Sony Ericsson is to cut 2,000 jobs over the next 12 months from its 11,900 workforce as part of a cost reduction programme following poor results for the second quarter.
Ever-bullish Malcolm Penn, founder and principal analyst with Future Horizons Ltd. (Sevenoaks, England) believes the market forces are at last moving into place to deliver a couple of years of booming growth for the semiconductor industry.
Japan's Toshiba Corp. and Matsushita Electric said they will mass produce next-generation organic displays, spending roughly $140 million to cash in on the growing market for the ultra-thin screens.
NXP Semiconductors has seen more or less flat sales in the second quarter, accompanied by a significant decline of the operating profit. The outlook for the quarter ahead is cautious at best.
Nokia and Qualcomm Inc. will again go eyeball-to-eyeball over their bitter and long-protracted patent and licensing dispute in a Delaware Court beginning Wednesday (July 23) , and this time the case will be televised by Courtroom View Network via Webcast.
A 4 million euro (about $6.4 million) European collaborative research project called Project Galaxy has begun to develop a design process for globally asynchronous, locally synchronous (GALS) architecture chips together with novel network-on-chip capabilities.
Board design services in India are expected to grow to $458 million this year, driven by OEMs doing multiple designs for both the local market and overseas customers.
MIPS Technologies said it has licensed additional processor cores to long-time licensee PMC-Sierra for use in next-generation communications and storage products.
ORSoC AB (Stockholm, Sweden), a design house that took over responsibility for maintaining the OpenCores website, www.opencores.org, in November 2007, has released a "Virtual Ubuntu Linux" installation which installs and configures a VMWare virtual machine on the OpenRISC 1200 processor
Entropic Communications, Inc. is collaborating with EchoStar Technologies LLC on the development of chips for satellite TV services, continuing its plan to diversify beyond its core business in silicon for Multimedia over Coax home networking.
Over the next five years strong growth in auto radar will compensate GaAs companies' market share loss, but in the long term silicon firms like Infineon and Fujitsu will be the big winners.
Industry and investor concerns about the health of Apple Inc.'s Chief Executive Steve Jobs have not dimmed more than a month after he appeared dramatically thinner at the firm's annual developers' conference, according to a report.
Hi-Tech Software takes the wraps off an "omniscient" ANSI C compiler for 32-bit MCU code that it claims boosts real-time performance by more than 25 percent as well as nearly doubling code density.
