| 2007-7-3 |
IC Insights: Big 10 hold 48% of global fab capacity
Nearly half of global fab capacity comes from the world's top 10 chipmakers, IC Insights has revealed. |
| 2007-7-3 |
Philips sells shares in GaAs IC manufacturer
Royal Philips Electronics disclosed it had sold its controlling stake in Ommic S.A.S. to Financi?re Victoire SAS of France for an undisclosed amount. |
| 2007-7-3 |
Power supply IC saves space in car navigation systems
Renesas Technology Corp. launches the R2S25402FT single-chip power supply control IC for car navigation systems that promises to cut board space by up to 20 percent. |
| 2007-6-25 |
TI unrolls high-power WLED driver IC
TI has rolled out a device based on an HF synchronous-boost topology with constant-current sink to drive single white LEDs. |
| 2007-6-18 |
Advanced low-power modes stump IC designers
While EDA vendors are still fighting over two low-power formats, a larger problem may have been obscured: Low-power techniques are so difficult that a rethinking of the entire IC design flow may be needed. |
| 2007-6-14 |
Amplifier IC takes up antenna signal losses
Atmel has developed an antenna amplifier IC that enables AM/FM car-radio reception when used with designer antennas. |
| 2007-6-13 |
DC bus, ADC offset compensation for IRMCF/K300 motor control IC
This application note describes how to properly and safely use the IRMCF/K300 series to measure and regulate the DC Bus voltage. |
| 2007-6-13 |
50Mbaud IC photocoupler has low propagation delay
Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. (TAEC) has expanded its family of IC photocouplers for high speed digital transmission applications with the introduction of TLP117, a 5V, 50Mbaud device. |
| 2007-6-12 |
Application development for IRMCF/K300 series motor control IC
The 8051 microprocessor, included in the IRMCF/K300 series of motion control ICs, can be used to implement a large variety of control and protection functions for motor control applications. |
| 2007-6-12 |
Cellphones continue to drive IC market
IC Insights forecasts that, for the first time, cellphone unit volume shipments will total to more than 1 billion in 2007. |
| 2007-6-6 |
100Gbit network IC has integrated traffic manager
EZchip Technologies Ltd claims that its NP-4 network processors can offer system vendors a significant cost reduction by integrating all the key components of their line card into a single chip. |
| 2007-6-6 |
Mixed-signal IC for motion, power management rolls
STMicroelectronics has unveiled the industry's first IC with a complete set of configurable and customizable analog functions for printer, fax and POS system applications. |
| 2007-6-5 |
Battery IC combines cell balancing, overcurrent protection
Intersil Corp. said it has released the industry's first integrated analog front ends for cell balancing and overcurrent protection in multicell Li-ion battery packs. |
| 2007-6-1 |
IC designers favor less complex DFM
During the IEEE Electronic Design Process workshop, IC design experts point out that current approaches to design-for-manufacturing (DFM) may be yielding too little for the amount of effort and cost involved. |
| 2007-5-30 |
3.3V, 20Mbaud high speed IC photocoupler rolls
Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. (TAEC) unveils its first 3.3V, 20Mbaud high speed IC photocoupler, the TLP2066. |
| 2007-5-30 |
Samsung allots $1B for memory IC production upgrade
Samsung Electronics announced May 28 that it would invest $1.01 billion to upgrade its memory chip production lines, according to a Reuters report. |
| 2007-5-30 |
Inverter IC trims power use in white goods
Mitsubishi Electric Europe's M81500FP inverter IC is not only the world's smallest IPM for the 90W range but is also the first in its class is integrated in an SMD package. |
| 2007-5-24 |
10G Ethernet IC has congestion management option
Jumping on a growing bandwagon of companies fielding chips for 10Gbps Ethernet, Mellanox claims its dual-port ConnectX EN delivers up to 17.6Gbps in bi-directional bandwidth and 6.9¦Ìs latency on standard TCP/IP flows. |
| 2007-5-23 |
India eyes piece of IC manufacturing market
Already a major player in the global software development and services outsourcing industries, India is now gearing up to compete with the rest of Asia in the chip manufacturing market, stated a Reuters report. |
| 2007-5-22 |
Module for IC card gets approved for FIPS 140-2
Sharp Electronics Corp. claims that its IC module for IC cards is the first high-capacity product of its kind to be approved for level 2 of the U.S. Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 140-2 standard. |
| 2007-5-21 |
China IC industry down 8.7% in Q1
The latest report from CCID Consulting showed that China's electronics information industry slowed down with falling returns. |
| 2007-5-17 |
Platforms upgrade custom IC, PCB design
Cadence Design Systems claims to have a "complete" custom IC simulation and verification solution, along with an advanced constraint-driven PCB design flow with announcing the release 6.2 of its Virtuoso MMSIM tool. |
| 2007-5-16 |
Survey: Taiwan IC design aims for high-end CE
The "2007 Taiwan IC Design House Survey" revealed a maturing chip design industry that's ready to take on more complex challenges to carve a name for itself in this highly competitive business. |
| 2007-5-16 |
Switching power IC allows faster charge time
Linear Tech's LTC3555 integrates a switching PowerPath manager, a standalone battery charger, an ideal diode, I2C control, three high efficiency synchronous buck regulators plus an always-on LDO, all in a compact, low-profile 4-by-5mm QFN package. |
| 2007-5-16 |
IC offers level shifting for data transfer in multivoltage systems
Maxim Integrated Products introduces the MAX3397E two-channel, bidirectional level translator that provides level shifting for data transfer in a multivoltage system. |
| 2007-5-16 |
Low-power IC design kit enables representative design
The Low-Power Methodology Kit from Cadence Design Systems includes a wireless "representative design" implemented using multiple supply voltage and power shutoff methods. |
| 2007-5-15 |
I/P converter IC enables multivideo input
Seiko Epson Corp. has developed the S2S65P10 I/P converter IC for multi-video input that is ideally suited for equipment such as surveillance and vehicle-mounted cameras. |
| 2007-5-14 |
Image controller IC props vehicle-mounted cameras
Seiko Epson Corp. has developed the S2S65A00 image controller IC, which enables simultaneously recording and transmitting images from two cameras. |
| 2007-5-10 |
PS3 spurs Sony to IC Insights' top 10 chipmakers list
Sony was spurred by increasing internal transfers for its PS3 game machines, which, according to IC Insights, moved the Japanese supplier into the top 10 ranking for the first time and currently resides in 9th place. |
| 2007-5-8 |
IC analysis tool adds connectivity definition features
Chip Estimate has upgraded InCyte, a what-if analysis tool that helps users refine chip architectures. |
| 2007-5-7 |
China's power management IC sector continues to grow
China's power management chip market continued to grow in 2006, posting sales revenue of about $3.53 billion, reports CCID Consulting. The sector also posted a CAGR of 30.1 percent between 2002 and 2006. |
| 2007-5-3 |
IC Design House Survey 2007: Taiwan
In March 2007, EE Times-Taiwan conducted an online and phone survey among a universe of 195 companies in Taiwan involved in IC design. The objective of the research was to describe the current business operations of these companies and the current level of design complexity utilized. |
| 2007-5-3 |
IC Design House Survey 2007: Korea
In March 2007, EE Times-Korea conducted an online and phone survey among a universe of 112 companies in South Korea involved in IC design. The objective of the research was to describe the current business operations of these companies and the current level of design complexity utilized. |
| 2007-5-3 |
IC Design House Survey 2007: China
In March 2007, EE Times-China conducted an online and phone survey among a universe of 443 companies in mainland China involved in IC design. The objective of the research was to describe the current business operations of these companies and the current level of design complexity utilized. |
| 2007-5-1 |
Stretch slashes IC cost by two-thirds
Startup Stretch Inc. has revamped its management and its architecture, slashing the cost of its reconfigurable processor by almost two-thirds while claiming a significant performance boost as it seeks design wins in broadcast, WiMAX and security systems. |
| 2007-4-27 |
Metering IC features embedded flash memory
austriamicrosystems is getting ready to sample the AS8268, a single-phase SoC metering IC with embedded flash memory. |
| 2007-4-24 |
Data-management platform enables scalable, collaborative IC design
IC Manage has announced Global Design Platform (GDP), said to be the first data-management solution to offer design assembly, derivative management and real-time worldwide delivery. |
| 2007-4-24 |
Synthesis solution boosts IC performance
Synopsys released the Design Compiler 2007 synthesis solution, which extends topographical technology to accelerate design closure for designs utilizing advanced low-power and test techniques, to boost designer productivity and IC performance. |
| 2007-4-20 |
iSuppli: ST is top automotive IC supplier in China
iSuppli's 2006 report on China's automotive semiconductor market found that STMicroelectronics Inc. topped the suppliers capturing a 15.7 percent share of the market. |
| 2007-4-20 |
Outlook for IC revenue in '07 still bright, says In-Stat
In-Stat sees worldwide semiconductor revenue in 2007 growing 7.9 percent to $267.3 billion, a contradiction of the downscaled forecasts from other groups. |
| 2007-4-19 |
Photodetector IC suits slim laptop DVD drives
Atmel unveiled the ATR0874, a photodetector IC for use in the optical pick-up units of DVD and CD drives and is suitable for the slim drives found in most laptops. |
| 2007-4-18 |
Revised forecast dims IC market growth outlook
IC Insights Inc. lowers its IC market growth forecast for the year, citing inventory adjustments and memory pricing pressures. |
| 2007-4-17 |
Japan, Taiwan to lead IC equipment market in East Asia in '07
Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association said that East Asia will account for over 60 percent of the worldwide IC equipment market in 2007, with Japan and Taiwan taking the top two markets in the region. |
| 2007-4-12 |
IC industry revenue to hit $316B in 2008, forecasts analyst
Strong end market growth and stabilizing average selling prices (ASPs) will drive semiconductor industry revenue to $316 billion in 2008, an increase of nearly 18 percent from projected 2007 chip industry sales. |
| 2007-4-9 |
Medical field may push India's IC industry, says TI CEO
The medical field could turn out to be one of the next big growth areas for India's semiconductor industry in the coming decade or so, said TI CEO Rich Templeton. |
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