Citing the fab-tool downturn, Lam Research Corp. plans to reduce its headcount by 600 jobs, or approximately 15 percent of the company's total workforce.

Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:37:00 EST

German memory supplier Qimonda AG has asked the U.S. International Trade Commisision to investigate accusations of patent infringement by LSI and Seagate Technology, according to a Reuters report.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:41:00 EST

Novellus Systems lowered guidance for the fourth quarter, saying it now expects revenue to be in the range of $207 million to $217 million. The company had earlier forecast revenue of between $230 million and $243 million.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:05:00 EST

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:05:00 EST

Chip equipment supplier Aviza Technology reported fiscal fourth quarter sales of $35.5 million, up from $33.5 million in the fiscal third quarter but down from $50.2 million in the same period of 2007.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:43:00 EST

Dell, the world's No. 2 PC maker, posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit as cost cuts offset lower revenue, sending its shares up about 6 percent.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:08:14 EST

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:08:14 EST

Market watcher iSuppli Corp. has slashed its 2009 forecast for growth in PC unit shipments by nearly two thirds in another sign of the expected impact of the economic downturn.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:20:00 EST

Market research firm iSuppli has cuts its forecast for 2009 PC shipment growth by nearly two-thirds, citing rapidly deteriorating conditions in the global economy and financial system.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:17:00 EST

The merger of ultrawideband chip startups Staccato and Artimi shows a way forward for others in what one executive recently called a venture capital winter by combining companies and their investors to shelter investments and give new technologies time to gain traction.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:44:00 EST

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:44:00 EST

Ethernet will not dominate multi-gigabit networks to the extent it has dominated sub-gigabit networks, according to an upcoming report on 40 and 100 Gbit networks from Freesky Research.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:25:00 EST

Ambric going under is bad news on a number of levels. What's next, I wonder?

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:57:00 EST

an ultra-low power alternative to charge that uses lasers to encode data as excitons inside insulators has been proposed by theorists at Johns Hopkins University.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:25:00 EST

China's Suntech Power Holdings Co., the world's largest solar module maker, reported lower-than-expected quarterly profit and cut its full-year sales forecast because of the weak global economy, sending its shares tumbling by more than 30 percent to an all-time low.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:08:40 EST

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:08:40 EST

So far, most of the bad news--and layoffs--in the fab-tool sector are taking place in the United States.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:04:00 EST

Amidst gloomy predictions for the semiconductor industry, Wacker Chemie (Munich, Germany) has started a new production reactor for polysilicon. The material can be used for chip manufacturing as well as for photovoltaics. There is no decrease in demand, the company said.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:51:00 EST

The ARM IP Portfolio Program has been introduced for companies providing custom ASIC design services and provides access to a range of ARM IP and an opportunity for closer cooperation on new business opportunities.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:49:00 EST

Intevac Inc. has announced a cost-cutting plan that includes reducing its workforce by over 15 percent worldwide.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:33:00 EST

Ultrawideband and Wireless USB chip and software specialists Artimi (Cambridge, England) and Staccato Communications (San Diego, Calif.) have merged, with the new entity also closing a $20 million round of equity financing.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:47:00 EST

Developer and manufacturer of light-emitting polymer microdisplays, Microemissive Displays Group plc (Edinburgh, Scotland), plans to appoint administrators following unsuccessful attempts to raise further funds.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:43:00 EST

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:43:00 EST

General Motors has declined the takeover offer for its Opel subsidiary from photovoltaic systems vendor Solarworld (Bonn, Germany). Opel is not for sale, the company said.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:24:00 EST

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:24:00 EST

In a grim update on immediate prospects, NXP Semiconductors said it is forecasting a 15 to 25 percent sequential decline in sales for the fourth quarter of 2008, blaming the weakening macroeconomic conditions and a deteriorating sales environment.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:05:00 EST

Synopsys introduced a new modeling technology said to reduce digital cell library file size by up to 75 percent while improving application tool runtime and capacity.

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:00:00 EST

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:00:00 EST

Micrel and Zilog said they will collaborate to develop subsystem-level module products targeted at motion sensor, television remote and RF point-to-point cable replacement markets.

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:42:00 EST

Prosecutors have charged Jing Hua Wu with three counts of murder in the fatal shootings at chip startup SiPort Inc.

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:53:00 EST

Researchers at the University of Illinois have detailed their agenda for defining the parallel programming capabilities needed for tomorrow's multicore processors in a white paper that provided one of the most specific plans to date for a next-generation multicore CPU they plan to build in tandem with new parallel programming tools.

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:02:00 EST

Fed up with ugly routers and clunky hard drives, a growing number of consumers are looking for well-designed gadgets that complement decor instead of cluttering desktops and clashing with furniture.

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:05:25 EST

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:05:25 EST

German memory supplier Qimonda AG has asked the U.S. International Trade Commisision to investigate accusations of patent infringement by LSI and Seagate Technology, according to a Reuters report.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:41:00 EST

Chip equipment supplier Aviza Technology reported fiscal fourth quarter sales of $35.5 million, up from $33.5 million in the fiscal third quarter but down from $50.2 million in the same period of 2007.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:43:00 EST

The ARM IP Portfolio Program has been introduced for companies providing custom ASIC design services and provides access to a range of ARM IP and an opportunity for closer cooperation on new business opportunities.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:49:00 EST

The ARM IP Portfolio Program has been introduced for companies providing custom ASIC design services and provides access to a range of ARM IP and an opportunity for closer cooperation on new business opportunities.

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:49:00 EST

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:49:00 EST

Synopsys introduced a new modeling technology said to reduce digital cell library file size by up to 75 percent while improving application tool runtime and capacity.

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:00:00 EST

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:00:00 EST

Micrel and Zilog said they will collaborate to develop subsystem-level module products targeted at motion sensor, television remote and RF point-to-point cable replacement markets.

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:42:00 EST

Researchers at the University of Illinois have detailed their agenda for defining the parallel programming capabilities needed for tomorrow's multicore processors in a white paper that provided one of the most specific plans to date for a next-generation multicore CPU they plan to build in tandem with new parallel programming tools.

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:02:00 EST

Fed up with ugly routers and clunky hard drives, a growing number of consumers are looking for well-designed gadgets that complement decor instead of cluttering desktops and clashing with furniture.

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:05:25 EST

EDA vendor Mentor Graphics reported a fiscal third quarter GAAP net loss 6 percent wider than expected as recently as last week, when the company slashed its guidance for the period.

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:49:00 EST

ARC International has started licensing to consumer OEMs and chip designers its Virtual Bass audio enrichment software technology, which is optimized for the ARC Sound Subsystem as well as x-86 hardware platforms.

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:05:00 EST

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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:05:00 EST

There than more than 550 fabless semiconductor companies competing in China today, but at least 100 of them will disappear within two years, according to market research firm iSuppli.

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:27:00 EST

Qualcomm has made available a software development kit for the company's Brew Mobile Platform, a mobile operating system platform that supports handsets and mobile devices across 3G technologies.

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:46:00 EST

There's no doubt the first phone to use the Google Android mobile software is open in new and important ways, but the T-Mobile G1 handset also reminds me of how Microsoft bundled its applications and browser with Windows to leverage its dominance in one market to get a leg up in another one.

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:21:00 EST

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:21:00 EST

As part of the 'Analog Profiles' series in which we dig a little deeper into the backgrounds of the people shaping the analog sector, ADLE interviews John Nisbet, a principal design engineer at SiGe Semiconductor.

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:12:00 EST

Agilent announced a solution to help wireless-systems designers and verification engineers speed development of evolving TDD-LTE designs.

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:36:00 EST

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:36:00 EST

DDC-I is offering a couple of real-time operating systems that address safety-critical applications.

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:07:00 EST

A federal judge found Qualcomm in contempt of an injunction entered last December that was designed to prevent the company from infringement of two patents, according to Broadcom.

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:10:00 EST

ON Semiconductor and Microchip Technology have abandoned their joint bid to acquire Atmel.

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:58:00 EST

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:58:00 EST

Cadence Design Systems said it would make available Open Verification Methodology verification IP for USB 3.0 and PCI Express 3.0 during the first quarter of 2009.

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:44:00 EST

Texas Instruments has started working with Fulton Innovation to accelerate the latter's development of wireless power solutions that can charge portable devices without traditional power cords.

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:21:00 EST

Liquavista BV, a spin-off from Philips Research Labs, which has started manufacturing an electrowetting display, is looking to raise 15 million euro (about $19 million) in a Series C investment round.

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:32:00 EST

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:32:00 EST

Moving content to the edge of the network, close to subscribers, optimizes transport costs, ensures a scalable quality of experience and creates new value on which to build new business models.

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:01:00 EST

We pitted five smartphones against each other to test their download speeds and get a feel for the user experience with movies, TV shows and audio CDs. For the second consecutive year, the BlackBerry Bold took the gold.

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:01:00 EST

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:01:00 EST

"Portable" and "audio" have been synonymous since the first transistor radio became commercially available in the 1950s.

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:01:00 EST

The world officially has a second petaflop-class computer, the Jaguar system at U.S. Oak Ridge National Laboratory hit Linpack performance of 1.059 petaflops using a Cray XT5 system in the latest rankings of the world's fastest supercomputers.

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:01:00 EST

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