| MEMS market seeks more effective fab practices
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2008-10-08 |
| When Freescale shifted a MEMS process from Sendai, Japan, to its Oak Hill fab earlier this year, the company was not successful in making an impact on a new business strategy to join its second internal source |
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| For now, CMOS is still irreplaceable
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2008-10-06 |
| Dennis Buss, chief scientist at TI, gave a retrospective look and a prospective analysis of the semiconductor industry as Moore's law is expected to stagnate toward the end of the next decade. |
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| Accelerometers find place in consumer apps
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2008-10-03 |
| However, recent trends have helped reshape the role of accelerometers in mobile phones and consumer electronics applications. |
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| Image sensors to end remote control era?
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2008-10-03 |
| In pursuit of a more intuitive user interface for increasingly complicated consumer electronics products, Panasonic and Hitachi independently showed off at CEATEC Japan similar "spatial hand gesture user interfaces" for their TV sets. |
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| Analyst: Fabless model is 'stressed out'
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2008-09-17 |
| In a report, analyst Doug Freedman wrote that the "fabless business model seems to be getting stressed out" and that the Nvidia-TSMC relationship "sounds problematic" and "needs to evolve." |
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| MEMS wear sophistication well
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2008-09-16 |
| Engineers must take a holistic rather than a piecemeal approach when integrating MEMS into larger electronic systems |
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| Cleantech investment boom begins
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2008-09-16 |
| According to a report by CleanEdge Inc., total revenue of the biofuel, wind, solar photovoltaic (PV) and fuel cell markets is expected to top $250 billion within the decade, up from $77 billion last year. |
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| Bluetooth: Embracing the medical challenge
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2008-09-16 |
| Technologies such as sensors, MEMS, ADCs, MCUs and short-range wireless communication transceivers combine to create the medical device node. The medical device node can easily transfer various physiological parameters from a remote medical device to a mobile phone, a PC, or any Bluetooth-enabled host |
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| Tegal secures products, IP for 3D packaging, MEMS
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2008-09-04 |
| Tegal Corp. has signed an agreement with AMMS and Alcatel-Lucent to acquire products and the related intellectual property, directed at advanced 3D wafer-level packaging applications. |
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| CE, wireless devices drive market growth for MEMS
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2008-09-03 |
| Driven by new demand from consumer electronics and wireless applications, the global market for MEMS will expand to $8.8 billion in 2012, up from $6.1 billion in 2006, forecasts iSuppli Corp |
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| 3D-TSVs spark packaging revolution
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2008-09-01 |
| Chips face the so-called "More-than-Moore" 3D integration route in order to pursue the continued aggressive scaling demanded by the historical law. 3D integration with through-silicon vias (3D-TSV) will accelerate the consolidation happening in CMOS wafer fabs and the shift toward the fabless foundry model. |
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| TSMC ups budget for 40nm, MEMS
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2008-08-15 |
| The board of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd has approved a $795 million capital spending plan that covers the foundry's push into 45-/40nm CMOS processes and MEMS |
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| Olympics ushers in new MEMS era
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2008-08-12 |
| The 92,000 red, green, blue, yellow and white dots seen at the opening of the Beijing Olympics were the effects created by spectators waving MEMS-equipped electronic toy torches known as 'Waving Torch |
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| Will the Waving Torch make its way to the Olympics?
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2008-08-07 |
| Will the Chinese Olympic Committee allow spectators to use the Waving Torch—a replica of the Olympic Torch designed to spell out messages in midair when spectators wave them rapidly back and forth |
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| KLA-Tencor to buy microelectronic biz of Vistec
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2008-08-06 |
| KLA-Tencor has entered into an agreement to acquire the Microelectronic Inspection Equipment business unit of Vistec Semiconductor Systems. |
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