News Articles http://www.semiconductoronline.com/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:47:00 GMT Triad Semiconductor Inc., the industry's leading supplier of configurable mixed-signal ASICs, today announced the availability of a family of three new mixed signal via configurable arrays (VCAs) http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Triad-Semiconductor-Introduces-Three-New-Via-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:47:00 GMT MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation ("MagnaChip") (NYSE: MX), a Korea-based designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, and GMT (Global Mixed-mode Technology), a leading fabless provider of power solutions for mobile phone and PC applications, today announced that MagnaChip has ramped to mass production GMT's power management IC (PMIC) products utilizing 0.35um BCD (Bipolar CMOS-DMOS) process technology http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/MagnaChip-And-GMT-Announce-Volume-Ramp-Of-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:57:00 GMT KeyStone Semiconductor Corp.(KeyStone), a fabless semiconductor developer of advanced digital radio technologies and Amaryllo, a leading dynamic traffic information technology company in the Netherlands, announced today that KeyStone's new single-chip FM/DAB/DAB+ receiver ICs, KSW86GTC and KSW86GTV to support TPEG/SLS/DLS/DLS+ for in-car and mobile navigation applications are now available for sampling http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/KeyStone-Semiconductor-Partners-With-Amaryllo-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:02:00 GMT Intense Inc., developer of next generation semiconductor lasers, systems and solutions, recently announced at Photonics West the release of a high power 30W version of the Series 8000 808nm High Power Laser Pump Modules. http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Intense-Announces-30W-808nm-Laser-Pump-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:56:00 GMT Keithley Instruments, Inc., a world leader in advanced electrical test instruments and systems, has upgraded the capabilities of its Automated Characterization Suite (ACS) Test Environment http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/New-Keithley-Semiconductor-Software-Expands-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:00:00 GMT Research by UC Riverside-led team has potential applications in digital and infrared technologies http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Bilayer-Graphene-Works-As-An-Insulator-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:19:00 GMT Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have combined two worlds - quantum physics and nano physics, and this has led to the discovery of a new method for laser cooling semiconductor membranes. http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Cooling-Semiconductor-By-Laser-Light-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:08:00 GMT Mentor Graphics Corporation recently announced that Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited has expanded its use of the Calibre platform, incorporating the latest Calibre physical verification and design for manufacturing (DFM) capabilities in its design enabling flow for all Fujitsu Semiconductor projects, including its most advanced analog and digital designs http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Fujitsu-Semiconductor-Expands-Use-Of-Calibre-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:00:00 GMT Minus K Technology, a leading manufacturer of vibration isolation products has partnered with Kinetic Systems, Inc. in designing a new, versatile, ultra-low natural frequency optical table isolation system. http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/New-MK52-Negative-Stiffness-Optical-Vibration-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:21:00 GMT After a slight downturn in 2009 due to the worldwide economic conditions, the video surveillance equipment market returned to healthier levels and continued to improve http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Video-Surveillance-Semiconductor-Revenue-To-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:25:00 GMT Altair Semiconductor, a leading developer of ultra-low power, small footprint and high performance 4G LTE chipsets, recently announced that its FourGee-3100/6200 chipset has successfully completed Band 14 interoperability testing with Alcatel-Lucent infrastructure. http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Altair-Semiconductor-Completes-LTE-Band-Class-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:15:00 GMT Tensilica, Inc. recently announced that NXP Semiconductors N.V. was the lead partner for Tensilica's first ConnX Baseband Engine (BBE), announced on June 22, 2009 http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Tensilicas-ConnX-Baseband-Engine-DSP-Core-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:40:00 GMT Altair Semiconductor, a leading developer of ultra-low power, small footprint and high performance 4G LTE chipsets, today announced the general availability of an Embedded Linux Software Development Kit (SDK), named Open-PlatformT, for its commercial FourGee-3100/6200 chipset http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/CES-2012-Altair-Semiconductor-Announces-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:46:25 GMT Valens Semiconductor, a leading provider of semiconductor products for the distribution of uncompressed HD multimedia content and inventor of HDBaseT technology, recently announced the availability of its new VS010RX HDBaseT-Lite Receiver and VS010TX HDBaseT-Lite Transmitter chipset, and the associated evaluation kit http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Valens-Semiconductor-Introduces-VS010-Chipset-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:01:00 GMT Cypress Semiconductor Corp. recently introduced a new Gen4 TrueTouch® controller targeted at the rapidly growing tablet and ultrabook market. The new CY8CTMA1036 device has 65 sense-I/Os, enabling it to deliver flawless touchscreen performance for screens up to 12 inches http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Cypress-Launches-Single-Chip-TrueTouch-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:00:00 GMT U.S. semiconductor maker Ramtron International Corporation (Nasdaq: RMTR), a leading developer and supplier of low energy nonvolatile ferroelectric random access memory (F-RAM) and integrated semiconductor products, recently announced that it has made initial customer deliveries of a custom designed F-RAM device built on its new IBM manufacturing line in Burlington, Vermont http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/Ramtron-Ships-Custom-F-RAM-Device-Built-On-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:30:00 GMT EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced that it has signed a joint-development and licensing agreement with Eulitha AG, a pioneer and leader in the production of high-quality nanostructures using advanced lithography techniques http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/EV-Group-Signs-Collaboration-Agreement-With-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:21:00 GMT SEMICOA Corporation, a leading supplier of discrete semiconductors for high-reliability military, aerospace and commercial markets today unveiled its first wave of high performance power MOSFET products targeting military and aerospace applications http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/SEMICOA-Announces-New-High-Reliability-Power-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:32:00 GMT A state-of-the-art semiconductor research laboratory officially opened June 10. A joint project between Lakehead University and MEAGlow Ltd. - an Ontario-based company established to help commercialize MEAGlow technology - the lab houses a Canadian-designed MEAGlow chemical film growth reactor, built in Thunder Bay, that grows very thin crystal layers of nitride semiconductors on micro, nano, and sub-atomic scales, including two dimensional (2-D) structures http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/MEAGlow-Semiconductor-Research-Laboratory-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:15:00 GMT GLOBALFOUNDRIES and IBM recently announced an agreement to jointly manufacture advanced computer chips at both companies' semiconductor fabs in New York's "Tech Valley" http://www.semiconductoronline.com/article.mvc/IBM-And-GLOBALFOUNDRIES-Begin-First-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:11:00 GMT