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Freescale Semiconductor’s latest power amplifier for GSM/GPRS mobile phone designs is a 50ohm module for quad-, tri- and...

Compounding semiconductor market worries expressed by Intel, Samsung and Philips, Agere Systems is to lay off 500 employees citing problems of excessive inventory in the industry. “The issues we faced with three major customers now seem to have broadened into an industry-wide inventory correction,” said John Dickson, Agere CEO. Earlier this week Philips Semiconductors said its book to bill ratio ...

Renesas Technology aims to take the lead in the mass-storage flash memory market

Angled pits in disc surface can side-step wavelength limits

A start-up company has raised £10m to set up an electronic device manufacturing business in North Wales. Bangor-based DeepStream has developed a manufacturing process to produce a range of intelligent sensors to measure current, voltage and temperature in a novel type of robust and small package. The company plans to be in volume production early next year and has already ...

UK firm develops reference designs for locks and gas valves based on piezoelectric actuators

With so much manufacturing having left for lower cost regions, the most profitable and growing electronics firms are likely to be...

Analogue chipmaker Linear Technology claims its internal distribution service is filling a gap in the market

Renesas Technology agrees with STMicroelectronics to take over their SuperH CPU licensing venture