| Applied Materials still top IC gear supplier
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2008-03-24 |
| Market research group VLSI Research has released figures about IC manufacturing equipment suppliers worldwide. The top ten IC manufacturing equipment suppliers recorded combined revenues of $33.5 billion last year, a 10 percent increase over the previous year. |
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| Long way to go for Brazil's chip biz?
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2008-03-21 |
| The birth of the Brazilian semiconductor industry has been protracted and difficult, but even as the infant takes its first steps, it is facing an uphill battle. |
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| MEMS face quartz-crystal giants
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2008-03-17 |
| MEMS represent the final frontier in microminiaturization-downsizing this necessary mechanical reference signal from the millimeter scale of quartz-crystals to the nanoscale of ICs |
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| MEMS gear up for medical mission
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2008-03-03 |
| Microelectromechanical-system-based inertial and motion sensors are finding slots in medical applications, with demand fueled by implantable devices that must be highly reliable and very small, as well as by handheld devices for home monitoring and diagnostics. |
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| Freescale MRAM lifts off to space
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2008-02-28 |
| MRAM products from Freescale Semiconductor have been selected for use in a magnetometer subsystem from Angstrom Aerospace, which will be launched into space on board the Japanese research satellite SpriteSat. |
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| GPS goes beyond navigation to video games
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2008-02-28 |
| By combining GPS and a digital compass with accelerometers, HP Lab's Mediascape platform lets gamers 'become a mouse and a gamepad,' said Patrick Goddi, a senior researcher at HP Labs. |
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| Yole sees increasing WLP adoption in ICs
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2008-02-26 |
| Yole Dveloppement released an analysis on the adoption of WLP in semiconductors based on the idea that WLP technology can be implemented in the most cost sensitive applications. |
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| MEMS shrink digital projector to pico unit
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2008-02-18 |
| Microvision Inc. showcased a prototype of its pico projector, which uses MEMS to downsize a digital projector to a palm-size, battery-powered unit |
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| Dialog Semi to bring PMOLED displays to mobiles
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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. |
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| HP dethrones TI as MEMS king in 2007
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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 |
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| Enabling e-paper displays
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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. |
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| Israeli startup gets multimillion investment from Samsung
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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. |
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| Nanochip cooks up terabyte memory ICs
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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 |
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| Freescale, Microstaq team on superheat control for HVAC
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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 |
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| Freescale opens new 200mm MEMS facility
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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 |
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