Plessey has designed its contactless electric field sensor, dubbed EPIC, in to a hand held ECG monitor which it will launch at next month's Electronica exhibition in Germany. The UK-based firm has gone into the medical terminal ...
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Clariant Ltd. and Wilmar International Limited have signed an agreement to establish a 50-50 joint venture as the global platform for production and sales of amines and selected amines derivatives. The joint venture will be headquartered in ...
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NXP Semiconductors will move more than a third of its chip production to foundry within three years,according to company CEO,Rick Clemmer. "We will use foundries for 35%of production by 2015 as more of our products move to 40nm ...
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The French government is supporting the creation of a number of collaborative research programmes in areas such as 3D semiconductor research,automotive electronic systems and nanotechnologies for smartphones. At the heart of many of these ...
18 October 2012 TowerJazz and UCI demo integrated 94GHz imaging transceiver with record performance in silicon Specialty foundry TowerJazz(which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek,Israel,and at its ...
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Taipei,Oct.18,2012--Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.(TSMC)has set up complete manufacturing eco system for Apple's application-specific IC(ASIC)contracts,in which Intel Corp.is also reportedly interested,according to Taiwan's industry ...
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Infineon Technologies has introduced an LED driver IC that can deliver RGB ambient lighting in autos, while STMicroelectronics has a new LED bypass IC that can eliminate problems with a failed LED in safety-critical applications such as ...
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STMicroelectronics has taped out a dozen SOCs on Samsung's 32/28nm HKMG process.The chips are for mobile,consumer and network applications. "We have successfully started production of STMicroelectronics'new-generation 32/28nm SoC ...
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TI has given up on the smartphone and tablet markets for it OMAP processors and connectivity products,and is going to focus those products on the embedded processing market,says Greg Delagi,senior vice president for embedded processing at ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego,CA,USA,a fabless provider of radio-frequency(RF)integrated circuits(ICs)based on silicon-on-sapphire(SOS),has added a HaRP technology-enhanced SPDT PE42422 RF switch to its high-linearity,low ...
By blending optical technology with low-cost CMOS semiconductor processing,silicon photonics has tremendous potential as a new technology,according to market research firm Yole Développement in its new report'Silicon Photonics ...
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The process technology gap between the top foundries and the others is a enormousa,says IC Insights. Only four companies out of 18 pure-play foundries can make leading edge ICs and only four others have a 90nm capability. a In 2012,TSMC ...
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Upscale lighting and automotive applications direct product development efforts. Tightening competition in the LED driver IC line is spurring further product development in Taiwan amid widening adoption of the"green"technology in lighting ...
Tags: LED, LED driver IC R&D, LD7101 model, Taiwan, Upscale lighting
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego,CA,USA,a fabless provider of radio-frequency(RF)integrated circuits(ICs)based on silicon-on-sapphire(SOS),and RF and microwave component distributor RFMW Ltd of San Jose,CA,USA have finalized a ...
Texas Instruments has a new 6-channel LED driver IC for high-light applications such as street lights, while Allegro Microsystems introduced a product that can drive 3A and Diodes Inc. has a new driver for SSL application using mid-power ...
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