Industry News (2012/06)

Newport Media provides products for smartphones

Published:2012/6/29 3:24:00 Author:Ecco

Newport Media Inc. (Lake Forest, Calif.)s, a fabless chip company, has won design chance for its digital television receiver SoCs in smartphones and feature phones from Samsung, HTC, LG, Motorola and ZTE. The chips are specifically for reception of Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting-Terrestrial (ISDB) transmissions which meet th...   (View)

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Report: Qualcomm has not ruled out owning wafer fabs

Published:2012/6/29 2:25:00 Author:Ecco

A Bloomberg report indicated that Qualcomm Inc. (San Dieo), the world's largest fabless chip company, has not ruled out owning a wafer fab or putting large amounts of cash down to ensure the firm’s supply of semiconductor chips. Qualcomm has suffered a shortage of 28-nm Snapdragon (View)

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Maxim spends $200M to upgrade U.S. chip making

Published:2012/6/28 2:42:00 Author:Ecco

According to Analog and mixed-signal chip company Maxim Integrated Products Inc., it schemes to spend $200 million to upgrade its U.S. wafer fabs in Beaverton, Ore.; Dallas and San Antonio, Texas; and San Jose. However, the data of the investment is not provided now. The investment would be used to upgrade manufacturing equipm...   (View)

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Google launches 7-inch tablet with Android 4.1

Published:2012/6/27 21:47:00 Author:Ecco

Google Inc. will launch a 7-inch media tablet, made by Taiwan's Asustek Computer Inc. in the occasion of its Google I/O developer event here Wednesday (July 27). The tablet will be sold at $199. Hugo Barra, Google's product management director for Android, indicates that the Nexus 7 features an Nvidia Tegra 3 chip ...   (View)

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ST provides the samples of STM32 F3 series

Published:2012/6/27 1:56:00 Author:Ecco

STMicroelectronics NV (Geneva, Switzerland) has made an announcement which indicates that it has started delivering samples of its STM32 F3 series of microcontrollers. The products have the functions of a variety of analog peripherals and DSP capability. STM32 F3 series MCUs are system-on-chip devices based on the Cortex-M4 c...   (View)

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Wolfson provides audio hub for Samsung smartphone

Published:2012/6/26 22:34:00 Author:Ecco

Samsung's Galaxy S III smartphone has used a WM1811 audio hub IC which is produced by Wolfson Microelectronics plc (Edinburgh, Scotland). Wolfson is a mixed-signal fabless chip company. Wolfson made a net loss of $6.2 million on sales revenue of $30.3 million in the first quarter of 2012, so there is hope that the Samsung design win can help drive Wolfson towards profitability. The Galaxy range of Andro...   (View)

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Sony, Panasonic work together to develop OLED displays

Published:2012/6/26 3:39:00 Author:Ecco

Japanese consumer electronics giants Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. have made an agreement on the cooperation of developing organic light emitting diode (OLED) panels and modules for TVs and large-sized displays. The two companies plan to finalize the mass production of next-generation high-resolution OLED panels and modules in 2013. <...   (View)

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KKP will provide 50 billion yen for Renesas

Published:2012/6/26 1:48:00 Author:Ecco

There is a Nikkei report indicating that struggling Japanese chip company Renesas Electronics Corp. is to seek a 50 billion yen (about $620 million) investment from private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR). The earlier report from Reuters says that Renesas' two parent companies – Hitachi and Mitsubishi – have a...   (View)

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Freescale, Vivante and Rightware form a team on automotive display

Published:2012/6/25 3:12:00 Author:Ecco

Since Rightware Oy (Espoo, Finland), Freescale semiconductor Inc. (Austin, Texas) and Vivante Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) develop an automotive infotainment and instrumentation display platform, automotive displays have been getting a lot more dynamic and flexible and long gone are the days of a physical needle twitching in front of circ...   (View)

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Sony plans to spend $1-billion on stacked CMOS sensor

Published:2012/6/25 2:06:00 Author:Ecco

According to Sony Corp., it has planed to spend about 80 billion yen (about $1 billion) by September 2013 in expanding its manufacturing capacity for stacked CMOS image sensors. Sony Semiconductor has alrea...   (View)

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Microsoft launched 10.6-inch tablet with picking ARM and Intel

Published:2012/6/20 3:59:00 Author:Ecco

Microsoft has launched a 10.6-inch tablet in a 16:9 aspect ratio. They are available in two options, one powered by Intel’s 22-nm Ivy Bridge processor running Windows 8, and another Surface powered by an ARM chipset and Windows RT. The Windows RT version includes a built-in kickstand with 9.3-mm thickness, 676 grams weight, a...   (View)

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TI adapts HD for 3-D printing

Published:2012/6/20 1:42:00 Author:Ecco

Texas Instruments announced that they would adapt their HD digital light processor (DLP) chipset this week for rapid prototyping systems that can print 3-D objects. The surface of a receding photo-activated polymer can be formed into 3-D objects f...   (View)

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Freescale samples the firstly ultra-low-power ARM core

Published:2012/6/19 2:00:00 Author:Ecco

Freescale Semiconductor Inc. is available to provide the samples of the industry's first microcontroller to use ARM's ultra-low-power Cortex-M0+ (View)

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Ford pushes APIs for Android in Silicon Valley lab

Published:2012/6/18 23:15:00 Author:Ecco

When Giuli was fresh out of engineering grad school at Stanford University nine years ago, he joined Ford’s Dearborn, Mich., labs. He’s been working on setting up Ford’s presence in Silicon Valley philosophically for a long time, but the actual work of finding and setting up an office h...   (View)

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Silicon Valley Bank will set China venture

Published:2012/6/18 2:14:00 Author:Ecco

With its professional chip knowledge, Silicon Valley bank goes to the mainland to aim to be the first U.S. tech-focused bank operating in China by September when it opens the doors on a new joint venture. SVB has about $20 billion in assets. It forged a 50/50 joint venture with the considerably larger Shanghai Pudong Developme...   (View)

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Three-year research project is developed to avoid rare-earth metals

Published:2012/6/17 22:31:00 Author:Ecco

There is a three-year research project about the design of next generation electric vehicle motors. It aims to eliminate the use of expensive magnetic materials. The total value of the project is about £1.5 million ($2.3 million), half-fu...   (View)

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The story about Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone

Published:2012/6/15 2:26:00 Author:Ecco

Samsung was immature in the handset industry before 3 years. Its sales and stature were fallen behind other handset companies such as Nokia, Motorola and so on. When Apple entered the fray with the introduction of the (View)

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The phased array satellite system will be pushed

Published:2012/6/14 23:09:00 Author:Ecco

A UK startup will push a kind of phased array antenna system which allows moving vehicles to communicate with satellites and antennas to track satellites. Phasor Solutions Ltd. uses the 155-GHz SiGe process from TowerJazz to replace GaAs for the transceivers alongside its phase array antenna design. The Farnborough Air Show will be holden next month, which is targeting the multi-billion dollar satellite com...   (View)

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The gate-last HKMG options are reported by IMEC

Published:2012/6/14 1:44:00 Author:Ecco

The so-called replacement metal gate (RMG) technology is evaluated by Nanoelectronics research center IMEC. It is reported that the technology can allow further transistor scaling and follow-on to the high-k metal gate (HKMG) structures currently in use. According to the papers on the topic at the VLSI Technology Symposium taking place June 12 to 15 in Honolulu, Hawaii presented by IMEC researchers, its co...   (View)

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Toshiba shows its NAND flash sales

Published:2012/6/13 22:07:00 Author:Ecco

The NAND flash memory sales of Toshiba Corp. was $1.71 billion in the first quarter with increasing 19 percent from the fourth quarter of 2011. According to IHS iSuppli, it was the highest growth rate among ...   (View)

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