School of Electronics and Physical Sciences will part fund MSc courses

Freescale, Philips and STMicroelectronics extend their R&D agreement beyond process technology to wafer testing and packaging

The US Semiconductor Industry Association reckons the world semiconductor industry grew 28 per cent last year to reach $213bn, but believes it will not grow at all in 2005. “For the first time since 2000, global chip sales surpassed $200bn”, said SIA president George Scalise. “The industry’s growth over the past three years is even more remarkable when viewed in ...

TTP Communications has integrated an ARM11 processor with the 3G version of its Cellular Baseband Engine (CBEmacro). According to the Cambridge-based firm, this type of what it called ‘pre-integration’ of the device design should save development time and lower power consumption. CBEmacro 3G can handle GSM, GPRS, EDGE, W-CDMA and HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access). It is based on ...

Texas Instruments has a range of ARM7-based general purpose processors aimed at applications in industrial, medical...

Plans to promote the UK's electronics industry will be on the agenda in three months time

A round table discussion on the merits of Asics, FPGAs and structured Asics

The semiconductor industry is now on track to eliminate its excess chip inventory, thanks to significant declines in excess inventories in the supply chain in Q4 2004, which marked the end of a nine-month run-up in surplus stockpiles, according to the latest from iSuppli. However, the supply chain still has $1bn in excess chip inventories to burn and with semiconductor ...

Synchronous step-down converter from National Semiconductor offers high efficiency

International Rectifier posts quarterly revenues of $298.6m, below analyst expectations