At a $550 million investment each, Micron and Nanya create MeiYa Technology, a DRAM joint venture that will leverage both companies' manufacturing technology. Following a disclosure last month that they were exploring potential technology sharing, joint technology development, and development of a new joint venture for the DRAM memory market, Bois

The Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute and foundry SMIC said their goal is to offer wideband IPs to foster the development of advanced wireless RFICs in China. Mainland China’s largest semiconductor foundry, Shanghai, China-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) and the Hong Kong Applied Science and Te

KSW Microtec AG has launched the KSW windshield inlay offering customers more accurate, efficient and secure vehicle access into various locations and premises. With a read range of approximately 18 feet and a larger memory chip, the inlay can benefit both commercial fleet operators of cars or trucks, as well as private vehicle owners requi

It's not uncommon for family and friends to send toiletries, magazines, photos, and other personal items to our fighting forces in Iraq to help make their time away a bit more tolerable. In essence, it's a way of sending a little bit of home to them. Alex Filippov, general manager of Long Distance Post, LLC, a distributor of prepaid mobile phones

Audience recently demonstrated at CTIA Wireless 2008 the industry’s first voice processor based on the intelligence of the human hearing system. The processor enables instantaneous noise suppression of 25 dB for both stationary and non-stationary noise to provide excellent voice quality, even in the noisiest environments. The Audience Voice Proce

Providing USB 2.0 on-the-go (OTG) functionality to enabled devices, the PIC32MX420F032H-40I/PT USB On-The-Go PIC32 Microcontroller from Microchip provides designers with the flexibility to add all three modes of USB operation to their products. USB OTB functionality also includes the ability to auto-negotiate which will be the host or device when e

Based on the 400,000-gate and 8,000-logic-cell 3S400A FPGA from Xilinx, a development kit from Avnet provides a platform for experimenting and prototyping applications based on the Xilinx Spartan-3A FPGA family. Suitable for exploring general logic designs as well as DSP and MicroBlaze-based embedded processing applications, the the board also incl

Targeting amplifiers, discrete transistors, and diodes where more than 0.5W is consumed, StratEdge's new family of small outline thermally enhanced molded ceramic packages for power semiconductors can be used for silicon, silicon carbide, gallium nitride, and other compound semiconductors in power applications. Able to handle temperatures up to 360

The RoHS-compliant HS and HW, single- and dual-cell supercapacitors from Tecate Industries boast what is presented as the industry’s highest voltages for low ESR pulse supercapacitors. The high temperature electrolyte extends both the operating voltage (from 4.5V to 5.5V), and the operating and storage temperature (from 75°C to 85°C). This higher

Created to support E Ink's Vizplex-enabled electronic paper displays, the Epson S1D13521B is a jointly-developed display controller IC which brings greater functionality with user interface features such as navigation, drop down/popup menus, responsive cursors, and real-time keyboard entry. The device can perform regional updates and enables the di