A pick of the main stories crossing the ElectronicsWeekly.com News Index this week, from Infineon's CEO resigning, and ST's Bozotti declaring no interest in Infineon's wireless chip business, to Lumileds reducing colour bins in white LEDs and Renesas plans for a new processor...

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Friday 30 May 2008

Mirics Semiconductor tunes into TV dongles
Mirics Semiconductor develops a hardware/software TV demodulation technique which it is coupling with its RF tuner to add a broadcast receiver to PCs.

Intel, Micron launch 34nm, 32Gb NAND flash memory at SSDs
Being touted as the smallest NAND process geometry on the market, chip giant Intel and memory leader Micron Technology have rolled out what they say is the first sub-40nm NAND memory device - a 34nm 32-gigabit (Gb) multi-level cell (MLC) NAND memory chip.

Thursday 29 May 2008

Lumileds reduces colour bins in white LEDs
Lumileds is to cut the number of colour 'bins' in its white LED range following the introduction of its Lumiramic phosphor technology.

Genusion flash attracts mobile phone makers
Genusion, the Osaka-based flash memory start-up, has got the mobile phone manufacturers interested in its ultra-reliable, ultra-long endurance, low-cost, NOR flash memories, and is working with an unnamed fab to put them into production.

Wednesday 28 May 2008

ST adds memory to ARM Cortex-M3 microcontrollers
STMicroelectronics has increased the amount of on-chip memory on its ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontrollers to address display, sound and control applications.

KKR-led Euro-consolidation doomed - analysts
The KKR-led consolidation process for the European semiconductor industry will lead to disaster, according to Europe's leading semiconductor industry analysts, Future Horizons.

STMicroelectronics goes analogue
STMicroelectronics is becoming an analogue company. The No.1 priority for the immediate future is to invest in and grow its analogue business, by acquisition where necessary, it states.

Tuesday 27 May 2008

ST not interested in Infineon's wireless chip business - Bozotti
STMicroelectronics is not interested in buying the wireless activities of Infineon Technologies, according to ST's CEO Carlo Bozotti.

Ziebart resigns as Infineon CEO
Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart has resigned as CEO and president of Infineon Technologies.

Renesas plans new processor for next year
Renesas Technology will start sampling the first 32-bit microcontrollers based on its new Cisc processor core early next year.

Monday 26 May

Beetle reveals natural photonic crystal ideal for semiconducting
The University of Utah has discovered a natural photonic crystal with an "ideal" structure, it claims. 25mm long, an insect from Brazil grows tetrahedral structure photonic crystals, a task that has so far stymied human researchers.

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