EDA tools specialist ChipVision Design Systems (Oldenburg, Germany) has raised $4.5 million in a Series B round led by Target Partners and BayTech Venture Capital, both of Munich, Germany.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., the world's largest foundry, is in European talks to enter the safety-critical automotive silicon market. Infineon Technologies AG, which claims to be number two in automotive silicon, is one way TSMC could make its move.
Qualcomm Inc. has beaten several other bidders for 40 MHz (1452-1492 MHz) of L-Band radio spectrum in UK comms regulator Ofcom's latest auction of frequencies, and will most likely use the frequencies for a mobile TV service with partners.
Trina Solar Ltd., a photovoltaic solar products maker, said it signed a contract to buy polysilicon from Jupiter Corp. Ltd. to enable it to produce 650 megawatts of solar modules over six years.
NEC Corp., Japan's biggest maker of telecoms network equipment, doubled its quarterly profit, helped by cost cuts and a healthy IT services business, but its outlookfor the current year missed expectations.
Samsung Electronics has developed what it says is the first LCD panel that has an image framing rate of 240Hz, almost double that of today's televisions.
With China focused on an intense search for survivors after a devastating earthquake, the government is deferring efforts to repair damaged infrastructure, limiting the ability of high-tech firms to resume normal manufacturing operations.
Now that Sir Robin Saxby is a past president of the Institute for Engineering and Technology and a past chairman and CEO of ARM Holdings plc he is busying himself creating startups. The first one that he is prepared to
