DSP shipments grew by 3.3% over Q1 to reach a value of $2.1billion, according to market watcher Forward Concepts. The figures represent an increase of more than 14% over the same period last year.
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Fischer Connectors has developed what it claims is a cost effective solution to meeting stringent hygiene requirements in disposable medical applications.
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A £1million DTI contract to develop mid infrared (mir) lasers has been awarded to a consortium led by QinetiQ.
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Despite predicting semiconductor sales would grow by 20% over last year, Future Horizon’s ceo Malcolm Penn has, reluctantly, revised his forecast downwards. Now, he expects sales to have grown by 14% when the final figures arrive.
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Intel has introduced a range of NOR flash memories aimed at the emerging low cost mobile phone market.
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Surplus semiconductor inventories in the global electronics supply chain rose more than expected in the second quarter, according to market watcher iSuppli. The glut is being put down to excess stockpiles of pc microprocessors and core logic chipsets.
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Siemens researchers have developed simulation software that can test the precision of Galileo – Europe’s satellite system of the future – even though not all of the satellites are yet in position.
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Philips has launched what it says is the first ESD protection chip to support the HDMI 1.3 specification.
The IP4776CZ38 integrates more than 20 discrete components, helping to reduce pcb space and system cost.
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The European Union has provided €2million for a three year project to develop a reconfigurable photonic ‘firewall on a chip’. WISDOM – WIrespeed Security Domains Using Optical Monitoring – is intended to plug a major gap in the global data network security armoury by implementing security checks and algorithms directly at high optical data ...
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Electrical retailer Curry’s is to bring solar panels to the high street, courtesy of Sharp Electronics.
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Wind River has released more than 300,000 lines of code to the Eclipse Foundation in a move which it says will help overcome restrictions associated with closed, proprietary developer tools.
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Cambridge based Light Blue Optics has raised a further $2.5million from a seed funding round led by 3i. The company will use the cash to accelerate its product development plans and hire more engineers.
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Texas Instruments is producing rfid chips on a 130nm analogue process and claims lower power consumption and better chip to reader sensitivity for the parts.
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Link for Code Composer Studio Development Tools 2, which enables developers deploying embedded systems on TI’s DSPs to perform continuous testing and verification of code.
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TT electronics Welwyn Components has won contracts worth more than £5million to supply microcircuits and resistor products for the Eurofighter Typhoon.
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Intel has unveiled 10 Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme processors for consumer and business desktop and laptop pcs and workstations.
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The Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) is looking to increase the use of recycled plastic materials within the Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) industry.
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Global revenues from mobile data services broke the $100billion barrier for the first time last year, according to Informa Telecoms & Media’s World Cellular Data Metrics. The figure of $102.1bn equates to $52.90 for every mobile subscription.
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Freescale has developed a multicore processor architecture that handles control/data plane and application aware content processing, deep packet inspection, pattern matching, network admission control and encryption acceleration – all at multi gigabit speeds.
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IDT is buying SigmaTel’s SigmaTel AC-97 and High Definition Audio PC and Notebook audio codec product lines for $72million. According to IDT president Greg Lang, the pc market is undergoing an important evolution.
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In its latest financial results, CSR says it expects the Bluetooth market to show an overall unit growth of up to 70% in 2006. CSR’s ceo John Scarisbrick, pictured, said: “The results reflect ... the strength of CSR’s position."
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Micron and Intel are sampling 4Gbit NAND flash memories built on a 50nm process. "We are poised to introduce a leadership product based on a cutting edge process technology,” said Brian Shirley, Micron vice president of memory.
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Freescale has launched the ColdFire V1 core, which it claims blends 32bit performance with the ease of use of an 8bit microcontroller. The move is a response to increasing performance and memory requirements in such applications as medical, industrial and motor control.
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Wireless memory may bridge between print and digital worlds. Graham Pitcher reports.
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The NMI finds UK microelectronics is in a good state of health. Vanessa Knivett reports.
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