Electronics Supply Chain News & Analysis

Manufacturing Grows Slightly Despite Weather Woes

The U.S. manufacturing sector expanded in February for the ninth consecutive month, according to the latest Institute for Supply Management Report on Business.

Marvell Includes LTE in 64-bit Apps Processor

Marvell has a quad-core 64-bit application processor with built-in LTE and Vivante graphics but it comes just at the same time that Qualcomm has Snapdragon eight- and quad core apps processors with 4K graphics support.

MWC: Faster Data Speeds Fuel the Connected Car

The dawn of 4G LTE networks has given the world's oldest mobile device, the car, a boon up and down the automotive supply chain.

Report: Toshiba Eyes Imprint Litho for 15-nm Flash

Toshiba is preparing to work with Canon on imprint lithography for its 15nm generation of NAND flash according to a Japanese report.

Startup Describes Proprietary Non-Volatile Memory Technology

California-based non-volatile memory startup with Australian roots and a new CEO has described its technology and similarities to a resistive RAM in development at Symetrix Corp. in Colorado.

VxWorks RTOS Gets Revamped for IoT

Wind River has upgraded its VxWorks real-time operating system to version 7 offering fine-grained scalability and "big-little" support in pursuit of Internet of Things design wins.

STT-MRAM Will Hit Volume in 2014, Says Everspin

Everspin has said that after being first to sample STT-MRAM in 2012 it expects to hit volume production in the second half of 2014. Typical applications are front-end buffers for solid-state drives.

Freescale to Foundries: Help Us With Threshold-Voltage MCUs

Freescale MCU boss says near-threshold voltage microcontrollers are coming but it may take time. Foundries could help by characterizing IP libraries over wider voltage ranges.

Imagination Volunteers 'Warrior' Cores for MCU Duty

Imagination has announced two CPU cores based on its Series-5 "Warrior" architecture aimed at microcontroller design wins and that bring support for hardware virtualization.

MWC: Those Sexy Parts Called Sensors

With wearables, machine-to-machine connectivity, mHealth, and connected homes, buildings and cities catching a fever pace, sensors have won "sexiness appeal" at Mobile World Congress this year.

PEI-Genesis Inks Deal with Brazilian Manufacturer

Philadelphia-based connectors and power-supplies distributor enters Brazilian aerospace market.

Jabil Moves Beyond Electronics

With hardware OEMs' sales stalling, EMS firms like Jabil Circuit are looking to non-traditional markets in search of growth.

Vicor Extends Custom Power Business to Europe

Company aims to provide "one-stop destination” for customers requiring high levels of power system development agility.

Imagination Launches 'Raptor' Image Processing Cores

Imagination launches first image signal processing cores with a view to reducing power consumption for such coming features as gesture and facial recognition.

Intel, Samsung, Applied Fund Photoresist Startup

Leading players in semiconductor manufacturing see merit in a startups photocondensed, smooth photoresist materials.

Power Player Dialog Aims at 20% CAGR

Europe's Dialog Semiconductor is aiming to outpace the overall semiconductor market growth for the next three or for years.

Thick-shell Quantum Dots Raise Image Brightness

Quantum dots with thick shells and nano-scale cores is being licensed by a startup from the developers at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The dots could improve LED and emissive display brightness and efficiency.

Broadcom Pushes On in Wireless, Sells Ethernet Line

Broadcom has developed a millimeter wave IC for back- and front-haul communications in radio access networks. At the same time the company is selling off its NetXtreme II Ethernet controller IC line to QLogic Corp.