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| Sony to buy CMOS sensor fab from Renesas |
1/29/2014 |
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Last October, Sony said it hoped to extend CMOS capacity by 20 percent in the next few years, with the bulk of this business year's 60 billion yen budget for investment in semiconductors going into the image sensors.
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| Intel invested $120m to consolidate Bangalore campuses |
1/29/2014 |
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"Our new capacity in Bangalore will give us the right resources to make a meaningful difference as the company moves into exciting areas like the Internet of Things. This move reinforces Intel's commitment to invest and grow in India,"
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| Sharp to expand solar project in Thailand |
1/29/2014 |
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Sharp will collaborate on the design and construction of the plant and will also supply the solar modules and balance of plant (BOP) for it. When the plant comes online, the total amount of power generation capacity of Sharp solar power plants in Thailand will exceed 150MW.
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| Google Samsung to cross license |
1/28/2014 |
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Allen Lo, deputy general counsel for patents at Google, echoed Ahn's comments, saying that "by working together on agreements like this, companies can reduce the potential for litigation and focus instead on innovation."
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| SMIC now ready to roll 28nm |
1/28/2014 |
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SMIC's 28nm process technology targets primarily mobile computing- and consumer electronics-related applications, such as smartphone, tablets, TVs, set-top boxes and networking. It provides customers high performance application processors, cellular baseband, wireless connectivity, etc.
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| New HP Chromebook chooses LTE |
1/28/2014 |
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Instead of turning to a well-known company like Qualcomm for cellular technology, for example, the H-P Chromebook uses a wireless chip from Israel-based Altair Semiconductor, which only communicates using the fourth-generation technology known as LTE.
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| IC supply to be driven by high speed wireless devices |
1/28/2014 |
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"In the home, high-speed wireless-enabled PCs will be used to stream HD content to the TV on the home network. In the office space, mobile PCs equipped with high-speed wireless will be able to receive and transfer large files in seconds, compared to minutes, and act as a source device for larger displays for use in applications such as video conferencing."
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| Qualcomm bought IP from HP on fundamentals of mobile OS |
1/27/2014 |
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The chipmaker charges royalties to handset makers and rival semiconductor companies for the use of its code division multiple access, or CDMA, wireless technology, which has become part of most high-speed mobile data systems.
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| Bluetooth dialer unloads the weight of your smartphone |
1/27/2014 |
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Bluetooth dialers don't come with a modem. With just this device, you can't actually dial anybody. And yet, combined with a phablet or tablet, the Bluetooth dialer assumes all the elements (look and feel, convenience) of a feature phone.
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| Lenovo to take over some IBM servers |
1/24/2014 |
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The move lets IBM focus on its higher-margin Power and proprietary servers, while Lenovo extends its market for high-volume x86-based systems that have arguably become high-tech commodities.
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| PC industry slow down to affect semiconductor process development |
1/24/2014 |
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Intel has excess fab capacity, which positions it well for the future, but each new process generation still requires an increased R&D investment. The industry is already struggling to bring EUV lithography technology to market. An investment cutback could further exacerbate problems with that technology.
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| Agilent Technology's Test and Measurement to rebrand as Keysight |
1/24/2014 |
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Agilent currently has two distinct businesses, one is the electronic measurement business and another is the life sciences and diagnostic business. Post-split electronic measurement business will become Keysight Technologies, however the life sciences and diagnostic business of Agilent will remain as it is and operate under the same name.
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| MediaTek stock fell after JPMorgan downgrade |
1/23/2014 |
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JPMorgan Chase & Co downgraded its outlook for the Taiwanese integrated circuit (IC) designer amid concerns that its development of smartphone chips for Time-Division Long-Term Evolution (TD-LTE) is taking too long.
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| Verizon to offer premium Mobile TV service |
1/23/2014 |
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Verizon Communications Inc. announced that it's buying Intel Media, a division of Intel Corp. that's been preparing to launch a service that streams TV channels over the Internet.
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| Texas Instruments to part 1,100 |
1/23/2014 |
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It is reducing investments in markets that do not offer sustainable growth and returns. The $80 million of charges to cut 1,100 jobs is expected to produce annual savings of about $130 million by the end of 2014
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| SK Hynix benefits on new paradigm in memory industry |
1/22/2014 |
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¡°The new paradigm creates a novel industry landscape that no longer rewards aggressive investment and is characterized by slowing growth amid limited capacity additions and natural loss from nearing scaling limits,¡±
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| Imec works on thermocompression bonding for 3D stacks |
1/22/2014 |
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Imec and Besi will conduct joint research to develop a high-throughput thermocompression bonder in an automated process flow, with high accuracy and shorter cycle times, paving the way to enabling a manufacturable 3D, 2.5D, and 2.5D/3D hybrid technology.
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| TI released chip to support 10Gb/s serial data |
1/22/2014 |
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According to the company, the devices aggregate and de-aggregate point-to-point serial data streams for transmission over backplanes, copper cables and optical links. With TI aggregator ICs, designers can avoid the costly and time-consuming development of custom aggregator IP for high-performance FPGAs or ASICs.
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| Rumour for early release of iPhone 6 |
1/21/2014 |
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A 4.7-inch iPhone 6 model may enter production as soon as May, and launch in the following months, Chinese publication Tencent (via UnwiredView) reports.
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| BlackBerry given a breathing chance |
1/21/2014 |
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The DoD said Thursday that BlackBerry phones accounts for 98 percent of the devices supported by the network that rolls out at the end of this month, which comprises 80,000 Blackberry headsets and 1,800 phones and tablets running Apple or Google software.
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