Cypress Semiconductor is offering its first dedicated peripheral controller for multimedia handsets
Monthly Archives: November 2006
Compact power converter for AdvancedTCA
Emerson Network Power claims the Artesyn dual-input ATC210 bus converter is one of the smallest front-end power supplies for use on latest-generation telecoms c
AMD lines up eight core processors for 2007
AMD has outlined a route to multi-core PC processor platforms with as many as eight cores following the introduction of its first dual-socket, multi-core processor PC platform designed for Windows Vista Ultimate
European microelectronics powers on, says MEDEA
The health of the European microelectronics industry has never been better. This was the message from Monte Carlo last week and the annual forum of MEDEA+, the pan-European microelectronics initiative
MEDEA dilemma on Nanotechnology
MEDEA+, the European microelectronics R&D initiative, has a tricky dilemma. As an organization which works on R&D which is four to five years away from the market, it has to make a judgment about when nanotechnology will become commercially feasible in relation to electronics. In the case of nanotechnology, i.e. manipulating material at the atomic or molecular level, MEDEA, has ...
Re-inventing digital radio for Internet age
The UK digital radio industry is struggling to survive in the Internet age and desperately has to reinvent itself, according to the CEO of Radioscape
CDT has technique to simplify OLED design
Cambridge Display Technology has developed a technique to allow passive addressing in OLED displays for portable equipment
FPGA start-ups will struggle, says Xilinx CEO
Established FPGA companies are saying that a raft of new FPGA start-ups coming into the industry have little chance of success
KKR, NXP and 3i
In his book, Merchants of Debt: KKR and the mortgaging of American business, George Anders tells the story of how Kohlberg Kravis and Roberts (KKR) invented the private equity company buy-out industry and loaded up corporate America with debt via highly leveraged deals which took public companies private. Some of the companies prospered, more often they did not. In almost ...
BBC talks of broadcasting HDTV on Freeview
The four major broadcasters have called for HDTV to be run on the terrestrial TV ahead of analogue switch off in 2012. Trials of HDTV on terrestrial by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five have just finished in London, and nearly all (86 per cent) of trialists expected to see HD services within three years, well before analogue switch-off. ...