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Patents: fixable, or the next weapons of financial destruction? 5/7/2009
A panel brought together three significant players in the US patent-law debate to discuss the future of the patent office, the current reform legislation in Congress, and the future of intellectual property. The discussion ranged from pessimism over short-term fixes to a dire warning about the arrival of the investment banks in the patent business.EDA revenues show unprecedented global decline 4/7/2009
Electronic Design Automation Consortium Chair and Mentor Graphics CEO Walden Rhines speaks exclusively with EDN on EDAC's Q4 and 2008 numbers, showing industry revenues down by almost 18% year over year for the final quarter. There were some bright spots in the numbers, however, including global employment in EDA and two industry categories that saw revenue rise during the year.EDN names winners of 19th Annual Innovation Awards 3/31/2009
EDN has bestowed its 19th Annual Innovation Awards, honoring a diverse group of electronics engineers and the ground-breaking products they have produced. The Altera Stratix IV 40-nm FPGA design team is named Innovator of the Year. Read on for a complete list of the winners.Voices: Magma Design Automation’s Rajeev Madhavan 2/3/2009
Rajeev Madhavan discusses the evolving EDA business, the state of the semiconductor industry, and the future of education.Xilinx FPGA introductions hint at new realities 2/2/2009
Xilinx announces its 40-/45-nm generation of FPGAs with the usual accoutrements of a major product launch, but also with several major departures from the Moore's-Law driven traditions of the FPGA industry. These departures say a great deal about the company's strategy, about the realities of electronics below 65 nm, and about the roles FPGAs will play in the future of the industry.iPhone's popularity helps boost MEMS market 12/29/2008
With demand for the iPhone spurring Apple's competitors to offer products with comparable MEMS-supported features, iSuppli estimates that by the end of 2008 10% of the 1.29 billion mobile devices shipped worldwide will include MEMS accelerometers, up from 2% at the end of 2007.Voices: Microchip’s Ganesh Moorthy 12/15/2008
Executive discusses support for embedded developers, general-purpose versus application-specific products, trends in embedded-processor integration, and software.Semi sales fell 2.4% in October, SIA reports 12/1/2008
Global semiconductor revenue fell 2.4% in October, topping out at $22.5 billion, compared with $23 billion in October 2007, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA, www.sia-online.org) in a report released today. Sales also dropped by 2.1% in comparison with September 2008.Voices: Avnet LightSpeed’s Cary Eskow: illuminating energy-efficient design 11/27/2008
Cary Eskow is director of LightSpeed, the solid-state-lighting- and LED (light-emitting-diode)-business unit of Avnet Electronics Marketing. A 28-year Avnet veteran, he leads Avnet’s national team of illumination-focused engineers experienced in thermal, drive-stage, and optics design and has worked closely with LED manufacturers, advanced analog IC,ST chief calls for retrenchment, green investment in face of financial crisis 11/12/2008
Electronica: Far from warning of doom, STMicroelectronics' CEO Carlo Bozotti outlines the company's strategy of increased fiscal conservatism, organic growth, and reliance on creativity to "withstand the crisis and to fight back against it with innovation."ADVERTISEMENT
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