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- Intel to pay AMD $1.25B to end legal battle
Intel and AMD agree to end all outstanding legal disputes between the companies, including antitrust litigation and patent cross license disputes.The rivals also obtain patent rights from a new five-year cross license agreement.
- EC guilty of maladministration in Intel antitrust investigation
According to the European ombudsman, maladministration -- the act of administering or managing badly or inefficiently -- took place in the investigation when the Commission failed to make a proper note of a meeting with Dell.
- Microcontroller multiplexes DIP switches to I/O port
- New power-supply efficiency numbers herald a new era in power management
- MIIT proposes China ROHS catalog
- IBM aims to simulate brain's abilities with computer system
An IBM Research-led cognitive computing team claims advances in large-scale cortical simulation and a new algorithm that synthesizes neurological data, two major milestones that indicate the feasibility of building a cognitive computing chip.
- Power-converter IC targets dimmable LEDs, needs no optoisolator
- ROHS-like House bill travels a bumpy road
A US House of Representatives bill focused on the same six elements in the European Union’s ROHS directive is causing controversy in the electronics industry as it pits industry groups against each other.
- 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.
- PCB-layout techniques for gigasample ADCs
- Fader switch uses inexpensive controller
- “Not I,” said the rat: the tale of the Little Red Hen-gineer
- Visibility=vulnerability
- Healthcare reform gives health-monitoring electronics a new diagnosis
Recent efforts to reform healthcare could give remote monitoring devices a shot in the arm.
- Quad power-converter-control chip uses PMBus.
- Connect two buttons with just two wires
- USB 3.0: A simple idea full of challenges
- Online power-supply-design tool evaluates 48 billion designs
- High-speed pulse modulator retains signal envelope
- 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%.
- 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.
