Maxim is staking its future on integrated analogue in the belief that sales of analogue SoCs will overtake discrete analogue sales within two years. Asked by EW what integrated analogue means,Maxim responded:'Analogue has traditionally ...
Murata is still on the acquisition trail,Terry Churcher,President of Murata for Europe,Middle East and Africa,tells EW. Murata has made a string of acquisitions recently a VTI Technologies in 2011,Renesasa high-power amplifier business ...
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STMicroelectronics has announced production stoppages at manufacturing sites at Crolles and Catania according to the French union UNSA and may soon announce a new business model for the company. The eight inch plant at Crolles will have ...
STMicroelectronics'strategy of being a'competitive follower'in process technology means that the advantage in gaining access to processing equipment gained by the Intel,Samsung,TSMC lithographic alliance with ASML will not affect ST. "We ...
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Next week STMicroelectronics will start running the 28nm FD-SOI NovaThor integrated modem and applications processor designed by ST-Ericsson,Jean-Marc Chery,Chief Manufacturing and Technology Officer of ST told EW in Crolles yesterday. ...
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Hittite Microwave Corp of Chelmsford,MA,USA(which designs and supplies analog,digital and mixed-signal RF,microwave and millimeter-wave ICs,modules and subsystems as well as instrumentation)has launched two new power amplifiers suited to ...
Intel's triangular finfets suffer a severe performance disadvantage to rectangular finfets and a further disadvantage in respect to SOI finfets,says Professor Asen Asenov of Glasgow University who is the CEO of Gold Standard Simulations. ...
ARM+TSMC is leading Intel in process technology for highly integrated mobile SOCs,ARM's CEO Warren East tells EW. Asked if it was the aspiration of ARM's physical IP division,working with TSMC,to catch up with Intel in process,East ...
Monolithic microwave integrated circuit developer Custom MMIC of Westford,MA,USA is offering two new devices from its growing MMIC design library.The CMD157(die)and CMD157P3(packaged)are gallium arsenide(GaAs)MMIC low-noise ...
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Intel's finfets are a'complicated and difficult'technology solution,says Professor Asen Asenov of Glasgow University and founder and CEO of Gold Standard Simulations(GSS)the leading CMOS statistical variability simulation house. "It's ...
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5 June 2012 GigOptix showcasing wideband amplifier and E-band solutions at IMS GigOptix Inc of San Jose,CA,USA(a fabless supplier of semiconductor and optical components for high-speed information streaming)is to showcase its portfolio of ...
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Nigel Toon has been appointed the new CEO of XMOS,the Bristol-based fabless maker of C-programmable ICs. "The challenge over the next 12 to 18 months is to show we're making the right progress in design wins and in defining a clear ...
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UK-In the seven years since the split of post-hardcore band Million Dead,the band's lead vocalist Frank Turner has built a large following for his brand of folk/punk.April saw him reach a career high with a sold-out show at London's Wembley ...
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