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Tokyo, May 19, 2009 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited today announced the launch of two new consumer FCRAM[1] low power memory chips featuring an operating temperature range that has been extended to a high-temperature of 125 degrees-Celsius for the first time in memory with a DDR SDRAM interface ... Fujitsu Microelectronics has responded to those needs by developing these 512Mbit and 256Mbit Consumer FCRAM products with a maximum operating temperature of 125 degrees-Celsius... (JCN Network, Japan)
Increasing ICS compliance: The voice may be recorded, but the results are real May 18, 2009
Researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, in Portland, Oregon, tested an automated calling service designed to encourage patients with asthma to fill or refill their prescriptions for inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) ... According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, about 22 million Americans have asthma, most need to take medicine daily for long-term control of the disease and ICS are the preferred medicines for gaining that control ... And a third message was... (EurekAlert!)
Babcock & Brown Infrastructure Fund North America Now Independent as SteelRiver Infrastructure Fund Following Buyout From Babcock & Brown. May 18, 2009
The Fund owns Trans Bay Cable, a 400 Megawatt high-voltage direct current electric submarine cable connecting the cities of Pittsburg, California and San Francisco; ICS Logistics, a leading operator of break bulk sea ports in Florida, Louisiana and Alabama ... SteelRiver invests in core infrastructure assets for the long term, seeking investments in businesses that provide essential services necessary for human existence with stable cash flows and monopolistic, often regulated, characteristics. (PR Newswire)
Zenverge Named a Finalist in Red Herring Top 100 Award Competition May 14, 2009
May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Zenverge, a developer of advanced media ICs, announced today that it has been named a finalist in the "Red Herring 100 North America" award, a prestigious list honoring the year's most promising private technology companies in North America ... "But reaching that goal using today's media ICs is extremely challenging. By combining the needed media transcoding, security and networking capabilities for multiple HD sources in a single cost-effective chip, our unique... (PR Newswire)
Innovative Care Systems Earns Benchmark SAS 70 Certification of Internal Controls for Information Systems and Customer Applications May 14, 2009
May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovative Care Systems (ICS) has received SAS 70 Type II certification of the internal controls related to its information systems environment and customer applications. ICS is a third-party administrator of group disability benefit plans and leave of absence policies, with services designed to improve productivity, control costs and reduce the administrative burden on employers ... The SAS 70 audit of ICS evaluated 30 separate control objectives, many with several... (PR Newswire)
Dresden launches $200 million 'Cool-Silicon' project May 13, 2009
This is a five-year program intended to reduce the energy consumption of ICs and information technology while invigorating technology and employment in the Dresden region. Companies already based in the region, such as GlobalFoundries AG, and Plastic Logic Ltd., are expected to help achieve world-class results as well stimulating the growth of a nanoelectronics infrastructure in the region ... In today's electronics industry, Marvell is not alone in its quest. (EETimes)
Saxony is right to back 'Cool-Silicon' rather than Qimonda May 13, 2009
After spending months watching the sinking of Qimonda, which it seems must now be set to go down with no jobs saved, as well as the demise of Microemissive Displays before it, it would have been understandable to become despondent about the future of electronics in the Dresden region and in Europe in general ... Was this the shock that would send the remnants of Europe's electronics to China and the far-east ... But now up pops Professor Gerhard Fettweis, with an expansive, forward-looking plan... (EETimes)
CORRECTING AND REPLACING -- Silicon Motion Announces First Quarter Results for the Period Ended March 31, 2009 and Revisions to Fourth Quarter 2008 Results May 13, 2009
05 Business Highlights * Reduced total unit shipments 35% year-over-year and 20% sequentially to approximately 74 million units * Reduced storage controller unit shipments 35% year-over-year and 21% sequentially * Received SSD controller design-win for new MSI netbook PC utilizing a dual SSD and HDD storage solution * Successfully introduced SSD controllers to new markets such as in- car navigation and other consumer electronics devices with our new Hybrid and TurboMLC SSD controllers * Received... (Primezone Releases)
Going without to keep firms going May 12, 2009
While manufacturers have traditionally used unpaid time off to adjust payrolls for seasonal declines in product demand, the practice has become widespread because of the slumping economy, according to Peter Doeringer, a professor of econom ics at Boston University. In Massachusetts, for instance, managers and some other employees at WGBH television, radio, and multimedia will take weeklong furloughs this summer to save about $500,000, and workers at Gentle Giant Moving Co. in Somerville recently... (Boston Globe)
Fujitsu Releases New Full HD H.264/MPEG-2 Transcoder ICs May 9, 2009
Tokyo, May 8, 2009 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited today announced 2 new transcoder ICs that can convert between Full HD (1920 dots x 1080 lines) MPEG-2(1) video data and H.264(2) video data, as well as transcoding between audio formats while featuring a low power consumption of only 1 ... These new ICs are targeted to support the growing number of electronic equipment that can record digital broadcasts ... By employing Fujitsu's proprietary transcode technology, Fujitsu... (JCN Network, Japan)
Micron regains No. 3 spot in DRAM May 9, 2009
(Boise, Idaho) moved past Japan's Elpida Memory Inc. to regain the No. 3 position in the DRAM market during the first quarter, according to preliminary analysis from Nam Hyung Kim, director and chief analyst of memory ICs and storage systems at iSuppli Corp. ... South Korean chip vendors Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Hynix Semiconductor Inc. retained the top two market positions in DRAM during the first quarter, according to Kim ... In today's electronics industry, Marvell is not alone in its... (EETimes)
Method To Integrate Plasmon-based Nanophotonic Circuitry With State-of-the-art ICs Developed May 8, 2009
ScienceDaily (May 7, 2009) IMEC, an independent nanoelectronics research institute, reports a method to integrate high-speed CMOS electronics and nanophotonic circuitry based on plasmonic effects. Metal-based nanophotonics (plasmonics) can squeeze light into nanoscale structures that are much smaller than conventional optic components ... This is unlike conventional dielectric optical waveguides, which are limited by the wavelength of the light, and which therefore cannot be scaled down to tens... (Science Daily)
Aspire Auctions May Pre-Auction Highlights May 8, 2009
There are 14 different categories: paintings, works on paper, sculpture, silver, porcelain ics, fine watches, fine jewelry, glass, orientalia, decorative arts, furniture, books/maps era, vintage fine photography and oriental carpets. In the painting category is a rare painting by Abbott HandersonThayer. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
System ICs to return to growth in Q3, iSuppli says May 6, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO The market for system ICs including application specific ICs (ASICs), application-specific standard products and programmable logic devices is poised to return to sequential growth in the third quarter after watching its revenue fall by nearly one third over the past six months, according to market research firm iSuppli Corp. ... In today's electronics industry, Marvell is not alone in its quest ... Hot technologies to watch for in 2009: Every technologist, marketer, industry... (EETimes)
IDT posts big loss; to sell network search assets May 1, 2009
In a statement, Ted Tewksbury, president and CEO at IDT, said the divestiture sharpens the company's focus on mixed-signal ICs and provides funds for further investments ... In today's electronics industry, Marvell is not alone in its quest ... Hot technologies to watch for in 2009: Every technologist, marketer, industry analyst and reporter on a hunt for the next big thing is bracing for the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show scheduled less than a month away. (EETimes)
IDT embeds smart power tech in consumer ICs Apr 30, 2009
(04/29/2009 6:01 AM EDT). Integrated Device Technology, Inc. has introduced its new Power Smart technology, which will initially be embedded into the company's integrated circuits targeted for consumer applications. (EETimes)
Fujitsu Microelectronics and TSMC to Collaborate on Leading-edge Process Technology Apr 30, 2009
TOKYO and HSIN-CHU, Taiwan, April 30 /CNW/ -- Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced that they will collaborate on leading-edge process technology production for the manufacturing of Fujitsu Microelectronics' products. Under an agreement between the companies, Fujitsu Microelectronics will expand its 40-nanometer generation logic IC business with production at TSMC's fabs ... The collaborative effort will... (Canada Newswire)
Memory profitability still distant, says iSuppli Apr 28, 2009
"While this growth may spur some optimism among memory suppliers, the oversupply situation will continue to be acute," said Nam Hyung Kim, director and chief analyst for memory ICs and storage at iSuppli, in a statement ... In today's electronics industry, Marvell is not alone in its quest ... Hot technologies to watch for in 2009: Every technologist, marketer, industry analyst and reporter on a hunt for the next big thing is bracing for the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show scheduled less than a... (EETimes)
Intellon Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2009 Results Apr 28, 2009
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Intellon Corporation (Nasdaq: - ), a leading provider of HomePlug-compatible integrated circuits (ICs) for home networking, networked entertainment, Ethernet-over-Coax (EoC) and smart grid applications, today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009 ... Revenue derived from sales of HomePlug-compatible ICs comprised 99% of total revenue for the first quarter of 2009 and totaled $15 ... Intellon HomePlug AV ICs embedded in ZyXEL powerline... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Living in limbo Apr 19, 2009 2009 NAB Show Exhibitor Profiles Apr 18, 2009 SQI Flash From SST Honored With EDN Innovation of the Year Award Apr 16, 2009 Micrel Names David Schie Vice President, Analog Business Unit Apr 15, 2009 Microchip aims to 'elbow out' rivals in MCU crisis Apr 15, 2009 Silicon Motion Technology Corporation Issues Statement Regarding US ITC Non-Infringement Ruling Apr 14, 2009 Dafca licenses Stanford's chip anti-tampering IP Apr 14, 2009 CMO, Largest Customer of Himax, Reaffirms Strong Support On Himax Apr 11, 2009 Agilent's GoldenGate certified for 65/40-nm designs Apr 11, 2009 TSMC terminates over 200 employees Apr 10, 2009 Microchip buys security ASIC vendor Apr 9, 2009 Silicon Motion Technology Corporation Updates First Quarter 2009 Guidance Apr 8, 2009 Stocks Under $10 Apr 4, 2009 Design-for-e-beam startup raises $9 million in Series B Apr 3, 2009 Chip industry may have hit 'local bottom,' says VC Apr 2, 2009 Chip market: Recovery or head fake? Apr 1, 2009 Trident Microsystems to Acquire Three Consumer Product Lines From Micronas Apr 1, 2009 Pizza-making machine has Italian chefs in a spin Mar 29, 2009 Sharp to Introduce Receiver Tuner Module for One-Seg Digital Broadcasts Mar 27, 2009 New analog IC markets seen after 2008 decline Mar 27, 2009 Space Storm Alert: 'We're moving closer and closer to the edge of a possible disaster'... Mar 26, 2009 Metal Gear Solid Touch Now Available on Apple App Store Mar 19, 2009 EA's NCAA Football 10 Hits Retailers July 14th Mar 19, 2009 Photonic IC startup secures $19.5 million Mar 18, 2009 De Geus touts new products, says ICs will rebound Mar 17, 2009 Analyst: Top chip suppliers are underperforming Mar 13, 2009 Broadcom found top of GPS IC vendor ranking Mar 13, 2009 Majesco Entertainment Company Reports First Quarter 2009 Financial Results Mar 12, 2009 China seeks 'headquarters economy' around R&D hotbed Mar 10, 2009 Google and DivX Sign Agreement to Distribute Google Products Mar 10, 2009 DivX Announces Appointment of New Board Member Mar 10, 2009 Analysis: What's next for NXP? Mar 5, 2009 * Local PC makers benefit from Chinese stimulus Mar 2, 2009 On Tap: Cables New Shows Feb 25, 2009 Ten European power management startups to watch in 2009 Feb 21, 2009 IT majors look to log on to govt contracts to beat slump Feb 19, 2009 GSMA Expands Reach of Mobile Money Transfer Programme Feb 18, 2009 RFMD(R) Announces Availability of 3G Switch Filter Modules Feb 18, 2009 Qualcomm, IMEC help Javelin refine 3-D EDA software Feb 18, 2009 Toy Island Partners with EA to Develop Innovative Sporting Goods Feb 17, 2009 Glu Mobile to Bring TRANSFORMERS: Revenge of the Fallen to Mobile Phones Worldwide Feb 17, 2009 New DivX(R) Mobile Theater Certification Program Offers High-Quality Video Experience Feb 17, 2009 Samsung Announces New Full Touch Line Mobile Phones With DivX Certification(TM) Feb 17, 2009 SST NANDrive and SQI Flash Named Finalists for 19th Annual EDN Innovation Awards Feb 17, 2009 Police: Rap producer injured in Ariz. hotel fight Feb 17, 2009 Fujitsu Launches WiMAX Baseband LSI for Mobile PCs Feb 16, 2009 LSI Announces Innovative Blueprint for Multicore Architecture in Mobile Networks Feb 16, 2009 Audience Voice Processor Takes Commanding Lead in the Advanced Noise Suppression Market Delivering 30 dB of SNRI Feb 16, 2009 Mavenir Redefines the Mobile Core, Targets Converged Services at Lower Costs for Tier 1 Operators Worldwide. Feb 16, 2009 Activision Publishing and 4Kids Entertainment Announce Chaotic(R) Video Game; Evolution of Popular Card Game Unites Storytelling, Role Playing, and Action Feb 14, 2009 Fujitsu Laboratories Develops CMOS Transmitter IC for 40Gbps Optical Transmission Systems Feb 13, 2009 Activision Blizzard Reports Record December Quarter and Calendar Year 2008 Non-GAAP Comparable-Basis Results Feb 12, 2009 Where the jobs have been lost Feb 11, 2009 Call of Duty(R): World at War Downloadable Maps on the Way Feb 11, 2009 UMC Reports 2008 Fourth Quarter Results Feb 10, 2009 ESL: Where are we and where we are going Feb 10, 2009 Video: Green tech drives ICs beyond silicon Feb 10, 2009 Activision Gears up for Monumental Battle With Transformers(TM): Revenge of the Fallen Feb 7, 2009
But this is easier said than done, and he makes a reference to a syndicate in Sabah a few years back that used faked national certificates to successfully obtain Malaysian ICs for thousands of illegal immigrants, effectively turning them into citizens overnight ... His concerns are valid: Between 1970 and 2000, Sabahs population increased by 285%, against Sarawaks 106% and Peninsular Malaysias 113%, leading to a call for a Royal Commission of Inquiry on ICs issued in Sabah ... I know of... (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Does a Renesas-NEC Electronics merger make sense? Apr 18, 2009
com - Does Renesas-NEC Electronics merger make sense. Does Renesas-NEC Electronics merger make sense ... Loss-ridden Japanese chip makers NEC Electronics Corp. and Renesas Technology Corp. are in talks about a merger. (EETimes)
Founded in 1995, Boris FX is the leading developer of integrated graphics and effects technology, delivering 3D compositing and vector graphic products for the broadcast, post production, film and multimedia markets ... Formed in October 2008, Civolution is a spin-off from Philips Electronics, providing world leading technology and services for identifying, managing and monetizing media content ... Class on Demand training programs cover a wide range of topics including; audio and video... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
The 26 Series SQI family received the honor in the Logic and Interface ICs category ... Now in its 19th year, the EDN Innovation of the Year Awards program recognizes unique, state-of-the-art electronics products in several categories ... "It's those reduced size and power consumption advantages without sacrificing performance that undoubtedly prompted EDN readers and editors to select the SST device as the winner in the 'Logic and Interface ICs' category. I congratulate all of the winners on... (PR Newswire)
The Company's products include advanced mixed-signal, analog and power semiconductors; high performance communication, clock management, Ethernet switch and physical layer transceiver ICs. Company customers include leading manufacturers of enterprise, consumer, industrial, mobile, telecommunications, automotive, and computer products. (PR Newswire)
The real question is whether the 8-bit controller king and its rivals will take more elbows on the chin during one of the worst downturns in the history of ICs. Microchip has taken its share of lumps amid the downturn, but the company appears to be in relatively decent shape as compared to Atmel, Freescale, Infineon, NEC, NXP, Renesas and others. (EETimes)
TAIPEI, Taiwan, April 14, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (NasdaqGS: - ) (the ``Company''), a leading fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops, and markets universally compatible, high-performance, low-power semiconductor solutions for the multimedia consumer electronics market, was informed that the Administrative Law Judge of the United States International Trade Commission (``US ITC'') had issued an initial determination that Silicon Motion flash... (Primezone Releases)
The exclusive license is with professors Per Enge Sherman Lo and David De Lorenzo of Stanford's GPS Research Laboratory in the University's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics ... The collaboration aims to to provide technology to secure the integrated circuit supply chain using location-based signatures inserted into ICs during manufacturing. (EETimes)
TAINAN, Taiwan, April 10, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Himax Technologies, Inc. (``Himax'' or ``Company'') (NasdaqGS: - ) today announced that Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO), Himax's largest customer, issued a press release reaffirming its strong support on Himax ... April 10, 2009, Tainan -- President of Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) Jyh-Chau Wang yesterday in a media interview stated that CMO was working to leverage the overall effectiveness of invested firms to enhance its business response... (Primezone Releases)
"With the ever-increasing complexity and operating characteristics for next-generation wireless ICs, foundry and EDA collaboration is essential for successful RFIC designs in these leading-edge technology nodes," said Paul Colestock, RFIC product marketing manager with division. GoldenGate enables full characterization of complete transceivers, including parasitics, prior to tape-out. (EETimes)
Rival United Microelectronics Corp. this week reported unaudited net sales for the month of March 2009 ... UMC also announced that it has delivered customer ICs produced on its 40-nm process technology ... The advanced 40-nm ICs have already begun shipping in volume to the customer's end users for product sampling. (EETimes)
In a statement, Rich Simoncic, vice president of Microchip's Analog and Interface Products division, said R leader in ICs for smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and other life safety systems, where Microchip already enjoys a strong market position ... Hot technologies to watch for in 2009: Every technologist, marketer, industry analyst and reporter on a hunt for the next big thing is bracing for the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show scheduled less than a month away. (EETimes)
TAIPEI, Taiwan, April 7, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Silicon Motion Technology Corporation (NasdaqGS: - ) (the ``Company''), a leading fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops, and markets universally compatible, high-performance, low-power semiconductor solutions for the multimedia consumer electronics market, today announced an update to its first quarter 2009 financial guidance ... We are a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and markets high performance, low-power... (Primezone Releases)
CORNERSTONE THERAPEUTICS () ... Designs analog/mixed signal power management ics for computing, storage, networking, and consumer markets ... CHINA-BIOTICS INC (). (Investors Business Daily)
The exponential increase in development cost that has accompanied the move to smaller geometries, not least in mask costs, has made the production of advanced ICs in small volumes unfeasible using traditional manufacturing processes. DFEB technology is intended to tackle this dilemma. (EETimes)
Though no one is necessary declaring a recovery in ICs, there are some positive signs. For example, business is indeed improving at some silicon foundries, such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC). (EETimes)
-- It's way too early to see a real recovery in ICs ... For example, business is indeed improving at some silicon foundries, such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) ... Hot technologies to watch for in 2009: Every technologist, marketer, industry analyst and reporter on a hunt for the next big thing is bracing for the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show scheduled less than a month away. (EETimes)
Trident Microsystems, Inc., with headquarters in Santa Clara, California, designs, develops and markets integrated circuits, or ICs, and associated software for digital media applications, such as digital television, LCD television, or TV, and digital set-top boxes, or STB. Trident's products are sold to a network of OEMs, original design manufacturers and system integrators worldwide. For further information about Trident and its products, please consult the Company's web site. (PR Newswire)
Machining of Teflon ics on swiss automatic machines. Featured. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
The VA3A5JZ923 combines two tuner ICs with two OFDM demodulation ICs(2) to allow two One-Seg broadcast programs to be received simultaneously, enabling such features as dual-screen display, or background recording of another program on a different channel ... (1) Data source: JEITA (Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association)(2) OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) is a digital modulation scheme adopted for use in terrestrial digitalbroadcasting ... Sharp... (JCN Network, Japan)
SAN FRANCISCO Growth drivers for analog ICs will migrate from mobile phones, multimedia players and general trends in portability and wireless to a new lineage of applications on the horizon in areas such as energy, transportation, health and safety, according to market research firm Databeans Inc. ... The analog market, like the broader IC and electronics markets, is fighting the global drop in demand and stagnant economic conditions in 2009, Databeans said ... The No. 2 analog player, Europe's... (EETimes)
New Scientist does not own rights to photos, but there are a available for use of articles and graphics we own the copyright to ... Back when I was burning in ICs I protected the power supply lines against transient spikes with boxes that would dump noise spikes to ground through fast (sub-millisecond) switching circuits ... So protect the transformers (in the days when consumer electronics had mains transformers rather than SMPSs, most transformers had a thermal fuse). (The Drudge Report)
"Redesigned to take full advantage of the revolutionary iPhone and iPod touch, we think Metal Gear Solid Touch is setting new standards in gameplay and graphics for future mobile games," said Anthony Borquez, Vice President of Konami Mobile and Online ... Multimedia ics Software Headlines. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
NCAA Football USA, Inc. represents a coalition of the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), the Collegiate Commissioners Association (CCA), the Football Bowl Association (FBA), the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA), the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and the National Football Foundation (NFF) and serves as the collective voice to promote college football ... Get hold of our football statistics and vehicle maintenance software ... While... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
LONDON OneChip Photonics Inc. (Ottawa, Canada), a developer of optical circuits in indium phospide, has secured $19 ... "OneChip is well positioned to help system providers and carriers deploy FTTH more cost-effectively than ever before and meet consumer and business demand for high-bandwidth voice, data and video services," said Jim Hjartarson, CEO of OneChip Photonics, in a statement ... OneChip's photonic ICs are designed for automated mounting on a silicon optical bench, without requiring... (EETimes)
Page 1 of 2 (03/17/2009 12:49 AM EDT). Delivering the keynote address at a user group event here Monday (March 16), Aart de Geus, chairman and CEO of Synopsys Inc., touted the company's new products and said the semiconductor industry would remain critical to the world after emerging from a recession expected to be long and deep. (EETimes)
"Many of these suppliers are focused on semiconductor segments that performed poorly during the year, including memory, Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), analog ICs and standard logic. This caused 80 percent of the Top-10 and 60 percent of the Top-25 semiconductor suppliers to experience declining revenues compared to 2007," said Dale Ford, senior vice president at the market research group ... Of the leading 25 companies by revenue, those that managed to expand sales were fifth-ranked... (EETimes)
" Perros would not go much further into the rankings of the 17 companies tracked in the latest evaluation, but noted that Qualcomm and STMicroelectronics took fourth and fifth slots, and Swiss GPS chip and module specialist was in the top ten. "Recent consolidation within the GPS chipset sector has led to intensified competition among the remaining players and increased collaboration between semiconductor suppliers and the firmware and complementary radio technology providers (primarily Wi-Fi... (EETimes)
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Non-GAAP Metrics ... -- Marker Man Adventures for DS is a unique game based on drawing and physics challenges in which players maneuver the charming stick figure, Marker Man, through a myriad of scrolling world puzzles in his attempt to find his best friend, Doodle Dog ... Multimedia ics Software Headlines. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
XI'AN, China With China having pinned many of its plans for industrial transformation on its electronics and information technology industries, this city--the capital of Shaanxi province--has become an R&D hotbed among domestic and foreign companies alike ... Other strides marked here were China's first ICs, power semiconductors, stored program control telephone exchange, cell phone, color CRT and ultrahigh-voltage power transmission equipment ... It includes an Electronics Park, an Industrial... (EETimes)
Over 100 million DivX Certified devices have shipped into the market from leading consumer electronics manufacturers ... These factors include, but are not limited to: any anticipated benefits from the agreement between Google and DivX, Inc., the risk that customer use of DivX technology may not grow as anticipated; the risk that anticipated market opportunities may not materialize at expected levels, or at all; the risk that the Company's activities may not result in the growth of profitable... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
He was a special advisor to the French Minister of Finance, Industry and Economics from 1991 until 1993, and served as president of the French Republic's Infotech Commission between 1997 and 1999 ... Millions of DivX Certified devices have shipped into the market from leading consumer electronics manufacturers ... Multimedia ics Software Headlines. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
The actual figures for fourth quarter sales and profits are also pretty scary, though also difficult to interpret in view of the disposal of the wireless business unit to STMicroelectronics to create ST-NXP Wireless, which has now been realigned to ST-Ericsson and no mention of NXP. ... The latter option is unlikely to be an easy one to pull off in the current downturn, but even without the wireless ICs business, NXP does have some excellent semiconductor technologies targeting areas such as... (EETimes)
Taiwanese PC makers and major component suppliers, including handset chip maker MediaTek Inc (po) and panel maker AU Optronics Corp (Fq), are expected to benefit from Chinas latest NT$4 trillion (US$102. 7 billion) economic stimulus package primarily by boosting electronics spending in rural areas, a local research house said ... Topology expects that local PC makers, including Quanta Computer Inc (sFq) and Compal Electronics Inc (_q), this year may increase their notebook... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Danica Patrick Profile Special March 7Top 10 Closest ICS Special March 14Crashes and Conflicts Special March 212008 Season Review Special March 28. April 2009. (Multichannel News)
Winchester, UK - The credit crunch is continuing to nibble away at companies big and small in the electronics sector worldwide ... CamSemi was named 'NMI Start-up of the Year' 2008 in the UK's National Microelectronics Institute (NMI) 12th Anniversary Awards ... CamSemi was founded to bring to market a new generation of power management ICs that help manufacturers more easily meet the world's increasing demand to save energy but at acceptable cost. (EETimes)
Given our experience in supplying security and logistics solutions to the UK, we are well placed to cater to Indias defence requirements, says Sudhakar Ram, chairman and MD, Mastek. Hyderabad-based Bartron 00004000 ics India, which currently earns 5% of its revenue from the government projects, expects this to increase to 35% in the next two years ... The company offers solutions in the areas of financi al inclusion, transportation and logistics, and access control to various state... (India Times)
Complementing the successful alliance that has been in place with The Western Union Company for the past eighteen months, the GSMA has selected Belgacom International Carrier Services (Belgacom ICS) and its technology partner eServGlobal as a new remittance provider in the MMT programme ... With the alliances with Western Union, Belgacom ICS and the RBS Group, the MMT programme offers a variety of solutions to mobile operators ... For instance, in addition to being a mobile remittance platform,... (PR Newswire)
Product offerings include GSM/EDGE power amplifiers and transmit modules, WCDMA/HSPA+ power amplifiers and transmit platforms, front end power management integrated circuits (ICs), and high-linearity, low insertion loss discrete switches, antenna switch modules, and switch filter modules. RFMD's product portfolio will be on display at the 2009 GSMA Mobile World Congress February 16 to February 19 in Hall 8, Stand 8B79. (PR Newswire)
has developed EDA software called 3D PathFinding for use in the rapid design exploration and optimization of three dimensional stacked ICs (3-D SIC) ... and IMEC vzw (Leuven, Belgium) a nanoelectronics research organization. (EETimes)
Tim Rothwell,Executive Vice President & Co-Managing Director, IMG, said: "We are pleased that we were able to put EA and Toy Island together in the development of this unique and innovative project.The unique and differentiated EA SPORTS-branded products will bring classic sports activities to life in a whole new way, utilizing infrared, motion and equilibrium sensors. The products, which will serve as a virtual coach as they instruct the user on form and technique, speed and power, and... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
The company's labels include DW Studios, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Vantage, Paramount Classics, MTV Films and Nickelodeon Movies ... Multimedia ics Software Headlines. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Over 100 million DivX Certified devices have shipped into the market from leading consumer electronics manufacturers ... Multimedia ics Software Headlines. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
SAN DIEGO, and BARCELONA, Spain Feb. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DivX, Inc. (Nasdaq: - ), a digital media company, and Samsung Electronics Co., LTD, a leading mobile provider, announced today at GSMA Mobile World Congress its newest full touch phone product line with DivX Mobile certification -- Samsung's Ultra Touch, OMNIA HD, and BEAT DJ. These new cutting-edge DivX Certified mobile phone devices offer consumers seamless playback of high-quality DivX video on the go and in the living room... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
The SST NANDrive high-performance, fully integrated embedded flash solid-state drive is a finalist in the Memory category, and the company's 26 Series Serial Quad I/O (SQI) family of 4-bit multiplexed I/O serial interface flash memory devices is a finalist in the Logic and Interface ICs category. Now in its 19th year, the EDN Innovation of the Year Awards recognize unique, state-of-the-art electronics products in several categories ... EDN.com delivers a three-dimensional view of the electronics... (PR Newswire)
Donations are accepted from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mondays, and can include gently used furnishings, jewelry, toys, linens, collectibles, electronics and artwork ... And ICS will accept the cat back at any time if the adopter can no longer care for it. (Northwest Indiana Times)
Tokyo, Feb 16, 2009 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited today announced the launch of a Mobile WiMAX(1) baseband LSI(2) targeted for the expanding mobile PC market. The new LSI features an approximate 60% size reduction compared to Fujitsu Microelectronics' previous Mobile WiMAX baseband LSI for mobile PCs ... By combining this new LSI with Fujitsu Microelectronics' previously-announced RF LSI(3), MB86K52, and power management LSI, MB39C316, WiMAX USB dongles featuring the... (JCN Network, Japan)
The company offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and services including custom and standard product ICs, adapters, systems and software that are trusted by the world's best known brands to power leading solutions in the Storage and Networking markets. More information is available at. (PR Newswire)
The results clearly demonstrated the superiority of Audience's noise suppression technology, which delivers 30 dB of SNRI. For information about the testing, go to to read the white paper that explains the metrics and shows the results of the test ... Audience Voice Processors are the first custom ICs that are modeled after the most efficient and accurate auditory system, the human hearing system. (PR Newswire)
Mavenir is also expanding the innovative IMS Centralized Services (ICS) solution, now standardized in 3GPP Release 8, with the industry first Mobile Telephony Application Server (TAS), to provide ubiquitous mobile voice services across all 2G, 3G, LTE mobiles and IMS devices from a single converged core. Operators can accelerate smooth transition to an all IMS core network, offering lower costs and enhanced services. (PR Newswire)
Activision Publishing generally uses words such as "outlook", "will," "could," "would," "might," "remains," "to be," "plans," "believes", "may", "expects," "intends," "anticipates," "estimate," future," "plan," "positioned," "potential," "project," "remain," "scheduled," "set to," "subject to," "upcoming" and similar expressions to help identify forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause Activision Publishing's actual future results to differ materially from those expressed in the... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Currently, transmitter ICs employ CMOS process technology for the low-speed interface circuitry and internal control circuitry, but require high-power compound semiconductors(5) for high-speed signal generator circuits that generate 40Gbps-electrical signals ... One-chip integration and new clock-distribution circuitry permit power consumption to be lowered to less than 2W, one-third (1/3) that of conventional transmitter ICs ... With approximately 160,000 employees supporting customers in 70... (JCN Network, Japan)
Management also believes that non-GAAP measures that exclude Activision Blizzard's non-core exit operations, one-time costs related to the business combination between Activision, Inc. and Vivendi Games, Inc. (including transaction costs, integration costs, and the costs associated with restructuring activities), the amortization of intangibles and the associated changes in cost of sales resulting from purchase price accounting adjustments from the business combination, provides a better... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
The Unite union said it was concerned that some of the 5,000 job cuts announced by Swedish telecoms firm Ericsson would go in the UK. TT Electronics said that it was cutting 500 jobs in the UK ... Ceramics company Vesuvius is to close its plant in Ayrshire with the loss of up to 180 jobs. (BBC News -- UK)
Multimedia ics Software Headlines. More Finance RSS Feeds. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
United Microelectronics Corporation (NYSE: ; TSE: 2303) ("UMC" or "the Company"), a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced its unconsolidated operating results for the fourth quarter of 2008 ... Revenue Breakdown by Application (1) Application 4Q08 3Q08 2Q08 1Q08 4Q07 Computer 15% 16% 17% 21% 19% Communication 61% 59% 58% 56% 56% Consumer 22% 23% 22% 21% 23% Memory 1% 1% 1% 1% 1% Others 1% 1% 2% 1% 1% (1) Computer consists of ICs such as HDD controllers, DVD-ROM/CD-ROM drives ICs,... (PR Newswire)
What is not often remembered is that it took approximately 25 years for engineers to begin using hardware description languages to design ICs, and approximately another 25 years before the first use of system-level languages ... C++, though, has characteristics that make it a bad choice for hardware design: it is sequential, has no concept of time, and has constructs that have, at least for the moment, no corresponding hardware primitives, like pointers for example ... Using the capabilities of... (EETimes)
"The electronics industry has grown by focusing on productivity and using power as a resource in a formula that has resulted in tremendous success in consumer electronics, computing and communications," said De Vries ... The new dynamics will drive a wide range of innovations beyond the traditional shrinks in CMOS technology, requiring new kinds of materials and processes, he said ... In his talk, he also made projections about growth in solar photovoltaics, hybrid and electric vehicles and... (EETimes)
"The Activision team's passion for the property clearly shows in the character development, intense action and rich graphics that really deliver an immersive experience for the user." ... Activision Publishing generally uses words such as "outlook," "will," "could," "would," "might," "remains," "to be," "plans," "believes," "may," "expects," "intends," "anticipates," "estimate," future," "plan," "positioned," "potential," "project," "remain," "scheduled," "set to," "subject to," "upcoming" and... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
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