A pick of the main stories crossing the ElectronicsWeekly.com News Index this week, from lighting OLEDs and the EC versus Qualcomm and Rambus, to Qualcomm investing in femtocell supplier ip.access and National Semiconductor publishing the metrics behind its 'PowerWise' brand of energy efficient chips...
Friday 23 May 2008
e-Shuttle 65nm logic IC service uses electron-beam direct write technique
The Fujitsu Microelectronics Ltd and Advantest Corp joint venture, e-Shuttle, says it is applying EBDW technology for 90nm structured ASICs for a fabless semiconductor company in the US.
Rumours link NXP and Infineon - reports
German newspapers, fed by an apparently leaky supervisory board at Infineon Technologies, are saying that Infineon and NXP are in 'intensive' talks about merging their operating businesses.
Lighting OLEDs are efficient and live long - UDC
New Jersey-based Universal Display reveals two white organic LED technologies for lighting at the Society for Information Display conference in Los Angeles.
Thursday 22 May 2008
EC versus Qualcomm, Rambus
The Director General for Competition at the EC, Philip Lowe, has laid down a marker to companies like Rambus, which have been accused of keeping quiet about patents during the standards-setting process in order to claim royalties on them when the patents' technology is incorporated into an industry standard.
Applied forms SunFab organisation
As part of a move to focus more of its efforts on its thin film technology for producing solar photovoltaic (PV) modules, semiconductor and PV manufacturing equipment giant Applied Materials said yesterday it has formed a new organisation within the company, named SunFab Operations.
Wednesday 21 May 2008
SEMI book-to-bill shows steep decline
The book-to-bill ratio for US manufacturers of semiconductor equipment hit 0.81 according to SEMI, the sector's trade body. So $81 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month. It shows the sector in steep decline.
Qualcomm invests in femtocell supplier ip.access
Qualcomm's investment in ip.access, the UK femtocell system supplier, follows a recent report that ip.access has won a massive order for femtocells from AT&T.
Tuesday 20 May 2008
Infineon to merge with NXP? Or Freescale?
The latest rumour to come out of the rumour-laden Infineon is that the supervisory board is discussing a merger with both NXP and Freescale.
ASM details atomically engineered single-metal gate stack
To allow 32nm generation high-k metal gate stacks using a single metal, instead of the two different metals required previously for CMOS, semiconductor manufacturing equipment maker ASM America, a subsidiary of Netherlands-based ASM International NV, has detailed its atomic layer deposition (ALD) process that implements lanthanum oxide (LaOx) and aluminium oxide (AlOx) high-k cap layers.
Chip firm to create design centre in Edinburgh
Dialog Semiconductor, the mixed-signal device firm is setting up a new audio IC design centre in Edinburgh. The move follows the award of a £1.3m grant by Scottish Enterprise.
Monday 19 May
LTE must motor to catch WiMax
LTE will have to get its skates on if it's not to let WiMax get established as a wireless broadband data service before it can get significantly deployed, now that Clearwire is saying it will start a limited WiMax service in the US this year.
National reveals power metrics
National Semiconductor has published the metrics behind its 'PowerWise' brand of energy efficient chips, allowing engineers to judge its claims against other manufacturers.
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