A pick of the main stories crossing the ElectronicsWeekly.com News Index this week, from Jha leaving Qualcomm to head Motorla and a new wafer-level-packaging standard, to ARM adding emulator support for Cortex-A9 processors and ultra-wideband over coax...
Friday 8 August 2008Infineon, ST, STATS ChipPAC to develop wafer-level-packaging standard
The foundation of the technology they hope will become a standard is Infineon's embedded wafer-level ball grid array technology that uses a combination of traditional front-end and back-end semiconductor manufacturing techniques with parallel processing of all the chips on the wafer.
Nvidia licenses Transmeta's low power computing technology for $25m
The LongRun2 technology is a set of advanced power management, leakage control and process compensation technologies that are meant to reduce the negative effects of increasing leakage power and process variations in new process geometries..
Thursday 7 August 2008ARM adds emulator support for Cortex-A9 processorARM has added support for its Cortex-A9 processor with the release of v3.3 firmware for its RealView in-circuit emulator.
Ultra-wideband over coax standard adoptedThe 1394 Trade Association has adopted a standard for ultra-wideband over coax, offering 800Mbit/s for home multimedia networks.
Wednesday 6 August 2008Southampton University designs robots for mass productionStudents at the University of Southampton have developed a low cost robot for swarm intelligence research.
Sony Ericsson smartphone adopts OKL4 virtualization platformOpen Kernel Labs (OK Labs), a virtualization technology specialist, has announced that its OKL4 microkernel-based virtualization platform is deployed in Sony Ericsson’s latest XPERIA X1 smartphone.
Electronics recruitment defies market gloom, says IETRecruitment levels in the engineering sector are continuing to expand despite the general sense of gloom in the economy, according to research published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
Tuesday 5 August 2008Buoyant H1 growth for semiconductor industryFirst 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 cent), Toshiba (1 per cent growth) and Micron (0 per cent growth) drag down the average considerably.
Handset makers jump onboard Mobile LinuxThe LiMo Foundation, a grouping of mobile companies including Motorola, Samsung, NTT DoCoMo and Orange, has scored a success with another wave of handsets using the LiMo platform.
Monday 4 AugustJha leaves Qualcomm to head MotorolaQualcomm 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 executive. "I look forward to close cooperation with Qualcomm in the future", he said, after the announcement of his departure.
National Instruments targets multicore processor designsNational Instruments has built on the inherent parallel nature of graphical programming with the latest version of its LabVIEW graphical system design platform for control, test and embedded system development.
Wireless operators to open up applicationsWireless 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.
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