| Editor's Note |
| The passive market is, apparently, anything but. Business editor Bolaji Ojo gives us a glimpse inside the world of passive components, which he refers to as the foot soldiers of the electronics industry, found in every product regardless of complexity level. Nearly 10 years after the brutal downturn of 2001, passives vendors are still slashing costs, looking to right the ship. Needless to say, the recent global recession hasn't helped.
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| Top Story |
Lots of action in passives
The knives are never sheathed in the passive components market.
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| Semiconductor News |
Samsung rolls 20-nm-class NAND
South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has announced its production of 20-nm-class NAND chips for use in secure digital (SD) memory cards and embedded memory solutions.
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Everspin rocks SRAM boat with 16-Mbit MRAM
Continuing to gain momentum in the magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) market, Everspin Technologies Inc. is sampling its highest density product to date--a new 16-megabit device.
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Samsung's ARM roadmap leads to quad-core 'Aquila'
A roadmap document labeled as from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. shows the company working on a series of ARM-based processors designed to power future netbook computers.
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Low-k test regime spots defects on wafers
In a low-k dielectric test regime being developed for Semiconductor Research Corp. members, Columbia University is perfecting an approach that will measure the average number of density traps in a low-k material to spot potential failures while the chips are still on the wafer.
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| Business News |
Spansion: Nearly out of Chapter 11
NOR supplier Spansion Inc. said it has received approval and confirmation of its plan of reorganization from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
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Report: Airspace closure could hit chip, cellphone firms
Asian chip and cellphone makers could be impacted if the European air-space closure does not end soon, according to a Dow Jones Newswire report.
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Europe frets under air-travel ban
The closure of northern European air space due to a volcanic dust cloud is starting to have an impact on business as well as causing distress to tens of thousands of travelers stranded abroad.
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| Commentary |
Don't bring out the champagne yet, semi heads!
Even though semiconductor sales may grow more than 20 percent in 2010, the industry should be careful not to get caught up in the dazzle, according to one market research report.
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| Design News |
Update: Altera details Stratix V innovations
Programmable logic vendor Altera disclosed more details about its 28-nm high-end Stratix V FPGA family, saying the devices will offer up to 1.6 terabits per second of serial switching capability, 1.1 million logic elements and 53 megabits of embedded memory.
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Samplify introduces ultrasound beamformer IC
Samplify Systems Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has announced an autofocus beamforming technology for ultrasound imaging.
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| ESC Silicon Valley |
ESC: Tech experts deliver no fluff, all substance
Technical experts from Freescale, Micrium, Green Hills Software and more will answer questions at the Embedded Systems Conference and ESC Expo.
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| Course: From FPGA to ASIC |
| There are two reasons for migrating from FPGAs to ASICs, and many more reasons why that migration could easily go astray. The Fundamentals of FPGA-to-ASIC conversion presents the principles and the tools available to do it right, including a real-world example using Altera's HardCopy ASICs.
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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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