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Hard Metric 2mm connectors from In2Connect can be configured for CompactPCI applications.

Firm's second 300mm fab could have capacity of 60,000 wafers per month

UMC, the Taiwanese foundry, expects to be at 100 per cent capacity this quarter which represents, according to CEO Dr Jackson Hu, an opportunity for UMC to increase its prices. “In Q4, we had 96 per cent capacity utilisation,” Hu told the Globalpress Summit 2004 in Monterey this week, “we anticipate that for Q1 it will be 100 per cent ...

When processes do not provide the semiconductor industry with the performance benefits to which it has become accustomed, it has to look to architectural improvements. This was apparent at the recent Globalpress Summit Conference in Monterey, California. “The industry is facing a challenge which is unprecedented in its history,” says Dr Tsugio Makimoto, corporate advisor at Sony. “The problems are ...

Chris Evans-Pughe reports

To have half a $3bn market would satisfy most people. To then decide that 70 per cent would be better might seem greedy, or over-ambitious but to Wim Roelandts, CEO of Xilinx, it’s logical. “A neck-and-neck situation is inherently unstable,” argues Roelandts, “historically, when one company starts emerging, you have all the laws of bigger numbers acting in your favour. ...

Xilinx is claiming it will now dominate the FPGA market with its ability to invest more than rivals. “We’re 60 per cent bigger than Altera so we can spend 60 per cent more on R&D, we use 60 per cent more silicon and 60 per cent more packages and so can get better prices than Altera. So, in programmables, one ...

Embedded logic encodes video horizontal and vertical sync signals onto the common mode of the twisted pairs

Sigma-delta ADC consumes 300µA of current

Measures acceleration with a full-scale range of ±1.2g