Electronic Business articles from August 2006

Electronic Business archives from August 2006

China, Taiwan top EB 300.(electronics business)
August 1, 2006... By John Dodge, Editor-in-Chief It's the same old story. Alcatel and Lucent together get bigger by merging. SAFRAN (say, who?) was formed from the merger of French aerospace and defense giants Snecma and Sagem. Who besides Google grows...

Chips ahoy.(electronics)(Industry overview)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Compiled by Barbara Jorgensen Market Overview After a disappointing 4 percent revenue decline in the first half of 2005, the semiconductor market rebounded with 9.6 percent growth in the second half, according to market research firm...

Cruising the "7918 Network".(China plans national expressway network)
August 1, 2006... By Sally Cole Johnson, Contributing Writer China's ambitious plan to build an extensive, $242 billion (2 trillion yuan), 53,125-mile (85,000-kilometer) national expressway network--connecting all of the country's major transportation...

Not the average EDA company.(Celoxica Ltd.)
August 1, 2006... By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor Are the days of throwing the hardware design "over the wall" to the software group finally over? They may be if a tool from Oxfordshire, England-based Celoxica catches on. To date, the...

Nextreme seeks to beat heat.(Nextreme Thermal Solutions)
August 1, 2006... By Bill Roberts, Contributing Writer The smaller the geometry of the integrated circuit, the more tightly packed the transistors. And the more tightly packed the transistors, the hotter the chip can get. When the process node hit 90...

Manchester's semiconductor ascendancy.(University of Manchester)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... By Mike Green, Contributing Writer In the past few years, the University of Manchester has launched dozens of high-tech companies, which in turn have created more than 3,000 jobs in the region. One of the most high profile of these...

Feeling RoHS' effects.(Restriction on Hazardous Substances)
August 1, 2006... By Barbara Jorgensen, Senior Editor A month into RoHS, things aren't shaping up as expected in the open market. The industry has long anticipated some kind of imbalance in the supply chain as Europe's Restriction on Hazardous...

Wall Street mixed on RoHS risks, rewards.(restriction on hazardous substances)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... By Barbara Jorgensen, Senior Editor How is the financial community viewing the electronics industry's environmental efforts? Analysts--like electronics companies themselves--see "going green" as part risk, part reward. Most of the...

Emerging display giant signals overcapacity.(flat-panel-display industry)
August 1, 2006... By Drew Wilson, Contributing Writer The battle for dominance in the flat-panel-display industry appears to be shifting toward Taiwan. Although Korea's Samsung and LG-Philips are the world's two largest display makers, the April merger of...

Sensing a sensor shakeout?(semiconductor industry)
August 1, 2006... By Russ Arensman, Contributing Writer Any doubts about whether memory chip giant Micron Technology was serious about the CMOS image-sensor market were convincingly erased during the past year. Micron's sales of sensor chips--used to...

Re-"Viiv"ing the Media PC.(launch of digital entertainment computer)
August 1, 2006... By Tam Harbert, Contributing Writer After several years of talking about how the PC would be the hub of the emerging home entertainment network, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) have taken serious aim at that market this year by...

STMicro's fab energy advantage catches on.(STMicroelectronics N.V.)
August 1, 2006... By Drew Wilson, Contributing Writer Will the last person to leave the clean room please turn off the lights? It will contribute to ongoing energy cost savings, STMicroelectronics discovered. "If you don't need them on 24 hours, why...

Capital equipment bookings beating '06 forecasts.
August 1, 2006... By Sally Cole Johnson, Contributing Writer With more than 40 new fabs worldwide either under construction, equipping or ramping, combined with the industry's ongoing transition from 200mm to 300mm wafers, capital equipment bookings are...

Can mobile phone photos get rid of the "jitters"?(Invensense)
August 1, 2006... By Drew Wilson, Contributing Writer A shaking hand can ruin a mobile phone photo. More megapixels won't solve the quality problem--they just guarantee better resolution of a jittery photograph. The answer? Image stabilization...

Nintendo's got game.(Nintendo Company Ltd.'s Wii game controller)
August 1, 2006... By Dean Takahashi, Contributing Writer Behind every cool innovation rests another. That's the case with Nintendo 's clever game controller for its upcoming Wii video game console. The controller has received kudos for its intuitive...

Do ESL and DFM connect?(electronics systems level, design for manufacturing)
August 1, 2006... By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor When systems designers began adopting high-level languages in the early 1990s, and the old method of schematic entry was relegated to analysis only, the new methods completely bypassed the old. ...

Japan on the rebound.
August 1, 2006... By Dennis Normile Companies heavily modify vertical integration or scrap it altogether They once seemed invincible. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Japan's vertically integrated semiconductor-centric manufacturers were on...

Revenue leaders hold their ground.
August 1, 2006... By John Edwards "Stability" has never been a word closely associated with the electronics industry. Yet looking at this year's EB 300, it's difficult not to be impressed by the general lack of movement among the list's leaders between...

The China Syndrome.(business development)
August 1, 2006... By John Edwards Creating a growing business is basically a matter of offering the right products for the right markets at the right times, and then producing everything at the lowest possible cost. There's no easy way to find the first...

Show me the technology.(investment strategies of software companies)
August 1, 2006... By Bill Roberts Financial return is second to strategic value among the most successful corporate VC funds When Intel Capital recently put money into an Egyptian WiMAX venture, it was not the corporate venture fund's first investment...

Intel: A Lesson in how NOT to Diversify.
August 1, 2006... By Dean Takahashi $10B gone without much of a trace Intel's retreat from communications is the biggest reversal in the company's history. On April 27, Intel CEO Paul Otellini announced that the company would cut $1 billion in costs...

Don't miss the next great thing.(electronics)
August 1, 2006... By Bill Roberts Connect these three dots: First, a perfect storm is brewing from the pressure systems of global politics, global economics and global warming, one which will demand great leaps forward in energy-related technology....

It's more than just the money.(Jim Hogan)
August 1, 2006... By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor Jim Hogan knows innovation when he sees it, and when he does, he throws cash at it. Hogan, currently a private investor, sees himself as more than just a source of cash-he sees himself as a...