January 18, 2011, Common Platform Technology Forum, Santa Clara, CA—Chia Song Hwee, chief operating officer at Global Foundries stated that the semiconductor industry is evolving and more companies are becoming fabless including IDMs who are either adopting the fabless model are going fab light. One reason is that process and design complexity are increasing and…
January 18, 2011, common platform technology forum, Santa Clara, CA—Gary Patton, vice president of R&D at IBM talk of a technology innovations required to move processes to 20 nm and beyond. Physical scaling is hitting a wall and it’s now costing exponentially increasing amount of money to develop the next generation processes. Because of the…
December 8, 2010 – San Francisco, CA – At the annual International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) the latest in technology for memory technology and optical sensors was displayed. For the past 56 years the conference has been the place where technology and manufacturing scaling was presented for the semiconductor industry. This years event was highlighted…
In a recent discussion with Atheros, they indicated they were driving the IEEE 1905 working group on convergent digital home networks that utilize heterogenous technologies. The goal is to create a unified data interface standard that applies to the existing IEEE data transmission specification for Ethernet (IEEE 802.3), Power Line [PL] (IEEE 1901) , WiFi…
January 7, 2011, CES, Las Vegas—Imagination Technologies is trying to become a full solutions company with the acquisitions of Hellosoft and Caustic. HelloSoft has wireless LAN and multi-function radios as well as connection management software in its portfolio which will enable advanced video-VOIP for 4G phones. The hardware will enable low power, small form-factor video…
January 6, 2011, CES, Las Vegas-Quantenna introduced a new wireless video backplane. Their product uses the Cavium wireless chip plus an ASIC to provide full multi-cast, point-to-multi-point services. Their MIMO product is positioned as a replacement for HDMI for long reach applications. They have gotten over 200 feet coverage in non-line-of-sight field tests inside a…
July 27, 2010, Santa Clara, CA the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Santa Clara Chapter hosted a panel discussion on serial port memory technology (SPMT) at Marvel Semiconductor’s facility. Steve Leibson moderated the panel comprised of the following members. Jim Venable, President, SPMT Consortium John Heinlein, VP Marketing, Physical IP Division, ARM Arun Akamat, VP of…
Odyssey Software has been in the MDM (Mobile Device Management) space since 1996,. Their primary business to date has been in the enterprise space with apps and enabled access between thin client devices and private, public and hybrid cloud configurations. Recently the company has added end device management and channel security to their offerings. This…
November 16, Santa Clara, CA – the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council had their annual Q4 event at the National Semiconductor conference center. While the initial speakers were discussing manufacturing and lithography issues for sub 28nm processes, Steve Teig from Tabula, Inc gave a perspect from the design and architecture…