NXP, formerly Philips Semiconductors, is said to be considering leaving the Crolles 2 Alliance for IC R&D, and IBM or TSMC are being considered as possible replacements.

This is the final entry on this site for 2006, a year in which WiMAX stuttered, UWB faltered, Near Field Communication struggled to establish itself, RFID established itself, WiFi strengthened strongly and extended its scope, cellular telephony garnered oodles of dosh but lacked direction as high-end phones failed to find market favour, AMD and Texas Instruments flourished, and Intel wilted.

Norbert Hauser from Kontron offers his opinions and forecasts concerning the major trends in the embedded board markets in 2007 Standards evolution In the past two years, several new standards have evolved and been released by the PICMG and these have encouraged the growth of all segments of the embedded market. These standards are reassuring to to customers as they ...

Epitaxial wafer company IQE has agreed to acquire Singapore-based MBE Technology Pte, a manufacturer of compound epitaxial wafers

NXP Semiconductors has posted encouraging results for the first nine months of 2006, after becoming an independent semiconductor company born from Philips. “We have made good progress in NXP. Our move outside Philips has helped us to accelerate our business,” said Frans van Houten, NXP’s president and CEO. “With the positive effects of business renewal, we are well positioned to ...

Strategy Analytics' latest RF & Wireless Component report called “Femtocells Enabled by PicoChip to Square Off Against VoFi,” notes that low-cost femtocells could emerge as an attractive alternative to voice over WiFi (VoFi) in future homes

NXP has announced a small profit for the last nine months of trading, a position which its new owners, a consortium of private equity funds led by Kohlberg Kravis and Roberts (KKR), may see as unsatisfactory in view of their plans for an IPO.

Conflicting advice, vague legislation and a lack of compliance schemes. That is the reality of WEEE, the electrical waste legislation, in the UK, according to law firm Eversheds

Filtronic and Diamond Microwave Devices are jointly developing technology for diamond semiconductor materials and processing

The MultiMediaCard Association (MMCA) and the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association (JEDEC) have announced their joint adoption of eMMC as the trademark and product category of a class of embedded memory module