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United Microelectronics Tapes Out Foundry's First 55 nm SDDI Customer Product

United Microelectronics Corporation, a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced that it has taped out the foundry industry's first customer product utilizing 55nm small display driver IC (SDDI) process technology.

19 Dec 2012

Berkeley Design Automation’s Nanometer Circuit Verification Platform Selected by IC Plus

Berkeley Design Automation, Inc., provider of the world’s fastest nanometer circuit verification, today announced that IC Plus Corporation, a communication and networking IC design company has selected Analog FastSPICE™ AMS (AFS AMS) for high-speed mixed-signal design verification.

19 Dec 2012

Sirris Hosted Two Conferences on Printed Electronics at Belgium Facility

Recently Sirris, the Collective Centre for the Belgian Technology Industry, hosted two conferences on Printed Electronics at their facility in Liege, Belgium.

19 Dec 2012

Timing Variation Solution Provider for Nanometer Semiconductor Designs Joins Liberty TAB

CLK Design Automation today announced that it has joined the Liberty Technical Advisory Board. Timing derates for process variance, temperature and voltage have become an essential part of 28nm, 20nm and 14nm physical design flows.

18 Dec 2012

Samsung Invests in Mobile Application Processors Production on 300mm Wafers at 28nm Node

Samsung Austin Semiconductor LLC today announced that a $4 billion investment at its Austin, Texas, site is on schedule for production of state-of-the-art mobile application processors within the second half of 2013.

17 Dec 2012

Nano-Antenna in Light-Sensing Device Enhances Detection of Viruses

Vasily Kolchenko, associate professor of biological sciences at New York City College of Technology (City Tech), is a key player on a research team that recently made a breakthrough with enormous potential significance for the treatment of serious diseases.

15 Dec 2012

Bio-Inspired Aerodynamic Designs for Nano-Scale Vehicles

Ever since the Wright brothers, engineers have been working to develop bigger and better flying machines that maximize lift while minimizing drag.

15 Dec 2012

New Inductor Design with Self-Rolled-Up Silicon Nitrate Nanomembrane Tubes

On the road to smaller, high-performance electronics, University of Illinois researchers have smoothed one speed bump by shrinking a key, yet notoriously large element of integrated circuits.

14 Dec 2012

NVIDIA Secures DARPA Contract to Explore Embedded Processor Technologies

NVIDIA has been awarded a contract worth up to $20 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to research embedded processor technologies that could lead to dramatic improvements in the ability of autonomous vehicles to collect and process data from on-board sensors.

13 Dec 2012

Altera Announces First Shipments of its 28nm SoC Devices

Altera Corporation today announced the first shipments of its 28 nm SoC devices, which combine a dual-core ARM® Cortex™-A9 processor system with FPGA logic on a single device.

13 Dec 2012