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RF chip maker Telegent files IPO

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:12:00 EST

Telegent Systems Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the proposed initial public offering (IPO) of its common shares.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - Initial public offering - Stock - Business - Investing

ADI tops estimates, projects flat sales

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:04:00 EST

Chip maker Analog Devices reported better-than-expected sales for the quarter ended Oct. 31, with the company's chief executive crediting improvements in many economies and customer inventory replenishment, among other factors.

Business - Chief executive officer - Analog Devices - Marketing and Advertising - Leadership

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.

Integrated circuit - Business - Semiconductors - Electronics and Electrical - Components

Eight reasons why IC downgrade was baseless

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:07:00 EST

Another analyst is upset over a recent downgrade in the semiconductor sector.

Integrated circuit - Semiconductors - Business - Electronics and Electrical - Components

Equipment book-to-bill ratios stay above parity

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:43:00 EST

The book-to-bill ratio for North American semiconductor equipment manufacturers slipped to 1.10 in October, while the ratio for Japanese equipment companies held steady at 1.28, according to the trade groups who compile this data.

Semiconductor - United States - Business - Japanese people - Electronics and Electrical

ASE-USI deal: What analysts are saying

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:57:00 EST

Last week, Taiwan's Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (ASE) launched a cash and stock tender offer to buy all of the outstanding common shares of Universal Scientific Industrial Co. Ltd. (USI) for over $550 million.

Taiwan - Stock - Tender offer - Business - Ship naming and launching

IDT divests micro networks unit

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:04:00 EST

Continuing to restructure its operations, Integrated Device Technology Inc. (IDT) has signed an agreement to divest its micro networks business to Spectrum Control Inc. for approximately $13 million.

Business - Integrated Device Technology - Manufacturing - IPhone - Google

Netbooks to hit 17% of 2010 portable PC market, says analyst

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:28:00 EST

The market for portable ccmputers will be 165 million units in 2010, according to Will Strauss president of market tracker Forward Concepts (Tempe, Ariz.) And of that market 3.6 percent, or about 6 million units, will be so-called smart book computers.

Netbook - Personal computer - Business - Portable - Technology

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Qualcomm's MEMS display gains e-reader design win

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:13:00 EST

Qualcomm Corp. has shown off a 5.3-inch full-color non-volatile MEMS-based display and claims a slightly larger version, with a 5.7-inch diagonal size, will be found in an e-reader product to deploy in fall 2010. The display features 1,024 by 768 pixel resolution and around 220 pixels per inch.

Microelectromechanical systems - Qualcomm - Display resolution - MEMS - Technology

Tower makes deal to export know-how, equipment

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:38:00 EST

Loss-making foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel), which trades as TowerJazz, has announced it plans to transfer "manufacturing know-how and certain equipment" to support an un-named Asian company ramp up production.

Israel - Business - Company - Manufacturing - Migdal Haemek

Chinese PCB market to drop 18% in 2009, says analyst

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:51:00 EST

Frost & Sullivan forecasts that the Chinese market demands for PCB products reach RMB97.2 billion with the decrease of 18.2 percent in 2009, but the market is expected to rebound gradually in 2010.

China - Asia - Business - Frost & Sullivan - Chinese

Keithley sells RF product line to Agilent

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:09:00 EST

Seeking earlier profitability, Keithley Instruments has signed a definitive agreement with Agilent Technologies to sell substantially all of its RF product line to Agilent, for approximately USD9 million.

Agilent Technologies - Keithley Instruments - Business - Microwave - Chemistry

Living in the (approximately) real world

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:46:45 EST

By necessity, we use approximations to model our world, but you have to keep their limits in mind

Model - Recreation - americas next top model - Collecting - Tyra Banks

Is it time to reap the energy harvest?

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST

Are the factors in place and aligned for this market to really take off?

Harvest - Energy - Environment - School Time - Kids and Teens

RTOS supports multiprocessor Windows systems

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:43:00 EST

INtime 4.0 is multi-core enabled and compatible with Windows 7.

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NEC

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Multi-core - Windows 7 - Microsoft Windows - Operating system - Video Games

Al Gore: Supercomputers can sway global warming ways

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:23:00 EST

Supercomputers can do more to reverse the global warming trend, according to former vice president Al Gore who gave a keynote at the Supercomputer 2009 conference held here this week.

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NEC

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Al Gore - Global warming - Climate change - United States - Environment

Make way for DDR3 transition, says iSuppli

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:55:00 EST

Double Data Rate 3 SDRAM, the state of the art in commodity memory technology, is expected to rise to dominance by the second quarter of 2010, according to new projections from market research firm iSuppli.

Market research - Business - DDR3 SDRAM - Double data rate - ISuppli

Ten technologies, seven predictions lead weekly story ranking

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:30:00 EST

Here are the top five online stories for the week beginning Sunday, Nov. 15, as ranked by EE Times readers, up to and including Friday, Nov. 20. The ranking is based on the number of reader "views" or "hits" on a particular article.

Times - Arts - Newspaper - Top Lists - Online newspaper

Applied-Semitool deal: What analysts are saying

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:00:00 EST

As reported, Applied Materials Inc. and Semitool Inc. this week announced a definitive agreement for Applied to acquire the outstanding shares of Semitool for $11 per share in an all-cash tender offer.

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NEC

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Applied Materials - Tender offer - Semitool - Shares outstanding - Business

Video: Al Gore stumps for smart grid

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:19:00 EST

In between takes of guest appearances on TV's "30 Rock," Nobel prize winner and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore swept into Silicon Valley Thursday to stump for the smart electric grid and help hand out awards to technologists honored for their work in social justice.

Al Gore - Vice President of the United States - United States - 30 Rock - Television

Number of millionaires grows in China

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:17:01 EST

The number of millionaires in China continued to rise while many world economies are a deep recession, a private research group said.

China - Recession - Asia - Maps and Views - Business and Economy

OCP-IP adds cache coherence to specification

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:57:00 EST

The Open Core Protocol International Partnership (OCP-IP) announced the release of the OCP 3.0 specification.

Protocols - IP - Addressing - Internet Protocol - IP address

East-West engineering salary gulf: Join the conversation

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:47:00 EST

It has not evolved into a full blown revolt yet. But engineers in so-called low-cost Asian locations are sending strong signals to high-tech companies that they do not like the huge gulf between what they earn annually and compensations paid to their counterparts in western locations.

High tech - Engineering - Business - Industrial Goods and Services - Marketing and Advertising

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India 3G/WiMAX spectrum auction delayed till January

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:18:00 EST

The auction of 3G spectrum and spectrum for WiMAX in India has been postponed from December to January next year.

WiMAX - 3G - India - Business - Business Services

iPhone is 'Eye-phone' for surgeons in India

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:15:00 EST

Apple's iPhone has been found to be the best mobile handset when it comes to treating Retinopathy of Prematurity, an eye disease that can turn prematurely born babies irreversibly blind in days

iPhone - Apple - Smartphones - Handhelds - App Store