In 1981, when Siemens Semiconductor brought out its 64K DRAM, it was four years behind the Americans – then the best makers of memory in the world.

IMEC is acknowledging that EUV is less likely to be the semiconductor industry's lithographic tool for 32nm, than the alternative technique of immersion and double patterning

Electronics Weekly puts its questions to industry figures: Mark McClear, a director at Cree's solid state lighting business, and Ulrich Kastner-Jung, a director at Osram Opto Semiconductors

Fibre optic chip designer Nanotech Semiconductor is planning a third round of fund raising to take it into the consumer and mobile phone market for its glass and fibre optic amplifiers. “We have developed new techniques to increase the sensitivity by 4dB on top of the 2dB increase we achieved last year, and the ramifications of that are huge across the ...

Nereis is a multi-surface robot from the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) in Greece.

Europe’s share of worldwide chip markets has fallen below the level which, in 1983, triggered the thinking behind the Megaproject which, followed by JESSI and MEDEA, allowed Europe to catch up with the US and Japan in chip technology.

Engineers at the University of Washington add an LED array into a flexible contact lens, ultimately aiming at in-eye head-up displays

Fancy a punt? Rambus shares, now at $16, could soar to $100, or fall to $5, depending on which way a judge decides a court case next month.

Looking for cool way of wowing that special someone on Valentines Day? Build her a flashing heart made from LEDs driven by a programmable microcontroller. Les’ gadget is simple to build and made from easily-obtainable parts. The unique thing about this design is the LEDs are in an X-Y matrix so each LED is addressable. This allows an unlimited combination ...

NXP Semiconductors has announced the availability of a programmable multi-mode LTE (Long Term Evolution) modem, capable of achieving data transfer rates of 150Mbits downlink and 50Mbits uplink supporting LTE/HSPA/UMTS/EDGE/GPRS/GSM multi-mode capability The baseband platform forms the basis of a next-generation Software Defined Radio (SDR) system solution, powered by NXP’s Embedded Vector Processor (EVP) The platform is targeted at the handset market, and ...