| Editor's Note |
| Two years ago, technology correspondent R. Colin Johnson reported some of the first details about HP Labs potentially game-changing "memory resistors," or memristor, technology. Long considered the "missing link" of electronic circuit theory, memristors could eventually force a rewriting of the textbooks. Now, Johnson reports that HP researchers have demonstrated a memristor-based architecture that could be changed between logic operations and memory. Will HP's "stateful logic" scheme spell the end of the CPU?
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End of the CPU? HP demos configurable memristor
Looking to extend Moore's Law, Hewlett-Packard demonstrates "stateful logic" made from memristors that can be dynamically changed between memory and logic functionality using resistance, rather than charge and voltage, as a state variable.
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TSMC's March sales help it beat guidance
Foundry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) said its unconsolidated March sales were approximately NT$30.82 billion (about $977 million), an increase of 5.6 percent over February 2010 and an increase of 126.3 percent over March 2009.
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CEA-Leti claims fully CMOS-compatible laser source
The Electronics and Information Technology Laboratory of the CEA (CEA-Leti) of France claimed it has demonstrated a fully CMOS-compatible laser source coupled to a silicon waveguide.
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Wafer inspection startup raises $4 million
Nanda Technologies GmbH (Unterschleissheim, Germany), a startup company developing wafer-inspection products, has raised $4 million from Capital-E and KfW working alongside existing shareholders. The company said it will use the money to support pre-production evaluations at semiconductor manufacturers.
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| Business News |
Microchip completes SST acquisition
Microchip Technology Inc. and Silicon Storage Technology Inc. announced that Microchip has completed its previously announced acquisition of SST.
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AMD recognizes $325M from GlobalFoundries spinoff
AMD will recognize a one-time gain of $325 million from the deconsolidation of spinoff GlobalFoundries, the company said in a regulatory filing.
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NASA managers unveil shift in U.S. space priorities
A strategy unveiled by NASA officials would redirect the space agency's resources to develop new technical capabilities designed to move beyond Earth orbit while leveraging the expertise of the agency's network of space centers.
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Gartner: Fab tool spending declined 46% in '09
Worldwide semiconductor capital equipment spending totaled $16.6 billion in 2009, a 45.8 percent decline from 2008, according to market research firm Gartner.
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| ESC Silicon Valley |
ESC: Debate to feature two schools of thought on processors
Two well-known semiconductor industry pundits will lock horns for a debate about processors in embedded systems later this month at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, Calif.
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MEMS gyro harnesses bulk-acoustic wave
Startup Qualtre has licesed Georgia Tech MEMS technology for a micro-electro-mechanical system gyroscope that the company claims will be cheaper and use less power.
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Dylan McGrath is editor of the EE Times Newsletter, which brings you the latest semiconductor and design news.
