Intel expects the first 450mm pilot line to produce wafers in 2015, Leonard Hobbs, head of research at Intel Ireland, told the ISS-SEMI conference in Grenoble this afternoon. Hobbs said...

IC Insights expects the semiconductor market to grow ten per cent this year and does not expect any downturn until 2013. Future Horizons expects 9% growth but adds, it could be more. “Most people expect single digit growth but we’re forecasting double digit growth,” Bill McClean, CEO of IC Insights, told the ISS-SEMI conference in Grenoble this afternoon. “We’re forecasting ...

Two of the most important processor brands in the embedded computing market are Intel and ARM. Is there room for a third? Well, AMD certainly thinks so with its Fusion architecture being designed in to ETX and XTX COM systems. Congatec believes the introduction of ETX and XTX modules based on AMD Fusion processors gives these embedded computing form factors ...

Customer impatience is one of the key reasons for maintaining an in-house semiconductor manufacturing capability, Carlo Bozotti, CEO of STMicroelectronics told the ISS-SEMI meeting in Grenoble this morning. “Customers want to get to market quickly,” said Bozotti, adding that having fab allows ST to develop world-leading derivative CMOS technologies at Crolles which deliver higher margins for ST’s silicon. Bozotti also ...

Energy Micro is making its EFM32 Gecko and Tiny Gecko product lines available in the small form factor QFP48 package. The 48-pin package has a footprint of 7mm

Nujira and Xilinx have created a reference design for a cellular basestation power amplifier (PA) circuit with Nujira’s envelope tracking modulator linearised b

Guest columnist Mike Woodward, communications industry marketing manager at The MathWorks, describes how digital and analogue circuit simulation techniques can be combined at the system level.  Design tools are often targeted at a single design domain, for example analogue design, and don’t work well with tools for other design domains. This makes interaction between engineering teams more difficult than it ...

The dark side of the English psyche was exposed by the country’s treatment of Alan Turing.

Several successful companies, including ARM, Element 14 and Virata, spun out of Acorn Computers which developed the BBC Micro in the 1970s.

Part of Dr Alan Turing’s archive has been bought for the Bletchley Park Trust and its Museum. “Almost nothing tangible remains of genius code breaker. The Trust is today delighted to announce that the collection has been saved for the nation as the National Heritage Memorial Fund [NHMF] has stepped in to provide £213,437, the final piece of funding required,” ...