Electronics Weekly articles from August 2008

Electronics Weekly archives from August 2008

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August 6, 2008... Linear Technology has announced an ideal diode controller with integrated 5A mosfet. The LTC4358 regulates the forward voltage drop across the internal 20m[ohm] mosfet "to ensure smooth switch-over from one path to another without...

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August 6, 2008... 06aug08EeeBox Following the success of its tiny Eee laptop, Asus has launched an equally small desktop called Eee Box. The unit is 222x178x26.9mm, a fraction over one litre, but still includes an 80Gbyte hard drive, a flash card...

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August 6, 2008... First half semiconductor industry rankings from IC Insights show a buoyant semiconductor industry with the top 20 companies growing by an average of 10 per cent compared to H107, even while some of the memory guys like Hynix (down 23 per...

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August 6, 2008... Samsung has announced a low-power H.264 camcorder system chip. "The platform is the first to apply a H.264 codec to SD card camcorders," said the firm. "Supporting multi-codec from MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 to H.264, it improves recording times and...

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August 6, 2008... Wireless operators in the West could be about to adopt the strategy which NTT DoCoMo in Japan have pursued for a decade - to give applications developers favourable terms on which to sell their products over data networks. Western...

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August 6, 2008... Today's announcement by HP, Intel, Yahoo, the University of Illinois, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany to collaborate in cloud computing resurrects the idea of Net Computing...

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August 6, 2008... It was an excellent May for the semiconductor market, reports Future Horizons, Europe's leading semiconductor market analyst company. "The global chip market in May 2008 was up 8.4 per cent compared with the market in May 2007 driven by...

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August 6, 2008... Qualcomm COO Dr. Sanjay Jha, is leaving to become co-CEO of Motorola and CEO of Motorola Mobile Devices. Jha, who was educated in the UK with a first degree at Liverpool University and a PhD from Strathclyde University, was Qualcomm's star...

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August 6, 2008... five diags from page 9 of 06aug08MAX9060.pdf AND diag from 06aug08MAX9065.pdf Claimed to be the industry's smallest, Maxim's MAX906x comparators are available in a 1x1mm four bump package. MAX9060-MAX9064 operate from 0.9 to 5.5V,...

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August 6, 2008... Horrible conditions in the NAND flash market have seen Micron Technology's shares sink to their lowest level for 15 years, and Toshiba and SanDisk, take losses, but 3-bit-per-cell and 4-bit-per-cell flash from Toshiba/SanDisk could give them...

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August 6, 2008... Close on the heels of resolution of the Nokia-Qualcomm patent disputes, the patent peril engulfing the wireless industry reared its head in a New York appeals court yesterday, with Nokia losing a hearing against the Pennsylvania company...

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August 6, 2008... TSMC is still adding capacity, despite widespread industry concerns that the foundry industry is cutting back on capex in order to squeeze higher prices per wafer. According to TSMC's Q208 report, the company currently has the capacity to...

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August 6, 2008... Embargoed till Monday August 4th eASIC, the direct write e-beam ASIC specialist, is announcing 45nm product availability in Q408 and mass production in Q109 from its foundry, Chartered Semiconductor. "By the second half of next year...

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August 13, 2008... The 1394 Trade Association has adopted a standard for ultra-wideband over coax, offering 800Mbit/s for home multimedia networks. "The '1394 Over Coax' standard is designed to enable the industry's fastest whole-home network in a...

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August 13, 2008... images www.ricardo.com/media/pressreleases. UK firm Ricardo is behind the 'Olympics Green Messengers', a fleet of 50 hybrid vehicles co-developed with Chery Automobile Company for Beijing. "With its expertise in hybrid electric...

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August 13, 2008... Brocade Communications Systems, whose former CEO is in jail, is to bring racketeering charges against ten former executives and directors according to the San Jose Mercury News. http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_10101543. The charges are...

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August 13, 2008... 13aug08CreeXP.jpg - low res http://www.cree.com/products/pdf/XLamp7090XR-E.pdf - page 8 top 2 sketches Cree has introduced smaller surface-mount power LEDs, competing with Lumileds' Luxeon Rebel. Dubbed XP-E and XP-C and measuring...

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August 13, 2008... First half semiconductor industry rankings from IC Insights show a buoyant semiconductor industry with the top 20 companies growing by an average of 10 per cent compared to H107, even while some of the memory guys like Hynix (down 23 per...

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August 13, 2008... 13aug08SotonRobot.... This robot has been designed for mass production by the University of Southampton for swarm-based artificial intelligence research. ... .9,10,11 A fixture allows individuals to be programmed and tested,...

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August 13, 2008... 13aug08Vishay.gif Vishay has extended its high reliability capacitor range to include what it claims is the first solid tantalum chip capacitor with a 63V rating to meet derating requirements in 28V power supplys. "Lacking alternatives...

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August 13, 2008... Outstanding results for the first half of the year show that the semiconductor industry is in for a strong year. The WSTS figures for June show that June's semiconductor sales were up 12.2 per cent compared to June 2007, driving Q208 growth...

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August 13, 2008... US researchers claim to have developed a significantly cheaper way to make samarium cobalt, the material behind high-temperature rare earth magnets. Of the rare-earth materials, SmCo magnets are not quite as strong as the NdFeB types used...

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August 20, 2008... STMicroelectronics and InfineonTechnologies have joined up with 3-D packaging specialists STATS ChipPAC, to develop next-generation embedded Wafer-Level Ball Grid Array (eWLB) packaging technology. The three companies will jointly own the...

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August 20, 2008... A warning omen for the semiconductor industry is that the world's largest supplier of semiconductor production equipment, Applied Materials, saw orders for its solar generating equipment grow by six times in calendar Q2.while orders for its...

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August 20, 2008... Researchers at Tokyo University, led by Takao Someya, have developed a stretchable, flexible conducting material from a mix of carbon nanotubes and a polymer material. The nanotubes retain current carrying capability after being...

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August 20, 2008... Was the original data given to the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) for the first five months of 2008 doctored? The question is asked by semiconductor industry analyst Mike Cowan who developed the Cowan LRA Model for forecasting...

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August 20, 2008... The semiconductor materials market will grow by over double the amount the semiconductor industry grows because of the high rise in units/steep decline in ASP scenario besetting the chip industry. So, while the SIA predicts that...

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August 20, 2008... Microchip has pulled together its three-phase motor control design information on a single website. Featuring its 16-bit microcontrollers with DSP capability, included are application notes, free software, technical training and...

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August 20, 2008... Murata has introduced what it claims is the first 0.9x0.6mm 1.0[micro]F two -element capacitor array. "This 0302-size two-element capacitor array has achieved 1.0[micro]F per element, which is unprecedented even for a single 0102...

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August 20, 2008... According the magazine FabTech, which quotes correspondence received from Numonyx employees, the company is reducing headcount and closing facilities. Reports say that Numonyx will close its California technology \Centre (CTC) which is a...

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August 20, 2008... Philips, which 22 years ago started TSMC in partnership with the Taiwan government, today sold its remaining shares in the company. The stake sold was 383m shares which, at their current market price of $10, should be worth around US$3.8bn....

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August 20, 2008... RF Nano, a Californian developer of carbon nanotube-based analogue RF products, has raised $8m in venture capital on top of its first round funding of $1.5m. RF Nano, which has development contracts from the US Army and Air Force,...

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August 20, 2008... Isle of Wight-based DSP firm RF Engines has designed a processing core for a Korean spectrum analyser maker. "RFEL have been working with LIG Nex1 for a number of years, and have most recently supplied an IF design that effectively is a...

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August 20, 2008... Hampshire-based lab Roke Manor Research is developing an artificial intelligence (AI) system that looks at clouds to allow autonomous gliders to find lift in the sky. "The primary objective is to harvest atmospheric energy to prolong...

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August 20, 2008... Silicon meets Life. How silicon technology is making artificial replacements for human organs. This is to be the subject-matter of a conference run by The Electronics Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) at Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre in...

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August 20, 2008... Researchers at the University of Surrey and Hitachi in Japan have established further design constraints for their high-performance thin-film transistors, unveiled earlier this year (EW 8may08). The transistors are polycrystalline silicon...

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August 20, 2008... 20aug08XenICsGOBI.jpg Belgium-based XenICs is offering a user-programmable 8 to 14[micro]m infra red camera. Dubbed Gobi-384, "compared to competitors' offerings, it excels by its on-board, DSP-based calculating power," said XenICs....

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August 20, 2008... Claudia Phipps with the pig she created for the 2008 Bath Pig Parade in honour of the Founder of Bath, King Bladud. The pig was sponsored by picoChip, the Bath wireless chip specialist. Bladud, who reigned for 20 years from 863BC,...