Tue, 9 Mar 2010 16:58:00 EST

In a major departure, South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is reportedly exploring an alternative in high-k dielectrics: It is looking at gate-last technology, according to sources.

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 16:19:00 EST

Charles Thacker won the 2009 Turing Award for his work in the early 1970's on the Xerox PARC Alto, a forerunner of the Apple Macintosh and IBM PC, and is now a Microsoft researcher testing out parallel programming concepts on a multi-core FPGA development system he designed.

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:44:00 EST

Business is looking up in the IC industry, based on a sampling of announcements in several sectors.

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:19:00 EST

SiBeam Inc. has announced the closing of $36.5 million in Series D funding led by Foundation Capital.

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:19:00 EST

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:20:00 EST

Targeted at Bluetooth, 802.15.4/ZigBee and other 2.4 GHz applications, California Eastern Laboratories is now shipping its new µPG2251T6M GaAs power amplifier (PA), which eliminates the need for RF component matching.

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:46:00 EST

ACCES I/O Products announced the latest addition to its line of small form factor USB-based data acquisition and control I/O modules—the USB-AO Series, which consists of 12 and 16-bit USB modules.

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:39:00 EST

IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) said it is using Synopsys' TCAD simulation tools for characterizing and optimizing the reliability and electrical performance of through-silicon vias (TSVs).

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:39:00 EST

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 05:48:00 EST

Alchimer SA (Massy, France), a provider of wet deposition processes for semiconductor interconnects and 3-D through-silicon vias (TSV), has opened a 300mm applications and development facility in Seoul, South Korea.

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 04:46:00 EST

FPGA verification and debug software vendor GateRocket Inc. announced veteran EDA investor Jim Hogan has joined its advisory board.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 18:08:00 EST

Texas Instruments narrowed its outlook for the first quarter, saying it now expects to report sales of between $3.07 billion and $3.19 billion.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:22:00 EST

Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Investment Co. (ATIC) plans to boost its stake in GlobalFoundries Inc. from about 68 percent to 70 percent.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:41:00 EST

Carbon Design Systems (Acton, Mass.) has released virtual models for ARM Mali Graphic Processor Units (GPUs).

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:27:00 EST

Analog Devices Inc. has announced today the availability of an RF transceiver targeting short-range wireless systems in the 2.4-GHz ISM band.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:50:00 EST

Broadcom Corp. (Irvine Calif.) has made an investment in multicore processor developer Tilera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 07:34:00 EST

Hermann Hauser, a partner at Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd. (Cambridge, England), is expected to recommend that the U.K. government help establish three technology centers costing £300 million (about $450 million) over the next five to ten years, according to a Financial Times report.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 06:23:00 EST

Lantiq Deutschland GmbH, the wireline chip spin-off from Infineon Technologies AG, has filed suit in the German District Court of Dusseldorf against Billion Electric Co. Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan) alleging patent infringement.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 05:13:00 EST

IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) and Altos Design Automation Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) have joined forces to provide offer re-characterization of standard foundry or library vendor libraries including core and IO cells at different process, temperatures and/or voltages.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 04:55:00 EST

A reader asks "What is the overall blueprint for sensor networks?"

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 04:55:00 EST

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 04:20:00 EST

WiSpry Inc. (Irvine, Calif.), a provider of tunable radio frequency semiconductor products for the wireless industry, has announced that its U.S. patent application for MEMS variable capacitors and actuation components, and related methods has been granted.

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 04:11:00 EST

Landshut Silicon Foundry GmbH (LFoundry) has selected ChipStart LLC (Palo Alto, Calif) for foundry services representation. The addition of LFoundry services enables ChipStart to supply both design and manufacturing supply chain components.

Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:07:00 EST

Blue Wonder Communications GmbH (Dresden, Germany) has launched what it claims is the world's first embeddable LTE modem core.

Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:07:00 EST

Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:59:00 EST

Here are the top five online stories for the week beginning Sunday, Feb. 28, as ranked by EE Times readers, up to and including Friday, March 5. The ranking is based on the number of reader "views" or "hits" on a particular article.

Fri, 5 Mar 2010 04:27:00 EST

High-level synthesis EDA vendor Forte Design Systems has started to ship the latest version of its CellMath Designer datapath synthesis and CellMath IP software.

Fri, 5 Mar 2010 01:31:00 EST

The latest version of the High-Definition Multimedia Interface was released. As promised, it adds mandatory 3-D formats for broadcast content.

Thu, 4 Mar 2010 20:28:00 EST

EDA vendor Mentor Graphics reported better-than-expected revenue and income for the quarter ended Jan. 31, but the company's revenue guidance for the current quarter came in below analysts' expectations.