| Startup promises 'one-stop shop' for memory IP
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2006-11-16 |
| Startup Novelics calls its menu of embedded memory options sufficient to meet the needs of almost all ASIC designers, eliminating the need to work with multiple suppliers of memory intellectual property. |
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| IBM licenses Clipped Tag tech to Marnlen RFiD
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2006-11-15 |
| IBM disclosed that it will license its Clipped Tag technology to Marnlen RfiD |
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| Bartronics sets up chip plant in Hyderabad
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2006-11-14 |
| Bartonics India will set up a manufacturing plant in Hyderabad in southern India to make chips for smart cards in a pact with Watchdata Technologies Ltd, Singapore. |
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| Keithley, Mesatronic team up for wafer probe solution
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2006-11-14 |
| Keithley Instruments has partnered with Mesatronic to develop advanced probe cards for semiconductor parametric testers used in RF and low-current DC applications. |
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| Taiwan's Mosel preps solar cell, RFID biz
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2006-11-10 |
| Mosel Vitelic has shown progress in its solar cell and RFID business, with solar cell production equipment to be prepped up early next year, and RFID volume production to begin in the Q1 of 2007 |
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| Chartered Semi invests in Taiwan-based design services firm
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2006-11-02 |
| Chartered Semiconductor disclosed early this week an investment in Taiwan-based design services firm Gateway Silicon that the foundry said would broaden its range of solutions. |
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| ST, Nanotron team-up for location networks
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2006-10-19 |
| STMicroelectronics and Nanotron Technologies have joined forces to develop complete designs for wireless control and sensor networks targeted at the real time location systems market. |
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| Tektronix adds new test capabilities to spectrum analyzers
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2006-10-17 |
| Tektronix unveiled new software measurement capabilities for digital RF tests that support 3G mobile phone technology, HSUPA and Project 25 - Mobile Land Radio standard. |
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| IEEE approves UWB net spec
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2006-10-11 |
| The IEEE 802.15.4a task group has chosen the chirp spread spectrum PHY technology of Nanotron Technologies GmbH as the baseline PHY standard for wireless PAN. |
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| EPC Global launches consumer electronics committee
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2006-10-10 |
| A two-day meeting of EPC Global's Consumer Electronics Discussion Group on RF tag applications for consumer electronics got underway in Japan last week, following an evaluation by EPC's board of a Hitachi RFID tag |
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| China Sourcing Fair seminars tackle new electronics trends, techs
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2006-10-04 |
| China Sourcing Fair: Electronics and Components visitors will have the chance to meet with electronics industry experts, and learn the latest market developments, product trends and technologies at a series of seminars. |
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| South Korea certifies WJ Communications' RFID module
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2006-10-03 |
| WJ Communications has successfully achieved certification from the South Korean government Ministry of Information Communication for its RFID UHF WJR7090 reader module |
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| Electronics and components fair to feature 2,300 booths
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2006-09-28 |
| The China Sourcing Fair, scheduled to run from Oct. 11-14, is expected to break grounds with a bigger and better showcase of product suppliers at the Asia World Expo in Hong Kong. |
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| Motorola to buy Symbol Tech for $3.9B
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2006-09-21 |
| Motorola Inc. has agreed to purchase RFID and Wi-Fi product supplier Symbol Technologies Inc. for $3.9 billion in stock |
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| NXP RFID IC powers EPC solutions in China
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2006-09-19 |
| NXP Semiconductors today announced heavy demand for its EPCglobal Inc.-certified Generation 2 UHF ICs from companies in China. |
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| Heard on the wire: Elpida to form JV with Taiwan's Powerchip
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2006-09-14 |
| Elpida Memory said that it is still narrowing its site selection for a new wafer fab, although the Japanese DRAM maker is now fueling speculation about a possible venture in Taiwan. |
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| NXP to pour $300M into India
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2006-09-07 |
| Around $324 million will be invested by NXP Semiconductors India to set up an R&D facility and sales team in the sub-continent. |
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| eMemory, Silterra extend semicon collaboration
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2006-08-28 |
| eMemory has verified its Neobit one-time-programmable memory on Silterra's 0.18μm CL180G and CL180H CMOS process technologies. |
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| Savi announces licensing program on RFID IP
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2006-08-28 |
| Savi Technology, a provider of active RFID-based supply chain solutions, is offering a reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing program on its intellectual property for active RFID products, which are based on the ISO 18000-7 active RFID air-protocol standard |
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| EPCGlobal gaining ground as China's RFID standard
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2006-08-23 |
| The chances of success for China's national RFID standard are diminishing as the government stays flat-footed in the face of an aggressive campaign by EPCGlobal to see its standard adopted by local manufacturers, according to a recent report from ABI Research |
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| Hitachi enters RFID partnership with WJ Communications
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2006-08-21 |
| WJ Communications has signed an OEM agreement with Hitachi America Ltd, to supply fixed readers for use with Hitachi's RFID u-chip |
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| Research firm lowers revenue projection for 2007 RFID market
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2006-08-15 |
| ABI Research recently dropped its 2007 revenue projection for RFID software and services by 15 percent, citing consolidation among vendors, lower prices and smarter users spending less |
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| Nanotech company sponsors research on flexible electronics
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2006-08-07 |
| A nanotechnology research company has announced a deal to sponsor carbon nanotube transistor research by a professor at the physics department at the University of Florida. |
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| Japan project preps tiny inlet for commercial tag duties
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2006-08-04 |
| Hitachi Ltd will begin volume production this year of an RFID inlet developed by the publicly financed Hibiki project |
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| China aims for own RFID spec by '07; to be cheaper than EPCglobal
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2006-08-03 |
| China intends to issue a draft radio frequency ID specification this fall, with the hope of hammering out a final version that can be implemented in 2007. |
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| Amtech tag gets RFID on the rails
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2006-07-31 |
| This teardown looks at an RFID tag targeted specifically at the railroad industry, where managing a fleet of rail cars—and tying the contents within to a specific location—is a critical task |
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| eMemory extends OTP to 0.15μm high voltage process
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2006-07-26 |
| Taiwanese IP provider eMemory Technology Inc. is extending its one-time programmable Neobit technology to a 0.15μ high voltage process. |
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| Researcher developing anti-RFID device
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2006-07-25 |
| Researchers in Amsterdam say they have completed a device that prevents RFID tags from being read. The goal of the research project is to protect people from a technology that is gaining wide acceptance but has the potential to compromise consumer privacy |
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| Zebra licenses Magellan's RFID tech
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2006-07-13 |
| Zebra Technologies announced that it has licensed Magellan Technology's phase jitter modulation RFID technology |
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| SK RFID market will exceed $500M
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2006-07-04 |
| The Korea Association of RFID/USN said the country's RFID-related equipment and device shipments would reach $551.8 million this year |
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