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- PC MPU unit shipments jump 23% in Q3
IDC reports that mobile PC microprocessors lead the growth, increasing 35.7% quarter over quarter in Q3. But, because of lower average selling prices on such MPUs, revenue grew at a lesser 14.1%.
- Cree plans LED facility in China
The 592,000-square-foot facility in Huizhou will be Cree’s first chip-production facility outside of North America and is targeted to also house future components manufacturing expansion.
- Intel faces New York antitrust lawsuit
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Intel alleging that the MPU maker bribed and coerced PC OEMs, violating state and federal antimonopoly laws by engaging in a campaign of illegal conduct to maintain its t
- Keep it simple, stupid, and kiss problems goodbye
- Low cost manufacturing in North America: An alternative to Asia
Opinion: In comparison to China, Mexico has emerged as a “best cost country” for products destined for the United States and global markets. The reasons are relatively straight forward.
- Keep on truckin’
- Leveling the playing field for small hardware start-ups
- Manufacturing trending away from China
The challenges of manufacturing in China and the still recovering global economy cause electronics supply chain jitters among OEMs and encourage second looks at the shift to outsource and the potential benefits of keeping manufacturing closer to home.
- A design sign of the times: Distributors boost technical support offerings
Even with an improving economy, the pressure to do more with less continues to transform the electronics design chain. Distributors are answering that call, providing one-stop shops for a variety of components, technologies, and training opportunitie
- Class B amplifier has automatic bias
- Recognizing gestures
- Cable tester uses LEDs to find faults
- Intel, Numonyx to describe stackable phase-change memory array
- Expert advice: How do you protect your idea and still attract investors?
A reader asks how he can protect his idea from improper disclosure but still gain an audience with jaded individuals and institutions that hold the purse strings. Our IP expert, M. Henry Heines with Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP responds.
- Transformational change: the revolution to come in electronics design
- Nonvolatile standby/on switch remembers its state
- Take a risk; throw away those bits!
- Why teach science?
- Debugging FPGA designs may be harder than you expect
- Dual-coil relay driver uses only two MOSFETs
- Electronics supply chain, heal thyself: How industry leaders inadvertently enable the counterfeit parts market
GUEST OPINION: Though they bear the brunt of the pain of counterfeit electronic components in the supply chain, industry leaders regularly engage in activity that not only exposes them to the risk of getting stung, but enables the counterfeiters to thrive
- Tech industry challanges e-cycling programs
The high-tech industry is starting to fight back against what it calls onerous e-waste recycling bills. Recycling advocates suspect such lawsuits are opening salvo in a bigger battle against state e-waste laws.
- E Ink, Freescale enter IP agreement for eBook silicon
- Astable multivibrator gets hysteresis from positive-feedback stage
- Using the HID class eases the job of writing USB device
drivers
- Deep packet inspection optimizes mobile applications
- Surprising demand for DDR2 modules rattles market, Converge repor
Converge also reports on a Customs, Trade, and Commerce meeting on counterfeiting of semiconductor products in its Market Insights electronics supply chain report.
- High-voltage amplifier uses simplified circuit
- High hot/cold factor boosts HB-LED efficacy
- Intel reports 'blowout' Q3 financials, Q4 guidance
Intel Q3 sales of $9.4 billion bested Street and company expectations. Industry watchers applaud the company and its Q4 revenue guidance of $10.1 billion, which would show a 23% year-over-year increase and would place sales back at levels achieved before
- Thermal design guidelines for solid-state lighting applications using LEDs
- PC shipments back on the rise
Two market research companies report Q3 gains in PC shipments, a welcomed sign of continuing recovery in the electronics market for the semiconductor industry.
- Three indicted for counterfeit IC sales to US Navy
Counterfeit ICs falsely bearing markings from the likes of Intel, ADI, and National Semiconductor were allegedly brought into the United States and sold by three family members in California, according to a US Attorney’s Office indictment.
- Circuit adds foldback-current protection
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- IBM claims chemical structure images of a molecule
According to IBM, the results of its research push the exploration of using molecules and atoms at the smallest scale and could greatly impact the field of nanotechnology.
- Hands-on review: Analyzers reveal digital secrets
- A designer's guide to op-amp gain error
- Robots, jobs, and war
- Inexpensive self-resetting circuit breaker requires few parts
- Halla to retire from National Semi
Company veteran Don Macleod will take over for Halla in November, becoming president and CEO. Halla then plans to retire from National's board at the end of the company's fiscal year in May, the 14th anniversary of his joining the company.
- Openness and cooperation create healthy EDA ecosystem
- Keep your hands off my Internet content
- IP quality lies beyond compliance testing
- AMD names ex-Qimonda exec CFO
Thomas Seifert is appointed as CFO of AMD, filling a spot left vacant by Robert Rivet's promotion.
- U.S., Indian Universities Team to Improve Engineering Education
- Workshop Addresses LED Challenges
- High-performance adder uses instrumentation amplifiers
- Circuit forms dc-motor switch with brake
- AMD stock shows small signs of a Wall Street rebound
After hitting a 52-week low last month, AMD's stock is beginning the show signs of strength; Wall Street is showing some optimism for the company's latest GPU debut and anticipation of its upcoming quad-core release.
