Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:03:00 EST

The Khronos Group, an industry consortium focused on developing multimedia standards and application programming interfaces (APIs), has announced the release of the OpenGL 4.0 specification; an update to a widely adopted 2-D and 3-D graphics API.



OpenGL - Khronos Group - Application programming interface - OpenGL 4.0 - Graphics

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:03:00 EST

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:32:00 EST

A marketing professional with an interest in wireless sensor networks suggests a couple of questions to be put to the panel due to take place at Embedded Systems Conference.



Embedded system - Wireless sensor network - Marketing - Wireless - Operating system

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:07:00 EST

An official statement from France's Ministry of Industry announced the end of balance-of-power between ST-Ericsson, the 50/50 joint venture between Ericsson and STMicroelectronics NV, and 114 employees at its site in Caen, in the French region of Normandy. An agreement was signed on March 11.



France - Caen - Ericsson - STMicroelectronics - Normandy

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:56:00 EST

Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corp. has teamed up with EDA company Transim Technology Corp. and NXP BV to launch the NXP Simport Design Center.



Digi-Key - Electronic component - Business - Electronics and Electrical - Wholesale and Distribution

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:47:00 EST

A postgraduate student from Newscastle in the northeast of England writes asking if there is room left for startups to make an impact in wireless sensor networks. If so, he asks that the industry to save a space for him while he finishes his PhD.



Doctor of Philosophy - Postgraduate education - Business - Telecommunications - England

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:28:00 EST

Nineteen semiconductor engineers and managers indicted for stealing process technology and market planning details from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and passing them to Hynix Semiconductor Inc. have all pleaded not guilty in court in Seoul, according to a Yonhap report.



Hynix - Samsung Group - Seoul - South Korea - Semiconductor

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:44:00 EST

Abu Dhabi backed foundry GlobalFoundries Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) is planning to spend $2.5 billion to increase its 300-mm wafer manufacturing capacity by 50 percent in 2010, according to Udo Nothelfer, company vice president and general manager of Fab 1 in Dresden, Germany.



Abu Dhabi - GlobalFoundries - Dresden - Middle East - United Arab Emirates

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:44:00 EST

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:59:00 EST

Don Macleod has risen through the ranks of National Semiconductor Corp. to take on the CEO role late last November and has become the man with a mission " growth in revenue.



National Semiconductor - Semiconductor - Business - Electronics and Electrical - Components

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:34:00 EST

National Semiconductor Corp. reported sales of $362 million in the quarter, up 5 percent from $345 million in the previous quarter and up 24 percent from $292 million reported in last year's third fiscal quarter.



National Semiconductor - Fiscal year - Business - Semiconductor - Electronics and Electrical

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:19:00 EST

Under a strategic supply agreement, Toshiba Corp. will order 32 megawatts of high-efficiency solar panels from SunPower Corp. in 2010.



SunPower - Toshiba - Energy - Renewable - Business

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:42:00 EST

Several hurdles still need to be overcome for the China PV market to reach its full potential according to IMS Research market report.



Economic growth - Business - Investing - Stocks and Bonds - Marketing and Advertising

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:36:00 EST

Serial entrepreneur George Janac had formed EDA company Parallel Engines Corp. with the claimed intention of merging semiconductor IP and EDA into a single set of tools. The company said it would deliver tools with bundled IP models.



Business - Consumer Goods and Services - Clothing - Manhattan - Dining room

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:49:00 EST

A prominent semiconductor capital equipment analyst said Canon's seventh attempt to penetrate the 193-nm lithography market has apparently failed and the company's "great white hope" rests on an undisclosed relationship with nano-imprint lithography vendor Molecular Imprints.



Canon - Semiconductor - Business - Lithography - Machine

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:30:00 EST

European Union's Silicon-Organic Hybrid Fabrication Platform for Integrated Circuits (SOFI) aims to bring photonics to silicon complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) chips with organic polymer filled silicon waveguides for carrying optical signals at up to 100-GHz.



Integrated circuit - Optics - European Union - CMOS - Business

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:06:00 EST

Fab tool giant Applied Materials Inc. has opened its expanded Tainan Manufacturing Center in Tainan, Taiwan.



Applied Materials - Taiwan - Business - Technology - Tainan Manufacturing Center

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:06:00 EST

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:52:00 EST

A new market research study by IMS Research reports that Q-Cells International was the largest PV system integrator in 2009 having gained significant market share.



Business - Market share - Research - Market Research - Marketing and Advertising

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:38:00 EST

At the Geneva Motor Show, Siemens is presenting new key components for electromobility including an integrated battery charging system and a dual-engine concept for electric sports cars.



GenevaMotorShow - Sports car - Internal combustion engine - Technology - Business

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:38:00 EST

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:15:00 EST

While skeptics argue that Jerald Fishman, Analog Devices Inc. president and CEO, faces big challenges in talking up his company's value to investors in a tough market, Fishman remains undaunted.



Analog Devices - Business - Integrated circuit - Semiconductors - Electronics and Electrical

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:06:00 EST

Chemical company BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and Li-Tec GmbH (Kamenz, Germany), have announced to join the eNOVA e-car strategy alliance. With the move, the group rounds up its expertise spectrum. BASF will contribute materials know-how while Li-Tec produces lithium ion batteries.



Germany - Lithium - Lithium-ion battery - Batteries - Business

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:51:00 EST

Redwood Systems launched what the company claims to be the first network-based technology for LED lighting and building performance systems.



Technology - Redwood Systems - Solid-state lighting - Lighting - Business

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:48:00 EST

No news announcement. No press release. Yet, Synopsys Inc. has acquired Gemini Design Automation (Fremont, Calif.), a start-up company focused on the challenges of verifying complex analog and mixed-signal designs.



Synopsys - Integrated circuit - Electronic design automation - Components - Technology

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:41:00 EST

Fairchild Semiconductor has developed a CCM PFC controller for 300W to 2kW power supply designs that bring high system efficiency, high power factor and low total harmonic distortion (THD).



Power supply - Power factor - Business - Electronics and Electrical - Power Supplies

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:26:00 EST

Fab 1 in Dresden, Germany, belonging to GlobalFoundries Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.), is starting work to help develop 22-nm CMOS process and will run the process in volume. It is not clear whether the 22-nm will include a departure from the gate-first high-K metal gate (HKMG) CMOS processes currently being brought up at 32- and 28-nanometers.



GlobalFoundries - Dresden - Germany - CMOS - Business

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:56:00 EST

Ralink Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan), a developer of wireless chips, has announced an agreement to take over the broadband chipset supplier TrendChip Technologies Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).



Hsinchu - Taiwan - Integrated circuit - Ralink - Ralink Technology

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:12:00 EST

Silicon Hive BV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) has introduced another manifestation of its parallel processing hardware acceleration technology called HiveLogic and announced it has licensed the platform to LSI Corp. (Milpitas, Calif.).



LSI Corporation - Silicon Hive - Business - Parallel processing - Milpitas California

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:12:00 EST