| Editor's Note |
| Intel and AMD are at it again. The Tom and Jerry of the chip world are gearing up for the next round of battle in the lucrative server microprocessor market. While Intel has in recent times signaled its intention to find more revenue outside of the PC space, the company certainly isn't about to cede any ground to its old buddy here. While the companies have yet to formally announce their 45-nm CPUs, codenamed Nehalem-EX and Magny-Cours, the details already in the public domain suggest there will be no clear-cut winner in this round of the duel, reports editor-at-large Rick Merritt.
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| Top Story |
Intel, AMD gear up for next round of server fight
Archrivals Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices are gearing up for the next round of battle in the lucrative server microprocessor market, but due to shifting strategies on both sides the battle between Intel's Nehalem-EX and AMD's Magny-Cours will be in some ways a tie.
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| Semiconductor News |
Renesas, Cavium collaborate on networking
Renesas Technology Corp. and Cavium Networks Inc. have announced that they are working together to deliver joint reference designs that incorporate quad-search ternary content addressable memory with Octeon multicore processors for networking.
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Nanya says it prevailed over LSI in ITC dispute
The U.S. International Trade Commission has issued a final determination in favor of Taiwan's Nanya Technology and other chip makers in a patent infringement dispute brought by LSI, according to a statement issued by Nanya.
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| Business News |
ST wins $350 million in Credit Suisse arbitration
A US Federal Court released on March 23 a ruling ordering Credit Suisse Group AG to pay STMicroelectronics NV the remainder of a $431 million arbitration award. All's well that ends well for the European chipmaker.
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Groups seek path to bring smart grid home
Members of the ad hoc U-Snap Alliance hope to field this summer the first products based on its specifications for carrying smart grid data over home networks, one of a handful of new efforts seeking ways to unite today's fragmented wired and wireless technologies for emerging energy applications.
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MaxLinear prices IPO to raise $90 million
RF and mixed-signal broadband communications IC provider MaxLinear Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.) priced its initial public offering of 6,444,100 shares of Class A common stock at a price to the public of $14.00 per share.
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Former Samsung chief Lee returns
Lee Kun-hee, longtime chairman of the Samsung Group, has returned to lead its flagship company, Samsung Electronics, three months after receiving a presidential pardon following a 2009 fraud conviction, according to reports.
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| Commentary |
Comment: Google PowerMeter is watching you
Google PowerMeter is an ambitious project and potentially a good thing, but it is full of social implications.
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| Technology News |
ST makes contact lens MEMS to help with glaucoma
STMicroelectronics has announced that it will develop and supply a wireless MEMS sensor that acts as a transducer, antenna and mechanical support for additional read-out electronics in a medical product being developed by Sensimed AG (Geneva, Switzerland).
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Google, Microchip develop energy monitor software
Microcontroller company Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.) has announced the result of a partnership with software giant Google Inc. to produce a reference implementation of the Google PowerMeter application programming interface.
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IMEC team shows wireless 'thought-to-text' cap
A team of researchers from IMEC, the Holst Center and the lab of neuro- and psychophysiology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven has presented Mind Speller, a thought-to-text device intended to help people with motor disabilities.
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| Product News |
Programmable hardware platform transmits data over power lines
Cypress Semiconductor has launched a programmable product for data communication over existing power lines.
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TI unveils fully integrated analog front end for portable medical equipment
TI's first device in analog front end family reduces component count and power consumption by up to 95 percent for improved system portability and patient mobility.
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Dylan McGrath is editor of the EE Times Newsletter, which brings you the latest semiconductor and design news.
