| Editor's Note |
| President Obama travels to Florida's "Space Coast" on Thursday to both face his critics and to enunciate a new national space policy. The president's task will be laying out a roadmap for moving human spaceflight beyond Earth orbit while attempting to quiet critics in Congress, some NASA centers and the aerospace industry. All are worried about the proposed shift from space operations to research focusing on what NASA Administrator Charles Bolden calls "new capabilities." Jobs are a key political issue. We feature a debate on the future of U.S. manned spaceflight that includes the sixth human to walk on the moon and the president of an influential aerospace industry group. We hope you will join the debate, which will shape the future role of engineers in
space exploration.
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| Top Story |
Point/Counterpoint: The future of U.S. manned spaceflight
We present a debate on the future direction of U.S. manned spaceflight, where to go next and how to get there.
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| Semiconductor News |
TSMC's Chang: Industry needs to collaborate
The near-term business outlook for ICs is strong, but the industry faces several challenges, according to Morris Chang, chairman and chief executive of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC).
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Intel launches PCI-enabled 'SoC'
Intel has announced that is developing a system-on-chip for embedded applications based around its Atom processor core. However, it appears the SoC will be of a fixed design with a fully-described bus interface to which other chip vendors can attach their chips.
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Reports: Intel has ported Android to Atom
Intel has ported Google's Android operating system to its Atom microprocessor, according to multiple reports that reference Renee James, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's software and services group, as their source.
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ASML raises sales, profits, sees upturn lasting into 2011
Lithography equipment vendor ASML Holding NV (Veldhoven, The Netherlands) made a strong profit on increased sales in Q1 and predicted a sustained semiconductor lasting into 2011.
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| Business News |
Virage Logics's new IP venture: It's the subsystems, stupid!
Virage Logic no longer sees itself as just a provider of a collection of semiconductor IP cores. Instead, it's betting on a future of becoming a supplier of "subsystems" that can be quickly, painlessly and deeply embedded in SoCs for its licensees.
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EV maker licenses smart charger technology
Electric vehicle maker Zap has licensed technology from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to build user-programmable EV chargers Zap plans to use in future vehicles and chargers for the U.S. and Asian markets.
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Liquavista raises $9.5 million for e-reader push
Liquavista BV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) has announced that it has closed a Series D round of funding of 7 million euros (about $9.5 million). The company said the money would be used to accelerate the commercialization of its electrowetting display technology and its appearance in products in 2011.
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Intel touts personal energy management
Intel's CEO declared the "era of personal energy management" during the chip maker's developer's forum in Beijing this week.
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Intel Q1 profits, sales surge as demand stays strong
Intel Corp.'s net income rose 288 percent on a 44 percent increase in revenue and strong margin gains as demand for electronic products stayed buoyant through the traditionally weaker first quarter.
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| Commentary |
Needed: A U.S. space strategy for reaching Mars
As he prepares to visit Florida's Space Coast, President Obama must lay out a national strategy for U.S. manned exploration of Mars and the solar system.
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| Design News |
TSMC includes Azuro's PowerCentric in second ISF release
Power-focused EDA startup Azuro Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) said its PowerCentric low power clock tree synthesis tool has been included in the second release of TSMC's Integrated Sign-off Flow (ISF) in 65nm.
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CoFluent joins MathWorks Connections Program
CoFluent Design (Nantes, France) said it has joined The MathWorks Connections Program, and its ESL modeling and simulation software environment, CoFluent Studio, brings system-level model, simulation and performance analysis capabilities to Matlab and Simulink users.
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Dylan McGrath is editor of the EE Times Newsletter, which brings you the latest semiconductor and design news.
