A pick of the main stories crossing the ElectronicsWeekly.com News Index this week, from XMOS sampling its first 400MIPS four core chip and ARM cutting the power of Cortex-M3 processors to Intel revenues hitting record highs, and Freescale and Xilinx making moves at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose...
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Friday 18 April 2008
Manchester University makes single atom graphene transistor
Manchester University researchers have fabricated the world's smallest transistor, one atom thick and ten atoms wide, carved from a single graphene crystal.
Virage Logic adds 65nm Common Power Format low-power standard cell libraries
The IP company Virage Logic highlights that Common Power Format is meant to help SoC designers shorten design time by addressing low-power requirements early in the development process.
Thursday 17 April 2008
Intel Q1 results buoy tech stocks
Intel announces that its Q1 revenue hit a record high of $9.7 billion, with operating income of $2.1 billion, net income of $1.4 billion and earnings per share (EPS) of 25 cents. As a result, Nasdaq tech stocks see a boost.
Semiconductor equipment spend to drop 20% - Gartner
Due to a weakening US economy and collapsing DRAM market, market researchers at Gartner now expect spending for worldwide semiconductor capital equipment to fall 19.8% from last year to $47.5 billion. Gartner previously forecast a 10% drop for semiconductor manufacturing equipment spending this year.
Wednesday 16 April 2008
New CEO at Artimi
There's been a change of CEO at five year-old UWB fabless chip specialist Artimi. Colin Macnab, CEO for the last three years, has handed over to Andy Vought.
Micron says memory design can save power
At the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, Micron Technology highlights the importance of improving the energy efficiency pf memory systems and it estimates that memory consumes approximately 15 per cent of power in data centre server systems.
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.
Tuesday 15 April 2008
XMOS samples its first 400MIPS four core chip
XMOS Semiconductor, the brainchild of Transputer architect David May, announced samples of its first product this week, a four core chip, where each core delivers 400MIPS, costing $10 in volume.
Controller chip boosts E Ink displays
Epson and E Ink have announced a controller chip for E Ink's electrophorescent e-paper at the Electronic Systems Conference in Silicon Valley.
Oxford University makes digital radio breakthrough
The University of Oxford claims to have invented a signal-processing scheme that improves the quality of digital radio based on OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) with no additional hardware or system complexity.
ARM cuts power of Cortex-M3 processor
ARM's message at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in San Jose, California this week is low, low power.
Monday 14 April 2008
Freescale and Xilinx amongst early movers in San Jose
The Embedded Systems Conference kicks off in San Jose, and some of the early movers are Freescale with an LCD Coldfire microprocessor, Atmel with Linux OS support and Xilinx with an embedded development platform for 65nm Virtex-5 FPGAs.
Microcontroller suppliers crank up design support
The level of competition in the microcontroller market has never been higher. Suppliers are relying more than ever on the strength of the distribution channel to secure design wins in this key market sector.
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