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The Hertfordshire based PCB manufacturer is currently working on the modernisation of the company's plating capabilities. [Source: evertiq / 11-19]

Freescale Semiconductor technology is powering Synerject's new family of M3 electronic control units (ECU), designed for motorcycles, such as the 2009 Ducati Monster 696, as well [Source: Business Wire / 11-19]

The bq24750A is a high-efficiency, synchronous battery charger with integrated compensation and system power selector logic, offering low component count for space-constrained multi-chemistry battery charging applications. Ratiometric charge current and voltage programming allows high regulation accuracies, and can be either... [Source: ElectronicsBuzz.com / 11-19]

The TPA6045A4C is a stereo audio power amplifier and DirectPath headphone amplifier in a thermally enhanced, space-saving, 32-pin QFN package. The speaker amplifier is capable of driving 2.1 W per channel continuously into 4-Ω; loads at 5 V. The headphone amplifier achieves a minimum of 85 mW at 1% THD+N from a 5-V supply.... [Source: ElectronicsBuzz.com / 11-19]

Mitrionics, Inc. will be working with Xilinx and Nallatech for supporting the Mitrion Virtual Processor and the Mitrion Software Acceleration Platform on Xilinx FPGA-based Nallatech FSB-FPGA modules for Intel Xeon 7300 quad socket server platforms. [Source: TMCnet / 11-19]

It's hard to believe that the world's very first microprocessor (the Intel 4004) first leapt onto the stage 37 years ago... [Source: Programmable Logic DesignLine / 11-19]

There are more than more than 550 fabless semiconductor companies competing in China today, but more than 100 of them will disappear within two years, according to market research firm iSuppli. [Source: EETimes Design News / 11-19]

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Executives at four-year-old startup SiPort struggled Monday to get the promising maker of mobile chips running again after the murder of three colleagues last week in their Santa Clara office. They hope to reopen in a day or two, but it's clear the killings devastated the close-knit engineering staff of 38. [Source: SiliconValley.com / 11-19]

Future Horizons, Europe's leading semiconductor analyst company, reckons that 2009 will see a two per cent contraction in market size, but no re-run of the disastrous downturn of 2001. [Source: Electronics Weekly / 11-19]

Spiral Gateway, the Edinburgh dynamically reconfigurable processor company, is to run its next IC on a multi-project wafer (MPW) at TSMC in April. [Source: Electronics Weekly / 11-19]

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Taiwan IC Packaging (TICP) has remarked that its overall performance in the fourth quarter of 2008 will be hit by the ongoing economic downturn. But orders for memory card packaging orders have been increasing steadily since the third quarter amid slumping NAND flash prices, according to the company. [Source: DigiTimes / 11-19]

Amid rapidly deteriorating conditions in the global economy and electronics value chain, iSuppli now is predicting worldwide semiconductor revenues will decline in 2008 compared to 2007. [Source: DigiTimes / 11-19]

ProMOS Technology chairman ML Chen has urged the Taiwan government to throw a lifeline to the DRAM industry to helping it undergo fundamental changes during the current difficulties. [Source: DigiTimes / 11-19]

Socle Technology, a Taiwan-based IC design service company in which Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing has a major stake, will announce Socle's further license agreement with ARM on November 20, according to the company. [Source: DigiTimes / 11-19]

The global market for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) will see single-digit growth for the first time in 2008 and low growth is also anticipated for 2009, as plummeting consumer confidence has weakened the market for MEMS-enabled consumer applications, analysts pointed out. [Source: DigiTimes / 11-19]

After years of double-digit annual growth, China's semiconductor sales revenues in 2008 are expected to rise by only 6.7% to reach US$81.7 billion, up from US$76.6 billion in 2007, iSuppli predicts. However, China's fabless IC industry is expected to perform better, expanding by 12.3% to reach US$3.5 billion in 2008, up from US$3.1 billion in 2007. [Source: DigiTimes / 11-19]

Two Taiwan-based IC design houses, Holtek Semiconductor and Sonix Technology, have voiced optimism about the growth potential for the medical electronics market. Holtek and Sonix estimate they will see a 10% and 7-8% sales contribution from medical applications, respectively, to their total sales, according to the companies. [Source: DigiTimes / 11-19]

North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $843 million in orders in October 2008 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.93 according to the October 2008 Book-to-Bill Report published today by SEMI. A book-to-bill of 0.93 means that $93 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month. [Source: Market Wire - Electronics / 11-19]

Today at the GSM Asia, Infineon Technologies AG (FRANKFURT: IFX) (NYSE: IFX) introduced its latest chips for Ultra-Low Cost mobile phones, optimizing the system performance by factor five and also again reducing the bill-of-material (BOM) by almost 10 percent compared to currently available Infineon platform solutions. [Source: Market Wire - Electronics / 11-19]

According to PricewaterhouseCoopers' annual review of the semiconductor industry in China, China's Impact on the Semiconductor Industry: 2008 Update, electronics manufacturers in the Chinese market consumed more than one-third of semiconductors produced globally for the first time ever. Driven largely by the growth in its electronics manufacturing, China has clearly become the dominant consumer of semiconductors with the total consumption estimated at $88 billion in 2007. China reached the one third consumption milestone much faster than previously forecasted. In fact, the nation's consumption of semiconductors grew by 23 percent last year. This is the third consecutive year that China's semiconductor consumption has exceeded all other global markets. [Source: Globe NewsWire / 11-19]

Philips Lumileds today announced that it has delivered tens-of-millions of LUXEON Rebel power LEDs, the vast majority of which are warm, neutral and cool white in color. The company [Source: Business Wire / 11-19]

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ASML Holding NV (ASML) (NASDAQ:ASML) (Amsterdam:ASML) today announces that productivity records have been set by its TWINSCAN platform of lithography systems. [Source: Business Wire / 11-19]

Breker Verification Systems, a private supplier of EDA software for functional verification, announced that NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA), the world leader in visual computing technologies, [Source: Business Wire / 11-19]

The Electronic Components Association (ECA) has launched a new program to advance the use of ultracapacitors as a vital generator of renewable energy. [Source: Business Wire / 11-19]

32 kHz watch circuit with programmable adaptive motor pulse [Source: ElectronicsBuzz.com / 11-19]

32 kHz watch circuit with programmable output period and pulse width [Source: ElectronicsBuzz.com / 11-19]

The Hyperion project, a partnership between Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), a world-class research and development facility, Intel and nine other leading technology companies was highlighted this week at Super Computing (SC)'08 in Austin. [Source: ElectronicsBuzz.com / 11-19]

One type of solar cell design starts with a chain of chromophores strung between two electrodes, explained Dewey Holten, Ph.D., professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences. [Source: physorg.com / 11-19]

Connector analyst, Ron Bishop, provides his annual review of the top 10 connector manufacturers in the electronic component industry. [Source: TTI / 11-19]

One of the biggest challenges facing the world today is how to conserve power. Clock design engineers have long been faced with this issue, having to settle for 1.8V products as the lowest supply voltage available for crystal clock oscillators. To help address this problem, Ecliptek has recently launched its EB17E2 series of 1.2V oscillators. [Source: Ecliptek / 11-19]

Omron Electronic Components LLC announces the release of the 2SMES-01 high frequency mechanical relay utilizing its expertise in MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) technology. Developed to meet the needs of the automated test equipment market, this product has exceptional high frequency characteristics at 10GHz (50W) typical: [Source: Omron Electronic Components / 11-19]

Cymer said it will reduce its worldwide workforce by approximately 8 percent, or 85 total employees, which are in addition to a range of cost saving measures previously in place as the severity of the semiconductor downturn becomes clearer. [Source: Fabtech / 11-18]

Linear Technology Corporation (NASDAQ-LLTC), a leading, independent manufacturer of high performance linear integrated circuits, today announced the promotion of Tony Armstrong to the position of Director of Product Marketing for Power Products. [Source: Techwire / 11-18]

The enormous complexity possible in ASICs today has had a damping effect on design starts. Many in the industry simply can't afford to design the chips their customers want, and that their foundries can easily fabricate. [Source: EDN / 11-18]

C&K Components has developed a 14-function navigation switch in the smallest package available on the market. The SensoNav switch combines sensitive touch and tactile functions in a package size measuring .... [Source: ECN Asia / 11-18]

Mobile handset chip vendor ST-NXP Wireless will close its activities in Dresden and Nuremberg (both Germany). The move is part of a major restructuring effort announced earlier. [Source: EETimes News / 11-18]

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's largest contract chipmaker, imposed a hiring freeze amid a global economic downturn that saw its latest monthly sales post their biggest decline in nearly two years. [Source: EETimes News / 11-18]

Surprise! The World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) group is the latest entity to lower its chip forecast. [Source: EETimes News / 11-18]

How to use Atmel's AVR32 MCU reference designs to build a digital audio subsystem powerful enough to decode audio without a custom-built single chip ASIC audio decoder, flexible enough to accommodate the unpredictable shifts in user demand. [Source: Embedded / 11-18]

Powerful development tools and universal FPGA platforms for systems, ASIC prototyping and algorithm development. [Source: Programmable Logic DesignLine / 11-18]

Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX), announced the availability of its XtremeDSP(TM) Solutions Video Starter Kit - Spartan(R)-3A DSP FPGA Edition 2.0, a comprehensive platform that accelerates the development of video applications on Xilinx FPGAs. Designed to leverage the cost/performance advantages of Spartan-3A DSP FPGAs, the latest version of the kit offers an updated set of video [Source: EDA Geek / 11-18]

The first steps towards doing that are today's legal actions in the International Trade Commission (ITC) and the US District Court in Delaware, against Samsung asserting that the Korean company is in breach of Spansion patents [Source: Electronics Weekly / 11-18]

Tektronix, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation, announced the new MSO2000 Mixed Signal and DPO2000 Digital Phosphor oscilloscopes. [Source: Market Wire - Electronics / 11-18]

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Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, today announced their participation in SCinet's 40Gb/s QDR [Source: Business Wire / 11-18]

Luminus Devices, Inc., today announced that Enterprise Bank of Lowell named the company one of the recipients of its 2008 Business of the Year Awards at the recent Celebration of [Source: Business Wire / 11-18]

Wind River (NASDAQ: WIND), the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), today announced that Wind River's Support Operations Centers in North America and Europe have [Source: Business Wire / 11-18]

Cirrus Logic Inc. (Nasdaq: CRUS), an award-winning developer of analog and digital-signal processing integrated circuits for audio and energy applications, was recently named as one of [Source: Business Wire / 11-18]

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Fairchild Semiconductor (NYSE: FCS) meets the size and power demands of today's portable applications with its new ultra-thin and highly efficient MicroFET products. [Source: ElectronicsBuzz.com / 11-18]

Addressing the transition in PCs/Servers and PC/Server chipsets from PCI to PCI Express (PCIe) as the main system bus, Oxford Semiconductor today introduced the OXPCIe200 PCI Express [Source: Business Wire / 11-18]

Signal Transformer, a subsidiary of Bel Fuse Inc. (NASDAQ: BELFA)(NASDAQ: BELFB), announces the availability of the SHE (Super High Efficiency) Series of chassis-mount power isolation [Source: Business Wire / 11-18]

Nallatech, the domain expert in FPGA Accelerated Computing, will be providing live demonstrations of its latest PCI Express® (PCIe) and Intel® Front Side Bus (FSB) FPGA [Source: Business Wire / 11-18]

Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR) announced today, its HardCopy® II ASICs enabled Tektronix Inc. to reduce the development time of its latest oscilloscopes by 20 percent. Using [Source: Business Wire / 11-18]

ADI's new converter family optimizes bandwidth and resolution to deliver the industry's best combination of operating frequency, dynamic range and signal-to-noise ratio. [Source: ElectronicsBuzz.com / 11-18]

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