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Category: Semiconductor

Semiconductor/IC

  • AMD Pulls the Plug on SeaMicro

    One-third of a billion dollars doesn’t go as far as it used to. AMD acquired SeaMicro in 2012 for $334 million, hoping to jump into…

  • Optimizing at the Cellphone Antenna

    So you run across an announcement from Imec that they’ve presented a circuit at ISSCC that involves tuning to match changing antenna impedances in cell…

  • Intel Altera Deal Off?

    Multiple financial news sources are reporting today that talks between Intel and Altera have ended. According to multiple sources, Altera declined Intel’s offer and the…

  • Intel Buying Altera? We Totally Called It.

    Rumors abound today that Intel is in negotiations to buy Altera – a deal that could be worth over ten billion. If so, it would…

  • Multicore Microcontrollers for IoT and audio

    XMOS has, from its base in Bristol, England, been quietly building up its business of creating a new force in the embedded market. The company…

  • Freescale Acquired by NXP

    Did not see that coming. American chipmaker Freescale will be acquired by Dutch rival NXP in a cash and stock deal worth about $11.8 billion.…

  • One Trillion Chips by 2017

    One trillion. 1,000 billion. That’s a big number. But that’s how many semiconductor devices we’re on track to produce and ship in 2017. This according…

  • What Does a 5nm Transistor Look Like? I

    Synopsys and Imec recently announced that they’d be collaborating on TCAD activities for the 5nm node. Yup. 5nm. You can count ‘em on one hand.…

  • TRAM and PCM at IEDM

    Last December’s IEDM conference included a couple of sessions on non-volatile memory of the phase-change type. The most familiar of these is PCM – phase-change…

  • Is Someone Tampering with Your IoT?

    The stronger the hype, the likelier it will be accompanied by a “yesbut.” A yesbut is that nagging question that needs to be asked in…