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Paper-like Material Could Help Power EVs
New material developed at University of California-Riverside could boost by several times the amount of energy that can be delivered by a lithium-ion battery.
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NXP Grows Market Share With Quintic Buy
With the completion of Quintic’s Bluetooth Low Energy and wearables business, NXP is already seeing gains in related market share to the tune of 400 percent to 500 percent.
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Twist On Negative Charge Enables IoT Transmitters
Researchers from MIT created a transmitter that significantly reduces off-state leakage but is powerful enough to broadcast to devices dozens of yards away.
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Canon, Panasonic Buy to Bolster Video Communications
With Canon making a $2.8 billion offer for Sweden's Axis and Panasonic acquiring campus video specialist Vision Insight, Japanese giants are looking to gain market share and overseas customers.
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Xilinx Tips 16nm FinFET FPGAs
FPGA vendor puts multiple Cortex-A and Cortex-R processor cores on next-generation UltraScale+ FPGAs being implemented in TSMC's 16FF+ manufacturing process.
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UMC Expands Partnership With SST
Already possessing a license for 55nm embedded Superflash and now bringing that technology to volume, UMC has also taken a license for 40nm embedded flash products from SST.
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Spansion Introduces First HyperRAM Product
The memory is a companion to Spansion’s HyperFlash technology to work with the company’s HyperBus interface technology for faster and easier to build MCUs and SoCs.
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Applied Rolls E-beam Metrology Tool for 3D, FinFETS
Scanning electron microscope specially designed for measuring the high aspect ratio and complex features of 3D NAND and FinFET devices.
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Altera FPGAs Accelerate Microsoft Neural Network Engine
Convolutional Neural Network algorithms hosted on servers with FPGA support do an energy efficient job of running image recognition and natural language processing tasks, says Altera.
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IMEC Boosts Directed Self-assembly Lithography Process
The use of self-organizing polymers to create nanometer-scale structures that can be patterned is getting closer to commercial deployment. IMEC is getting defect levels down and is setting up an international conference on the topic.
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Fab Tool Book-to-Bill Improves
Ratio moves back above parity after slipping in December.
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Semiconductor Material Enables Spintronics Devices
Researchers developed a new compound acceptable to build spintronic properties into a material that's stable at room temperature and tailored to a variety of applications.
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Load Switch IC Provides One Basic Function
Micrel's MIC95410 high-side load switch allows a single digital control line to turn a subcircuit's supply voltage rail on/off, for rails ranging from under one volt up to 5.5 V, and currents up to 7 A.
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Freescale, Bell Labs Expand Partnership
Companies will work toward a commercial and research goal of enabling wireline and wireless technologies for the transition to 5G.
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China Targets Efficiency in Appliances with New Program
In order to save energy in the long-term as well as reduce carbon emissions in the country, China has implemented a plan to replace home appliances with more efficient products.
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Japan's Gigaphoton Boosts Brightness of EUV Source
Gigaphoton claims it has an EUV optical source that can offer continuous operation of 140W at a 50 percent duty cycle.
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NXP Forms Chinese Power Semiconductor Joint Venture
NXP is taking a minority share in a Chinese joint venture for the supply of power semiconductors with the Chinese state as its partner.
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Spansion Enters Automotive ADAS Power IC Market
Spansion has been a player in the ADAS market for flash and MCU products but this is the first power management IC for the automotive sector.
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China Pumps Cash Into SMIC
Chinese foundry SMIC is $400 million better off thanks to the purchase by the government of newly-printed shares in the company.
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LED Claims 33% Efficiency Boost
Cree said the LED will allow for a reduction of cost and size of lighting platforms as well as enabling a higher performance for track, downlight and outdoor lighting.
