| Business News |
RS CEO takes a bullish view of Asia
"We are a hypermarket for engineers," Ian Mason, group chief executive of RS Components, described his company in an interview with EE Times Asia .
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Is sales growth a blip or recovery asks analyst
"Is this the start of the chip market recovery or is it merely a blip on the statistics radar screen?" asks Malcolm Penn, chairman & CEO market researchers Future Horizons.
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Nortel passes baton to Cisco for London Olympics
Nortel has been forced to pass on the baton to another North American communications equipment group, Cisco, as a major infrastructure supplier to and sponsor of the 2012 London Olympics.
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Researcher: Chrome to boost Atom to ARM switch in netbooks
Technology changes, including the introudction of the Chrome OS, will undermine Atom's grip on the netbook market during a recessionary time when people don't want, and can't afford, a second laptop just to carry around say market researchers, The Information Network.
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Europe urged to speed up analog to digital switchover
Member countries of the European Union are being urged to accelerate their timescales for switching over from analogue television broadcasting to digital by Telecoms and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding as a way to stimulate the sector.
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Opinion: In 'phoney war' Intel attacks ARM at home
Nokia's strategic relationship with the world's largest chip maker Intel, announced last month, may be very forward-looking and not about to worry any incumbent wireless chipset suppliers, but it is nonetheless threatening to Europe's local hero, ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England).
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| Technology News |
Personal rapid transit ready to roll at terminal 5
Unmanned electric personal rapid transit (PRT) vehicles are to be introduced towards the end of this year at to Heathrow Airport to ease the transfer of passengers between two remote stations at the terminal 5 (T5) business car parking and the T5 building.
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3DTV research to improve experience
Films made in 3D could become more impressive as a result of work being carried out by a De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) researcher.
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Altium Designer links to Premier Farnell's DesignLink
The tools which link to Premier Farnell's DesignLink interface have doubled to include Altium Designer.
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Underwater camera technology protects meter's circuits
A way of protecting the sophisticated electronic circuitry and sensors used within a range of residential and commercial water meters is based on technology used to protect the electronics in underwater cameras and other monitoring equipment used for studying the behaviour of turtles, dolphins, whales and Antarctic fur seals in the wild.
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| Market Update |
Market for thin film IPDs set to grow fatter
The market for thin film integrated passive devices (IPD) is set to grow from $615 million this year to be worth just over $1 billion by 2013 and $1.8 billion two years later, according to market trackers Yole Developpement (Lyon, France).
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Report sees WiMax slowdown, LTE concerns
WiMax networks are facing a slowdown in revenue and subscriber growth this year, and many carriers still harbor concerns about whether the rival fourth generation wireless technology, Long Term Evolution, is ready for deployment, according to a new report from Maravedis Research.
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Netbooks taking on smart phones with wireless access
Over the past little while wireless carriers have started subsidizing netbooks in conjunction with a data plan on their network. AT&T are offering service on 3G networks. And now even Rogers in Canada is offering HP netbooks. Is there a competition between the smart phone industry and the netbook?
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Netbooks take lead over notebooks, DisplaySearch says
Two trends are currently dominating the market for laptop computers: According to market research firm DisplaySearch, the standard notebook market volume will expose zero growth in 2009 — for the first time ever. In the meantime, netbooks go onto the fast lane.
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Study: FPGAs to grow faster than broader IC market
FPGA revenue is projected to grow to nearly $3.5 billion in 2013 from $2.55 billion in 2009, a faster growth rate than is anticipated for the broader IC market, according to a study by market research firm The Linley Group.
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Report: Q2 chip sales up 16% from Q1
The IC market embarked on the road to recovery in the second quarter, growing 16 percent compared to the first quarter, one of the best sequential growth rates in the past 25 years, according to a market research firm.
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Huge take-up seen for accelerometers in cellphones
Good news for suppliers of MEMS based accelerometers such as STMicroelectronics, Kionix Inc., Freescale and ADI. A report from market trackers iSuppli predicts that by next year, one out of three mobile phones shipped worldwide will include one, up from one out of five in 2009, and one out of 11 in 2008.
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Global chip manufacturing capacity set to fall, says SEMI
The global installed capacity for the manufacture of semiconductors is set to decline by about 2.5 percent in 2009, mainly due to wafer fab closures, according to industry body Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI).
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ARM held lead in 2008 digital home processor rankings, says analyst
Processor intellectual property licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) maintained its position as the leading architecture for embedded processors in digital home applications in 2008, ahead of MIPS and Power Architecture, according to market research company Semicast Research Ltd.
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| People & Places |
Imagine Cup's many payoffs
Microsoft won't say how much it shelled out for the five-day shindig.
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Job losses, potential closure seen at Plus Semi site
Consultations have started about significant job losses and potential closure at Plus Semi (Swindon, England), which was originally the headquarters of Plessey Semiconductors.
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Bugs prove a winner for embedded students
A team from South Korea has won the Embedded Development competition which forms part of the Imagine Cup, the world’s premier student technology competition.
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Premier Farnell offers 12 engineering scholarships
Component distributor Premier Farnell plc (Leeds, England) is offering 12 scholarships worth $2,500 each for students of electronic engineering. Four scholarships are being awarded in each region — Asia, Europe and the Americas.
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| New Products |
Ricoh : Dual power supply targets AMOLED displays
The R1285 driver IC is designed to provide a dual power supply to active matrix OLED displays.
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Microchip : Quad D-A converter has non-volatile EEPROM
Microchip announces the MCP4728, a 12bit Quad digital-to-analog converter that includes non-volatile EEPROM, enabling its configuration to be loaded automatically during power-up.
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ERNI offers DIN-rail-enclosures for industrial and building automation
ERNI offers a wide portfolio of enclosures for industrial and building automation.
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AAEON : COM Express CPU is taitorable to specific needs
To accommodate fast growing marketing segments, AAEON has developed the NanoCOM-U15 COM Express CPU module, and its accompanying carrier board-ECB-951D.
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Renesas : SiP develoment follows a top-down approach
Renesas has announced its SiP Top-Down Design Environment to boost efficiency when developing system in package (SiP) products combining multiple chips, such as system on chip (SoC) devices, MCUs, and memories, in a single package.
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LPRS : Low-power multi-channel radio modules suit industrial use
LPRS introduces the latest narrowband radio modules from Circuit Design, Inc.
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Chip gear book-to-bill seen above parity for June
The semiconductor equipment book-to-bill-ratio rose above parity in June for first time in 11 months, according to market research firm VLSI Research, which added that business activity in the beleaguered sector is beginning to improve.
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Peak Test : Switch probe is designed for voltage-free applications
The P201/GVF from Peak Test Services is a normally open switch probe with built-in isolation for use in voltage-free ICT (in-circuit test) applications where the circuit under test needs to be isolated from voltages applied by the measurement circuitry.
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