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Despite being encouraged by financial analysts to shed some light on its business strategy as it pertains to its fabs and profitability, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz did not discuss rumors that the company will sell off its manufacturing facilities at its annual meeting of stockholders.
Buck-boost converters provide voltages both above and below the input voltage. This feature is useful if your design's input voltage changes drastically or if its load voltage varies.
A new process creates ICs that not only can bend to conform to various surfaces, but also can operate while stretching, compressing, and folding. Scientists at the University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign, working with colleagues at Northwestern University and Singapore’s Institute for High Performance Computing
The nine-stage pipeline architecture of the MIPS32 1004K coherent processing system will support a worst-case 800-MHz base core operating frequency, in a TSMC 65-nm GP process, implementing a two-core, dual-threaded configuration with 32-kbyte caches for each core, as well as the Coherence Manager and Global Interrupt Controller.
With an eye toward demanding military, aerospace, medical, and industrial applications, VersaLogic announced the Cougar single-board computer at the April Embedded Systems Conference.
As typical household products become more sophisticated, the power factor of the load they represent decays—a trend that is exacerbating a growing stress on our electric-power infrastructure.
While the tit-for-tat over the relative merits of and prospects for traditional hard-disk drives versus flash-memory-based SSDs (solid-state drives) continues, our expert weighs in with a more pragmatic assessment. Economic and technical factors mean the two storage formats are more likely to coexist and thrive in specific niches.
10-GbE edges closer to major product rollouts as silicon prices and power consumption fall. But it may be two years or more before widespread deployments start meeting demand.
Learn the fundamentals of thermal design and how it can be implemented using practical methods and materials to produce acceptable high-power LED applications.
Tektronix’s new DPO3000-series of lunchbox-sized, two- and four-channel, 100-, 300-, and 500-MHz-bandwidth scopes provides more than three times the screen area and 500 times the waveform-memory depth of Tek’s largest selling scopes, based on unit volume—the small-footprint TDS3000 series.
In its ranking of the top IC foundries for 2007, Scottsdale, Ariz.-based market research company IC Insights Inc reported this week that 11 of the top 14 foundries are based in the Asia-Pacific region, with only one - Europe-headquartered X-Fab, which merged with 1st Silicon in 2006 -- the only non-Asia-Pacific pure-play foundry company in the top 14 group.
Despite being encouraged by financial analysts to shed some light on its business strategy as it pertains to its fabs and profitability, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz did not discuss rumors that the company will sell off its manufacturing facilities at its annual meeting of stockholders.
An increase in inventory days has been seen in most of the supply chain, but it is particularly severe for semiconductor vendors, communications OEMs, and electronics retailers, according to the market research company. On that, Gartner reports the surplus in inventory may now take another two quarters before returning to normal electronics supply chain ranges.