Rebuilding America: Proposals emerge to fix 'dysfunctional' R&D tax credit

The R&D tax credit, a key incentive for spurring investment in U.S. innovation and manufacturing, needs a major overhaul, a tax expert says. Read Full Story

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Gallery: Fujitsu from supers to teddy bears

Fujitsu’s corporate labs demoed a sampler of its latest work in everything from world-class supercomputers to smartphones—and even a robotic teddy bear—at an annual forum here. Read Full Story

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A short history of spread spectrum

What do the actress, pianist, German, and inventor have in common? It sounds like the start to a bad joke but the answer is frequency hopping spread spectrum technology Read Full Story

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Time to play hard ball on tech manufacturing

It's time for policy makers to play hard ball with multinational corporations that outsource manufacturing, design and R&D jobs. If they don't, manufacturing will cease to be the engine of U.S. ... Read Full Story

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News & Analysis

Cisco rolls more routers for smart grids

Cisco Systems is shipping its first routers geared for networks of smart meters, initially focusing on a co-development deal with meter maker Itron.

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Marvell cuts quarterly sales target

Chip maker Marvell Technology Group cut its sales target for the quarter ending Jan. 28, saying revenue would be lower than expected because of disk ...

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Nokia bleeds $1.38 billion in Q4; sales drop 21 percent

Nokia had some good news and bad news for financial investors on Thursday (Jan. 26), announcing that though it had managed to sell over 1 million ...

post comment 2 comments last comment prabhakar_deosthali
The same is true for RIM which is also going down fast - unable to respond to the market forces.

Pentek tips Virtex-7 boards

Pentek is sampling XMC modules using Virtex-7 FPGAs, claiming the Onyx boards deliver nearly double the performance and bandwidth of its Cobalt ...

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Spansion posts loss in 'transitional' quarter

Flash memory vendor Spansion reported a fourth quarter net loss on declining revenue.

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Freescale's CEO sees light at end of the tunnel

Freescale Semiconductor CEO Rich Beyer said the semiconductor industry is close to the end of the current downturn on a day when his company reported ...

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Micron's president to retire

D. Mark Durcan, president and chief operating officer at memory chip vendor Micron Technology, will step down in August and be succeeded by Micron's ...

post comment 1 comment last comment chipmonk
Micron has been in deep trouble along with the Memory vendors and its technology lags Samsung which ...

ARM, Intel on the March in Military Electronics

ARM is slowly marching into military electronics responding to a need for smaller, lighter systems for drones, wearable computers and robots as ...

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TSMC returns fire over 28-nm process issues

Maria Marced, a senior executive with foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., has hit back at analysts who have said it has yield ...

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Both Samsung and TSMC (and also UMC at smaller scale) are ramping up 28 nm. Morris Chang stated a ...

Printed electronics startup plans pilot production line

PragmatIC Printing Ltd., a developer of printed electronic technology, has announced plans to begin pilot-scale production at the government-backed ...

post comment 1 comment last comment Luis Sanchez
Great! We are getting closer to printed electronics. The government is supporting business ...

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Speaking up for M2M radio innovation

Luke D'Arcy, vice president of marketing at Neul Ltd. (Cambridge, England), has argued that some standards bodies are not addressing the need for ...

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Targeting RF key security

How secure are your RFID car key and other devices—to be afraid, or not?

post comment 1 comment last comment Test_engineer
That's why I NEVER leave my car unattended without a steering wheel lock. Even if some mutt managed ...

Who are Imagination's four missing customers?

Imagination has named four of eight licensees signed up so far for graphics cores from its PowerVR Series 6 family. Who are the missing four ...

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@hammerd2 Thanks.. so that's Intel Apple, Sony and Fujitsu...with Samsung to come followed by ...

Turning down the noise: When 'low' keeps getting lower

The desire to extend a wireless product’s battery life by reducing power consumption is driving IC manufacturers to develop devices that operate at ...

post comment 1 comment last comment sharps_eng
- and as we push the boundaries to produce more and more cheaply-made digital logic-driven devices ...

DIY days: better, worse, or just very different?

How does today's do-it-yourself experimenter situation compare to "back in the day"?

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Yes Edmunds is one of the great catalogues. I got a lot out of Ambit's catalog, and the famous ...

Obama visit to Intel facility irks workers told to stay home

While President Obama’s visit to Intel’s manufacturing facility in Chandler, Arizona may be a huge boon to the chip firm, it is slightly less of a ...

post comment 16 comments last comment ronk2011
I still think this story is overblown... a. Ktar story mentioned "some workers". I assume that ...

Who says old dogs can’t learn new tricks?

Why should young apps developers get all the publicity? How about a chip designer in his 40s who went "new school" and created a smartphone app that ...

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The App warns you about not to text while driving the moment you login to turn on the app.

The elephant in the corner

Why do so many IC design teams commit to development schedules they know are not possible to meet?

post comment 20 comments last comment RCollett
Prabhakar, So you're saying that in your experience the engineering organization frequently pads ...

EDA/IP Weekly Roundup – Jan 25th

Mentor Graphics, Packet Plus, Synopsys, Carbon Design and Arteris made the lineup today. See here for their news…

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Time to play hard ball on tech manufacturing

It's time for policy makers to play hard ball with multinational corporations that outsource manufacturing, design and R&D jobs. If they don't, ...

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Brian, you make an excellent point. What we want is for companies to pay more for the manufacturing ...

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Life of Foxconn workers in china

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Patent 8,090,532 - Pedestrian route production

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Another unique patent, this one from Microsoft.

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