| IBM, Sony and Toshiba to co-develop advanced chip processes
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2002-04-04 |
| In a deal that will move SOI and other advanced semiconductor process technologies into cost-sensitive consumer electronics ICs, IBM, Sony Corp., Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and Toshiba have signed a four-year process technology development agreement. |
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| Fujitsu promises 90nm production within a year
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2002-04-02 |
| Fujitsu Ltd has begun prototype production of chips in its 90nm process technology at its Akiruno Technology Center, and plans to introduce the process for commercial production this fiscal year. |
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| Post acquisition spree, Intel strives for key to comms
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2002-04-02 |
| Intel Corp. hasn't made heads or tails of the communications industry. As the company bought up startups, it was simply collecting one of everything, with no central strategy for interlocking the pieces. |
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| Sapphire-based chip trades copper wires for light
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2002-03-27 |
| A team at Johns Hopkins University in the U.S. has developed a prototype chip which uses light instead of wires as an interface |
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| Novas readies behavior-based debugging technology
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2002-03-27 |
| Novas Software Inc. is preparing a behavior-based debugging technology that it says will support higher levels of abstraction, and is also promising improved performance and new "knowledge management" capabilities for the upgrade of its Debussy HDL debugging tool. |
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| Multilink, IPAG collaborate on optoelectronic solutions
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2002-03-21 |
| Multilink Technology Corp. has cooperated with Innovative Processing AG (IPAG) for the marketing, design and test of 40Gbps optical PIN diode receivers, electronic traveling wave amplifiers and optoelectronic, monolithically-integrated devices |
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| Interoperability: a sore point for tool suppliers, users
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2002-03-21 |
| Strongly divergent views of EDA interoperability surfaced at a panel discussion at the International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design, as users called for open standards and vendors expressed skepticism of such efforts |
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| Intel to put mobile solution on display at CTIA
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2002-03-19 |
| Intel Corp. has created a reference guide that shows how to securely and efficiently integrate wireless client devices into their corporate IT systems. |
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| e-MDT, Quadrant to establish joint venture in China
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2002-03-11 |
| South Korea's e-MDT Co. Ltd and Quadrant Components Inc. will establish a joint venture in Shenzhen, China, named q-MDT Co. Ltd. |
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| SoC stumbling blocks cataloged at DATE
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2002-03-11 |
| It's not enough to be fast, efficient and technically proficient. Designers now must become Renaissance engineers. |
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| Reality hampers vision of interoperable IP cores
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2002-03-07 |
| Although the worldwide market for semiconductor IP is growing 20 percent a year, the electronics industry's efforts to establish open IP trading have been hindered by instability and self-recrimination, according to panelists at the Design Automation and Test in Europe conference |
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| VSIA takes hard look at embedded software reuse
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2002-03-06 |
| The Virtual Socket Interface Alliance has set up a development working group to create standards for the reuse of embedded software, in a bid to address what may be the next big challenge in SoC design |
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| IBM will steer PowerPC into mobile mart
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2002-03-05 |
| IBM intends to take its PowerPC processor architecture to the mobile sector and into "head-to-head competition with Intel" and that company's Xscale processor, John Kelly III, senior vice president of IBM's Technology Group, said last week. |
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| Nokia presses open platform strategy
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2002-03-04 |
| Nokia will license the source code of smart-phone software it has designed internally. Leading the charge for open technology, Nokia said it will offer its Series 60 software and the rest of "an open smart-phone platform" to competing cell phone manufacturers. |
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| CPLDs encroach on FPGA territory
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2002-03-01 |
| This news article describes how with the programmable logic market experiencing tremendous growth, designers should position themselves to implement integrated, design-specific logic functions using standard components |
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