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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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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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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

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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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:47:00 EST

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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

Workers have gone on 'unlimited strike' at Atmel's fab

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:06:00 EST

Angry workers at Atmel Corp.'s fab in Rousset, France, have gone on an unlimited strike.

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Strike action - Atmel - Society and Culture - History - Working Class

Globalfoundries: Customers wanted

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:11:00 EST

Globalfoundries needs to attract more customers to get its huge Fab1 (and subsequent fabs) utilized. In order to demonstrate its chip-making muscles, the company allowed a handful of journalists to visit their Dresden clean room. Our visual impressions can be seen here.

Dresden - Germany - States - Saxony - Business

Qualcomm, MediaTek ink patent cross-licensing deal

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:11:00 EST

Fabless chip vendors Qualcomm and MediaTek have agreed to let each other utilize technology covered by their respective patent portfolios.

Qualcomm - MediaTek - Services - Law - Intellectual Property

Chip sector downgrade 'baseless,' says analyst

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:36:00 EST

BofA Merrill Lynch's downgrade of the semiconductor industry is baseless, according to the editor of a technology and semiconductor investment newsletter.

Merrill Lynch - Bank of America - Semiconductor - Business - BofA Merrill Lynch

Cisco seeks smart grid CTO

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:33:00 EST

Cisco Systems is looking for a few good power engineers—including a chief technology officer for its new smart grid business unit.

Cisco Systems - Business - Data Communications - Vendors - Manufacturers

Intel, Google take seats on smart grid board

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:25:00 EST

Google, Honeywell, Intel and Panasonic are among the companies elected to a seat on the board of a broad new group chartered to help manage the evolution of smart electric grids.

Google - Intel Corporation - Searching - Search Engines - Honeywell

Google open-sources operating system

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:18:00 EST

Google announced the open-sourcing of code for Chrome OS, the cloud-based operating system the company is developing to power netbooks.

Google - Google Chrome OS - Operating system - Companies - Open source

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Startup propels MEMS oscillators into mainstream

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:01:00 EST

Boston University startup Sand 9 propels micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) into high-precision mainstream computing applications like 3G, 4G, GPS and WiFi.

Global Positioning System - Wi-Fi - Technology - GPS - Boston University

Analysis: Infineon not on safe ground yet

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:55:00 EST

Infineon has managed to conclude a profitable quarter, but this does not mean the company is out of the woods now. EE Times explains which challenges the company has to master in the year ahead.

Infineon Technologies - Infineon - Business - Semiconductor - Security

EVE leads design team, acceleration market, says Gary Smith EDA

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:08:00 EST

EVE SA (Palaiseau, France) leads the design team acceleration and emulation market, according to market research firm Gary Smith EDA (Santa Clara, Calif.).

Santa Clara - Santa Clara California - California - Market research - United States

Infineon puts its bets on Asia, CEO Bauer says

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:45:00 EST

Having returned to profitability in its Q4, Infineon explained how it hopes it will remain profitable in the mid-term. Basically, growth will come from Asia, and acquisitions cannot be ruled out, explained Infineon CEO Peter Bauer.

Infineon Technologies - Peter Bauer - Society and Culture - Infineon - Semiconductor

Altis to join foundry fray, Infineon says

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:16:00 EST

Altis Semiconductor will have to make its money as an independent foundry services provider after it will be sold to a private investor. At the opportunity of its 2009 figures announcement, officials of parent company Infineon acknowledged that the sales contract closure is imminent.

Infineon Technologies - Semiconductor - Business - Electronics and Electrical - Components

Printed programmable logic startup secures support

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:51:00 EST

Nano ePrint Ltd., a spin off from the University of Manchester in England, has secured a grant to help it develop and demonstrate a printed programmable logic device.

Manchester - Logic gate - Math - Spin-off - Logic and Foundations

Tanner EDA, Tower expand collaboration

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:17:00 EST

Tanner EDA, a division of Tanner Research Inc. (Monrovia, Calif.), and Tower Semiconductor Ltd., which trades as TowerJazz, have joined forces to meet analog/mixed signal customers' needs for high quality power management ICs.

Integrated circuit - Electronic design automation - Components - semiconductor - Business

Intel invests in Europe 'exascale' computing center

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:35:00 EST

Intel's first joint lab in Europe focused exclusively on "exascale" computers that are able to process 1 trillion instructions per second.

Intel Corporation - Instructions per second - Hardware - Computer Science - Intel

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Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:35:00 EST

Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola Ventures invest in Sequans

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:34:00 EST

French WiMax chip supplier Sequans Communications SA (La Défense, France) announced that Alcatel-Lucent and Motorola Ventures, the investment arm of Motorola, led a round of financing to foster the company's Long Term Evolution (LTE) development program. Financial details remained undisclosed.

WiMAX - 3GPP Long Term Evolution - Alcatel-Lucent - Motorola - Business