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Renesas takes the first steps towards creating an ecosystem of its own 28/05/2012

The news that Renesas is to outsource 40nm mcu manufacture to TSMC is not surprising; what is surprising is Renesas' decision to make its proprietary MONOS embedded flash technology available to anyone who wants to use it.

Renesas has, it claims, learned some big lessons from the Earthquake. One is not to have all your eggs in one basket and, hence, the decision to transfer manufacturing responsibility ...
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ARM’s M0+ core 20/03/2012

There has been a lot of talk in recent months about the 'internet of things'; a handy ...

ARM changes 8bit mcu life span 19/03/2012

Despite all the hullaballoo surrounding 32bit mcus, 8bit parts remain firm favourites for ...

Embedded World breaks record 05/03/2012

Embedded World has underlined its position as the world's leading exhibition and ...

Exhibitor List A – F 24/01/2012

Here is the Embedded World Exhibitor List A – F

Exhibitor List G – N 24/01/2012

Here is the Embedded World Exhibitor List G – N

Exhibitor List O – Z 24/01/2012

Here is the Embedded World Exhibitor List O – Z

Positive signs for 2012 22/12/2011

There's good news for the semiconductor industry as 2011 comes to a close, with Gartner ...

Supply chain house problem 28/11/2011

Still recovering from the impact of Japan's Tsunami disaster earlier this year, the ...

John Hayes talks WorldSkills 06/09/2011

Minister John Hayes talks to Findlay Media about Apprenticeships, craftsmanship and why ...

Most expensive component 20/07/2011

With great apologies to William Shakespeare, "a resistor, a resistor, my kingdom for a ...

FPGA market developments 12/07/2011

The programmable logic market is notable not only for its products, but also for the ...

Support networks 14/06/2011

Analogue electronics design is, by common consent, a difficult task. A number of factors ...

Is analogue design getting har 06/06/2011

A recent survey by New Electronics suggests that 32% of electronics engineers believe ...

Software developers' lives 16/05/2011

A friend once asked me what software developers do when they're not creating the next new ...

Design reuse 15/04/2011

It's become a cliché in news or science reports. A water treatment plant manager, or ...

TI, National Semi takeover 07/04/2011

It's been a while since there has been a takeover on the scale of that involving Texas ...

Design data management 25/02/2011

From a designer's perspective, the best design environment – the 'holy grail' as it were ...

Freescale looks to raise $1billion to ... 15/02/2011

When private equity investors acquired NXP and Freescale a few years ago, the cost of the ...
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The most common telephone number in the ... 11/02/2011

An electronics design engineer has discovered the reason why at least 1500 companies ...

First in, Best Dressed ... 24/01/2011

We look back fondly to when we were fresh faced, would be engineers. Nothing fazed us. We ...

Happy New Year UK electronics – now get ... 18/01/2011

In my mind, 2011 brings a wealth of opportunities for "UK electronics", especially for ...

Change is coming 10/01/2011

The market is set to shift as Microsoft embraces ARM based devices.

The 'i's have it 06/01/2011

Following the official launch of the 2nd generation Intel Core i3/i5/i7 processors at ...

Richard Noble's Bloodhound Project diary 04/01/2011

Late again – but it's the end of the year and we are going strong! The sheer intensity of ...

FPGAs come of age 02/11/2010

Programmable logic devices have a range of aliases, but whatever you call them, the ...

What’s left for the specialist ... 25/10/2010

As small and medium sized distributors disappear into the homogenous mass that is the ...

All change in the fpga market 04/10/2010

The programmable logic market has always been a hard place to do business. The reason? ...

fpga acquisition 04/10/2010

The programmable logic market has always been a hard place to do business. The reason? ...

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