Taipei, Dec. 28, 2012 (CENS)--Amid fierce patent suits between Apple and Samsung, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is enhancing its patent firewall by expanding cooperation with third-party silicon IP providers, including ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, patent suits, silicon IP
Europe's top digital commissioner has called for an "Airbus for chips" to boost the bloc's microelectronics sector. Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes said on Tuesday that if the European Union wants to be a global player in chip ...
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Director general of Export Processing Zone Administration (EPZA) W.G. Huang noted that export value, number of firms and employees all have grown in Taiwan’s export processing zones (EPZs), with revenues likely to hit historical high ...
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have presented the shortest-gate working transistors yet built using III-V channels [J. Lin et al, IEDM, session 32.1]. The metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors ...
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The LED market has seen a growing market and policy support, with LED lights becoming trendy products globally, especially in developed regions such as Europe, the USA, Japan, South Korea and beyond. In China, the application of LED ...
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Texas Instruments Inc.introduced a new LED controller with constant power regulation. The LM3447 AC/DC LED driver includes a dimmer detect,phase decoder and adjustable hold current circuits to provide smooth and flicker-free dimming ...
SMARTRAC, the leading developer, manufacturer, and supplier of RFID transponders and inlays, announced the introduction of its new UHF EPC compliant Website inlay. The SMARTRAC Website inlay represents a technological advance in both size ...
Tags: Smartac, UHF RFID tag, Website inlay, Website
$4 billion agreement will see the world's leading chip maker fund R&D and take an equity stake in ASML. Eric Meurice:pushing Moore's law Intel is set to acquire up to a 15%equity stake in the semiconductor equipment specialist ...
Texas Instruments Wednesday unveiled its first single-stage wireless charging integrated chip (IC). TI said the new IC is 60% smaller than its predecessors. The company today also added a power controller chip that it said increases the ...
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Technologies Inc of Santa Clara,CA,USA has introduced the latest release of its high-frequency device modeling software platform,the Integrated Circuit Characterization and Analysis Program(IC-CAP).With IC-CAP 2013.01,a key improvement is ...
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IDG News Service - Following Intel's lead, contract chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), is investing A!838 million (US$1 billion) in Netherlands tools maker ASML to speed up the development of faster and more ...
Tags: Intel, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, ASML, Smaller Chips
LED utilization rates are picking up again, with utilization in Taiwan now back up to 70 to 90 percent of capacity. Companies expect to be back to close to 100 percent in a month or two, driven by TV backlight demand, reports Yole ...
Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine,CA,USA,which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for the wireless connectivity and cellular mobility markets,has started sampling its latest 5GHz 802.11ac RF Front-end ...
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Taipei, Dec. 22, 2012 (CENS)--The Industrial Development Bureau, under the Ministry of Economic Affairs, approved yesterday (Dec. 21) applications of three Taiwanese businesses to return to Taiwan for investments. Although the IDB refused ...
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MIRAGE - a new project supported by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) of the European Commission (EC) - was launched recently with the goal of developing next-generation optical ...
Tags: optical interconnect technology, optical, optical interconnect speed