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- A solid state material that can be electrically altered. Certain elements in nature, such as silicon, perform like semiconductors when chemically combined with other elements. Various optical materials...
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- SIA: Chip sales "above expectations"; more growth expected
- Echoing a growing sentiment that economic recovery is in the works, the Semiconductor Industry Association today said that worldwide sales of semiconductors were up nearly 20 percent from the previous quarter, though down more than 10 percent from the same quarter a year ago. For the quarter...
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Light sensor discovery could revolutionize digital cameras
- One of the biggest hindrances to beautiful pictures on a digital camera is lighting. Even if you set the shutter speed, focus and whatever other mode manually, unless you have a tripod handy, chances are your photo could come out blurry or shaky if you're in a place with low...
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- Chartered Semiconductor Avoids Expensive Audit and Remediation, Resolves Segregation-of-Duty Conflicts
- Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing wanted to implement a solution to address a lack of Segregation-Of-Duties SOD controls within the organization and enable senior managers to proactively resolve conflicting access rights. The challenge was to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley legislation. Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing engaged Oracle Certified Advantage Partner Deloitte & Touche Enterprise Risk...
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Actions Semiconductor Cuts Development Time From Two Months to One Month
- Actions Semiconductor wanted to overcome a steep learning curve when adopting Java EE development frameworks, which includes learning a range of development languages such as Java, JSP, XML, and HTML and ensure the Java EE development tools offer mature frameworks and features to shorten development time and enable developers to...
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Apple is building a moat (of semiconductors)
- Apple is building a moat of semiconductorsIn other newsWWDC 2009 has sold out in a little over four weeks.http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/As a past attendee those attending will find it invaluable and great fun.The rest of us will will have the opportunity of getting the session videos earlier.Why is Apple doing it? ...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-29
- Semiconductor sales down 7.2% in November 2008
- Semiconductor sales dropped to $20.8 bln in November 2008 from $23.1 bln in November 2007, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported. Sales through the first 11 months of the year rose 0.2% to $232.7 bln. November sales were 7.2% lower than the $22.4 bln in October 2008. Excluding memory products, chip...
- Blog posts 2009-01-02
- Semiconductor sales down 7.2% in November 2008
- Semiconductor sales dropped to $20.8 bln in November 2008 from $23.1 bln in November 2007, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported. Sales through the first 11 months of the year rose 0.2% to $232.7 bln. November sales were 7.2% lower than the $22.4 bln in October 2008. Excluding memory products, chip...
- Blog posts 2009-01-02
- WLAN semiconductor market to pass the $4 bln by 2012
- The worldwide wireless LAN WLAN semiconductor market is expected to pass the 4 bln USD mark by 2012 with a compound annual growth rate CAGR of 22.8%. While PCs will remain the largest application segment for WLAN semiconductors, mobile phone applications will grow at a CAGR of 49.3% and become...
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- Semiconductor sales up 5.5% in August 2008
- Worldwide sales of semiconductors grew by 5.5% to $22.7 bln in August 2008 from August 2007 sales of $21.5 bln. Sales grew by 2.4% from July when sales were $22.2 bln, SIA says. Year-to-date sales through August were $170.2 bln, an increase of 4.5% from the same period of 2007...
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- AMD posts seventh straight quarterly loss
- AMD posts seventh straight quarterly losscopycat?AMD produced chips that ran on the x86 architecture, and spearheaded the jump into desktop x64. Intel "adopted" x86-64 from AMD. The Opteron was released by AMD in 2003, a full year ahead of Intel.Heck, Intel even renamed their implementation several times, eventually settling on...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- Semiconductor sales up 5.9% in April 2008
- Global semiconductor sales grew 5.9% in April 2008, the Semiconductor Industry Association reported. Chip sales rose to $21.2 bln in April 2008, up from $20.1 bln in April 2007. by AM
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- $21.5 bln worth of semiconductors sold in January 2008
- $21.5 bln worth of semiconductors sold in January 2008i thinksemi conductors are widely used in most of machines that,s why they have a good income.http://laptops.baysworld.com
- Discussion threads 2008-03-24
- $255.6 bln worth of semiconductors sold in 2007
- The Semiconductor Industry Association reported that global sales of semiconductors grew for the sixth-consecutive year, reaching a record $255.6 bln in 2007, an increase of 3.2% from the $247.7 bln reported in 2006. Worldwide sales in December 2007 were $22.3 bln, an increase of 2.5% compared to the $21.7 bln...
- Blog posts 2008-02-24
- Worries about PC sales snowball; Intel downgraded
- Worries about PC sales snowball; Intel downgradedIdiotsTo show how much deep thought goes into these announcements, they downgraded not only Intel but every other semiconductor manufacturer, including those who make embedded silicon for things like cellphones -- and who are actually seeing increased sales and revenue.All it takes is to...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-04
- Semiconductor sales up 2.3% in November 2007
- Worldwide sales of microprocessors were up 2.3% in November 2007, boosted by strong demand for consumer products, the Semiconductor Industry Association said. Chip sales rose to $23.1 bln in November 2007, up from $22.5 bln in November 2006. Year-to-date chip sales were at $231 bln, up 2.8% from $225 bln...
- Blog posts 2007-12-31
- ZDNet security, semiconductor blogs open for user submissions
- We've added a few more blogs to our user submission experiment: Zero Day and Chipland. For background, we opened up some of our blogs for user submitted blog posts on Nov. 1. We started out with Web 2.0 Explorer, which examines Web 2.0 technologies, Between the Lines,...
- Blog posts 2007-11-12
- Sony to pull out of 32-nano research
- Sony to pull out of 32-nano researchInteresting move...The worlds largest user of electronics wants out of doing R&D. Have to admit, that strikes me as strange.The Statement Contradicts Itself!!! :DFirst: The production facility that's being sold to Toshiba is the one built over 8yrs ago to house PS2 chip...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
- IBM silicon rejects reborn in solar panels
- Just a wafer thin. Yes, indeedy, when the Monty Python crew penned that infamous line in their movie, "Meaning of Life" that hadn't one iota of a clue what it could mean for the solar energy industry. And now, here's the point of this blog. There's word...
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- Infineon a big winner in iPhone teardown
- EE Times commissioned Semiconductor Insights to tear down the iPhone and dissect its innards. The key takeaways: Infineon is the chip of choice; there are many shared iPod parts that made design easier; and Apple brands a bunch of components to hide the names.The report notes the following:The first thing...
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- Images: HP-Nanolitho's imprint lithography tool
- System will let semiconductor manufacturers produce chips sporting wires measuring a few atoms wide.
- Image galleries 2007-05-01
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