Toshiba has licensed flexible substrate stacking technologies for NAND flash memory devices from IP firm Staktek
Monthly Archives: June 2006
Mountain rescue gets state-of-the art wireless comms
The introduction of the marine band is a major step in terms of enhancing the communication that plays a life-saving role in emergency service operations
WiMAX power amplifier design addressed
Power amplifiers (PAs) in a wireless base transceiver station are struggling with low efficiency due to limited exploitation of the device’s full operating range
Qimonda ships fast low voltage DDR3 memory modules
Qimonda says it has shipped its first DDR3 SO-DIMM samples (Double Data Rate 3 Small Outline Dual In-line Memory Module) to PC graphics specialist ATI
Intel’s exit from mobile processors is no big deal
Intel’s exit from the mobile phone and applications processor business will have only a minor effect on handset OEMs such as Nokia and Motorola, says market watcher Strategy Analytics
Firms accelerate ARM-based microcontroller design with software platform
Enea and IAR are working with Oki Electric to offer an evaluation platform incorporating real-time operating system and IDE, with debugger, for its family of AR
Synchronous Mosfet for POL converters
International Rectifier has released the IRF7835PbF and IRF7836PbF, 30V synchronous buck HEXFET MOSFETs for DC-DC synchronous point-of-load (POL) converters
WiMAX good for fixed and mobile access says Fujitsu
Fujitsu Microelectronics says there are equal opportunities for both fixed and mobile WiMAX wireless access systems and the company is offering a one-chip MAC and PHY mixed-signal baseband SoC for all WiMAX applications. “As the broadband wireless market continues to gain momentum, we’ll see fixed and mobile WiMAX networks co-exist throughout the world,” said Dirk Weinsziehr, Senior Director Marketing for FME. ...
Clockless chip technology to be used in mobile media processor
Manchester-based clockless chip technology firm Silistix has teamed with US processor firm Tensilica to create a multi-processor device to demonstrate its technology to commercial customers
If it’s wireless it must be Europe
More people spend more time doing wireless design in Europe than anywhere else in the world, according to the chief economist of STMicroelectronics (ST), Jean-Philippe Dauvin. “Thirty five per cent of the world’s wireless design is done in Europe,” states Dauvin. A figure that Eric Janson, senior vice-president at Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) is not surprised by. “If I think ...