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Agilent, picoChip, mimoOn look to 3GPP LTE femtocell opportunities 7/22/2008
Engineers from Agilent Technologies, picoChip, and mimoOn have teamed and tested a 3GPP LTE femtocell reference design using Agilent’s test and measurement technologies.MIPS inks new licensing agreements with PMC-Sierra 7/22/2008
According to MIPS, the code-compatible cores offer scalable solutions from entry-level designs to 1 GHz and beyond.Digi-Key’s Mark Larson: Think local, act global 7/18/2008
Electronic Business recently spoke with Digi-Key Corp President Mark Larson about electronics distribution, growth through Web 2.0, and creating a global business from a small-town headquarters in Minnesota. What follows are excerpts of that conversation.ON Semi to acquire Catalyst for $115M 7/17/2008
Adding to its high gross margin analog and mixed-signal product offerings for the digital consumer and wireless end-markets, Phoenix, Ariz.-based ON Semiconductor Corp said today it would acquire Santa Clara, Calif.-based Catalyst Semiconductor Inc in an all-stock transaction in which Catalyst shareholders will receive 0.706 shares of ON Semi common stock for each share of Catalyst common stock owned, representing an equity value of approximately $115 million.Samsung, Sun team for ultra-endurance SSD flash memory for server apps 7/17/2008
Offering what they said is a five-fold increase in data write-and-erase cycles over standard single-level-cell (SLC) flash memory, Seoul, South Korea-based memory giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Santa Clara, Calif.-based software, systems, services, and microelectronics maker Sun Microsystems have collaborated on the development of an SLC NAND flash memory device for use in solid state drives that offers much higher endurance levels than any other flash memory device on the market today.Executive Q&A
Spansion, Virident aim to slash power in server farms 6/24/2008
By creating a new category of flash with one-eighth the average operating power and eight-times the bit density of DRAM DIMMs, Spansion hopes to enable a sea change in the way server farm managers implement memory. And by making this new flash device transparent to the rest of the server hardware and software, Virident intends to make the switch-over from DRAM to flash painless and profitable for the managers.Voices: Synopsys’ Aart de Geus on investing to win 6/12/2008
EDA leader discusses 'Frankenstein' flows, multicore trends, and the economy's impact on IC design.IMEC, Renesas research reconfigurable RF transceivers 5/28/2008
Renesas has joined IMEC's software defined radio front-end program to research new technologies for multi-standard RF transceivers and early realization of next-generation mobile phones.NASA supercomputer to get boost from Intel, SGI 5/8/2008
Intel, SGI, and NASA have announced a project that aims to produce a dramatic increase in the space agency's supercomputing capacity.Voices: Freescale’s Lisa Su: embedding future growth 3/18/2008
Lisa Su, senior VP and chief technology officer at Freescale Semiconductor, discusses the future of embedded technologies, differentiation beyond Moore’s Law, and the challenges that come with an increasingly sophisticated electronics market. Su also discusses her career path, one that has taken her from MIT to IBM and now to Freescale and has made her one of the highest ranking women in technology.Business Advice
Cadence's beat 12/18/2007
Electronic News/EDN recently sat down with Mike Fister, president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems Inc. and the former senior VP and general manager of Intel Corp.'s enterprise platforms group, to discuss the EDA industry, work across the capital-equipment value chain, and life after Intel.Targeting Japan 11/6/2007
William Mitchell, chairman, president and CEO of Arrow Electronics, discusses the global distribution supply chain giant’s first Japanese subsidiary, how Japan differs from other parts of Asia, and the company’s strategy for the region in this one-on-one interview.Distribution’s balancing act 10/30/2007
Executive Insight: Harley Feldberg, president of Avnet Electronics Marketing, discusses the Avnet Inc. operating group’s recent quarterly numbers, the distribution industry’s overall competitive landscape, and the global balancing act that the company uses to gain sales and market share in a challenging business environment in this one-on-one interview.Inside Intel: Where next? 10/23/2007
In this second of two parts, Dadi Perlmutter, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Mobility Group, sounds off on the company’s plans to expand the Intel Architecture into new markets and the developments that will play a key role in making that happen.Congratulations! You're the new CEO 10/23/2007
Susan Myers, president and founder of Myers Coaching & Consulting, gives some tips on, how as the new CEO, one can chart a course to make it their company and a great place to work.Research Analysis
