A pick of the main stories crossing the ElectronicsWeekly.com News Index this week, from OLED-T launching a low-temperature LiF replacement and Intel selling its optical platform division, to ST acquiring a slice of NXP's wireless chip business and a Welsh sensor firm netting a $16m deal...
Friday 11 April 2008
OLED-T launches low-temperature LiF replacement
London display materials developer OLED-T launches a low-temperature organic electron injector material for organic LED displays.
Intel sells more optical business to Emcore
Intel is further divesting its optical communications business, announcing that Emcore will acquire the enterprise and storage assets of Intel's optical platform division, as well as the Intel connects cables business.
Thursday 10 April 2008
Intel, AMD multi-core processing approach doomed - UK multi-processing experts
Intel and AMD will never solve the problems of programming general purpose multi-core processors if they carry on with a shared memory approach, according to UK multi-processing experts.
ST acquires slice of NXP's wireless chip business in jv
NXP and STMicroelectronics are spinning out their wireless chip businesses into a new joint venture company with sales of $3bn.
Wednesday 9 April 2008
Premier Farnell, RS and Digi-Key focus in web sales
Premier Farnell has joined fellow catalogue distributors RS and Digi-Key in reporting dramatic growth in its Internet business in all the major markets of the world.
Electronics market set to grow 5.9% - iSuppli
The electronics market will grow 5.9 per cent, down from 7 percent in 2007, according to US analysts iSuppli.
Tuesday 8 April 2008
Cell processor goes on sale at Toshiba
At last the Cell microprocessor, developed by IBM, Toshiba and Sony, is being made available to everyone. Toshiba has started sampling a Cell processor under the brand name of SpursEngine 1000 or SE1000.
LED maker Cree produces complete lamps for Europe
US LED maker Cree is producing complete lamps for Europe following its acquisition of North Carolina's LED Lighting Fixtures (LLF).
Welsh sensor firm nets $16m deal
Bangor-based DeepStream Technologies has signed a $16m deal to supply digital current sensors to German switch gear maker Moeller.
Monday 7 April 2008
Icera Sirific RF baseband tie-up takes on Qualcomm
The Icera-Sirific tie-up, announced today, will enable the two companies to produce an integrated RF plus baseband product which will go after the data card market share of Qualcomm.
Motorola layoffs reach 10,000 mark
Motorola, in a filing with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week, stated plans to cut 2,600 jobs, bringing the total number of employees laid off at the company to about 10,000 since the beginning of 2007.
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