Potato Semiconductor Corporation, represented by Cutter Electronics, has introduced their next generation Bus Switch products.
SigmaTel has introduced a complete processor solution for the portable navigation GPS market, enabling lower system costs for portable navigation devices (PNDs).
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Polyset have developed an inexpensive, quick-drying polymer that promises to cut costs for current IC-packaging processes by simplifying the construction of redistribution layers.
Over the last decade the number of portable electronic equipment available to consumers has experienced a dramatic increase. The fuel behind this trend has been the high adoption of wireless (cellular) phones and the commercialisation of new technologies, like MP3, MPEG4, GPS and Mobile TV.
austriamicrosystems and New Scale Technologies, Inc. announced the completion of a Series B preferred equity transaction. austriamicrosystems has made a US$6 million investment in exchange for a 25% minority share in privately-held New Scale of Victor, NY.
International Rectifier introduced the SupIRBuck family of versatile wide input, single output synchronous buck voltage regulators for high density, high performance data centre and consumer applications.
After what many analysts agreed was a brutal series of months for the DRAM market, industry research firms are now reporting a restoration of "cautious optimism" that the second half of 2007 will bring better results to the memory suppliers.
Nokia and STMicroelectronics announced their intention to deepen their collaboration on the licensing and supply of integrated circuit designs and modem technologies for 3G and its evolution. The two companies also are negotiating a plan relating to transferring a part of Nokia’s Integrated Circuit
The first half of the year has brought a serious shake-up to the semiconductor supplier market, analysts said. According to preliminary results released from market research firm IC Insights, there was a good deal of movement up and down the firm's ranking of the top-20 semiconductor suppliers
According to market research firm IC Insights tracking the worldwide integrated circuit (IC) industry, American IC suppliers currently are responsible for about half of the worldwide market's IC sales—but Asia-Pacific companies are quickly closing in with year after year of increasingly