EE Times Most Popular Articles

iPhone heals, iPhone smells

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:44:00 EST

Apple's iPhone is being applied to more diverse applications that one could have imagined when it first came on the scene.

Presented By:

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:44:00 EST

Join the conversation. Why standards still matter

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST

Do industry standards still matter? With so many standards and so many standards bodies, where's the value?

Europe suffers photovoltaic slowdown, says analyst

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:15:00 EST

Europe has experienced a significant slowdown is sales of photovoltaic manufacturing equipment with subsidy reductions in Spain having a major impact.

Low-power FPGA startup hits volume production

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:24:00 EST

Low-power FPGA startup SiliconBlue Technologies Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has shipped production-volume quantities of its iCE65 mobileFPGA devices to more than 10 customers. The company claims it is the first new FPGA vendor to achieve this in 20 years.

Presented By:

NEC

Ads by Pheedo

Is CE going the Apple way? The case for Apple

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:03:00 EST

Apple is already a great consumer electronics company. But the big question is whether Apple has also secured its position as a leader of the consumer market in the future.

Hynix backers opt for December auction, say reports

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:14:00 EST

Shareholders who bailed out memory chip maker Hynix Semiconductor Inc. in the early part of this decade are planning to put their holding up for auction in December, according to online reports.

Soitec builds growth strategy on 4 pillars, says CEO

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:17:00 EST

The end of 2009 is fast approaching, and there is no better time to assess the year's achievements and highlight priorities for the coming year, and even years. At a press conference last week in Paris, André-Jacques Auberton-Hervé, president and CEO of Soitec SA (Bernin, France), said the company has the financial resources it needs to seize market opportunities and has built its growth strategy on four pillars.

Creditors hear plan to save Qimonda Portugal, say reports

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:21:00 EST

The Portuguese DRAM test and assembly operation subsidiary of insolvent Qimonda AG (Munich, Germany) has been offered a financial life line and is taking on a new name, according to local reports.

Analyst raises forecast on soaring October chip sales

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 08:04:00 EST

Bruce Diesen, analyst with Carnegie ASA (Oslo, Norway), has raised his forecast for the 2009 chip market, for the second month in a row. Carnegie asserts the market will still be down but the shrink will be less than Carnegie previously predicted.

Presented By:

NEC

Ads by Pheedo

Ten emerging technologies to watch in 2010

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:40:00 EST

EE Times has compiled a list of emerging technologies that we think will be worth watching out for in 2010.

Rankings: Top 20 IC suppliers got healthier in Q3

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:57:00 EST

Thanks in part to a surging memory market, sales for the top 20 semiconductor manufacturers increased 19 percent in the third quarter compared to the second quarter, according to market research firm IC Insights, which issued its ranking of the top chip vendors through the first three quarters of the year.

Presented By:

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:57:00 EST

Chip equipment market to grow 50% in 2010, says SEMI

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:27:00 EST

After the worst ever annual decline in the semiconductor equipment market, the industry's trade organization is predicting two years of booming growth.

ARM exec gives hints for IP business model optimization

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 18:24:00 EST

In a keynote at the IP-ESC 2009 Conference this week in Grenoble, France, Eric Schorn, vice president of marketing, processor division ARM Ltd, compiled a How-To list of basic steps to optimize IP business models and better deliver value to the customer.

Is Apple unstoppable? The case against Apple

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:17:00 EST

Apple Inc. is not unstoppable. In fact, the momentum is building for halting the company's dominance of the consumer electronics market and eventually, rivals will in the near future chip away at its leadership until no single player ever gets again to rule the sector.

Analysis: Sleeping giant Applied wakes up

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:30:00 EST

The sleeping giant woke up in the fab tool business, but will its rivals take notice or respond with a yawn?

Salary Survey: 'Hot' tech markets leave Chinese EEs cold

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

The globalization of engineering has made some geography-specific trends more difficult to spot.

Presented By:

NEC

Ads by Pheedo

Texas Instruments spin-off files for $500 million IPO

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:35:00 EST

Sensata Technologies Holding BV, a vendor of sensors and controls used in the automotive and aerospace industries, has filed for an IPO that would raise $500 million.

11 reasons why Freescale is a viable IC vendor: CEO

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:03:00 EST

Freescale Semiconductor Inc. is getting some positive response from its bond investors in the first signs the company is making headway with its reorganization. Chairman and CEO Rich Beyer in an interview outlined 11 reasons why he believes the company will overcome its debt and sales hurdles.

Broadcom to acquire Dune Networks for $178 million

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:09:00 EST

Fabless chip vendor Broadcom plans to acquire Dune Networks, a developer of solutions for data center networking equipment, in a deal worth $178 million, the company said.

Samsung SGH-J750: Handling complexity and time-to-market one step at a time

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST

Let me get this out of the way up front--our teardown column here isn't about the hardware behind this week's hottest cell phone launch.

Apple accused of NAND price manipulation, says Korean report

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:30:00 EST

Consumer electronics giant Apple Inc. is being accused of using its commanding purchasing position to manipulate NAND flash memory prices, according to a Korea Times article.

Smart grid hits snag over powerline standard

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST

The U.S. government is grappling with one of the first big snags in the wake of awarding $4 billion in grants to build a smart electric grid—how to find a standard that would let consumer appliances plug into an intelligent power network.

Ten random things you should know about the 2010 CES

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:17:00 EST

The largest consumer electronics show has always presented the latest and greatest of gadgets, both for useful work and for frivolous entertainement. Here is a random of what can be expected at CES.

Analyst: Taiwan foundries on allocation

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:33:00 EST

Contrary to one report, the foundry business is hot, as Taiwan vendors are sold out and leading-edge yields are improving, according to an analyst.

Presented By: NEC

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:33:00 EST

Ads by Pheedo

'Intel inside' could mean thought-control chip in brain, say reports

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:56:00 EST

Intel researchers are working on functional magnetic resonance imaging as a possible way to allow TVs, computers and cell phones to be controlled by human brain activity picked up by an implanted chip sensor, according to online reports.