Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), has claimed the world's first reconfigurable RF front end (RFFE) using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) complementary ...
Tags: Peregrine CMOS SOI, integrated circuits, Semiconductor
Last week nanotechnology research institute imec of Leuven, Belgium celebrated its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1984 as a non-profit organization, imec has grown to be a multi-disciplinary expertise center in the fields of semiconductor ...
Tags: FinFETs, III-V CMOS, ASML of Veldhoven, TSMC
What a year 2013 was for the supply and design chains! In this piece, EBN showcases its most-read 15 pieces of content as we review 2013. Apple surely grabbed the attention of readers this year, whether it was in anticipation of upcoming ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, 4D Printing
At the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2013) in Washington D.C., USA (9-11 December), nanoelectronics research institute imec of Leuven, Belgium reported the first functional strained germanium (Ge) quantum-well channel ...
Tags: FinFETs III-V CMOS, Electrical, Electronics
By using a unique silicon fin replacement process, Imec of Leuven, Belgium has demonstrated what it claims are the first III-V compound semiconductor FinFET devices integrated epitaxially on 300mm silicon wafers. The nanoelectronics ...
Tags: FinFETs III-V CMOS, Electrical, Electronics
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology, and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc of Milpitas, CA, USA are sampling the first RF ...
Tags: Peregrine SOS CMOS SOI RF switches, Electrical, Electronics
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has announced the UltraCMOS 10 platform, the latest development of its UltraCMOS ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Semiconductor giant Intel is to open its fabrication facilities to ARM, after Altera announced that it had contracted with Intel to produce 64-bit ARM chips. The move opens the way for ARM microprocessors to be built to Intel's latest ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has invested another US$15.50 million into future R&D of semiconductors and chips, according to a blog entry by Michael Cooney, Online News Editor for Network World. The funds will be ...
Tags: Semiconductor, DARPA
Intel is planning a new range of low-power-consumption microprocessors intended to challenge ARM-based rivals in embedded and wearable computing. The new Quark range of Atom microprocessors will weigh in at one-fifth of the size of ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Later this month, IC Insights’ August Update to the 2013 McClean Report will show a ranking of the top 25 semiconductor suppliers in 1H13. A preview of the top 20 companies is listed in Figure 1. The top 20 worldwide semiconductor ...
Tags: Semiconductor Supplier
SEMICON Taiwan is set to open in September amidst an improving global and regional outlook for 2013 and 2014 that sees Taiwan remaining the largest and strongest market for semiconductor manufacturing. SEMICON Taiwan 2013, to be held ...
Tags: Semiconductor Market, Electrical
SurplusGLOBAL, Inc. participated in Semicon West 2013. SurplusGLOBAL CEO, Bruce Kim forecasted the increase in demand in the Asia Secondary Equipment Market. Bruce Kim, CEO of SurplusGLOBAL, has participated in Semicon West for the past ...
Tags: Semiconductor, Semiconductor Equipment, Electrical, Electronics
Recent advances in microelectronics technology and production processes have led to the rapid acceleration in MEMs and LED manufacturing, and breakthroughs in silicon photonics and printed/flexible electronics. But what comes next? The ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, LED
A top Intel executive said the power and performance battle with ARM is over, because Intel's upcoming chips based on its Silvermont architecture are ahead on key metrics required to deliver strong performance and battery life on ...
Tags: Computer Products, Intel, chip