4G will not be bedeviled with the same kind of legal disputes which marred the roll-out of 3G, according to Michael Mamaghani, director of marketing at Qualcomm, speaking at the Globalpress Summit Conference in San Francisco.
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Canada’s No.1 semiconductor company to be formed in May
Canada's biggest semiconductor company will be created in May by the proposed merger of Gennum and Tundra, the Globalpress Summit Conference in San Francisco was told this morning.
ESC: Atmel offers custom ARM chips in 12 weeks
Atmel’s latest customisable ARM7 microcontroller is intended for rapid (12 week) turnaround designs. NRE charges are $75,000, and unit costs as low as $5, without requiring a separate license from ARM, said Atmel. The AT91CAP7L microcontroller has 200k gates of metal programmable cell fabric that can be used to implement proprietary customer IP, hardware accelerators, additional processor cores or other ...
UK laser maker wins VC investment
Sussex laser maker Powerlase has announced a "significant" investment from venture capitalists. Powerlase claims to make the world's most powerful nanosecond Q-switched diode-pumped solid state lasers,
CTO Of The USA
We haven’t heard much recently about the CTO of the USA, though it was a big talking point just before the US elections. Is this because the President’s choice was Steve Jobs?
Most Read in March – The Made By Monkeys popularity stakes
Here's a roundup of the most popular Made By Monkeys posts in in March - see what your peers are reading!
Luminary Micro Cortex-M3 dev kit supports SafeRTOS
SafeRTOS can be used as a general purpose, pre-emptive real-time operating system, and is particularly relevant to applications with high integrity, safety-critical requirements, such as medical and industrial applications
Point 35 adds oxide-release tool to its MEMS production portfolio
Livingston-based Point 35 Microstructures has introduced an oxide-release tool to its portfolio of MEMS production equipment, the SVR-vHF.
Cambridge chip firm wins $1m worth of MCU orders
The Cambridge-based fabless chip company will supply 50,000 automated meter modules incorporating its microcontrollers and networking software to a Chinese manufacturer
CV spam
CV-spam is increasingly cluttering my inbox. There are a handful of agencies that seem to think it is a good idea to send CV's to a contrived mailing list of inferred e-mail addresses.