Sun, 08/04/2012 - 08:12
LONDON – Boosted by its acquisition of Sanyo's semiconductor business, On Semiconductor registered a 49 percent sales increase in 2011 and moved into the top 25 chip companies, according to a ranking of companies by 2011 chip sales compiled by market research company IC Insights.
Sat, 17/03/2012 - 21:46
(Dylan McGrath) - The third generation of Apple Inc.'s wildly successful iPad media tablet, which hit store shelves this week, features a modified version of Apple's A5 processor, A5X, which has a larger floorplan to include quad-core graphics, according to a teardown analysis performed by UBM TechInsights.
Tue, 10/01/2012 - 16:33
Xilinx, Inc. has launched its first Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform (EPP), which the company touts as a major milestone in the roll-out of a complete embedded processing platform that for the first time offers developers ASIC levels of performance and power consumption, the flexibility of an FPGA and the programmability of a microprocessor. Customers who have developed systems using the...
Thu, 05/01/2012 - 16:33
Caroline Ross, MIT: “Diode for Light - Important step toward computing with light
Research at MIT produces long-sought component to allow complete optical circuits on silicon chips.
November 25, 2011
There has been enormous progress in recent years toward the development of photonic chips — devices that use light beams instead of electrons to carry out their computational tasks. Now,...
