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Hynix sidesteps DRAM import tariffs in EU accession states
Accession to the EU of ten new states will not affect the DRAM business of Hynix Semiconductor although its eastern European...
Zetex ‘excited’ by Telemetrix breakup
Analogue IC maker is sole remaining division
Rad-hard FPGA has built-in single event upset protection
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16/32-bit micros up the performance and peripheral spec
Designers using general purpose 8-bit microcontrollers for motor control applications may switch to 16- and even 32-bit devices...
GSM/GPRS transceiver cuts power in half
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Developers look set to increase FPGA IP costs
The cost of designing specialist intellectual property (IP) into FPGAs may have to increase as independent IP developers look at ways to lift margins. The implication is that it could increase the up-front engineering cost of designing an FPGA. “The FPGA industry is starting to hit some Asic-like cost issues,” said Alan Matthews, European marketing director at Xilinx. Traditionally, IP ...
MPEG2 encoders with hardware-based analogue video-capture
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French analyst predicts decline in passives
The passive component market is expected to decline over the next four years, according to a report from the French research house Decision Etudes Conseil. The biggest decline will come from magnetics, for which the market is expected to slump by over four per cent a year from 2003 to 2007. Capacitors are projected to show 0.5 per cent CAGR growth ...
Custom Asic market not in decline, claims LSI Logic
LSI Logic has made a strong rebuttal of claims that the market for full custom Asic devices is in long term decline. Analysts say the fall in Asic design starts in the past two years marks a terminal decline in the $16bn Asic market. The claim was repeated by Paul Hollingworth, Altera marketing v-p, at a recent roundtable debate on ...
