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  • Intel muscles into smartphones, tablets

    Bolaji Ojo, EBN Editor in Chief, February 2, 2012
    ARM has maintained its leading position in such wireless markets, but Intel's latest design wins will most certainly break the dam wall.  More
  • Bullish Penn sees chip market growth of 8% in 2012

    Peter Clarke, EE Times, January 23, 2012
    This high single-digit percentage growth is a "safe bet," said Future Horizons' Malcom Penn who indicated that annual growth "could easily be 20%."  More
  • Teardown: The power inverter - from sunlight to power grid

    Steve Taranovich, Contributing Editor, January 13, 2012
    This teardown of a solar inverter card traces the path of harvested DC power from the photovoltaic panel, through boost conversion, power inverter and massive filtering of the created AC power signal required by the power grid. Surrounded by monitoring and microcontroller magic along with safety standard adherence, we uncover the mysteries of solar energy harvesting electronics.  More
  • Thai flood will affect supply chain in 2012

    Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, Online, January 5, 2012
    HDD (hard disk drive) shortages, forced by damages from the flood, will result in a 3.8 million-unit shortfall in PC shipments in the first quarter of 2012, IHS reports.  More
  • Sobering stats from the supply chain

    Barbara Jorgensen, EBN Community Editor, January 5, 2012
    In the wake of reports on the unemployment rate, the European Union’s debt management, and the skyrocketing tablet-computer market, companies in the electronics supply chain believe that the next few quarters will be tough.  More
  • Counterfeit components cost more than US dollars, SIA testifies

    Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, Online, December 1, 2011
    The more than $7.5 billion counterfeiting costs US-based semiconductor companies each year is not the biggest loss, according to recent Senate testimony by Brian Toohey, president of the SIA.  More
  • Solyndra: Its technology and why it failed

    Don Scansen, IP Research Group, November 21, 2011
    Marketing for Solyndra's unique tubular solar panel module design was at the top of the class, but was there more to this technology than just good PR?  More
  • IHS cuts 2011 semiconductor forecast

    By Dylan McGrath, EE Times, November 17, 2011
    Market research firm IHS iSuppli has cut its forecast for 2011 semiconductor sales, but said it still predicts slight growth for the year because of continued growth in the third quarter.  More
  • Gartner: Chip prices to stabilize in 2H12

    EE Times staff, November 17, 2011
    With an inventory correction well under way, semiconductor sales will remain tepid for the rest of the year before returning to sequential growth sometime in the second half of 2012, according to market research firm Gartner Inc.  More
  • Avnet's Harley Feldberg: embedded in the electronics supply chain

    Interview conducted and edited by Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, Online, November 17, 2011
    Avnet’s Harley Feldberg discusses serving the embedded design community as part of the overall electronics supply chain.  More

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