gemalto at top 3 in id sys biz

Kilopass ups eNVM memory capacity by 4x to 32Mb

Technology is vital for Indian electronics manufacturing success

Fujitsu researchers reveal optical innovations at ECOC

AudioCodes IP phones are getting compatible with Microsoft Lync

Cisco is the leader in Carrier Wi-Fi, says ABI Research

Cypress again stretches bid to acquire Ramtron

Charlie Roach named as the VP of Inphi’s worldwide sales

Belden sells its consumer electronics assets in China

ABI: Traditional uses of RFID to increase by $2.8 billion from 2012 to 2017

590 certified USB 3.0 products; doubled within a year

iMB powered 32GB LRDIMM doubles server capacity

IEC adopts four USB-IF specs related to data transfer and charging

Toshiba's SCiB battery used in Suzuki's Wagon R for regenerative braking

'hybrid metrology' by NIST to measure nm dimensions in a semiconductor device

Freescale CMO: Good times ahead for semiconductor market

Wireless charging tech: what's latest in this hot new feature

The yojana to connect India with its own-tech is on

Alstom and Toshiba to collaborate on smart grid

Fujitsu Semiconductor transfers a production-unit to J-Devices to shed fab-mass

Global n/w security appliance and software revenue grew 4.4% in 2Q12, as per a study

August 2012

Automotive Electronics: Infineon gear-up to serve changing market

STATS ChipPAC achieve new milestone in 3D semiconductor tech

Tokyo Electron commences tender offer to acquire FSI International

Cosmic to hire VLSI design engineers to support its fast growth

ABI: Each of DAS and enterprise small cell equipment to reach $2 billion mark by 2016

Qualcomm acquires small-cell base-station expert DesignArt Networks

Wi-Fi Alliance launches the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED TDLS program

Negative revenue growth in 2012 for many semiconductor companies

Precision analog and a smart digital semiconductor in a SoC or SIP is hot trend

FTF 2012: More software, more SoC and more colorful

ABI: Driver-assist-sys revenues to reach $460.8 Billion by 2017

Tehuti selects Kilopass' XPM NVM IP for its 10GbE controller

Vivante joins parallel computing consortium HSA Foundation

NAND flash price stable due to tight control of supply by Toshiba and Samsung

ASML gets investment from Intel and TSMC to insure its innovation

The component purchase of Asia-Pacific OEMs growing faster than global OEMs

Focus shift in U.S. electronics manufacturing: Off-shoring to on-shoring

Fuel-cell electric vehicle research progressing for a faster commercialization

Latest display and touch tech leveraged by smart phone makers

IBM to acquire solid state memory expert TMS

"Energy to Smart Grid" research by German companies to cut distribution loss by 20%

Infineon wins U.S. Government Contract for supplying security chips in e-passports

Samsung GALAXY handsets for China Mobile powered by Marvell PXA920 processor

Dysprosium-free Samarium-Cobalt magnet for motors intensify magnetism at high temp

SEMATECH reduces defects in EUV mask blanks

Speech recognition in mobile to leverage cloud for computing resource

Zigbee software stack of Telit for M2M gets certification

MATLAB EXPO 2012 concludes in Bangalore

'IC Cube' draft specs for semiconductor memory released

Applied to provide GLOBALFOUNDRIES' Dresden Fab with 24x7 support

Aeroflex gets QML-V qualification for its chips fabricated at MagnaChip's fab

Sigma’s Z-Wave gets approval for use in Japan

Mobile DRAM estimated to grow at 10% in 2012

DRAM price decline forcing vendors to cut production

Cloud computing outsourcing estimated to grow at 48.7% in 2012, as per Gartner

Hittite reduces list price of its HMC-C07x series RF amplifier modules

Kilopass expands XPM NVM IP on 180nm Dongbu HiTek BCD process

ST Micro acquired pico-projector tech expert bTendo

Imagination estimates shipments of OpenGL ES GPUs to reach 1 Billion by 2014

ST's 32 bit ARM Cortex M offerings is built for price/performance

Infineon's tire pressure sensor chip wins award from Denso

Synopsys to acquire SpringSoft to strengthen its leadership in verification

Smart phone shipment in China grew by 199% y-o-y, as per study

HP's USB 3.0 docking station employs DisplayLink DL-3900 USB graphics chip

Canalys: Global client PC shipments rose 12% y-o-y in Q2 2012

Latest smart phone shipment 2Q2012; Samsung up, Apple and Nokia down

SOLARCON India 2012 in Bangalore on 3rd Sept

3D, smart TV and LED backlight featured large screen TV are hot in U.S.

Latest LCD panel market data by TrendForce

Taiwan based ITE gets IDT's timing patent licenses

Cavium licenses 64bit ARMv8 architecture

Wireless mobile drives semiconductor market in 2012

Semico: $42 billion analog semiconductor market with 90+ players

July 2012

Karbonn tablet priced Rupees 6999 is powered by MIPS processor

Rules to make your C/C++ code robust for high-rel embedded systems

Avnet bridges semiconductor vendors to OEMs via multiple service layers

Solar PV Inverter growth estimates by IMS: 25% shipment and 3% revenue

Toshiba to mass produce white LEDs from Kaga factory from October 2012

IP owning is major cause for biz growth for chip equipment suppliers

Rambus tests its memory arch using GLOBALFOUNDRIES 28nm SLP

ROHM to manufacture FRAM powered chips for Ramtron

TSMC to match FinFETs with ARM's 64-bit cores

IDT acquires Alvand Tech and ADC/DAC product-line from NXP

Cypress Semiconductor not giving up Ramtron, rises the offer

N.American semiconductor equipment booking declined in June 2012

SSDs yet to shake up HDD use in PC and notebook market

Touch screen module market: $16 Billion in 2012 to $31.9B in 2018

The broadband CPE market grew 4% in 1Q12 to $1.76 Billion, as per Infonetics

Microsoft Surface and Windows 8 predicted to change the mobile market

Printed electronics gets operational-level standard

3x more shipments of PCs in China compared to worldwide

China's new solar PV target boosts solar market

Embedded SIM in M2M systems growing fast, as per IMS

Global smartphone market: $45.9 Billion in 2012 to $237B in 2016

NOR flash memory market: Spansion, Samsung and Micron are key players in mobile

TSMC race to top in MEMS fabrication services with 200% growth

The Wi-Fi Alliance initiates a task group to build upon Wi-Fi Direct

Intel's 2nd Q 2012 revenue readings

Melange's wireless module enables remote smart meter reading

Directed Self-Assembly is hot in semiconductor fab R&D, TEL partners with Imec

Radio controlled car uses Cypress wireless USB-LP RF chip

M2M AEP software to grow nearly 10x to $1.7 billion by 2017, ABI predicts

Soitec and Silian to jointly develop gallium nitride template wafers for LEDs

Infonetics rates Cisco as top vendor of web security SaaS

DDoS activity to drive the prevention market to 24% growth in 2012 over 2011

MIPS processor IP cores gaining popularity in China

Open-Silicon’s chip-to-chip I/O IP employed in Netronome’s Flow processor ICs

DRAMeXchange: LPDDR3 shipments to constitute 20% of total mobile DRAM in 2H2013

Discretix to develop products with CRI's DPA countermeasures

VLSI chip design software revenues up by 10.2% to $350.9 million in Q1 2012

ATopTech has selected Berkeley’s Analog FastSPICE platform

Aldec and Agilent connect ESL and RTL by linking simulation environments

European Commission clears Kemet acquiring 34% interest in NEC Tokin

SEMI honors semiconductor standard developers at SEMICON West

Infineon security chips to power S.Africa's SASSA smart cards

Ricoh selects EVE's ZeBu for its ASIC and SoC chip design

Harvard researchers present self-thermoregulating nanomaterials

Lattice uses new instrument from Teradyne to test analog peripherals in FPGAs

KPIT and Sankalp Semiconductor innovate in pooling resources

IP subsystem use: Major trend in SoC design

Semico: MEMS oscillators to grow at a CAGR of 85.6% during 2011-2016

Lattice semiconductor goes for UMC foundry to compete in 28nm FPGA space

Mentor Graphics Nucleus RTOS in MIPS32 34K rise performance by 20%

Price-per-watt matters more than efficiency for solar PV buyers

Taiwan's LED vendor ranking update

AlI-in-one desktops and ultrabooks are on fast-growth path

Teardown analysis of Google Nexus 7 finds $151.75 worth of BOM

LCD monitor market going down in 2012, as per WitsView

Imec and SK Hynix extend research collaboration

M-SIP and EMC for electronics and semiconductor industry approved by the cabinet

Slow growth of LCD TV in 2012 compared to 2011

Infineon uses Spansion flash memory chips to store graphic data in MCUs kits

Late entry into industrial computer domain costs AMD's growth

Imec uses cost-optimized process to make 20%+ efficient solar PV cells

Toshiba hiring R&D engineers in India in software and energy space

Imec reports silicon photonics achievement

Intel to invest in ASML to fast develop semiconductor equipment

Douglas A. Neugold to continue to serve as SEMI chairman

2012 to see a semiconductor equipment spending of $42.4 Billion

Wi-Fi access points sales to jump from 650K in 2012 to 6.8M in 2017, as per forecast

Processor benchmarking EEMBC is praised for its growing popularity

Silicon wafers from MEMC supporting FinFET semiconductor tech

DUV laser system from Applied finds defects in 20nm IC chips

Management changes in semiconductor business of Qualcomm

Reliable EUV light for semiconductor lithography/etching for nodes deeper than 20nm

Tel Nexx extends collaboration with IBM on 3D semiconductor tech

Gigaphoton enhances its laser light source feature to help reap higher yield

Smart payment card shipment to increase to 3.5B in 2017, as per IMS

AIXTRON demos carbon nanotube equipment as part of TECHNOTUBES

ST's go green taken to next big level in 2011

Ramtron finds Cypress Semiconductor offer is not worth

IMS: World market for machine vision was worth nearly $2.9 billion in 2011

Broadcom and Emulex settle some of their patent license issues

ST Micro and China's HIT establish joint electronics design lab

Tablets to exceed Notebooks shipments by 2016: NPD DisplaySearch

Infonetics’ 1Q12 Femtocell market: Airvana is no. 1, 2G/3G revenue down 2.7%

IHS: Continuous drop in CE equipment prices makes revenue growth to slowdown by 2015

Short-term NAND Flash market recovery by reducing 3-5% contract price: TrendForce

15 peripheral modules released by Maxim are compatible with the Pmod standard

Bluetooth 4.0 supported by TUV Rheinland

Digital TV feature in leading phone brands powered by Newport Media SoC chips

OEM connected car systems to rise from 11.4% in 2012 to 60.1% in 2017, as per ABI

Renesas to cut workforce and production plants

Broadcom buys more licenses from MIPS

Korean DRAM fab to use Aixtron deposition equipment for sub-30nm chips

Brite Semiconductor to use Cadence' DDR PHY IP in its latest chips

Murata acquires RF Monolithics

Cadence acquires signal integrity specialist Sigrity for $80M

Rank no.3 and 4 join to overtake rank no.2 in DRAM market

TI donates Fairchild’s IC making idea books to Computer History Museum

Panasonic bagged IEEE corporate innovation award for HIT solar technology

Cadence Encounter improves Ambarella’s SoC performance

Tablet usage for video watching has doubled, as per survey

SEMI: 1Q12 Solar PV manufacturing equipment billings declined

Electronics hardware manufacturing cluster in Ananthpur

Infineon, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, STMicro, and IRF are top 5 of power semiconductor market

VME and VPX embedded boards/modules to reach a market of US$600M by 2016

Digital signage hardware with size of $6 Billion to grow at 8.5% CAGR through 2016

ISMI event focused on reducing chip manufacturing cost

ARM, HP, and SK hynix join Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium

ZiiLABS and Symphony Teleca demo camera application in a tablet using openCL

Fujitsu Semiconductor strengthens its fabs for a fast production-restore from disasters

Infonetics: Inevitability of an all-IP mobile n/w is leading operators to IMS

300K Voice over LTE subscribers in 2012, forecasts Infonetics

Bourns buys Jensen Devices’ assets

Amulet Technologies expands its European markets

NXP’s management changes: Sean Hunkler joins operations and CTO quits

Fastwel become a member of the Wind River Partner Alliance Program

Fairchild's GMRC facility at Shanghai offers advanced product testing

Murata collaborates with imec on reconfigurable radio research

STS has selected the ASLx as its linear and power management platform

EyeSight uses CEVA DSP platform for vision based user interface for mobile devices

OTN transport and switching market estimated to grow at a 17% CAGR from 2011-16

Quantance ships samples of its power supply IC for LTE OEMs

GPS RF SoC made using 65nm GLOBALFOUNDRIES' process launched by u-blox

June 2012

Sudhir Tangri is the new country manager for the EMG of Agilent Technologies India

LDRA extends interface between the LDRA tool suite and IAR Embedded Workbench

Maxim offers RF ICs for next-gen cellular n/w “HetNet”

Infineon security chip for Malaysia’s new national ID card “MyKad”

DRAM pricing is strangely stable due to Elpida bankruptcy: IHS

Samsung Thales to use Cambridge Pixel’s tech for naval combat management system

Test gear maker Rohde & Schwarz acquires SwissQual

Mobile operators to expand public access small cells, SK Telecom leads: Informa

Tata Elxsi picks Ixia to verify LTE small cell software suite

IR licenses Power-One's Digital Power Technology patents

Javelin selects Kilopass’ XPM memory IP Core for MIPI RFFE digital interface

Wi-Fi Alliance’s Passpoint offers seamless access to Wi-Fi mobile broadband

ST’s automotive group selects Breker’s TrekSoC software to automate C test cases

Researchers create slimmer thin-film solar cells with Nanoscale-sandwich technique

Joint development of OLED panels for TVs/large-sized displays from Sony and Panasonic

Price of polysilicon for solar decline in May 2012, fall is expected in June too: IHS

Intersil is betting high on pico projector

Ittiam to make major investment in automotive infotainment sector

Michael Lercel named as SEMATECH’s sen. director of metrology and Nanodefectivity

JEDEC publishes updated Universal Flash Storage standards JESD220A and JESD223A

Plastics Electronics Conference (PE2012) co-located with SEMICON Europa

Consumer medical devices to prefer Bluetooth Smart as wireless tech by 2016: IHS

Marvell’s wireless chips power Samsung’s GALAXY Xcover and i8250 Smartphones

Ronald Black replaces Harold Hughes as Rambus’ President and CEO

SEMATECH experts to talk on III-V semiconductor and 3D ICs at SEMICON West 2012

GainSpan’s Wi-Fi connectivity capabilities showcased at FTF 2012

Silex and Freescale partnership offers Wi-Fi for next-generation i.MX 6 processors

Ada and GNAT from AdaCore adopted by SmartSide for smart devices platform

Rudolph acquires NanoPhotonics to enhance position in advanced packaging market

IBM marketing survey: Mobile marketing is hot but CIOs and CMOs lack alignment

ANSYS working with GM, NREL and ESim to improve vehicle batteries

MathEmbedded announces a support partnership agreement with ST

Applied Materials survey on solar finds lack of consumer awareness

Simple camera like x-ray imaging is possible using CMOS process tech

STATS ChipPAC ships one billion copper wirebond units

Researchers attempt to reduce the size of photon for making nanophotonic devices

China's RFIC maker Nationz licenses MIPS processor core

Ramtron finds Cypress offer is under value

Sharp and frog-design collaborate in developing new UI for smart phones

Notebook PC manufacturing is becoming less profitable

Anritsu to display the mm-wave emission testing using its signal analyzer at IMS 2012

Intersil expands in India to address the growing business

Fibre Channel switch market to strike $2.7B by 2016, Brocade leads: Infonetics

Data center equipment fell to $2.2 billion in 1Q12, down by 6% from 4Q11: Infonetics

Decline in global LCD TV shipments; Samsung ranked No.1

Solar wafer and cell prices remain on minor uptrend, reports TrendForce

ASP of the 40W equivalent LED light bulb kept around USD$20.8, as per survey

45nm to 28nm to 22nm to 14nm: A steep climb for the semiconductor industry

India is home to heavy-duty VLSI design

Small Cell World Summit 2012: Octasic and Deltenna to showcase the Small cell

Agilent and Thales applies X-parameters tech to wideband super-heterodyne Rx

TriQuint announces winners of its 2011 Sales award program

Smart card chip platform TESIC from Tiempo silicon proven on TSMC 130nm LP

TSMC and ADI collaborate on new analog process to make precision Ics

Dolphin Integration selects LFoundry for defense and industrial markets

RISC processor arch pioneer John L. Hennessy to receive IEEE medal of honour

Hua Hong NEC and Advantest to develop multi-site parallel-test for RFID wafers

Airfast transistors from Freescale for both small and big base stations

Apple and Samsung together capture 55% of smartphone market: ABI Research

Nordic’s nRF8001 chip powers Bluetooth bike speed and cadence monitor

Kazuyoshi Yamada replaces Hitoshi Yoshizawa as Cypress’ VP of Japan sales

24th annual PCB TLA program announced by Mentor Graphics

Analog Devices to display its new RF-ICs at IMS 2012

Microcontroller market in China to reach $3.53 billion in 2012, as per IHS iSuppli

Intel acquires 1700 wireless-comm patents from InterDigital paying $375 Million

Imec and Panasonic extend strategic research collaboration

Infineon continues its lead in 2011 industrial semiconductor ranking: Semicast

U.S. ITC investigating RFMD, Motorola Mobility and HTC based on Peregrine’s complaint

10GbE switch chip market grew 86.5%: Linley

Octasic’s high-density VoIP solutions selected by Digium for new line of media gateways

Agreement between Sanmina-SCI and Adacel for embedded speech recognition system

Two processor architectures AMD and ARM combine to expand security ecosystem

IBM accredits Mentor Graphics Capital Suite in its Rational program

Wind River to display VxWorks running on Freescale T4240 at FTF 2012

Anritsu to showcase broadband VNA system at IMS 2012

Mindspeed to display picocell tech at the 2012 Mobile Asia Expo in Shanghai, China

Smart TV becoming more popular worldwide: NPD DisplaySearch Q1’12 report

IME and Rolls-Royce collaborate in power electronics R&D

Geometric processor specialist GEO Semiconductor gets $3 Million financing

Free samples of the EFM32 Gecko series microcontrollers from Energy Micro

Renesas licenses ARM's Big. LITTLE

ESCATEC installs $130,000 laser marker to permanently mark PCBs

AMD, ARM and others partner to develop chips with heterogeneous processor cores

imec demo higher-k dielectric with replacement metal gate transistors at VLSI Sympo

NXP has shipped 650 million silicon tuners to flat panel TV market

Toshiba semiconductor biz comes back with double digit revenue growth

Electronic manufacturing technology trends in China in 2012, as per IPC survey

Missed DAC! VLSI designers can read Aldec's presentation through its webinar

AMD focuses on embedded by forming new group and appoints Arun Iyengar as GM

AMX ships the Enova DVX models ahead of schedule due to high demand

IC Insights: Sensor sales growing at 18% in 2012 to $5.7 billion

Carbon Design Systems tie up with Imagination Technologies for virtual models

VP of Micrel’s high bandwidth division to retire: Company announces leadership changes

Application note from AWR on circuit envelope simulation for 3G and 4G amplifier design

Active antennas with multiple tilt support mixed LTE and GSM networks: Ubidyne’s white paper

Steve Bakos joins Exar Corporation as SVP Sales and Marketing

22.68% efficient Heterojunction Solar Cells developed by Imec and Kaneka

Cadence announces series of seminars in Asia Pacific on mixed-signal design

VLSI research rewarded Applied Materials as the top PV solar equipment supplier

IMS: CPU and GPU in a single chip contribute major share of $111B 2011 processor revenue

MIFARE tech integrated in G&D's SIM Cards

IHS: Higher ASP helps HDD makers to earn more revenue

Alliance Memory signs distribution agreement with Transfer Multisort Elektronik

Package-on-Package (PoP) from ESCATEC enables soldering of two BGA packages on each other

Lisa Su elected to Analog’s board of directors

Virtual and data center security appliances to reach $4.4 billion by 2016, forecasts Infonetics

Touch screen ultrabook penetration rate of 24.8% by 2015, predicts TrendForce

TI to showcase its semiconductor innovations at the 2012 VLSI Symposium

NGSIS selects RapidIO as a standard for future space-based electronics

MIT Semiconductor Research: Self-assembling structures align wires, bends and junctions

Globalfoundries to make 28nm and 20nm mobile device chips for ST using FD-SOI tech

CSR acquires MAP-X audio product line from Trident

Cybercom to Supply Bluetooth framework to QNX CAR 2 Application Platform

Oxide semiconductor tech from Sharp to improve LCD panel performance

19nm node flash memory chips and cards available from Toshiba and Sandisk

Broadcom's 5G Wi-Fi SoCs for designing Gb speed wireless routers and NAS

SEMI: Semiconductor fab equipment revenue to grow at 2% in 2012 and 17% in 2013

Invisible airbag helmets enabled by ST's MEMS and MCU chips

IHS estimates 210 million cellphones in gray market in 2012

EPC introduce eighth brick DC-DC converter demo using eGaN FETs

EVE says Mentor Graphics' patent infringement suits are unfounded

Hitachi uses Mentor Graphics Olympus-SoC to tape out 40nm, 90 million gate chip

Murata’s MEMS sensors used in automatic stop-start applications to save fuel

QNX Software exhibits a new reference vehicle integrating Facebook

LTE/4G n/ws to cover half the world population by 2017: Ericsson

Corning supports LCD panel manufacturing by extending line of EAGLE XG Slim glass

Sierra’s wireless modules used in Audi’s in-vehicle LTE infotainment system

2012 Strategic Materials Conference is organized by SEMI on advanced electronics materials

Live webcast of AMD’s keynote presentations at 2012 AMD Fusion Developer Summit

Jeong-Tyng Li from Springsoft is the new member of Si2 board of directors

EDA Consortium elects board members and officers to serve through spring 2014

‘IGNITE 2012’ a design contest launched by Tata Elxsi for Indian students

Revenue for mobile memory to reach $14.9 billion in 2012

DECT IC to deliver quality audio wirelessly on licence-free radio bands

IP core for interfacing 3D integrated semiconductor memory devices

Agilent uses Cosmic's M-PHY in its MIPI test sys

South Korea dominates while Chinese suppliers glow in large-sized LCD panel market in Q1, reports IHS

SIPI: LCD-panel to LCD-panel interface from Parade

X-TI Gregg Lowe replaces Rich Beyer as Freescale’s president and CEO

Somshubhro Pal Choudhury takes over as Analog Devices’ MD for India Operations

IHS: Semiconductor inventories increased in Q1 to indicate possible demand recovery

Scott Bibaud joins Altera as senior VP and GM for communications and broadcast div.

No. 1 automotive MEMS supplier is Bosch, lead position retained: reports IHS

RedHawk and Totem from Ansys achieved TSMC Phase I 20-nm certification

RF IC design solution from Integrand for GLOBALFOUNDRIES 40nm-LP technology

The two streams of smart phone vendors competing each other

DeitY selects Accenture as consultant to evaluate chip fab proposal

1Q12 excerpts from Infonetics on Wireless LAN equipments and Ethernet switch market

Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Miracast supported by Cavium’s wireless display products

IEC manufacturing test capability extended by Corelis JTAG tools

Mass production of Lithium-ion battery system from Panasonic for home energy storage

28nm silicon-validated AMS production design flow demo at DAC by GLOBALFOUNDRIES

End of “Go-Shop” period in PLX Technology acquisition announced by IDT

ST delivers MEMS microphone in plastic package for consumer e-devices

Agilent's RFIC simulators qualified by GLOBALFOUNDRIES for its 65nm RF CMOS processes

Xilinx ships 3D FPGA for Nx100G and 400G line card solutions

CEVA partners with VWorks to provide virtual prototyping platforms

Counterfeit semiconductor parts and China sourcing; a big problem for Infineon India

Falling Rupee hurting Indian electronic industry and is comparable to a Tsunami hit

EnSilica’s 32-bit processor powering Xtendwave’s time code receiver

US antidumping taxes could defer 45% of solar module shipments to North America, says IHS

Atmel MCU certified for ZigBee Light Link Golden Units for lighting reference

81% of tablet display panel market captured by LG and Samsung, says IHS

OpenCL 1.1 conformance test passed by Vivante GC Cores

Dell "Copper" ARM server powered by Marvell’s SoC

2500 Watt power supplies from TDK-Lambda achieves 80 PLUS Platinum efficiency

Murata’s Bluetooth SMART module mass production to start from June

Large flat panel sets replacing older CRT TVs – annual study by NPD DisplaySearch

Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Miracast certification for display products to be published in Aug 2012

20-nm test chip taped out by STMicro using Cadence tools

FloEFD v11.3 CFD technology for PTC’s Creo released by Mentor Graphics

LTE equipment to touch $17.5 B in 2016 and mobile infra declines in 1Q12, reports Infonetics

6-9% dip in mainstream NAND Flash contract price in 2HMay, reports TrendForce

TSMC 20nm Phase I certification for Synopsys’ DRMs and SPICE models

ZigBee Light Link standard on SoC demonstration by TI at Computex Taipei

Wireless connectivity in smart home tech: ZigBee vs Wi-Fi

Galaxy S III: its not just touch and type, lot more human interface

May 2012

DFI 3.1 specification released; Supports LPDDR3 memory for smartphones and tablets

Label manufacturer Nortec AMI partners with AdoptSMT in Europe

MEMS Industry Group’s M2M Forum and key highlights

ZeBu-Blade 2 product included in the patent infringement suit against EVE by Mentor Graphics

Zero-Defect Quality Award to Infineon from Toyota Hirose Plant

Automotive semiconductor growth influenced by GPUs, says IMS

Global Industrial automation market to cross $200 billion in 2015, predicts IMS

Samsung selects Corning’s Gorilla Glass 2 for GALAXY S III smartphones

Murata’s electric double layer capacitors achieve service life of 5 years at 70 Deg C

Broadcom joins HP ProActive Insight Architecture (PIA) Alliance

Solar PV cell from Sharp with world record conversion efficiency of 43.5%

Evatronix to display its new multimedia IP at DAC

Forte Design Systems to display its High-Level Synthesis at DAC

Thermal media business established by Ricoh in India

Orders placed for 14 NSX Inspection Systems, says Rudolph Technologies

Iridium based global PTT radio system tested successfully by Cambridge Consultants

Erik Wood appointed as Ramtron’s director of business development for F-RAM-based solutions

DFI 3.1 supported by Cadence IP, includes LPDDR3 mobile memory

20 nm fill solutions from Mentor Graphics and GLOBALFOUNDRIES collaboration

ASTC and Tanner EDA partners to deliver ASIC design solutions globally

AMD’s A-Series APU awarded 2012 Best Choice of COMPUTEX TAIPEI award

The market and technology trends indicated by Renesas going fablite

TI MCU design contest winners

ECP technology from Mentor and AT&S optimizes PCB design-through-manufacturing flow

Accellera Systems receives Synopsys’ 2012 Tenzing Norgay Interoperability award

ISMI award to Renesas’ former director for recovering fab site from nature’s disaster

ST launches 2012 iNEMO design contest in Taiwan and China

Bharti to acquire 49% interest in Qualcomm AP’s Indian BWA entities

Wireless power transmitter from IDT is WPC Qi certified; suitable for charging stations

Cypress developer community feature 12 blogs and 140 videos

Sharp and Sony terminate their JV on large-sized LCD panels and modules

Two billionth sensor devices shipped by Infineon

Researchers create contacts on semiconductor chip by self-assembly process

Ink jet printing technique by Ricoh to make electronic components out of PZT

Elpida overtakes Micron in Q12012 DRAM market ranking

Revenue of power mgmt semiconductor devices to reach $8.0 B in the 2Q, up 6.7%

Bond via array technology for 3D semiconductor packaging by Invensas

In-ear-monitor can switch the i/p audio source as per user control

Linley: 10 Billion chips use licensed processor IP cores in 2011

Library Creator Platform for SoC physical layout design at nodes of 20/22nm

3D Semiconductor and silicon-photonics research jointly by CEA-Leti ST and Mentor

Pepperl+Fuchs employ IAR Systems’ development tools for future product development

TI’s ULP Advisor code analysis software tool integrated with IAR Embedded Workbench

Mindspeed’ Transcede SoC powered Small cell reference design supports Trillium software

Si2 supported design flow interoperability demo by 7 EDA companies at DAC

Performance Analysis Kit from Carbon Design Systems and Cadence for IP optimisation

Dipti Vachani named as TI’s VP of Singlecore processors product line

SEMI: Book-to-Bill Ratio of 1.10 posted in April 2012 by N.A. semicon equipment industry

Intersil partners with Micross Components for precision analog IC offerings

Intel Data Plane Development Kit supported by Wind River for packet processing

Berkeley’s analog FastSPICE platform selected by Etron for memory verification

Xilinx’s 7 series evaluation kits uses SiTime’s programmable MEMS oscillators

CEVA joined Wi-Fi Alliance to support software-based Wi-Fi strategy

Smart sensors from Libelium can detect iPhone and Android devices in real time

Automotive MOSFETs from NXP completes extended lifetime testing for high-rel

Cadence DDR3/3L/LPDDR2 interface IP solution used in Nufront’s chip

Japan-US collaborative smart grid demo project launched by nine Japanese companies

TD-SCDMA/TD-LTE femtocell solutions by Mindspeed and China Mobile collaboration

Arduino development boards from Atmel uses AVR and ARM processor based MCUs

ONFi IP/VIP solution from Posedge and PerfectVIPs partnership

Emerson claims it has largest installed base of ATCA blades and systems

ABI: 70% of set-top box units in India are imported, mostly from China

ST Micro' Vinay answers to Qs related to replacing 8/16 bit MCU with 32-bit

IHS forecasts Apple iOS to dominate tablet market in 2012

Elpida story and balanced sup/demand to enable 2012 DRAM market, as per IHS

Brian Glinsman named as TI’s VP of multicore processors division

VDC rates Wind River as RTOS and embedded Linux leader

Semiconductor tech: Samsung researchers develop Graphene-Silicon Schottky switch

IHS alerts about alarming growth of counterfeit parts

Global WDM and SONET/SDH optical n/w equipment market down by 23% in 1Q12

Kyocera phone uses LCD display as speaker

Sharp tuning makes wirelss charging efficient

Semiconductor metamaterial AZO can be metal at one voltage and dielectric at other

CEO of Infineon Technologies to resign effective September 30, 2012

Pepperl+Fuchs expands Indian ops with additional manufacturing plant

COMSOL Conference India 2012 invites papers in modeling and simulation

AMD awards its 2012 suppliers of material and service

Avago and TriQuint settle all claims

2012 IHS European TMT summit to discuss content biz opportunities for new consumer devices

Worldwide supply chain management software market touched $7.7 Billion in 2011, says Gartner

Toshiba to set up a smart community business center at Kawasaki, Japan

LCD backlights to continue dominating LED demand, as per NPD DisplaySearch report

Solar power components jointly developed by eSolar and Sanmina-SCI

SMAP spacecraft powered by EMCORE solar panels for 2014 NASA mission

HiSilicon extends technology partnership with Vivante on graphics IP

Preet Virk rejoins Mindspeed: assigned the role of senior VP and GM of the CCP business unit

Single-chip ethylene sensor to monitor fruit ripening, reports Imec and Holst Centre

Quarterly large-area TFT LCD shipment report by NPD DisplaySearch

X-FAB Silicon Foundries joins Interoperable PDK Libraries Alliance

Samsung hold a huge 70% share in Mobile DRAM market as per TrendForce

Common implementation of NVM IP cores by Kilopass for the 130/110nm nodes

Solar PV shade conditions simulated by NREL in repeatable test for arrays

DSP IP market share is 90% covered by CEVA, reveals Linley Group

Top 20-semiconductor vendor ranking update in 1q2012: revenues down by 4%

AlN semiconductor LEDs can generate UV rays to kill microbes in water

Majority of engineers use VHDL, though SystemVerilog use grows, as per a survey

GaN on Silicon LED chip emitting 614mW in a space of 1.1mm square

Qualcomm grants licenses to Brazilian firm to make 3G and 4G devices

ESD and I/O tech from Sofics and ICsense used in NVIDIA's modem processor ICs

Samsung adopts Dialog's power supply ICs for its 2nd smart phone platform

Marvell collaborate with LED lamp makers in providing reference design

Mobile tech adoption is difficult if consumer trust not addressed, finds Juniper's survey

Jin Bains is VP, RF research and development at NI

IMS releases PV System Integrator rankings for 2011: BELECTRIC is number one

AMD's G-Series platform supports Windows Embedded Compact 7 RTOS

Processor IP biz: 10 Billion cores shipped with 25% growth in 2011, according to Linley

Majority engineers use VHDL, though SytemVerilog use grows, as per a survey

GaN on Silicon LED chip emitting 614mW in a space of 1.1mm square

Qualcomm grants licenses to Brazilian firm to make 3G and 4G devices

ESD and I/O tech from Sofics and ICsense used in NVIDIA's modem processor Ics

Samsung adopts Dialog's power supply ICs for its 2nd smart phone platform

Marvell collaborate with LED lamp makers in providing reference design

Mobile tech adoption is difficult if consumer trust not addressed, finds Juniper's survey

Jin Bains named the VP, RF research and development at National Instruments

IMS releases PV System Integrator rankings for 2011: BELECTRIC is number one

AMD's G-Series platform supports Windows Embedded Compact 7 RTOS

New certification programs for advanced enterprise applications from Wi-Fi Alliance

Gloden Dragon Plus LEDs from Osram chosen for Olympic stadium in Kiev

Solutions from Marvell to support all three clouds - private, public and home

Portable quad port Ethernet/VLAN/MPLS/IP/UDP tester from GL

Aeroflex to supply test systems to Qualcomm for automated testing of mobile devices

DEKRA is now the testing institute for 'green products' and EPEAT criteria

Cavium and PACE to demonstrate processor solutions for cloud and enterprise apps

Verific's parser platform adopted by Excellicon for timing constraints solutions

Talk on digital analog design presented by Stanford's Mark Horowitz during DAC

TI used EVE's ZeBu-Server technology for its OMAP 5 platform

RSoft Design Group acquired by Synopsys

Silicon wafer shipments of 1st quarter 2012 has slightly increased, says SEMI

Telit's cellular module connects with CardioNet's MCOT to monitor patient's heart

TrendForce: Micron offers JPY$300 billion to Elpida, three major DRAM players emerge

NXP's wireless smart lighting solutions to be showcased at LIGHTFAIR 2012

Niels Anderskouv is the new senior VP and GM of TI's high volume analog and logic

Top 5 Indian IT services providers grew 23.8% in 2011, reports Gartner

NXP has 74% share of contactless ticket market, reports ABI Research

ID card technology: Mobile phone, NFC and the design

$12.3M GaN DARPA contract to Triquint to develop GaN semiconductor devices

Fairchild filed new patent infringement claims against PI's LinkSwitch-PH devices

IDT acquires FOX and also to acquire PLX tech

Toshiba lauds NAND Flash memory achievement

RealVNC remote control tech on ST's automotive infotainment app processors

Infonetics predicts optical transceiver market to hit $3.3 billion in 2016

Webcast on "Isolation challenges in power conversion application" by ADI and Arrow

Vishay Asia has won 2011 Supplier awards presented by TTI Asia

Easy selector guide released from Monolithic Power Systems for better parts selection

Talent competition in China to develop apps on the BlackBerry platform, by RIM and QNX

Forte Design Systems joins Cadence Connections program

Progress report on the EU FP7 ESTRELIA project from Austriamicrosystems

Vigven Tech Mark is the new India representative of Pickering Interfaces

'Base station-on-a-chip' IC from Cavium is shipped to telecom equipment manufacturers

Advanced power semiconductor packaging tech display by IR at PCIM 2012 event

Samsung and Synopsys collaborate to implement ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore processor

Four year supply agreement signed by CTS for HDD piezoceramic micro actuators

Infonetics forecasts cloud and CPE managed security services to hit $18 billion by 2016

Total assembly solution to CE customers by 3M and Nordson

HealthGO from eDevice for remote patient monitoring driven by Freescale tech

Dolby sound in KT-81 Karbonn mobiles for Indian consumers

April 2012

Simulink code generation targets built into Freescale's motor control development toolbox

Industry's 1st SoC GDSII from C-models of algorithms claimed by Algotochip

EnOcean and ZigBee wireless technologies integrated by CAN2GO controllers

3D chip stacking at 20nm enabled by GLOBALFOUNDRIES Fab 8

Semiconductor design solutions expanded by Open-Silicon

Global semiconductor market forecast 2012: Gartner; 4%, iSuppli; 4.3%, IDC; 6-7%

Wireless control of lighting solutions through ZigBee Light Link standard

Wireless control of lighting solutions through ZigBee Light Link standard

Student competition for ideas on industrial process automation by Honeywell

Researcher at NCSU attempt to boost the data capability of multi-hop networks

OpenCL SDK from Intel now supports its Core processor chips

Intel to acquire Cray's high-performance computing interconnect assets

TowerJazz transfers CMOS image sensor from its Israel facility to its US fab

IBM partners with Asahi Kasei and Central Glass on new battery tech

9000 software applications certified on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Wi-Fi design code by GainSpan for TI MSP430

Advanced memory and logic tech and 3D TSV by SEMATECH at VLSI Sympo

Maxim's G3-PLC recommended as smart-meter communication protocol in Japan

Evatronix partners with ICDREC for IP cores and software stacks

Tiempo partners with Alcinéo to develop smartcard applications

Austriamicrosystems donates technology and sponsors Freescale cup competition

Polysilicon price may reach US$ 20/kg in 2012, predicts TrendForce

Quad-core Exynos 4 SoC chip with double the power for Samsung Galaxy S III

Semiconductor market to grow by 4.3% in 2012, as per updated IHS forecast

Infonetics predicts deep packet inspection (DPI) market of $2 billion by 2016

Aeroflex to provide testing solutions for mobile devices of Qualcomm

Posedge opens two new design centers in India and Taiwan

Heart monitor in a wristwatch developed by Plessey using its EPIC sensor technology

ST-Ericsson transfers application processor development to ST Micro

MEMS displays to grow 62% by 2016, says Semico Research

Rambus awarded "Best paper award" at 2012 DesignCon

Forum on DSP using FPGA by Altera, Arrow and MathWorks

The 5th EDA software with analytical place and route for VLSI design, but for FPGA

Winners of ST's OpenWorld design contest announced

SEMI: $1.48 B orders placed in March by N.American semiconductor equipment

Alvarion selected by HotSpot International for Wi-Fi solutions

Microsemi ships 10,000th radiation-tolerant RTAX-S/SL FPGA

Nichia sued by Everlight in US for patent infringement

New IEEE standard designed to assist smart-grid communications and distribution automation

Toshiba to rebuild chip plant in Thailand at safer place

TI reports 9% sequential-fall in sales revenue for the 1st Quarter 2012

ST Micro's 1Q2012: sales revenue of Auto, Anaog, MEMS, MCU up and rest down

G.R.A.S. sells microphone kits for use with NI DSA hardware

Fujitsu Semiconductor wireless appoints Satoru Yamaguchi as the President and CEO

Formal process launched by Freescale to identify Rich Beyer's successor

Microchip acquired Roving Networks to expand wireless solutions

The proposed India semiconductor fab partners

ZTE expecting superfast growth in smart phone shipment

Tensilica's 300 Million audio/video DSP cores shipped through its customer's products

Malaysia and Philippines showing good signs of semiconductor industry growth

Tensilica to hire VLSI design engineers at its expanded office in Pune

SEMI's conference to discuss semiconductor manufacturing issues and concepts

Infonetics: 60% up in the enterprise session border controller market

DA9052 IC from Dialog Semiconductor inside Epson's see-through mobile viewer

Over 1 billion hard disk drives sold with Marvell chips inside by Western Digital

India Electronics back on track

Nanotube electrodes to make dye sensitized solar PV cells cheaper

ST's MEMS revenues have grown more than 80% through 2011

Renesas Electronics adopts Synopsys' Proteus LRC for lithography verification

Alchip licenses Panasonic's power line communication to make PLC ICs

Intel leverages Lava to enter global smart phone market via India

Mobile access solution for NFC phones from NXP and HID Global

Bradley Howe named the senior VP of research and development at Altera

Matlab and Simulink campus-wide access at Manipal Institute of Technology

Indoor cycling bike introduced by Body Bike with ANT+ interoperability

CSR opens automotive development centre in Ingolstadt, Germany

Xilinx's 28nm FPGAs supported by Aldec solutions at X-Fest 2012

Intel Atom processor powered Lava smart phone XOLO X900 priced Rs 22,000

Micrel receive 98% performance rating from its MEMS customer

FPGA based video analytics solution from Altera and Eutecus for video surveillance systems

Body-worn wireless medical sys from Isansys Lifecare achieves CE mark and is cloud-ready

Free access to Atrenta IP kit for two weeks on trial basis

Advantech partners with TI on HD video processing applications

JEDEC forms JC-64 subcommittee to standardize non-volatile wireless memory

Samsung leads in AMOLED manufacturing

Alliance Memory appoints Jan Ornjager as the regional manager, Nordic

Murata to acquire RF Monolithics

IHS iSuppli: Desktops set to adopt 2.5-Inch Hard Disc Drives (HDD)

India Semiconductor Association elects Dr. Satya as new chairman for 2012-13

Semiconductor 2011 ranking: Intel and Samsung atop, rest all out-of-range

Top 25 fabless semiconductor ranking 2011: Spreadtrum is the star

Sony to transform its mobile, gaming and TV biz

Honda's Fit EV battery electric car tested for smart charging by IBM

Hybrid bus powered by ultracapacitors and diesel engine

Tear down of Windows smart-phone Nokia's Lumia 900: $209 worth of ICs and components

TSMC starts phase-5 expansion of its semiconductor Fab 14

Imec to present resistive RAM papers at 2012 VLSI Technology Symposium

SMIC 40nm Reference Flow uses Cadence' Encounter

Hardware engine to stream movies from SSD to tablet and phones

DDR3 memory related paper from Rambus wins DesignCon-2012 award

RNCOS predicts 6% growth in global semiconductor market

NXP drives MIFARE for broader range of applications

Multi-core processor on-chip communication goes serial and packet based

India semiconductor market 2012: revenue to grow by 20%, as per Gartner

IHS: Counterfeit part incidents tripled in last two years

Gartner: The number of PC purchases in India in 2012 is estimated at 12.5 Million

Honeywell awards its channel partners in India

Kilopass NVM IP employed in SoC IC from SICMICRO

LG's Optimus smartphones use RFMD devices

Modelithics uses Anritsu's VectorStar VNA for testing schottky diodes

Fern Howard to sell LED lighting products based on Rambus tech

Fairchild Semiconductor licenses Infineon's automotive MOSFET packaging tech

NXP Semiconductors gains IP strength by acquiring Catena Group

Researchers try out auto-coding concept in software engineering

UMC certified Synopsys' StarRC extraction solution for 28-nm designs

Rs.6499 tablet by Micromax is going to be a hit

Latest in <22nm semiconductor tech at SEMICON West event

The top ten semiconductor foundries in 2011: TSMC maintains lead

ADI acquires clock expert Mutligig

Digi and Wind River collaborate on cloud-connected wireless M2M

Intersil, Sony and Altronix joining hands to develop hybrid IP video surveillance

IHS: Revenue for digital MEMS microphones to reach $315 Million in 2013

ST awards projects designed for medical app and visually challenged persons

Renesas to transfer its factory to Fuji Electric

Indian R&D outsourcers HCL and Wipro are design support members of Altera

Mobile processor chip market forecasted to reach 1.9B units by 2016

Touch controller IC market: Unit shipment estimated to grow by 28% in 2012

X-Renesas Jim Trent to head NXP's MCU biz

NXP and HID Global are collaborating on NFC phones

Synopsys along with IMTAB members develop models for double pattern analysis

Dialog semiconductor collaborate with TSMC to develop BCD process tech

Mar 2012

James Cameron reaches deepest sea point powered by fluid compensated electronics

Gartner forecasts 11.6 % decline in chip fab equipment spending in 2012

Shipments of 3D LCD TV panels spiked to 7.8M in Q4'11, up 26% Q/Q

WHDI, WirelessHD, and WiGig are rated as the three top tech for CE interface

Ittiam Systems: electronics design IP company with $20M+ revenue and 30 granted patents

WLAN equipment market reached $893 million in 4Q11, up 1% q-o-q

Murata completes purchase of Renesas's high-power amp biz

Enterprise router sales rose 1% over 3Q11, to $920 million in 4Q11

TrendForce presents possible DRAM market impact due to Elpida's situation

Social networks and mobile devices are more prone to attacks

Ericsson increases ownership in LG-Ericsson

CHANGHONG selected Entropic's c.LINK IC for its EoC access equipment

2.5M RapidIO switch shipment record from IDT

TSMC and Altera collaborate in 3D chip tech

Broadcom targets fiber communication market by acquiring BroadLight

Non-IC semiconductor revenues in 2011 is $57.4B, as per estimates

IHS: Semiconductor inventories set to decline slightly in Q1

RFMD shipped >1B power amps to mobile phone manufacturers in China zone

Xilinx strengthens its R and D base in India

Large-sized panel shipments in Feb-12 increased by 14.4% m-o-m

NXP Semiconductors announces CFO change

Mentor Graphics helps GlobalFoundries in improving design yield

FPGA and optical transceivers in single package for higher data-speed

iRobot to use TI's OMAP to develop robots

Blue Pearl Software supports Synopsys' Synplify Pro

New TCP/IP book jointly by Micrium and TI

FPGA-RLDRAM interface is demonstrated

Tear down and BOM analysis of new LTE integrated iPad

Cosmic Circuits demos its MIPI M-PHY at the MIPI Alliance event in Seoul

Synopsys and Applied collaborate on TCAD models for 14nm and 11nm chip design

Slight fall in TV shipments in 2011, as per DisplaySearch

6WINDGate supports TI's KeyStone II multicore processors

Micrel acquires controlling interest in PhaseLink

Personal cloud touted as a replacement for the personal computer by 2014

Riber and imec collaborate in making CMOS devices using compound semiconductor

Cypress Semiconductor India appoints Badri Kothandaraman

In-Stat: 30.7M WCDMA/HSPA residential femtocells to be shipped in 2015

Gartner ups its semiconductor revenue estimation for 2012 from 2.2 to 4%

Flexible PV solar panel production plant in Germany opens

MediaTek to use Rambus patented tech

Semicon equipment spending to steep up in 2013

Qualcomm providing Snapdragon-powered Windows on ARM PCs for testing

Nickel Oxide as semiconductor material withstands high voltage and temp

Whether Windows8 and Ultrabooks create new growth in PC market?

IBM makes a prototype optical chip set operating at speeds of 1000000 MB/s

Dialog integrates ARM Cortex M0 in smart power Ics

AMD to acquire SeaMicro, a microserver expert

Advanced insulation material can enable higher HVDC transmission

LEO satellites maneuverable by exploiting atmospheric drag to save propellent

By 2016 over 75% of all US electric meters are estimated to be smart meters

AMD's pulls its stake in GLOBALFOUNDRIES, now only a valued customer

Silcon photonics partnership between Luxtera and STMicroelectronics

Number-1 MEMS device for consumer and mobile is gyroscope, as per IHS

Community for open source hardware and VLSI IP cores

Magnachip Semiconductor acquires Dawin Electronics

IC Design: 10 vendors have qualified their soft IP for TSMC 9000 IP lib using Atrenta's IP kit

NFC specs MIFARE4Mobile gained big momentum in 2011

HiSilicon and imec collaborate on reconfigurable radio

Smart consumer electronics device shipment to exceed 92M in 2016, as per estimates

Toshiba to acquire 3.5 Inch HDD equipment and IP from Western Digital

Elpida filed for bankruptcy protection

Gateway and thin client are estimated to reach 4.2M in 2012 from 0.34M in 2011

Spreadtrum licenses CEVA-XC DSP for its LTE baseband processor designs

Battery trend in mobiles is fast moving from removable to internal

Feb 2012

Intersil targets immediate-possible high-volume markets

Silicon and software for small-cell base-station hot at MWC

3 Million wireless HD video-enabled devices estimated to ship in 2015

ICs can integrate on-chip voltage regulators

Lumia, a spring board for both MS and Nokia

Global service provider router and switch market grew 11% in the 4th quarter of 2011

ST showcase OIS and LBS tech at MWC

MEMS shipment from ST crosses 2 Billion

TI's silicon and Aricent's software component integrated for small-cell design

MWC: Stiff battle-like competition between mobile phone OEMs

Semiconductor technology trends in 2012 at ISSCC

Is Germanium a potential candidate to work along with Silicon in future computers?

PBI embedds Aurix true phonetic speech search engine in its product

Slow growth of emerging markets affecting display panel market

FlexNoC interconnect IP in Synopsys' Platform Architect

In-Stat: Low-cost Android smartphones to approach 340M worldwide in 2015

Interfacing DNA computing with silicon computing

Broadcom acquires NetLogic

$8.5M research initiative for generating quantum memories

Cost limits the volume growth of AMOLED TVs

Silcon Image opens R&D center in Hyderabad

Ambient Devices and Ember to create IHD for the smart energy market

VadaTech selects IDT RapidIO Gen2 switch

EMS provider Sanmina-SCI's India design center gets aerospace certified

Researchers try non-planar contacts between metal and semiconductor

IEEE individual award winners in 2012

Building nanoscale transistors by aligning atoms, a disruptive tech for litho equipment

Driver assist sensors in cars to see big growth in 2012, as per IHS

Automotive open-source OpenXC from Ford launched in India

TowerJazz with its local partner bids for 'India semiconductor chip fab'

Tablet screen size: not one-for-all is market opportunity

IBM chip fab club to talk on deeper nodes such as 14nm on Mar 14

Huawei to lead in the $10.6 Billion OTN equipment market estimated by 2015

Tablet gaining popularity in office environment

Workshop on power-analysis attacks by Cryptography Research

MIT launches free online course on ‘Circuits and Electronics’

Magnesium and Antimony based low cost batteries researched by MIT

Maskless lithography: a better alternative in semiconductor chip fab tech

Lithium polymer battery production to increase by 30% in 2012, as per a study

Ericsson aims to connect 50 Billion devices by 2020 using M2M tech

Microsemi and TRINAMIC deliver dual motor control kit

KEMET to acquire tantalum manufacturer Niotan

Indian consumer electronics market to reach US$13 Billion by 2014

TriQuint to make compound semiconductor devices for startup Sarda

IPC and JEDEC releases new standards for handling non-IC electronic components

Is 'All is well' for India electronics and semiconductor industry

Key announcements expected at India Semiconductor Association Vision Summit 2012

ELCINA and Vittal Innovation City to set-up electronics manufacturing clusters in India

Printed electronics gaining role in more applications

Renesas sales revenue falls by 8.3% q-o-q in its 3Q2011

Mobile-device overtakes computer as top consumer of semiconductor devices

Automotive MEMS grew by 16% in 2011, as per a study

In-Stat: Mobile SoC semiconductor IC TAM to exceed 3.1 billion devices in 2015

NTU Singapore buys nanotech equipment from AIXTRON

U.S., S.Korea, and Japan have 85.3% of semiconductor IC revenue share, as per a study

In-Stat estimates Wi-Fi chipset revenue to reach $6.1B in 2015

IHS iSuppli forecasts a slow 3.3% growth of semiconductor revenue in 2012

Triad selects Berkeley's Analog FastSPICE

Jan 2012

Lightweight cryptography technique CLEFIA from Sony gets ISO/IEC stamp

Intel to acquire media streaming patents from RealNetworks

IHS iSuppli: Electronic contract manufacturing revenue down by 1% to $357B in 2012

Wi-Fi Alliance disowns the term "Super Wi-Fi"

Inphi's iMB based LRDIMMs are validated for AMD Opteron 6200 processors

Mentor hires its x-employee to head its Indian FPGA design tool business

Moser Baer enhances its solar semiconductor tech for scaling up effeciency to 21%

Altera uses Mentor Graphics Veloce for verifications of its FPGA designs

Electronic device buit-in into a shirt is possibe due to elastic conductors

Video of Nordic's iOS demo app on wireless accessories n/w with iPhone 4S

Interoperability event in Feb for 3D-capable cable set top boxes

North America semicon equipment makers posted $1.16 billion in orders in Dec 2011

100 million hybrid STBs to ship in 2015

AMOLED TV shipments to reach 2.1M units in 2015, up from just 34K in 2012

MEMS microphone revenue in 2012 is projected to reach $493.5 million

A city in US goes for large-scale LED street lamp deployment

Fujitsu Semiconductor uses latest DFM VLSI software from Mentor

Semtech to acquire Canada based Gennum

IEEE offering English version of Chinese tech publications

Gartner: Indian enterprise market is quite distinct from other markets

Samsung is world's 2nd producer and consumer of semiconductor devices

Ericsson and ZTE agreed to drop patent related litigations

Femtocell market 2012: Revenues to double

The difficult semiconductor packages in board assembly are BGAs, QFN, and LGA

Can windows 8 phone beat Android

Smart home tech; a big opportunity for semiconductor industry

Samsung to begin production of a 46-inch transparent LCD panel in this month

CdTe photovoltaic PV solar module efficiency of 14.4 % by First Solar

Everspin records 300 percent growth of its MRAM shipments in 2011

Samsung starts volume production of stacked memory chips for smartphones

Microcontroller market study: Sales revenue reached around $16B in 2011

Mobile semiconductor market shake up by M&A, says ABI

As the content evaporates from personal systems, cloud-server market set to double

Cypress Semiconductor releases Alcatel- Lucent in a patent infringment case

In-Stat: Semiconductor revenue of $3.5B from video surveillance equipment in 2015

Holst Centre and imec to co-research on flexible OLED displays

NFC semiconductor chip market driven by smart-mobile

Electronics design software revenue grew 7.4% in Q311 sequentially

FPGA gaining space in consumer electronics

GEO Semiconductor has entered into a strategic partnership with AppBanc

Graphene growing nanotech equipment from Aixtron installed at INESC MN

Wi-Fi is predicted to grow 109 percent between 2011-2016 in automotive

IBM's next path in nanotech: Atom level

Tech from NXP and Belkin to control home lighting using smartphone

MEMS based gesture recognition platfrom jointly by UEI and Movea

IBM and GLOBALFOUNDRIES's partnership chip factory in U.S. starts 32nm production

TI partner with metaio and Total Immersion in offering SDK for augmented reality apps

Qualcomm Atheros and Broadcom validate HomePlug AV

Intevac sells its semiconductor mainframe tech to Brooks Automation

SuperSpeed USB shipments to surpass 1B in 2014, up from 70M in 2011

Semiconductor fab spending to down in 1st half and to up in 2nd half 2012

Cavium displaying media-gadgets designed using its silicon at CES2012

Market for multimode, multiband RF power amps to exceed $150 million in 2012

MIPS to demo the gaming and content sharing tech at CES 2012

OLED display revenues are estimated to exceed $4 billion in 2011

Top ten technology trends related to media tablet, as per IHS iSuppli

CES 2012 is more of convergence tech than a consumer

Less semiconductor devices in stock due to flat market

Comparison of India's science research with China, US, UK and Japan

Marvell acquires Xelerated for its wired communication processing tech

Cavium's chips to feature wireless display tech from Intel

100 Gbps Ethernet over fiber n/w interoperability by Fujitsu, NEC and Anritsu

Broadcom to display MOCA 2.0 integrated chips at CES

Consumer electronics semiconductor vendor Trident files for bankruptcy

EnSilica opens VLSI design centre in Bangalore, India

Gen4 touch screen controllers from Cypress are in production

Invensas buys 73 semiconductor tech Patents from Mosys

Industry seeks a balanced growth of science and engineering

LCD panel biz: Kyocera acquires Optrex and Samsung buys Sony share in S-LCD

Cosmic Circuits announces 2011 design contest winners

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