Rumors of an AMD acquisition of ATI had been swirling for some time. Certainly the rumor mill was at work prior to Computex in June. Reactions to the initial rumors were varied, ranging from financial incredulity, when...

Texas Instruments (TI) has established itself as a leading provider of chips for mobile phones, but as mobile devices see an increasing convergence between communications and entertainment, TI is increasingly positioning...

Rumors of an AMD acquisition of ATI had been swirling for some time. Certainly the rumor mill was at work prior to Computex in June. Reactions to the initial rumors were varied, ranging from financial incredulity, when...

Industry observers and analysts are always on the look-out for the next big thing. Many of them think that the next big thing could be in a very small form factor – digital TV on the mobile phone and possibly other...

The prospect of displays utilizing light-emitting polymers is nothing new. A company such as CDT, for example, has been proposing the inkjet printing of displays based on light-emitting polymers for some time, now. A new...

The name Philips has long been associated with consumer electronics, but as the concept of the connected home has developed and begun to take on meaning, Philips Semiconductors has become one of the main suppliers of silicon...

Global Positioning System (GPS) technology now has a wide range of applications in consumer electronics, thanks to major reductions in the size of chipsets and improvements in signal reception, according to Michael Canning,...

Readers of DigiTimes.com will be familiar with the major technical differentiation we now see between the twin poles of the PC processor world, AMD and Intel. AMD has broken free of a front-side bus architecture, integrating...

With the arrival of new CEO Abhi Talwalkar, LSI Logic embarked on a re-think of its operations, finally deciding to re-focus on ICs for storage and the consumer-electronics space. Simultaneously, the company's Gresham fab,...

China's IGRS (Intelligent Grouping and Resource Sharing) and Taiwan-based C-Media Electronics on June 5 launched in Beijing a sound card and related products they co-developed for China's online music market. The products...

With its XtremeAR product, Mentor Graphics is again upping the ante in the world of PCB design. XtremeAR builds on the collaborative, shared-database approach made available with Mentor's XtremePCB tool and allows compute...

Operational amplifiers (op amps) are the workhorses of analog circuitry. They are found everywhere; they are used everywhere. That’s not to say the technology and those who provide it are standing still. Improved...

CamSemi is a venture-funded startup offering single-chip power-IC solutions based on technology initially developed at Cambridge University. Another example of the possibilities now made available by silicon-on-insulator...

With renewed growth in the IP-core markets, companies such as ARC and Tensilica, specialists in configurable cores, are competing with a number of well known names in “fixed” or industry standard architecture...

Altera's traditional reputation is that of vying with Xilinx for the market crown in FPGAs, but it's now doing that in a market that's seeing rapid evolution. FPGAs are of increasing interest to customers who would normally...

Altera's traditional reputation is that of vying with Xilinx for the market crown in FPGAs, but it's now doing that in a market that's seeing rapid evolution. FPGAs are of increasing interest to customers who would normally...

The marriage of Ultra-Wideband and USB remains a tantalizing vision for the communications industry, although perhaps a marriage made in hell as much as in heaven. The IT and communications industries have long regarded...

Innovative Silicon (ISi) is a venture-funded start-up company, founded by chief scientist Serguei Okhonin and chairman and CTO Pierre Fazan, dedicated to the development and licensing of Z-RAM memory technology.

With several success stories under its belt, Oregan Networks expects DLNA certification, Viiv PCs and CEA-2014 ratification to soon bring some level of standardization to the digital home entertainment market. This should...

DigiTimes recently named two companies as International News Makers in 2005. One of those companies was Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

Actel tends to play in the mainstream, value-based end of the FPGA market. That strategy offers a unique value proposition based on Actel's commitment to the use of flash memory. With an Actel FPGA, it's flash that holds...

Start-up Genoa Color Technologies has developed technology that significantly enhances the picture produced by a wide variety of display types, including TFT LCD, front- and rear-projection systems, and color-sequential...

When wireless LAN (802.11) first began to see significant market take-up, any number of IC companies tried to compete, only to discover that it was tough going. Many of the original contenders in wireless LAN dropped out,...

Semiconductor design-service companies face any number of challenges as chip complexity rises in direct proportion to time-to-market pressure. Couple that with the industry’s move to deep submicron, and it soon becomes...

Designed in the late 1980s, digital audio broadcasting (DAB) technology is now coming up to potentially replace traditional analog forms of broadcast radio. Taiwan-headquartered IC design startup Future Waves proclaims...