Epson opens chip design centre in Barcelona

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Epson opens chip design centre in BarcelonaRichard BallEpson Electronics has opened a chip design centre in Barcelona that will complement its firmware design centre in Scotland, opened last year.We have now two design centres in Europe, said an Epson spokesperson. Scotland is used mainly for developing firmware, while Barcelona will be used for hardware design.The two centres could work together ...

TSMC opens world's 'biggest' wafer fab in Taiwan

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TSMC opens world’s ‘biggest’ wafer fab in TaiwanDavid MannersOn Thursday (March 30th) TSMC opened the world’s biggest fab with a monster 190,000 square foot clean-room which would be capable of running 70,000 eight inch wafers a month if it wasn’t for the twelve inch pilot line incorporated in one corner.As it is, the fab will run 50,000 eight inch wafers, ...

IC design competition offers cost-free manufacturing

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IC design competition offers cost-free manufacturing Richard Ball Intellectual property (IP) developers have the chance of free manufacturing of their designs with the announcement of a competition by Europractice.Along with Belgian research institute IMEC, Taiwanese foudry UMC and Virtual Silicon, Europractice is running the competition for designers of multimedia and telecom IP. Typical blocks could include digital frequency converters, rake ...

3G Auction Update: Vodafone hangs onto the top bid.

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3G Auction Update: Vodafone hangs onto the top bid.Melanie ReynoldsVodafone is still topping the bidding in the auction for 3rd generation mobile phone licences, leading the way with a £1.6626bn offer.The company seems determined to win licence B and has been forced to raise its bid for the last six days to compete with offers from BT3G and Orange.After 18 ...