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Growth in smartphones sees Nvidia enter top 5 application processor vendors
Growth in smartphones sees Nvidia enter top 5 application processor vendors
Market news |
Global smartphone applications processors revenue registered a staggering 108 percent year-over-year growth in Q1 2011 to reach $1.68 billion, according…
ARM acquires Obsidian, becomes part of validation team
ARM acquires Obsidian, becomes part of validation team
Market news |
The privately owned verification and validation company, Obsidian Software, used in the design of increasingly complex processors, will become part…
Chip equipment book-to-bill slips
Chip equipment book-to-bill slips
Business news |
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.62 billion in orders on a three-month average basis in May and a…
IMEC benchmarks FinFET superiority
IMEC benchmarks FinFET superiority
Technology News |
The IMEC research institute has compared one planar and two FinFET technologies to see how they perform against scaling and…

Report claims wireless sensors will be biggest market for thin-film batteries
Report claims wireless sensors will be biggest market for thin-film batteries
Technology News |
Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has issued its latest report on the thin-film battery market, it predicts that the business will create almost $900 million in revenues in the year 2016.
Micromechanical 6DoF combo sensor features power-saving wake-up on motion function
Micromechanical 6DoF combo sensor features power-saving wake-up on motion function
New Products |
Gleichmann Electronics is now offering the SD746, a micromechanical six degrees of freedom (6DoF) combo sensor from SensorDynamics. The SD746 features a power-saving wake-up on motion function where power consumption…
Cost effective LDS antenna process for laptops and tablets
Cost effective LDS antenna process for laptops and tablets
New Products |
Pulse Electronics introduced its new laser direct structuring (LDS) process for antenna parts which are too long or large to fit well into conventional laser machines. The company claims its…
Gaming moves to efficient context awareness with more sensors
Gaming moves to efficient context awareness with more sensors
Feature articles |
Gaming, supported by electronic devices, has expanded from a niche market to encompass age categories from toddlers to seniors. One enabler of the explosion of gaming adoption is an intuitive…
Scalable ceramic heat-sink efficiently cools up to 100W/cm²
Scalable ceramic heat-sink efficiently cools up to 100W/cm²
New Products |
The compact CeramCool Box from CeramTec is made for homogeneous and efficient cooling of packing densities up to 100W/cm². For example, with an edge length of just 16x40x40mm it has…
Non-contact fluid sensors detect clear and opaque liquids
Non-contact fluid sensors detect clear and opaque liquids
New Products |
TT electronics' self-calibrating fluid sensors enable engineers to easily correct for system variations, saving up set-up time as well as maintaining the sensors' optimum accuracy over years of operation. Designated…
Modular AXIe embedded controller for automated test applications
Modular AXIe embedded controller for automated test applications
New Products |
The Agilent M9536A is a powerful one-slot AXIe embedded controller module that can be used to build compact AXIe systems. With built-in front panel interfaces, the new controller can easily…
First eMMC host controller focuses on supporting new high speed standard
First eMMC host controller focuses on supporting new high speed standard
Technology News |
Arasan Chip Systems, Inc., has introduced its MMC/eMMC 4.5 Host Controller IP product which claims to be the first to support the new specification, released by JEDEC, that is designed…
Digital voltage-regulators now support 93 PMBus commands to reduce energy consumption
Digital voltage-regulators now support 93 PMBus commands to reduce energy consumption
New Products |
Based on digital-core controllers, the Ericsson 3E second generation of voltage regulators, the 12 A BMR462, the 20 A BMR463 and the 40 A BMR464, now support 93 PMBus commands,…
Solutions for Safety Critical Automotive Applications
Solutions for Safety Critical Automotive Applications
Technology News |
Increasingly automotive electronic systems need to meet functional safety requirements in chassis, powertrain and body applications. Functional safety is often considered as the part of the overall safety relating to…
austriamicrosystems acquires TAOS to strengthen light sensor portfolio
austriamicrosystems acquires TAOS to strengthen light sensor portfolio
Business news |
austriamicrosystems AG has entered into an agreement with Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions, Inc. (TAOS), headquartered in Plano, Texas (USA), to acquire 100% of the shares in TAOS. The transaction is…
Sony Ericsson selects NXP’s NFC Solution for its Android-based Smartphones
Sony Ericsson selects NXP’s NFC Solution for its Android-based Smartphones
Technology News |
NXP Semiconductors' near field communication (NFC) technology has been selected by Sony Ericsson for inclusion in its Android-based smartphones.
German carmakers agree on 48V on-board supply, charging plug
German carmakers agree on 48V on-board supply, charging plug
Technology News |
Car makers Audi, BMW, Daimler, Porsche and Volkswagen have agreed to jointly incorporate a number of common architectural elements for their on-board power network. These include an additional 48 V…
Sony Ericsson selects NXP’s NFC solution for its Android-based smartphones
Sony Ericsson selects NXP’s NFC solution for its Android-based smartphones
Technology News |
NXP Semiconductors' near field communication (NFC) technology has been selected by Sony Ericsson for inclusion in its Android-based smartphones.
45-V Trench MOS barrier Schottky rectifiers in three power package options for PV bypass protection
45-V Trench MOS barrier Schottky rectifiers in three power package options for PV bypass protection
New Products |
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., has expanded its offering of TMBS Trench MOS Barrier Schottky rectifiers with 12 new 45 V devices in three power package options that feature a wide range…
40-V gate driver reduces IGBT switching losses
40-V gate driver reduces IGBT switching losses
New Products |
The ZXGD3006E6 gate driver from Diodes Incorporated is designed for switching high power IGBTs and helps to increase power conversion efficiency in solar inverter, motor drive and power supply applications.
Austriamicrosystems to acquire Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions for USD 320 million
Austriamicrosystems to acquire Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions for USD 320 million
Business news |
Austriamicrosystems has entered into an agreement with Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions (TAOS), headquartered in Plano, Texas (USA) to acquire 100% of the shares in TAOS. The transaction is expected to…
VCSO features 12-fsec of rms jitter
VCSO features 12-fsec of rms jitter
New Products |
MSC is offering the new VS-401 VCSO (Voltage Controlled Saw Oscillator) from Vectron International. A key feature of the VS-401 is an ultra-low 12 fsec root mean square (rms) jitter…
Atmel’s Sensors Xplained software drivers help accelerate development of sensor-based designs
Atmel’s Sensors Xplained software drivers help accelerate development of sensor-based designs
Technology News |
Atmel has released the Sensors Xplained software drivers which have integrated with the AVR Studio 5 Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The new software drivers accelerate application and device development by…
Modular power system with application-specific modules for battery test and mobile device manufacturing
Modular power system with application-specific modules for battery test and mobile device manufacturing
New Products |
Agilent Technologies has added two new application-specific modules to its N6700 Modular Power System (MPS) family, the N6783A-MFG mobile communications DC power module and the N6783A-BAT battery charge/discharge module. The…
32bit MCU kit targets hobbyists
32bit MCU kit targets hobbyists
New Products |
Microchip has teamed up with Diligent to create the Digilent Cerebot 32MX7 Development Kit, based on Microchip’s PIC32 MCU family. It addresses the growing interest in embedded-control and networking applications…
Wazco and Lindsay Broadband partner on optical backhaul for LTE metrocell
Wazco and Lindsay Broadband partner on optical backhaul for LTE metrocell
Business news |
Wazco, a provider of multi-sector metro LTE picocells and Lindsay Broadband, a last-mile communications specialist, have announced a first-of-its-kind, strand-mounted optical backhaul solution for Wazco's family of MetroStorm basestations. Dubbed…
Dual-core, real-time MCU combines DSP and ARM M3
Dual-core, real-time MCU combines DSP and ARM M3
Technology News |
Extending its range of real time MCUs based on its C2000 32bit DSP, Texas Instruments has introduced the Concerto family, which marries a C28x DSP with ARM’s Cortex M3 core.
AMD makes Fusion CPU, GPU agnostic
AMD makes Fusion CPU, GPU agnostic
Business news |
Microprocessor vendor Advanced Micro Devices Inc., has declared that Fusion, its flagship processor project whereby it has combined x86 and graphics processors, will be CPU and GPU agnostic. The announcement…


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