| Freescale won't go fabless despite downturn
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2009-06-15 |
| Freescale Semiconductor general manager EMEA Steve Wainwright explains why the company will never go fables despite the current market conditions. |
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| Mirasol display fab rises in Taiwan
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2009-06-08 |
| Qualcomm MEMS Technologies Inc. has announced that a dedicated mirasol display fabrication plant in the Longtan's Science Park in Taoyuan, Taiwan has commenced operations |
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| MEMS find place GPS, mobile apps
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2009-06-04 |
| MEMS sensors are increasingly being integrated into phones, MP3 players, GPS units, mobile Internet devices (MIDs), portable medical scanners and all sorts of greentech products |
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| Accelerometers to top MEMS market by 2013
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2009-06-01 |
| Accelerometers in recent years have emerged as a critical input device for some of the world's hottest electronic products, causing shipments to boom, making them the top-selling MEMS device by 2013, according to iSuppli Corp |
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| Dialog Semi goes beyond power management
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2009-04-29 |
| Dialog Semiconductor CEO Jalal Bagherli said system power management will remain the company's main area of expertise but disclosed they are also working on low-power display controllers for PMOLEDS as well drivers for MEMS and E-Ink based displays |
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| ADI, Infineon develop automotive airbag safety system
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2009-04-29 |
| Analog Devices Inc. and Infineon Technologies AG have agreed to collaborate on the advancement of next-generation automotive airbag systems. |
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| MEMS fire up component revolution
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2009-04-16 |
| Semiconductor vendors are in either in the MEMS sector or will be out of business; that was the stark assertion that came out of a panel session at the recent Globalpress Electronics Summit |
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| Wireless, MEMS advancements boost energy harvesting
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2009-04-06 |
| What has really changed energy harvesting in the last two decades? The answer, in sum, is a confluence of the development of wireless and lower power electronics, along with advancements in sensors and MEMS |
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| iSuppli: auto sensor shipments to decline
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2009-03-26 |
| Shipments of sensors in the automotive segment were down by 6 percent in 2008 and are forecasted to be slashed by 19 percent in 2009, according to iSuppli's automotive practice. |
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| MEMS winners and losers of 2008
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2009-03-25 |
| The MEMS market saw significant changes in terms of the top-30 vendor rankings for 2008, according to market research and strategy consulting firm Yole Developpement |
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| Bosch taps Lam's deep silicon etch system
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2009-03-06 |
| Robert Bosch GmbH has selected Lam Research Corp.'s TCP 9400DSiE deep silicon etch system for current and next-generation manufacturing. |
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| ADI consolidates fabs amid sales drop
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2009-02-24 |
| Analog Devices Inc. will accelerate plans to consolidate its two remaining U.S. fabs into one facility as part of an effort to permanently reduce spending in the face of further projected revenue decline of 5 to 15 percent. |
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| The lowdown on the fab tool market
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2009-02-23 |
| 2009 is off to a rough start for fab tool and materials vendors. But some technologies—and companies—are doing better than others. |
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| Qualcomm, LG to bring energy-efficient displays
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2009-02-20 |
| Qualcomm MEMS Technologies Inc. and LG Electronics Inc. have agreed to begin the development of handsets with integrated nature-inspired mirasol displays, which consume less power than other display technologies |
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| MEMS accelerometers find place in CE
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2009-02-13 |
| Though MEMS accelerometer sales are likely to decrease to $846 million in 2009 due to a slump in automotive demand, ABI Research estimates that the market will recover to be worth $1.6 billion by 2012, fuelled by a boom in consumer applications |
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| RF chips find big market in medical apps
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2009-02-11 |
| Radio frequency CMOS is being applied to a growing but fragmented set of medical applications ranging from imaging and DNA testing to networking in and around the body. |
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| Smart phones keep IC suppliers afloat
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2009-02-10 |
| With the crisis bleeding out the electronics markets and suppliers, the relative strength of the smart phone market is helping some companies to keep their heads above water and propelling others to impressive growth. |
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| Consumer, mobile electronics propel MEMS market
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2009-02-04 |
| iSuppli Corp. has projected that global revenue from consumer and mobile electronics shipments of MEMS will rise to $2.6 billion in 2012, up from $1.1 billion in 2006 |
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| How to weather the economic storm
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2009-01-23 |
| Fab-tool veteran Nick Konidaris, president and CEO of Electro Scientific Industries Inc., provided some tips. |
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| ST's MEMS sales soared in '08
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2009-01-21 |
| According to iSuppli Corp., ST's sales of MEMS devices for portable and consumer devices surged from $96 million in 2007 to more than $209 million in 2008, a growth of 118 percent |
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| Coming soon: HD projector cellphones
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2009-01-15 |
| Are you ready for cellphones that could generate, play and even project high-definition (HD) video? |
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| iPhone mania lifts MEMS market
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2008-12-17 |
| Global revenue from shipments of MEMS for mobile handsets is projected to grow at a compound annual rate of 34.4 percent from 2007 through 2012, largely to the success of iPhone, according to iSuppli Corp |
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| Analog hype overcrowds market
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2008-12-16 |
| Industry pundits proclaimed 2008 the year of analog. But the odds for analog foundries' survival aren't looking good as analog foundry vendors face an IC market downturn, the breakout of a price war and mounting fears about intellectual property theft in China. |
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| Electronic stability control systems' sales to rise
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2008-12-12 |
| Despite the plunging demand for cars, electronic stability control (ESC) systems' sales are expected to continue to rise in the coming years. iSuppli reports that ESC systems will generate attractive opportunities for suppliers of MEMS sensors used in these systems |
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| The Future of Display Technology
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2008-12-05 |
| While wandering the isles at our local department store, I had to pause in the home electronics section and admire the collection of large format LCD and plasma HDTV systems on display. I slipped back in time to when I was a young engineer and could only imagine displays that large and thin. |
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| Telehealth age dawns
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2008-12-01 |
| Remote monitoring using wireless technology is finally getting its interoperability act together worldwide. Telehealth technologies are being developed and deployed to reduce visits to hospitals and doctors' offices and improve patient health with lifestyle coaching. |
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| Freescale, Synerject rev up performance of Ducati bikes
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2008-11-24 |
| Freescale is powering Synerject's new family of M3 ECUs, designed for motorcycles, such as the 2009 Ducati Monster 696. |
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| Confab to highlight nanotech for bio
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2008-11-21 |
| Advances in nanotechnologies for medicine and biology will be detailed at the December International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco. |
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| Wafer-level packaging achieves prominence
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2008-11-21 |
| Wafer-level packaging, the fabrication of the IC package directly on the wafer, is finally getting exposure after many years of promises, according to an expert in the field. |
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| Nokia presents glimpse of next smart phones
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2008-11-18 |
| In 2004, Nokia developed a concept design for a smart phone dominated by a touchscreen, which looks now uncannily like Apple's iPhone. |
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