Seeking to foster innovation in microelectronics in the Grenoble area, France has agreed to provide subsidies to a new alliance between STMicroelectronics NV, IBM Corp. and the CEA. The "Nano 2012" strategic investment program, commonly called "Crolles3", represents an investment
Intel Corp., the world's biggest computer chip maker, said it won clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to sell a personal in-home health monitoring system for patients with chronicconditions.
Impinj Inc. said it has acquired Intel Corp.'s RFID operation that includes an RFID reader chip that the Seattle-based company has renamed the Indy R1000.
Consumption of chemicals and materials for amorphous silicon solar cell production is expected to reach $240 million in 2008 and $575 million in 2010, according to market research group The Information Network (New Tripoli, PA.).
Cambridge Consultants (Cambridge England) has devised a new architecture for the latest version of its core for 16-bit processors, the XAP5, that includes special features for running programs held in on- or off-chip flash memory.
Japan's Tokyo Electron Ltd. said orders for its tools to make semiconductors and flat panel display equipment fell a quarterly 35 percent to a five-year lowin April-June on weak demand from memory makers.
RFID tags and readers specialist Impinj Inc.(Seattle, WA) has bought, for an undisclosed sum, Intel's RFID business unit and the rights to sell Intel's R1000 RFID chips.
Paint-on solar panels could boost current energy efficiency by 50 percent while making new solar panel installations virtually invisible by painting organic dyes onto windows.
Switching to a polarization matched GaInN/AlGaInN active region combats droop and improves LED efficacy at high currents, according to researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Samsung Electro-Mechanics
Global spending on semiconductor research and development grew 12 percent in the first quarter of 2008 to $11.1 billion compared to $10.0 billion in R&D expenditures during 1Q07, according to market research group IC Insights, and will reach $49.2 billion
The equipment maker says its recent $15 million-plus deal with WIN Semiconductor reflects a need for more, higher-yielding, processing tools to serve chip makers focused on communications markets.
