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Oberthur Technologies and STMicroelectronics Team Up for NFC MIFARE DESFire SIM Card
Oberthur Technologies, the world's second largest provider of smart card based solutions, and STMicroelectronics today announced that they are working together to provide a new highly secure SIM solution that will allow travelers and commuters to use their NFC enabled mobile phones as an electronic ticket.
CHH CoNeX appoints new Purchasing Manager
Witton-based cable assembly, integrated products and logistics services provider, CHH CoNeX, has appointed Kevin Sharps as Purchasing Manager as part of its strategy to increase efficiencies and performance throughout the business.
IAR Systems Innovative Power Debugging Technology is Available for Renesas Electronics' RX Microcontroller Architecture
IAR Systems today announced that Renesas Electronics' RX microcontroller architecture is the next target architecture to benefit from the innovative power debugging technology included in IAR Embedded Workbench®. Using power debugging, embedded software can be developed and tuned to save power by exercising stricter control of how and when the hardware consumes power. Keeping the power consumption down extends battery lifetime in mobile applicat...
Renesas Electronics - EMMA Mobile EV0-D SoCs for Portable Audio-Visual Devices with One-third Reduced Package
Renesas Electronics, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, today announced the availability of new system-on-chips (SoCs) that achieve playback of audio and video data in a single chip for portable audio-visual (AV) devices, including portable multimedia players, electronic book readers and network TVs.
Imec reports progress in deep sub-micron scaling for logic and memory
At the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco imec’s advanced CMOS research program reports promising advances in scaling logic, DRAM and non-volatile memory. A new device based on non-silicon channels was realized to scale high-performance logic towards the sub-20nm node. Moreover, imec developed low-leakage capacitors allowing DRAM to be pushed to the 2x nm node. And the switching mechanism of resistive RAM for next-generatio...
Atmel Ramps maXTouch for Large Touchscreen
Atmel today announced it is shipping production quantities of the Atmel maXTouch mXT1386 and mXT616 chipsets for large touchscreens up to 15 inches. Atmel maXTouch technology has established a leading position in one of the fastest growing markets in the entire semiconductor industry. The new mXT1386/mXT616 chipsets are the newest members of the maXTouch family and will power a number of upcoming touch devices including tablet PCs, smartbooks, mo...
Synopsys Receives IEEE Standards Association Corporate Award for 2010
Synopsys announced it has received the Corporate Award from the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) for its contribution to semiconductor and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) standards and its role in fostering innovation and collaboration in the standards community. The award is presented annually to an IEEE-SA member who demonstrates outstanding leadership and contributions to the organization.
NMI's inaugural Semiconductor Manufacturing Excellence Conference focuses on communicating best practice and continuous improvement
The importance of inter-company collaboration and the use of total team approaches to increase yield and minimise waste were key themes at the NMI's inaugural Semiconductor Manufacturing Excellence Conference. Held at the University of Warwick, the conference assembled teams from across the UK and Ireland and highlighted the strength of its manufacturing sector.
NXP Semiconductors achieves first-ever security certification from Cryptography Research
NXP Semiconductors, together with Brightsight and Cryptography Research Inc., today announced the certification of several NXP SmartMX secure microcontrollers under the DPA Countermeasure Validation Program. The analysis, conducted by security evaluation firm Brightsight, validates the effectiveness of Differential Power Analysis countermeasures in members of NXP's SmartMX product line.
Beijer Electronics acquires QSI Corporation
With the acquisition of QSI Corporation, Beijer gets a strong presence in North America which is a strategically important market for the company. Among other positive things we see great potential with the extended product portfolio designed for demanding environments and for mobile applications, says Magnus Ekerot, Business Area Director of HMI Products.