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For sale: Qimonda's U.S. fab
Qimonda AG's North America unit announced the appointment of advisors to assist in the sale of their semiconductor manufacturing assets in Sandston, Virginia.
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Soitec plans to park workers, cut wages, stop bonuses
Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer and substrates supplier Soitec SA (Bernin, France) has announced that it is planning to cut its workforce by roughly 10 percent, although this could include transferring some workers to a local R&D initiative.
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Renesas pilots patent program
Renesas Technology Corp. is piloting a cross-functional program to align its work in patents with the company's R&D units and overall business goals and could generate dozens of new patents it could assert with potential competitors and partners.
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Design-for-e-beam startup raises $9 million in Series B
E-beam design-for-manufacturing startup Direct2Silicon Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) has announced that it has raised more than $9 million in its Series B round of financing.
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Continental expands R&D in China
Automotive tier one Continental AG has launched a Technology Center in Jading, China. There, the Hannover (Germany) based company plans to develop electronic and hydraulic brake systems, motor management systems and electronic controls for the Chinese automotive market.
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Japan's Elpida open to TMC buying 10% stake
Japan's biggest PC chipmaker,
Elpida Memory, said it was open to Taiwan's state-led
semiconductor firm taking a stake of about 10 percent, helping
boost chip shares for the second straight day on Thursday.
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Chip industry may have hit 'local bottom,' says VC
With chip inventories at record lows, the semiconductor industry may have it at least a "local bottom," according to venture capitalist Dave Epstein.
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Video: Engineers lack voice in patent debate
The current debate on patent reform is out of touch with the needs of working inventors, in part because engineers lack a strong voice in Washington D.C., said Steve Perlman, a serial entrepreneur and keynoter at the Intellectual Property Symposium.
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Advances in wireless, sensors, MEMs set to boost energy harvesting
A confluence of the development of wireless and lower power electronics, along with advancements in sensors and MEMS, is fundamentally changing today's energy harvesting market.
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Micron still in talks with Taiwan Memory
U.S. chipmaker Micron
Technology Inc. said it is still exploring a potential
role in a Taiwan-government funded memory chip company,
following the news that the technology of rival Elpida Memory
Inc of Japan was selected for the venture.
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EDA awards will honor early career, technical achievements
The IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation is seeking nominations for two awards honoring technical contributions within the electronic design automation industry.
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Intel gained MPU share in each quarter of '08
Intel in the fourth quarter of 2008 accounted for 81.8 percent of global microprocessor revenue, topping a year when it gained market share in microprocessors during every quarter, according to market research firm iSuppli.
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Taiwan DRAM venture picks Elpida as partner
Japan's Elpida Memory Inc. has been selected as a strategic technology partner of Taiwan Memory Co. (TMC).
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Infineon claims first SDR chipset for sky and ground
Infineon Technologies AG, has announced that a multi-standard mobile platform has been created based on Infineon-developed software-defined-radio technology. The SDR-enabled satellite-terrestrial handsets will operate with multiple cellular and satellite-based communications technologies including GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, HSDPA, HSUPA and GMR1-2G/3G.
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ACE Award winner Sanghi uneasy about U.S. economy
Even for Microchip Technology Inc., named 2009 "Company of the Year" during the EE Times ACE Awards, there is no magic formula to quickly lift the company out of the current recession.
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EVG, Leti partner to push TSV for 3-D integration
EV Group (St. Florian, Austria), a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, has entered a joint development program with CEA/Leti (Grenoble, France) on 3-D integration.
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Qimonda insolvency proceedings launched
At the Munich district court, the insolvency proceedings for DRAM maker officially have begun. The lights at the Campeon R&D campus and the production sites in Dresden however have not gone out completely — yet.
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E-books open new chapter for LCD makers
Ask C.T. Liu about future
growth engines for his company, LCD maker AU Optronics, and he
whips out his Kindle e-book in lieu of an answer.
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Latest news from ESC Silicon Valley
The tone for this year's Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley was set by former Apollo astronaut Ken Mattingly, who reminded a spellbound audience of the power of teamwork and selflessness.
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