A pick of the main stories crossing the ElectronicsWeekly.com News Index this week, from Intel fines for antitrust behaviour and lay-offs at Spansion, to the East Kilbride fab closing and an obituary for Evan Steadman...

Friday 6 June 2008

Intel fined $25.4m by Korean antitrust body, may appeal
This decision is the result of a probe that began in 2005, when South Korea joined the European Commission and Japan in investigating certain aspects of Intel's business practices following a complaint by rival AMD.

Spansion lays off 500, eyes manufacturing expenses
After a $52 million sequential reduction in manufacturing service expenses with foundries and subcontractors in Spansion's fiscal Q1, the flash maker announces 500 job cuts as it looks to further cut costs.

Thursday 5 June 2008

Femtocells need an open interface to mobile networks
Ubiquisys is aiming to be the first 3G mobile femtocell supplier to commit to the 3GPP's latest Iuh interface, which is intended to standardise communications between femtocells and mobile networks.

Microchip offers USB 2.0 stack for PIC micros
Microchip has added a full USB 2.0 development environment to a low cost 8-bit microcontroller for the first time.

Wednesday 4 June 2008

Obituary: Evan Steadman
Evan Steadman, one of the UK electronics industry's more flamboyant characters had died aged 69.

Thales links with Mentor Graphics for FPGA design training
Thales has worked with design tool firm Mentor Graphics to develop a new type of tool and design methodology training course which the defence firm will offer to a hundred engineers over the coming year.

Intel continues mobile push with Atom processors, quad-core chipsets
Intel announces availability of new versions of its netbook-focused Atom processors (formerly codenamed Diamondville) along with its 4 Series chipsets for mainstream desktop PCs - all as part of its presence at the Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan this week.

Tuesday 3 June 2008

East Kilbride fab closing, R&D remains
Following the announcement of a consultation period prior to closing down Freescale's Irish design centre with the loss of 47 jobs, Freescale has now conceded that a sale of the company's fab at East Kilbride now looks 'unlikely' and that, while consultation continues, 'the focus will now be on the proposed closure of the fab' with the loss of 850 jobs.

CSR adds GPS and FM radio to BlueCore7
CSR has unveiled its seventh generation BlueCore Bluetooth chip which supports the v2.1+EDR standard.

Monday 2 June 2008

TI puts ARM Cortex-A8 to work in consumer medical devices
With its eye on the growing market for consumer medical devices, Texas Instruments is offering a development kit based on its OMAP processor platform which is designed to speed up the introduction of new types of medical instruments.

SiliconBlue start-up cuts FPGA power
California start-up SiliconBlue has revealed details of its low power SRAM FPGAs for handhelds, with on-chip non-volatile memory.

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