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Dialog Semi to bring PMOLED displays to mobiles 2008-02-15
Dialog Semiconductor has introduced it SmartXtend technology that will allow the main displays of many mobile devices to use passive-matrix OLED displays rather than LCD or active-matrix OLEDs.  
HP dethrones TI as MEMS king in 2007 2008-02-05
Yole Développement reported that MEMS market grew 9 percent to $7 billion in 2007, with the top 30 MEMS makers logging a collective $5.6 billion in revenue and growing an average of 7 percent  
Enabling e-paper displays 2008-02-01
We've all heard the sizzle of e-paper displays, with their promise of wraparound advertising signs, wearable wrist monitors and e-newspapers that we fold or roll up and stick into our pockets. While the age of these gee-whiz products is not yet upon us, their enabling display technologies are on the move.  
Israeli startup gets multimillion investment from Samsung 2008-01-31
South Korea's Samsung Ventures Investment has made a multimillion dollar investment in Micro Components, its first in an Israeli technology company.  
Nanochip cooks up terabyte memory ICs 2008-01-29
Nanochip disclosed it is on-track on the development of terabyte memory chips, which combine phase-change media to cantilever read/write heads controlled by MEMS  
Freescale, Microstaq team on superheat control for HVAC 2008-01-24
Freescale and Microstaq have partnered to develop of an intelligent refrigerant superheat control system that combines Freescale's MEMS pressure sensing, processing and control technology with Microstaq's MEMS silicon expansion valve  
Freescale opens new 200mm MEMS facility 2008-01-17
Freescale Semiconductor has built an advanced MEMS 200mm production line to address growing sensors market demand at its Oak Hill Fab in Austin, Texas  
MEMS set to tickle consumer fancy 2008-01-16
Today, MEMS chips, combined with the smart software that uses them, are being designed into cellphones at a pace reminiscent of camera-phone adoption, enabling a new breed of consumer-pleasing electronic devices  
MEMS measurement tech could increase wafer yields 2008-01-15
NIST claims that CMOS semiconductor makers could take advantage of its MEMS measurement regime to increase wafer yields by reducing the frequency of failures  
ITC to start probe on four IC complaints 2008-01-08
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has decided to pursue four separate cases filed by IBM Corp., Knowles Electronics LLC, Tessera Inc. and Seoul Semiconductor Co. Ltd.  
Final roundup: Mixed expectations for '08 top Q4 list 2007-12-27
In the top list of most viewed articles on EE Times-Asia for the final quarter are reports on industry forecasts, shakers and movers, thought leaders, as well as emerging technologies and hot apps.  
...Chip-on-MEMS' enables wafer-level calibration 2007-12-17
A new technique called "chip-on-MEMS" bonds ASIC dice atop an entire MEMS wafer before dicing, according to developer VTI Technologies  
Brazil's Ceitec inks CMOS deal with X-FAB 2007-12-14
X-FAB Silicon Foundries and CEITEC have entered a CMOS tech licensing deal for semiconductor manufacturing in Brazil.  
The year in review: First-quarter storm 2007-12-04
The first three months of 2007 were a hodgepodge of exciting prospects and reality check.  
RF MEMS switch market to balloon in five years 2007-11-26
Market researcher WTC sees the market for RF MEMS switches explode: While in 2006, the total market volume amounted to $5 million globally, the volume will grow to $210 million within only five years  
MEMS poised to penetrate CE market 2007-11-23
After penetrating mass market by enabling air bags to trigger fast enough to catch passengers before they hit the steering wheel, MEMS now has a new target: consumer electronics  
RF MEMS clears way for software radio on-a-chip 2007-11-19
WiSpry is sampling the first integrated RF MEMS, and the company says its forthcoming line of RF-MEMS devices will eventually yield the holy grail of RF: software radio  
Sensors toughen up for industrial use 2007-11-16
While there has been a lot of discussion recently about the CMOS and charge-coupled device image sensors used in mobile devices, there's a plethora of sensor types used in other applications including HVAC, motion control, hydraulic systems and robotics.  
Digital mics go direct to codecs, lose ADCs 2007-11-12
Digital microphone pioneer Akustica Inc. said it has gained a design win in Texas Instruments Inc.'s latest stereo audio codec chips.  
Winged MEMS keep dust away 2007-11-08
Omron claims to have solved the problem of dust and particulate for MEMS airflow sensors with an innovative mechanical architecture that resembles a penguin with outstretched wings  
Optical signals control mechanical structures 2007-11-07
While micro- and nanoscale mechanical structures have long been used to sculpt and channel optical signals, from waveguides to resonators, the roles have lately been reversed.  
Opportunity abounds in MEMS/nanotech 2007-11-01
Despite the fickleness of the investment community—a tendency to jump on the "bandwagon of the moment" investment in both nanotech and MEMS startups has remained relatively strong for the past three years, and almost evenly split between the two  
Hisense phones to flaunt Qualcomm's MEMS displays 2007-10-26
Qualcomm MEMS Technologies and Hisense Communication announced they are collaborating to bring mobile phones with innovative MEMS displays to market by 2008  
Seashells inspire ultrathin yet ultrastrong materials 2007-10-22
A University of Michigan engineering professor has succeeded in creating an ultrathin material as strong as steel by embedding nanomaterial in an organic polymer matrix, mimicking the way oysters embed calcium carbonate into an organic matrix to create seashells.  
Multibillion market awaits energy harvesting tech 2007-10-12
In application areas as diverse as aircraft construction, personal health care monitoring systems or burglary detection systems, energy harvesting is on the verge of developing a market with a multibillion dollar potential.  
Infineon, Hosiden co-develop silicon microphones 2007-10-04
Infineon Technologies and Hosiden announced they have partnered on silicon microphones activities.  
NXP allots $58.3M for mobile speaker facility in Austria 2007-09-18
NXP will invest $58.3 million in its Sound Solutions innovation and manufacturing activities in Austria to expand the automated mass production of its rectangular speaker generation for cellphones.  
MEMS finds niche in space exploration 2007-09-17
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has started a program to develop MEMS technologies that reduce the size, weight and power of its radio transceivers  
Jazz fortifies post in analog, mixed-signal markets 2007-09-14
Jazz Semiconductorhas announced its Analog-Intensive Mixed-Signal initiative to strengthen its position in price/performance and power consumption for specialty CMOS technologies and quicken time-to-revenue for analog-intensive products.  
ADI sells cellular chipset business to MediaTek 2007-09-12
MediaTek has acquired assets related to the ADI Othello radio and SoftFone baseband chipset product lines, as well as certain cellular handset baseband support operations, for approximately $350 million in cash.  


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