Intel marches once again into microcontroller market
Combining a single processor-core complex, North- and South-bridge functions, application-specific peripheral blocks, and in some cases an application accelerator, the...

Dolphin Integration launches the 32-bit challenger: FlipAPS-32, a processor tiny enough for...
Meylan, France. July 21, 2008. SoC architectures for advanced technological nodes tend to address explicitly a number of control issues to facilitate their hierarchical organization. It...

Silicon & Software Systems (S3) Appoints Maojet as New Sales Representative in Taiwan
Taiwan, July 2nd , 2008 – Silicon & Software Systems Ltd. (S3), a global provider of leading edge mixed-signal IP and SOC Design and Implementation services for power-efficient...

HDL-design challenges and philosophies for real-world ASIC implementations
Prototyping with FPGAs works best if you do it with the final ASIC in mind.

Intel Atom supply squeezed
Intel reports better-than-expected demand for Diamondville and says it is “moving quickly” to increase output, as PC OEM Asustek Computing notes a shortage of the Atom chips.

Apple 3G iPhone build expected to drive NAND, Micron stock
Apple may build 3 million 3G iPhones by June, with at least 10 million phones built by year end, according to proprietary checks by researchers at Lehman Brothers. On that, the...

Finally, some signs of improvement for DRAM market
After a full year of harsh DRAM market conditions characterized by oversupply, bloated inventories, and weak pricing, iSuppli upgrades its rating of near-term conditions for DRAM...

Apple, Moto, Sony hit by slowdown in mobile phone shipments
The Q1 mobile phone market experienced an expected sequential downturn in shipments, with some vendors hurt more than others, according to two separate research reports....

MID-IC demand to climb
Analysts expect global shipments of MIDs (mobile Internet devices) to skyrocket in the next four years, as will demand for the ICs in the small devices. Research from Forward...

Nokia, Qualcomm settle all litigation, enter 15-year agreement
Ending a bitter legal battle than spanned several continents, Nokia and Qualcomm ink an agreement covering various standards including GSM, EDGE, CDMA, WCDMA, HSDPA,...

Applied Materials begins $17M Taiwan manufacturing center expansion
The expansion aims to increase the company’s ability to meet demand for both its AKT flat panel display equipment and SunFab Thin Film Solar manufacturing equipment.

Bad economy good for PC market
Gartner estimates Q2 PC demand grew 16% year over year as the weak macroeconomic conditions contributed to strong average-selling-price pressures for the notebook PC...