News tagged with semiconductor product

Japan's Renesas ups chip outsourcing to Taiwan giant

Japan's Renesas Electronics said Monday it will boost the outsourcing of its chip production to Taiwan's TSMC, but it declined comment on reports it would cut about 30 percent of its staff.

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New pilot survey reveals importance of intellectual property

New survey results indicate that trademarks and trade secrets are the most important forms of intellectual property (IP) protection according to most businesses, followed by copyrights and patents.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Chairman says Samsung to focus on new products

South Korea's Samsung Electronics will this year focus on developing new products and tapping into new businesses to get ahead of competitors amid the global economic slowdown, its chairman said Monday.

Technology / Business

created Jan 02, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Elpida uses high-K metal gate technology to develop 2-gigabit DDR2 mobile RAM

Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced the DRAM industry's first-ever use of high-k metal gate (HKMG) technology to develop a 2-gigabit DDR2 Mobile RAM (LPDDR2) ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Solar cells can be made thinner and lighter with the help of aluminum particles

Solar cells are a key technology in the drive toward cleaner energy production. Unfortunately, solar technology is not yet economically competitive and the cost of solar cells needs to be brought down. One ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 09, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Diamonds cutting environmental impact

Diamonds are known as a girl's best friend due to their splendid sparkle, but they are also held in very high regard by industrialists, who prize their unmatched density, excellent thermal conduction and other properties.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 18, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Discovery paves way for development of efficient, inexpensive plastic solar cells

Physicists at Rutgers University have discovered new properties in a material that could result in efficient and inexpensive plastic solar cells for pollution-free electricity production.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 10, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

ARM Announces 45nm SOI Test Chip Results That Demonstrate 40 Percent Power Savings Over Bulk Process

ARM announced at the IEEE SOI Conference, Foster City, Calif., the results from a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) 45nm test chip that demonstrate potential power savings of up to 40 percent over traditional bulk process for manufacturing ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Tessera wins patent dispute with chipmakers

(AP) -- Tessera Technologies Inc. said Wednesday that it won a patent dispute over small-format semiconductor packaging products, with the International Trade Commission issuing a cease-and-desist order against rivals Motorola ...

Technology / Business

created May 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Semiconductor sales down 28.6 pct in January: SIA

Worldwide semiconductor sales declined 28.6 percent in January from a year ago as the global recession continued to take a big bite out of the computer chip industry, an industry tracker said Monday.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0