A pick of the main stories crossing the ElectronicsWeekly.com News Index this week, from the stock-option scandal at Broadcom and Sharp claiming the world's highest power density for a mobile direct methanol fuel cell stack, to Future Waves winning investment to target the mobile TV market and Avago claiming its RF amps as the world's smallest...
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Friday 16 May 2008
Polymer Vision announces colour e-paper display
Eindhoven-based Polymer Vision is to unveil a colour version of its rollable display next week at the Society for Information Display (SID) conference in Los Angeles, alongside a higher resolution monochrome version.
Methanol fuel cell stack hits 300mW/cc
Sharp is claiming the world's highest power density for a direct methanol fuel cell stack aimed at mobile equipment.
Broadcom's Samueli caught up in option back-dating purge
The stock-option backdating scandal has claimed another scalp as Henry Samueli, co-founder, chairman and CTO of Broadcom steps down, following a complaint from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Samueli's co-founder, Henry Nicholas, is also cited.
Thursday 15 May 2008
NXP offers high efficiency transistor for LTE basestations
NXP Semiconductors has announced its first power transistor which uses the latest version of its LDMOS technology.
ON Semi to close fabs, lay off 400
ON Semiconductor plans to close its two wafer manufacturing facilities located in Piestany, Slovakia, transferring the production lines to other company-owned facilities and laying off approximately 400 employees.
Avago claims RF amps as world's smallest
Avago has introduced the world's smallest packaged RF amplifiers - 1x0.5x0.25mm - using a wafer-scale technique.
Wednesday 14 May 2008
TI targets Energy Star with Irish power design buy
Commergy Technologies, a Cork-based specialist in power supply reference design, has been acquired by Texas Instruments as the chip firm builds a broader power system expertise.
NXP/Infineon merger talk won't go away
The Financial Times in Germany has carried a report suggesting that senior executives at Infineon and NXP owner, private equity group KKR are talking about a merger between the two semiconductor firms.
Tuesday 13 May 2008
Plextek sets up new business to target MoD work
Plextek has formed a specialist defence business group which will allow the Cambridge-based design consultancy to target defence contracts and MoD liaison work.
O2 to sell Apple 3G iPhone in the UK in June
According to sources both official and unofficial, the Apple 3G iPhone will be on sale in the UK at the end of June from all O2 stores.
Pace secures BT set-top box contract after Philips buy
Pace has been awarded a new contract by BT for its high definition capable set-up box the V-box.
Monday 12 May
Future Waves wins investment to target mobile TV market
Future Waves, a fabless RF chip company targeting the digital broadcast market, has completed a $4.75m funding round.
Field emission boosts Samsung LCD contrast to 300,000
Samsung has demonstrated an LCD with a field emission backlight (FEB) - achieving a claimed 300,000:1 contrast ratio.
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