North American Engineering Student FPGA Competition Sign-Ups Open
News | www.altera.com | 5 hours 11 minutes ago
Ottawa, Canada, October 5, 2009—Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR), Terasic Incorporated, Impulse Accelerated Technologies Inc. and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Canada today announced that sign-ups are open for the 2009 Innovate North America FPGA Competition.
http://www.altera.com/corporate/news_room/releases/2009/products/nr-innovate_na.html?f=hp&k=wn1
NANOMATERIALS : NIEHS grants to focus more research on health and safety of nanomaterials
News | www.i-micronews.com | 20 hours 34 minutes ago
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, is increasing its investment in understanding the potential health, safety and environmental issues related to tiny particles that are used in...
Rochester Electronics expands space-level manufacturing, radiation-hardened semiconductor offerings
News | MAE.pennnet.com | Nov 21, 2009
Military & Aerospace Electronics - Rochester Electronics expands space-level manufacturing, radiation-hardened semiconductor offerings - NEWBURYPORT, Mass., 21 Nov. 2009. Rochester Electronics, a source for discontinued semiconductors, is actively expanding its mission-critical product
Conquering the Univers(al)
Blog | circuitsassembly.com | Nov 20, 2009
USI is, of course, the world’s 24th largest – and Taiwan’s third largest, after Foxconn and Orient Semiconductor – provider of EMS services. It had 2008 EMS sales of $490.4 million, and EMS work makes up about 25% (or about $318 million) of its overall sales so far this year.
Details of Intel's 32nm Atom emerge, on track for 2011
News | www.techspot.com | Nov 20, 2009
According to Fudzilla, some new information has emerged about Intel's 2011 Atom platform, which will be a successor to the imminent Pine Trail platform. Codenamed Cedar Trail, the 2011 refresh should bring the first Atom processors built with a 32nm fabrication. Behind the scenes, Fudzilla says
http://www.techspot.com/news/37049-details-of-intels-32nm-atom-emerge-on-track-for-2011.html
DDR3 memory transistion next year
Blog | embeddedblog.blogspot.com | Nov 20, 2009
Shipments of high speed, low power DDDR3 memmory will rise to account for more than half of the global DRAM market by the second quarter of 2010, surpassing DDR2 for the first time as the leading technology for PC main memory, says market researcher iSuppli. DDR3’s share of the DRAM market in terms
http://embeddedblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/ddr3-memory-transistion-next-year.html
Applied-Semitool deal: What analysts are saying
News | www.eetimes.com | Nov 20, 2009
As reported, Applied Materials Inc. and Semitool Inc. this week announced a definitive agreement for Applied to acquire the outstanding shares of Semitool for $11 per share in an all-cash tender offer.
http://www.eetimes.com/rss/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=221900486&cid=RSSfeed_eetimes_newsRSS
Toshiba develops molecular photoresist technology for EUV lithography
News | nanotechwire.com | Nov 20, 2009
Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed a high resolution photoresist (photo-sensitive film) essential for future application of EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography in semiconductor fabrication, and proved its viability with the world's first 20nm-scale generation process
Semiconductor manufacturing equipment orders flat
News | www.electronicsweekly.com | Nov 20, 2009
Despite high fab capacity utilisation rates, there is no great rush to order new semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
Ismosys to support Tectrol power products in Europe
News | www.eetimes.eu | Nov 20, 2009
Ismosys has signed a rep-stocking deal with Canadian power specialist Tectrol Inc, covering the key European territories of Benelux, Iberia, Central Europe (inc. Switzerland), Italy, France, UK, Ireland, Sweden, Turkey, the Nordic countries and Israel.
http://www.eetimes.eu/israel/221900431?cid=RSSfeed_eetimesEU_israel
