A pick of the main stories crossing the ElectronicsWeekly.com News Index this week, from Motorola spinning off its mobile phone business and Rambus scoring a major DRAM legal victory, to NXP introducing four ARM9-based microcontrollers and Xilinx speeding runtimes for faster FPGA developments...

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Friday 28 March 2008

Rambus wins major DRAM court case
Rambus scores a legal victory in a long-running case involving its memory market competitors Hynix Semiconductor, Micron Technologies, and Nanya Technology that could see it gain new royalty payments.

Tri- and quad-core desktop processors fill AMD's Phenom lineup
AMD claims the Phenom X3 processors as the world's only triple-core x86 processors.

Thursday 27 March 2008

Apple iPod chip supplier hit by snub
Wolfson has confirmed that one of its audio chips has not been selected by a major Tier 1 customer for inclusion in the next generation of its portable media players, expected to be launched during the third quarter of 2008.

NXP intros four ARM9 controllers
NXP Semiconductors has introduced four ARM9-based microcontrollers.

Semiconductor IP continues growth path - Semico
Through its ability to help reduce the design time and overall costs for SoCs, the third party semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) market has continued to increase its importance to chip designers, according to market research company Semico Research.

Wednesday 26 March 2008

Motorola plans to spin-off mobile phone business
Motorola is to spin-off its struggling mobile phone business as it starts the process of separating its Mobile Devices and Broadband& Mobility businesses into two independent, publicly-traded companies.

Osram hits 46 lm/W in OLED lighting tile
Osram has achieved a significant efficiency result in its push towards practical OLED lighting.

Lumileds talks LED packaging - interview
Electronics Weekly talks with Luxeon product manager Sudhir Subramanya about the future of LED packaging at Philips Lumileds, and a little chat about the past.

Tuesday 25 March 2008

Billionaire Wall Street raider sues Motorola
Carl Icahn is suing Motorola in his latest attempt to force change at the struggling company.

Xilinx speeds runtimes for faster FPGA developments
Xilinx is claiming faster FPGA development times with the latest release of its ISE Design Suite.

Monday 24 March 2008

TSMC lines up first chips on 40nm process
TSMC has said first wafers from its 40nm semiconductor manufacturing process are expected in the next three months. The foundry is claiming a x2.35 increase in gate density over the 65nm process, active power down-scaling of up to 15% over 45nm.

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