Sequoia Technology has signed ZigBee module manufacturer Telegesis, which makes 2.4GHz ZigBee modules for mesh networking up to 600 nodes

The most badly timed spin-off in the history of the semiconductor industry was the spin-off of Rheem Semiconductor from Fairchild Semiconductor. It happened in 1959, two years after Fairchild was founded, and was the first of many spin-offs from Fairchild.

A Californian anti-trust case against DRAM-makers Micron, Infineon, Elpida, Hynix, Samsung, Mosel-Vitelic, NEC, Nanya and Winbond is very near to being settled. “The parties have informed the Court that they have reached an agreement in principle to the terms of a settlement in this and related actions and are currently negotiating a final settlement agreement,” says a court order. “The ...

NXP announced Q409 sales of $1.13bn which were up 8% in Q4 over Q3 2009, and a 12.6% growth for Q409 over Q408. ‘Sales continued to improve across each segment and region, with the exception of the home business segment’, said NXP. NXP’s book to bill ratio of 1.21 in Q409 improved from the 1.11 of Q309. Factory loading was ...

The chip includes a transmitter, receiver, and active filters in a 3x3mm TQFN package. “This is x100 smaller than discrete designs,” said Maxim

Guest columnist Rupert Baines, v-p marketing at picoChip, describes how he saw femtocell launches making a big impact on last week’s Mobile World Congress At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week we saw several femtocell announcements – from carriers making their plans on commercial launch, through vendors announcing their new products. In the UK, Vodafone’s recent marketing promotion of their SureSignal ...

Our survey this week of business confidence in the component distribution market indicates that the supply chain is emerging from the dark days of the 2008/2009 downturn with important lessons learnt. A survey by Electronics Weekly of 20 managers in the distribution sector recorded an almost universal increase in confidence and new ordering levels as the economy emerges from recession. ...

China published proposals for its equivalent to the EU REACH regulations in May 2009. This aims to control the manufacture, import and use of chemicals and has similarities with the EU REACH regulations. The original proposals included very few obligations that affected substances in “articles”, as fabricated products are referred to by EU REACH, although it is clear that some ...

The announcement earlier this week by Intel’s CEO that, with 24 VC firms, Intel would put $3.5 billion into US start-ups received a wry response from the Wall Street Journal.

John Lambert of International Rectifier demonstrates the company's new GaN-based power IC technology at APEC 2010. The flip-chip IP2010 and IP2011 combine driver and a GaN switch in a single device.