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MIT Researchers "Conceptualize" Single-Photon Switch
Researchers at MIT, Harvard and the Vienna University of Technology have described an experimental optical switch that’s controlled by a single photon, allowing light to govern the transmission of light.
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Xilinx Tapes Out 20 nm Programmable Device
Xilinx announced it has reached three milestones on its 20 nm device tape-out schedule including the semiconductor industry's first 20nm device and the first 20 nm All Programmable device.
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Altair Semiconductor Raises $25 Million for LTE-Only Chips
Altair, a leading developer of single-mode LTE chip sets, has completed a $25 million round of funding from existing investors Bessemer, BRM, Giza, JVP and Pacific Technology.
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Avnet to Acquire European Distributor MSC Group
Avnet plans to acquire MSC Group, a German distributor of electronic components, embedded computing technology and display solutions.
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Exar Buys Cadeka Microcircuits, Expands its Analog Offering
High-performance analog IC maker Exar has acquired Cadeka Microcircuits in a transaction that includes $29 million in cash and stock, plus an amount based on future net revenue contributed by Cadeka.
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Mobile PC Market Serves Up Worst Q2 Performance in Over a Decade
An increasingly vulnerable mobile PC market delivered the worst second-quarter performance in 11 years during the most recent April to June period, battered by the nonstop...
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Wireless Technologies to Proliferate in Cars
Wireless technologies like Bluetooth and embedded cellular will gain increasing importance for automotive infotainment and safety purposes over wired solutions, providing solid revenue...
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Tablet Panel Market Soars on Strong “White Box” Product Projections
Boosted by demand from unbranded, white-box Chinese manufacturers, global demand for tablet panels is exceeding expectations, spurring IHS to increase its forecast for displays by 6 percent for 2013.
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Digital to Account for 90 Percent of all Cinema Screens by End of 2013
Just a year-and-a-half after they usurped 35mm film to become the majority cinema projection format, digital screens are poised to reach a global penetration rate of 90 percent...
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Beset by Ails, Mobile DRAM Underperforms in Q1
Laboring under the combined weight of a seasonal slump and sharply lower average selling prices, the market for mobile dynamic random access memory (DRAM) posted lackluster...
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Thinner Hard Disk Drives with Rapidly Growing Shipments to Present New Opportunities
Newly released thinner hard disk drives (HDD) sized 5.0 and 7.0 millimeters have the potential to gain back some HDD market share lost to solid-state drives (SSD), especially...
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Toshiba to Expand Leading-Edge NAND Flash Fab
Toshiba plans to enlarge its state-of-art No. 5 semiconductor fab where it will build NAND flash memory on next-generation process technology.
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UMC Expands Foundry Deals with IBM, Kilopass
UMC joins the IBM Technology Development Alliances as a participant in the group’s development of 10nm CMOS process technology.
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Dialog Semi to Buy iWatt to Expand in Mobile and Solid State Lighting
German-based Dialog Semiconductor has entered into an agreement to acquire iWatt, a leading provider of digital power management chips, for approximately $310 million.
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US Manufacturing Rebounds in June, Electronics Still “Under Pressure”
Following a slowdown in activity in May, the U.S. manufacturing sector rebounded in June and is back on a positive growth path, according to the ISM.
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Component Suppliers Struggle with Soft Recovery
While all leading indicators are pointing to the return of seasonal growth in the second half of 2013, the electronic component industry including semiconductors is currently...
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Alcatel Lucent 7705 SAR-M Service Aggregation Router Teardown
1U Rack Mount 'Service Aggregation Router'; Provides multiservice adaptation, aggregation and routing for Ethernet and IP/MPLS network.
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Cisco ASR 901-12C-FT-D Aggregation Service Router Teardown
1U Rack Mount 'Aggregation Services Router'; Configuration includes: Chassis, Ethernet and TDM interfaces, DC power
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Dell Wyse Z90D7 (8GF/4GR) Thin Client Teardown
CPU: AMD T56N Series, Dual-Core 1.65GHz, 512KB L2 Cache, w/ Integrated Radeon HD6320 GPU
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Grandstream GXP1450 Enterprise IP Phone Teardown
Entry-level desktop SIP phone3.2' 180x60 pixel backlit graphical monochrome LCDDual switched auto-sensing 10/100Mbps network ports with integrated PoEFull-duplex speakerphoneTarget MarketSmall business / EnterpriseReleasedDec 2010 per press releasePricing
