In a major departure, South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is reportedly exploring an alternative in high-k dielectrics: It is looking at gate-last technology, according to sources.

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 16:58:00 EST

Business is looking up in the IC industry, based on a sampling of announcements in several sectors.

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:44:00 EST

SiBeam Inc. has announced the closing of $36.5 million in Series D funding led by Foundation Capital.

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:19:00 EST

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:19:00 EST

Targeted at Bluetooth, 802.15.4/ZigBee and other 2.4 GHz applications, California Eastern Laboratories is now shipping its new µPG2251T6M GaAs power amplifier (PA), which eliminates the need for RF component matching.

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:20:00 EST

ACCES I/O Products announced the latest addition to its line of small form factor USB-based data acquisition and control I/O modules—the USB-AO Series, which consists of 12 and 16-bit USB modules.

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:46:00 EST

IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) said it is using Synopsys' TCAD simulation tools for characterizing and optimizing the reliability and electrical performance of through-silicon vias (TSVs).

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:39:00 EST

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:39:00 EST

Alchimer SA (Massy, France), a provider of wet deposition processes for semiconductor interconnects and 3-D through-silicon vias (TSV), has opened a 300mm applications and development facility in Seoul, South Korea.

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 05:48:00 EST

FPGA verification and debug software vendor GateRocket Inc. announced veteran EDA investor Jim Hogan has joined its advisory board.

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 04:46:00 EST

Texas Instruments narrowed its outlook for the first quarter, saying it now expects to report sales of between $3.07 billion and $3.19 billion.

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 18:08:00 EST

Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Investment Co. (ATIC) plans to boost its stake in GlobalFoundries Inc. from about 68 percent to 70 percent.

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:22:00 EST

Carbon Design Systems (Acton, Mass.) has released virtual models for ARM Mali Graphic Processor Units (GPUs).

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:41:00 EST

Analog Devices Inc. has announced today the availability of an RF transceiver targeting short-range wireless systems in the 2.4-GHz ISM band.

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:27:00 EST

Broadcom Corp. (Irvine Calif.) has made an investment in multicore processor developer Tilera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:50:00 EST

Hermann Hauser, a partner at Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd. (Cambridge, England), is expected to recommend that the U.K. government help establish three technology centers costing £300 million (about $450 million) over the next five to ten years, according to a Financial Times report.

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 07:34:00 EST

Lantiq Deutschland GmbH, the wireline chip spin-off from Infineon Technologies AG, has filed suit in the German District Court of Dusseldorf against Billion Electric Co. Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan) alleging patent infringement.

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 06:23:00 EST

IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) and Altos Design Automation Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) have joined forces to provide offer re-characterization of standard foundry or library vendor libraries including core and IO cells at different process, temperatures and/or voltages.

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 05:13:00 EST

A reader asks "What is the overall blueprint for sensor networks?"

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 04:55:00 EST

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 04:55:00 EST

WiSpry Inc. (Irvine, Calif.), a provider of tunable radio frequency semiconductor products for the wireless industry, has announced that its U.S. patent application for MEMS variable capacitors and actuation components, and related methods has been granted.

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 04:20:00 EST

Landshut Silicon Foundry GmbH (LFoundry) has selected ChipStart LLC (Palo Alto, Calif) for foundry services representation. The addition of LFoundry services enables ChipStart to supply both design and manufacturing supply chain components.

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 04:11:00 EST

Blue Wonder Communications GmbH (Dresden, Germany) has launched what it claims is the world's first embeddable LTE modem core.

Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:07:00 EST

Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:07:00 EST

Here are the top five online stories for the week beginning Sunday, Feb. 28, as ranked by EE Times readers, up to and including Friday, March 5. The ranking is based on the number of reader "views" or "hits" on a particular article.

Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:59:00 EST

High-level synthesis EDA vendor Forte Design Systems has started to ship the latest version of its CellMath Designer datapath synthesis and CellMath IP software.

Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 04:27:00 EST

The latest version of the High-Definition Multimedia Interface was released. As promised, it adds mandatory 3-D formats for broadcast content.

Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 01:31:00 EST

EDA vendor Mentor Graphics reported better-than-expected revenue and income for the quarter ended Jan. 31, but the company's revenue guidance for the current quarter came in below analysts' expectations.

Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 20:28:00 EST

Quantenna Communications Inc., a developer of silicon for wireless networking that delivers guaranteed bandwidth, has raised $15 million in a Series D round of financing from its current investors Grazia Equity, Sequoia Capital, Sigma Partners, Southern Cross, Swisscom, and Venrock Associates.

Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 16:26:00 EST

Apple plans to build at least 5 million units of its forthcoming iPad tablet in the first half of 2010, according to an analyst, who cited production checks.

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:35:00 EST

Hewlett-Packard debuted an advertisement for its own tablet computer platform, slate, one day after Apple choose the Academy Awards broadcast as the place to air the first advertisement for its much-anticipated iPad tablet.

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:26:00 EST

IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) said it is using Synopsys' TCAD simulation tools for characterizing and optimizing the reliability and electrical performance of through-silicon vias (TSVs).

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:39:00 EST

FPGA verification and debug software vendor GateRocket Inc. announced veteran EDA investor Jim Hogan has joined its advisory board.

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 04:46:00 EST

Systems and semiconductor companies have a handful of opportunities for growth in mobile data networks despite the fact most carriers will keep a lid on capital equipment spending over the next two years, according to analysts from Barclays Capital.

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 12:16:00 EST

Worldwide semiconductor capital equipment spending is projected to surpass $29.4 billion in 2010, a 76.1 percent increase from 2009 spending of $16.7 billion, according to market research company Gartner Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 11:46:00 EST

Carbon Design Systems (Acton, Mass.) has released virtual models for ARM Mali Graphic Processor Units (GPUs).

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:41:00 EST

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:41:00 EST

Analog Devices Inc. has announced today the availability of an RF transceiver targeting short-range wireless systems in the 2.4-GHz ISM band.

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:27:00 EST

Broadcom Corp. (Irvine Calif.) has made an investment in multicore processor developer Tilera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:50:00 EST

Hermann Hauser, a partner at Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd. (Cambridge, England), is expected to recommend that the U.K. government help establish three technology centers costing £300 million (about $450 million) over the next five to ten years, according to a Financial Times report.

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 07:34:00 EST

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 07:34:00 EST

Lantiq Deutschland GmbH, the wireline chip spin-off from Infineon Technologies AG, has filed suit in the German District Court of Dusseldorf against Billion Electric Co. Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan) alleging patent infringement.

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 06:23:00 EST

Processor intellectual property licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) has announced the availability of phase one of the AMBA-4 specification for on-chip communication.

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 05:46:00 EST

IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) and Altos Design Automation Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) have joined forces to provide offer re-characterization of standard foundry or library vendor libraries including core and IO cells at different process, temperatures and/or voltages.

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 05:13:00 EST

A reader asks "What is the overall blueprint for sensor networks?"

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 04:55:00 EST

WiSpry Inc. (Irvine, Calif.), a provider of tunable radio frequency semiconductor products for the wireless industry, has announced that its U.S. patent application for MEMS variable capacitors and actuation components, and related methods has been granted.

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 04:20:00 EST

Baolab Microsystems SL (Barcelona, Spain) is a startup company pioneering the creation of microelectromechancial systems (MEMS) within the back-end-of-line structure of CMOS wafers.

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 04:11:00 EST

E-paper poses a green alternative to dead-tree newsprint, but only if the traditional newspaper market can be cracked.

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:01:00 EST

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:01:00 EST

Until a few weeks ago, the biggest worry for E Ink, maker of the Vizplex technology used in Amazon's Kindle and a host of other e-book readers, was the two dozen or so e-paper competitors looking to loosen its grip on the market.

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:01:00 EST

Users of LCD-equipped devices have favored fast colors over the better readability and longer battery life achieved with reflective (non-backlit) displays.

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:01:00 EST

At UBM TechInsights we are often tasked with proving patent infringement of a software algorithm as part of our IP Management Services. Our example algorithm is based on the ARM architecture.

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:01:00 EST

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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:01:00 EST

Standing close to the launchpad-say, 2.5 miles away at the NASA Press Center here-you're aware of your trouser legs flapping against your shins seconds after the space shuttle blasts off.

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:01:00 EST

Blue Wonder Communications GmbH (Dresden, Germany) has launched what it claims is the world's first embeddable LTE modem core.

Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:07:00 EST

Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:07:00 EST

France has seen different forms of social discontent in the past week: Two bossnappings at Siemens Lyon, the occupation of premises at ST-Ericsson Caen and a letter to the press at Wipro-NewLogic Sophia Antipolis.

Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:52:00 EST

Here are the top five online stories for the week beginning Sunday, Feb. 28, as ranked by EE Times readers, up to and including Friday, March 5. The ranking is based on the number of reader "views" or "hits" on a particular article.

Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:59:00 EST

The launch of Apple's iPad will pave the way for a slew of rival products this year, an Arm executive said Wednesday, predicting over 50 tablet PC devices will be launched globally.

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:23:00 GMT

Procter & Gamble Co. is letting several hundred of its employees use their own laptops at work as part of an experiment -- one of numerous efforts by companies trying to keep workers happy.

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:21:00 GMT

Twitter launched a new link-screening service on Tuesday aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service.

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:09:00 GMT

In another move to work its way into the enterprise, Google has unveiled an online store where users can buy cloud-based applications designed to work with Googles own apps.

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:00:00 GMT

Don't expect Jonathan Schwartz to go quietly.

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:06:00 GMT

Some BlackBerry users are complaining of an inability to use data services for the second day in a row.

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:11:00 GMT

Imagine my horror the other day when I saw an otherwise sharp friend of mine shut down his laptop by holding down the power button until the system turned off. Why is that a really bad idea? I'll explain this week--and I'll also tell you about a Web service that could very well save your life.

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:11:00 GMT

The Association for Computing Machinery has awarded the 2009 A.M. Turing Award to Charles P. Thacker, for his work in pioneering the networked personal computer.

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:05:00 GMT

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will propose a National Digital Literacy Corps to help U.S. residents get online as part of a national broadband plan due out next week.

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:59:00 GMT

LifeLock, an Arizona company promising customers protection from identity theft, has agreed to pay $12 million to settle charges that the company overstated its benefits and used "scare tactics" to gain subscribers.

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:57:00 GMT

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Steve Jobs personally threatened to sue Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz says. Sun warded off that and a Microsoft threat with its own patent portfolio.

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:25:00 PST

Cyclists will be able to use Google Maps to plot directions around 150 U.S. cities when bike directions go live on Google later on Tuesday.

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:00:00 PST

The troubled actress is suing E-Trade, claiming that it mocked her in one of its cute baby ads. She is asking for $100 million.

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:21:00 PST

The Unreal Engine 3 is on its way to the iPhone, though creators Epic Games have had to make some compromises to get there.

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:26:11 PST

Software developers can cater to Google Apps customers through a new application store announced at Google's Campfire One event in Mountain View.

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:15:00 PST

Harmonix and MTV Games are getting the band back together, with Electronic Arts handling distribution once more.

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:52:00 PST

A new restaurant guide has a section specifically dedicated to the difficult area of online dating. Its author believes only certain very specific places are suitable for an online date.

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:27:00 PST

One of the most imposing (and wealthiest) bands of all time sues EMI over online royalties. EMI is reportedly arguing that an album-unbundling ban applies only to physical products.

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:59:00 PST

Apple's fourth-generation iPhone will most likely arrive in June. Here's a look at some of the feature and design upgrades we'd most like to see, including the odds of their implementation.

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:42:00 PST

One in two lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender youth report being cyberbullied about their sexual identities, according to a new Iowa State survey of 444 youths.

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:40:42 PST

Security firm McAfee is warning consumers to beware of 'scareware' programs that appear to be antivirus software but are actually scams that can steal data and infect your computer.

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:36:36 PST

Sony's PlayStation 3 has suffered from poor sales over the past few years. But the console is making a resurgence and at least one analyst firm believes it will triumph.

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:30:00 PST

Apple-owned company on Tuesday releases next major version of its database product, FileMaker Pro 11.

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:13:37 PST

But will consumers be willing to download and install yet another media player to play ScatterTunes' V-Albums?

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:32:42 PST

Members of Congress announce the Global Internet Freedom Caucus and a bill to spend federal dollars on research to "defeat Internet suppression and censorship."

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:15:00 PST

Ngmoco's Eliminate was one of the first games to offer 3G multiplayer on the iPhone. But how did they do it?

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:04:00 PST

If you own a Kindle, you also own a mobile Web browser. But chances are you never use it. That may be about to change.

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:00:00 PST

After all the hype, the TiVo Premiere was greeted by disappointment by many gadget fans. But is there more to the story?

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:49:00 PST

HTC mobile device running Android was distributed by Vodafone with a botnet program on it, as well as Conficker and a password-stealing Trojan, Panda Labs says.

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:40:00 PST

Cisco finally makes its big announcement--and it's a router. Plus, Sony 3DTVs are on the way, and is the Drudge Report spreading malware?

Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:09:00 PST