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Verigy Installs Multiple V93000 SOC Testers At KYEC
9/3/2010
Long-time customer King Yuan Electronics Co., Ltd. (KYEC), one of the world's largest semiconductor test foundries, has selected Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a leading semiconductor test company, as its preferred test equipment partner for KYEC's entry into the RF SOC (radio-frequency, system-on-chip) device market
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NXP Selected To Secure New German National Identity Card
9/3/2010
NXP Semiconductors N.V. recently announced that its SmartMX secure contactless microcontroller chip has been chosen to power the new German contactless National Identity card
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TranSwitch Corporation To Present At The Rodman & Renshaw Annual Global Investment Conference
9/2/2010
TranSwitch Corporation , a leading provider of semiconductor solutions for the converging voice, data and video network, recently announced that the company will present at the upcoming Rodman & Renshaw Annual Global Investment Conference, to be held on September 12-15, 2010 in New York, NY
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Eyelit's Award-Winning Integrated Manufacturing Execution (MES) Software Selected And Implemented By SEMATECH To Improve The Process Of Collecting Critical Manufacturing Data
9/2/2010
Eyelit Inc., a manufacturing software provider for visibility, control and coordination of manufacturing operations for the aerospace & defense, electronics, life sciences, semiconductor and solar industries, announced recently that SEMATECH, a global consortium of the world's leading chip manufacturers, has selected Eyelit's Enterprise Manufacturing Execution Suite (MES) to replace its existing system
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Computer Scientists Leverage Dark Silicon To Improve Smartphone Battery Life
9/2/2010
A new smartphone chip prototype under development at the University of California, San Diego will improve smartphone efficiency by making use of "dark silicon" – the underused transistors in modern microprocessors.
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New Keithley Switch Mainframes Boost System Throughput For Semiconductor Test Applications
9/1/2010
Keithley Instruments, Inc., a world leader in advanced electrical test instruments and systems, has introduced the six-slot Model 707B and single-slot Model 708B switch matrix mainframes, which are optimized for semiconductor test applications in both lab and production environments. By providing significantly higher command-to-connect speeds, these switch mainframes make faster test sequences and greater overall system throughput possible
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Silicon Oxide Circuits Break Barrier
9/1/2010
Rice University scientists have created the first two-terminal memory chips that use only silicon, one of the most common substances on the planet, in a way that should be easily adaptable to nanoelectronic manufacturing techniques and promises to extend the limits of miniaturization subject to Moore's Law.
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True Circuits Announces New Line Of General Purpose PLLs Optimized For Low Power, Area Sensitive And Low Cost Applications
9/1/2010
True Circuits, Inc. (TCI), a leading provider of analog and mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) for the semiconductor, systems and electronics industries announced recently the immediate availability of a new line of silicon-proven General Purpose Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) hard macros that are well suited for system clock, DDR and general purpose timing applications. The General Purpose PLL is available in a variety of TSMC and GlobalFoundries processes
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WIN Semiconductors And Presto Engineering Announce A Strategic Collaboration For GaAs Testing Services
9/1/2010
WIN Semiconductors Corp., the world's largest pure-play Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) foundry, and Presto Engineering, a leading semiconductor product engineering company, today announced a strategic collaboration to deliver characterization and testing services for companies developing products utilizing GaAs technology from WIN.
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Dialog Semiconductor's Power Management IC And Audio Codec Adopted By Renesas Electronics' SH7724 Mobile Device Platform
8/31/2010
Dialog Semiconductor plc, a leading provider of highly integrated innovative power management semiconductor solutions, has announced its DA9052 system level power management (PMIC) and DA7210 Class G audio ICs have been incorporated in the Renesas Electronics' SH7724 reference platform, which is now shipping and generally available