| Editor's Note |
| To hear Michio Kaku tell it, the future is going to be quite a place. The physicist and best-selling author dazzled an ESC keynote audience earlier this week, laying out a future that includes ubiquitous flexible displays and smart devices to monitor for illness. Fortunately, it sounds like traffic could be less of an issue, according to Kaku, who said the future could include teleportation, Captain Kirk style.
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| Top Story |
ESC keynoter Kaku beams audience back to the future
Physicist Michio Kaku, keynote speaker at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, offered his audience a feast of futurism, predicting extraordinary advances in medical technology, and science-fiction turned reality in areas like teleportation, invisibility and molecule-size computers.
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| Semiconductor News |
Microchip CEO: Five reasons to be bullish, bearish
What a difference a year makes.
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The servers are coming, says ARM's CEO
Servers based on ARM multicore processors should arrive in the next 12 months, according to Warren East, chief executive officer of processor intellectual property licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England).
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Samsung to ship MCP with phase-change
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. claims that it will ship the industry's first multi-chip package (MCP) with phase-change RAM (PRAM) for use in mobile handsets beginning later this quarter.
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| Business News |
Silicon Labs buys MEMS firm
Silicon Laboratories Inc. has acquired Silicon Clocks Inc., a developer of microelectromechanical system (MEMS) technology, for an undisclosed price.
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UMC sales up year-to-year, down sequentially
UMC reported first quarter sales of NT$26.72 billion ($849 million), up 147 percent compared with the year ago quarter, but down 4 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2009.
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Broadcom reports record sales
Fabless chip vendor Broadcom reported record sales of $1.46 billion for the first quarter, beating consensus analyst expectations.
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| From ESC |
EE Times honors 2010 ACE Award winners
EE Times honored the winners of the sixth ACE Awards at a reception in conjunction with the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, Calif.
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ESC: Microsoft rolls embedded version of Windows 7
Microsoft Corp. formally rolled out embedded versions of Windows 7 at the Embedded Systems Conference, a version of its PC operating system announced last fall and geared for a wide range of devices including thin clients, digital signs, industrial controls, set-top boxes, media players and TVs.
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| Design News |
Cadence teams with Wind River, rolls verification platform
EDA vendor Cadence Design Systems announced a partnership with embedded software vendor Wind River Systems and introduced an integrated verification computing platform said to unify simulation, acceleration and emulation into a single verification environment.
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Actel licenses cryptography technology
Actel has licensed technology from Cryptography Research to enhance the security of its products against differential power analysis and other side-channel related attacks.
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Intel teams with partners on wireless health care apps
At the Embedded Systems Conference here, LynuxWorks announced that it has combined efforts with Portwell, Inc. to deliver a proof-of-concept (PoC) wireless sensor platform based on Intel chips to the health care community.
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Study pegs Tek scope 'winner' in specific test tasks
Tektronix, Inc., announced results from the Time and Motion Study by research firm Hansa|GCR concluded that the Tektronix MSO4000 mixed signal oscilloscope was preferred by over two-thirds of the participants and was 53 percent faster in finding runts and glitches when debugging a design.
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Dylan McGrath is editor of the EE Times Newsletter, which brings you the latest semiconductor and design news.
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