At a quarter the size of a standard PC Card, the flash card is already small. However, if mobile phone makers have their way, how...

ARM has plotted a strategy to get the company past the billion dollar revenue mark and aims to become the ‘virtual Intel’ of the semiconductor industry. “We can see how we can get beyond $1bn, we know how we can get there,” Sir Robin Saxby, chairman of ARM told Electronics Weekly. For over a decade, Saxby has held to the ...

Pat Gelsinger, senior vice-president and chief technology officer at Intel, sat down with Electronic News to talk about the future of computing, new markets where silicon will become prevalent and the processor giant’s overall direction. What follows are excerpts of that interview. Electronic News: Intel seems to have shifted gears from the race to more performance in a single processor ...

AVX claims to have the smallest tantalum capacitor with the highest volumetric efficiency on the market. The firm’s 0402-sized TACmicrochip tantalum chip capacitor is now available at the all-important 10µF capacitance value. “There is no point making a small device if you cannot put higher capacitance values in those geometries,” said Bill Millman, technical director in AVX’s tantalum division. “We ...

Disappearing are the days when the fog light switch in a car is actually connected to the light bulbs it operates. Instead, a digital message in a data bus is increasingly likely to be sent to an electronics module near the lamp. This module will not only activate the fog light, and probably several other lamps as well, but it ...

Swiss memory technology firm Innovative Silicon has hired intellectual property veteran Mark-Eric Jones as its chief executive officer. Jones joins the start-up after six years at memory firm MoSys, where he was vice-president and general manager for IP licensing. He has also led Mentor Graphics’ Inventra IP business unit. “We are delighted to welcome Mark-Eric to Innovative Silicon,” said Pierre ...

Technology for inkjet printing lines of conductive inks and polymer semiconductors just 10µm wide is the target of a project being led by Cambridge firm Plastic Logic. The company, with the University of Cambridge and materials suppliers Avecia and Gwent Electronic Materials, was last week awarded £1.2m as part of the Government’s £90m Micro and Nanotechnology Manufacturing initiative, announced last ...

Rajeev Madhavan, chairman and CEO of Magma Design, sat down with Electronic News to talk about the EDA market, conflicts between EDA players that sell IP and their customers, and the need for different benchmarks in the semiconductor industry. What follows are excerpts of that conversation. Electronic News: How’s business these days? Madhavan: We’re doing reasonably. And for a bad ...

The American electronics industry has its own corner that will be forever England, and it looks pretty good from here. David...

Abacus Group has moved to sharpen its focus on the European market by naming a new managing director for its component distribution business whose responsibilities will encompass northern Europe. Graham McBeth has been promoted to the new post of managing director of the Abacus ECD business across Northern Europe which includes the UK, Eire and the Nordic regions. McBeth was ...