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Tower Cuts 170 Jobs
MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel, May 29, 2008 -- Chip maker Tower Semiconductor Ltd. has cut 170 jobs -- about 11 percent of its work force -- as part of plan to reduce costs by $40 million a year. The positions were eliminated primarily in management and support and will save $14 million a year, the company said. Tower has about 1500 employees, according to its Web site. The cuts come little more than a week after Israel-based Tower announced it will acquire foundry Jazz Technologies of Newport Beach, Calif., in a stock-for-stock...
Nanowires Drive OLED Display
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 2, 2008 -- A new class of transparent transistors and circuits created from nanowires could one day be used in applications such as electronic paper, flexible color monitors and "head-up" displays in car windshields. Nanowires, tiny cylindrical structures...
DSS 2009 Adds Sensing Topics
ORLANDO, Fla., March 27, 2008 -- SPIE said it will enhance its 2009 Defense+Security Symposium (DSS) by incorporating the sensing topics of its defunct Optics East show. SPIE DSS 2008, held last week, was well attended, the society said, with exhibitors reporting excellent...
DSS 2009 Adds Sensing Topics
ORLANDO, Fla., March 27, 2008 -- SPIE said it will enhance its 2009 Defense+Security Symposium (DSS) by incorporating the sensing topics of its defunct Optics East show. SPIE DSS 2008, held last week, was well attended, the society said, with exhibitors reporting excellent...
Sun Wins $44M to Speed Chips
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 24, 2008 -- Sun Microsystems Inc. announced today it has received $44 million to speed computing by interconnecting an array of microchips into one "macrochip" using lasers instead of copper wires. If successful, the program could create a kind of...
I-Wei Wu Joins Leadis Technology Board
Mar 6, 2008 — Leadis Technology Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., a developer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors for mobile consumer electronic devices, announced that flat panel display industry veteran I-Wei Wu, PhD, had been elected to its board of directors....
Micron Forms CMOS Sensor Division
Mar 6, 2008 — Semiconductor components manufacturer Micron Technology Inc. of Boise, Idaho, announced it has formed an independent division, Aptina Imaging (www.aptina.com), for its CMOS sensor business. Operating independently provides Aptina with more...
Debuts at OFC/NFOEC
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 26, 2008 -- Demonstrations of breakthrough technologies and products by companies such as Lightwire, Finistar, Corning, and JDSU are attracting visitors today to the exposition at OFC/NFOEC 2008 in the San Diego Convention Center. The Optical Fiber...
Demos, Debuts at OFC/NFOEC
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 26, 2008 -- Demonstrations of breakthrough technologies and products by companies such as Lightwire, Finistar, Corning, and JDSU are attracting visitors today to the exposition at OFC/NFOEC 2008 in the San Diego Convention Center. The Optical Fiber...
Tiny Mach-Zehnder Modulator Operates at 10 Gb/s
Feb 1, 2008 — Silicon photonics offers the potential of combining the speed and compactness of photonics with the functionality and CMOS fabrication of electronics, a happy combination that may result in vastly more capable computers, communications and consumer...
Networking Issues Top Agenda
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 11, 2008 -- The ever-increasing demand for faster communication networks with more capacity, and the need to develop effective systems to manage the growing traffic on these networks, will be major topics of discussion at the Optical Fiber Communication...
Networking Issues Top Agenda
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 11, 2008 -- The ever-increasing demand for faster communication networks with more capacity, and the need to develop effective systems to manage the growing traffic on these networks, will be major topics of discussion at the Optical Fiber Communication...
Volterra's Dan Wark New VP of Operations at Amalfi Semiconductor
Dec 20, 2007 — Amalfi Semiconductor of Los Gatos, Calif., a fabless developer of high-performance CMOS radio frequency and mixed-signal semiconductors, today announced that Dan Wark, a former executive of Volterra Semiconductor Corp., has been hired as vice...
Pixelplus, Sharp Expand Collaboration
Dec 7, 2007 — Fabless semiconductor company Pixelplus Co. Ltd. of Seoul, South Korea, announced yesterday that it will continue to codevelop system-on-a-chip (SoC) image sensors with Sharp Corp. of Japan. The companies collaborated this year to develop the PO5030...
FETs Fabbed with Fullerene
ATLANTA, Dec. 3, 2007 -- High-performance field-effect transistors (FETs) have been fabricated at room temperature using thin films of carbon 60 (C60), an organic semiconductor material also known as fullerene. The new transistors won't replace silicon-based CMOS chips but...
Memsic Hires Gary O'Brien as Engineering VP
Oct 25, 2007 — Memsic Inc. announced that Gary O'Brien, PhD, recently joined the company as vice president of engineering and will oversee all product design and development for its engineering teams in Chicago, China, and at its headquarters in Andover, Mass....
Agilent Funds GA Tech Center
ATLANTA, Oct. 5, 2007 -- The Georgia Institute of Technology announced yesterday that has received $13 million from test and measurement company Agilent Technologies Inc. to establish a new electronic design automation simulation center at the university's Georgia...
Camera Phones Dominate Image Sensor Market
Oct 1, 2007 — In-Stat of Scottsdale, Ariz., a provider of research on business, product and technology decisions, reported that the 2006 image sensor market saw strong growth, primarily thanks to the camera phone, which comprised more than three-quarters of all...
Greg Young Joins Luxtera as President and CEO
Aug 29, 2007 — Fabless CMOS chip provider Luxtera Inc. of Carlsbad, Calif., today announced the appointment of Greg Young as its new president and CEO. Young has over 15 years of semiconductor industry experience, most recently with Broadcom, where he was vice...
California Micro, MagnaChip Ink Foundry Agreement
Aug 23, 2007 — Milpitas, Calif.-based California Micro Devices (CMD) and MagnaChip Semiconductor Ltd. of Seoul, South Korea, announced they have signed a strategic foundry business and process technology transfer deal. MagnaChip is expected to port proprietary CMD...
Canon Building $451M CMOS Plant
TOKYO, July 16, 2007 -- Canon Inc. will double the number of CMOS image sensors it makes by investing $451 million in a factory in Kawasaki, Japan, the Reuters news agency reported yesterday. CMOS sensors are used in digital cameras and digital video cameras. A Canon...
Roger Bitter Named Sales and Business Development VP at Mears
Jul 16, 2007 — Mears Technologies Inc. of Waltham, Mass., a provider of advanced silicon processes and engineering services to semiconductor device manufacturers and contract foundries, today announced the appointment of Roger Bitter as the company's vice...
Sensor Sees in Dim Light
ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 14, 2007 -- Eastman Kodak Co. today introduced an image sensor that it said is at least twice as sensitive to light as those currently found in any digital camera. Image sensors act as the "eye" of a digital camera by converting light into electric charge...
Chip Advance Uses Nature's Patterning Process
ARMONK, N.Y., May 4, 2007 -- The natural pattern-creating process that forms seashells, snowflakes and tooth enamel has been used to create uniform patterns of trillions of nanoscale holes in a microprocessor. The technique allows electric signals on conventionally manufactured...
324-GHz Waves Reported
LOS ANGELES, April 17, 2007 -- A 324-gigahertz frequency has been generated using a voltage-controlled oscillator in a 90-nanometer CMOS integrated circuit, a technology used in chips such as microprocessors. The signal generator, which produces frequencies nearly 70 percent...
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