In a second move into silicon-on-insulator (SoI) technology in just a few days ARM has acquired SoI firm Soisic. Soisic, which has offices in Grenobles France and California, develops standard cell libraries, embedded SRAM memory compilers and I/Os in SoI technologies. On Friday (November 25, 2006) ARM made a joint development deal with French firm Soitec to create libraries for ...

Broadcom has responded to statements released on Monday by courtroom rival Qualcomm,  in which Qualcomm declared dominance in the companies’ latest legal battle. A representative for Broadcom claimed in a statement that Qualcomm’s announcement of a judge ruling in its favor was “misleading in several fundamental aspects.” Yesterday, Qualcomm reported that a federal court in the US had enjoined Broadcom from any further solicitation, ...

There has been another development in the vitriolic courtroom war between wireless communications technology companies Qualcomm and Broadcom. Qualcomm reported that a federal court in San Diego has enjoined Broadcom from any further solicitation, use or dissemination of Qualcomm’s WCDMA “trade secrets”, including source code. According to Qualcomm, Broadcom’s agreement to the injunction and its imposition by the court demonstrate ...

The US Government is to update its “green” specification for PCs next year which is designed to make machines 65 per cent more energy efficient

AMD and ATI Technologies have unveiled the first product under the newly merged company: a high performance graphics card, the ATI Radeon X1650 XT

Texas Instruments has expanded its C5000 digital signal processor (DSP) platform, announcing a low power TMS320C5506 DSP and a new Bluetooth-enabled hands free kit (HFK) reference design

Over at Electronic News, the US-based sister publication of Electronics Weekly, they’ve got a run down of the week’s winners and losers in the electronics industry. It’s interesting to note that the EDA firms are doing well, due to increased design activity – which can only bode well for the future of the whole industry. The piece also points out ...

Patrick Le Fèvre of Ericsson discusses the physical limit for power density in DC-DC converter design

Alcatel and Samsung Electronics are to jointly develop mobile handsets compatible with the DVB-H mobile TV standard for operation in the frequency range defined by the S-Band. Both companies said they will support the standardisation process of this approach in the DVB Forum undertaken in the DVB-SSP (Satellite Services for Portable devices) Ad-Hoc Group. Alcatel believes the entry of Samsung ...

Market research firm IC Insights now expects optoelectronics revenues to grow 13 per cent to a record-high $16.8bn in 2006.