MIPS Technologies is working with Ingenic Semiconductor, a China-based mobile processor firm, to port the Android tablet OS, known as Honeycomb, to Ingenic’s MIPS-based processor

Once upon a time, when the IC industry was all about processors and memories, Three Wise Men who knew how to make them came up with a scheme to get funding for a new semiconductor company.

If the EC adopts the recommendations of the report sent to it this week on key enabling technologies (KETs) the prospect of a 450mm manufacturing line being set up in “The ability to be more globally competitive regarding the installation of pilot and demonstration lines in Europe would be one direct consequence if the recommendations are implemented,” says Bauer. A ...

The Chairman of SMIC, the Shanghai foundry, has died, the CEO has been voted off the board and the shares have been suspended from trading. This morning, the Shanghai foundry SMIC said that ‘trading in the shares of the company has been suspended with effect from 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, 30 June 2011 pending the release of price sensitive information’. ...

The semiconductor supply shortages due to the Japan earthquake in March could be largely solved by the end of the third quarter, says IHS iSuppli. The speed at which the supply has returned to pre-quake levels seems to be due to the efforts of suppliers in Japan to manage orders and get damaged fabs back to approaching full production levels. Fujitsu says it has ...

“Infineon was the largest market share gainer in the power mosfet market and extended its leadership position in IGBTs,” said the IMS report

The train crash called ST-Ericsson gets bloodier and weirder. Its latest round of restructuring – the fourth in less than three years – is blamed on “reduced demand for legacy products”.

Some three and a half years late there finally looks to be movement on defining China RoHS. Standards recently adopted will enter into force on 1 August 2011. These include standards on the requirements for concentration limits of certain restricted substances in electrical and electronic products and standards on electrical and electronic products covering the measurement of six regulated substances ...

The RF Wireless Fortronic Forum this week saw a demonstration of a short range radio system for smart metering by LPRS. The IQRF range of wireless network systems are also likely to be used for intelligent street lighting and environmental monitoring. The wireless technology day was organised by Fortronic in association with Electronics Weekly at Williams F1 conference centre near Oxford on 28th ...

According to the Basingstoke Gazette, ST-Ericsson is to close its R&D centre on the Chineham industrial estate, outside The company’s other UK sites, in Bristol and Daventry, will not suffer cutbacks. Last week ST-Ericsson announced a fourth cost-cutting round which may reduce employment by 500 people to save $120m a year in costs by the end of 2012. The company ...