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ON Semi lays off 1500, closes plants, forces unpaid time off 1/8/2009
ON Semiconductor makes deep cuts to its workforce, capital expenditures, manufacturing operations, and employee compensation that it expects will reduce total fixed costs by up to $50 million a quarter and will help it navigate the continuingly challenging economic climate.
CES 2009: The price of falling prices, and a path to Intel's potential demise 1/8/2009
Lenovo cuts 2500 jobs on PC pinch 1/8/2009
Evaluating value-oriented x86 CPUs: The price of falling prices 1/8/2009
Precise monitoring maximizes HEV-lithium-ion-battery performance 1/8/2009
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Analog Design
Diode-turn-on-time-induced failures in switching regulators
1/8/2009
Never have so many had so much trouble with so few terminals.
Low-power wireless performance starts with CMOS elegance 1/5/2009
What’s in your SAR-ADC application? 12/15/2008
The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2008 12/15/2008
Prototyping techniques: things to know before pulling the trigger 12/5/2008
Power Integrations updates its power supply design software
Touch screens, amplifiers, energy-harvesting and lithium ion batteries
IC Design
Physical design and architectural design
1/8/2009
The proliferation of deep-submicron processes has also led to an expanded tapeout scope, which now encompasses architectural design. Tapeout must address design trade-offs, such as power, I/O structures, memory structures, display interfaces, and programmability.
Tests resolve tension over silicon strain 1/8/2009
Future nonvolatile memories may have carbon footprints 1/8/2009
Low-power wireless performance starts with CMOS elegance 1/5/2009
ISSCC papers look toward high-definition in your handset 1/2/2009
How languages influence design, and why we should care: a tale of C, Verilog, and trouble
Apache forges ahead with RedHawk-NX power analysis
Processor-based Design
Choosing a touch technology for handheld-system applications
1/8/2009
The demand for larger displays in small handheld devices makes choosing the right touch technology critical.
The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2008 12/15/2008
When is a microcontroller an SOC? 12/15/2008
Voices: Microchip’s Ganesh Moorthy 12/15/2008
Simple microcontroller-temperature measurement uses only a diode and a capacitor 12/5/2008
Remember what's important
Modern candlewicks: An example of structural processing
Applied System Design
Mysterious data errors
12/15/2008
Tales From The Cube: Input of 12 sequential 1s causes a data-collection system to output garbled data. This looks like a job for 12-gauge AWG wire.
Differential transitions 1/8/2009
EoPDH as an alternative for delivering rich media applications 12/23/2008
The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2008 12/15/2008
Automotive embedded development and testing 12/15/2008
$39 USB tool eases real-time development
Deploying intelligent networks
Power Management
Precise monitoring maximizes HEV-lithium-ion-battery performance 1/8/2009
Linear Technology has been working closely with a major HEV (hybrid-electric-vehicle) manufacturer in developing the LTC6802 high-voltage, precision battery-stack-monitor chip.
MIT researchers claim 50% increase in solar-cell output 1/8/2009
Thermoelectric-power-generation kit eases power-evaluation tasks 12/19/2008
Solar’s bright future 12/15/2008
The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2008 12/15/2008
PHEV on sale now at your local BYD auto dealer (in China, anyway)
Bulb-within-a-bulb protects and hides CFL spiral
Consumer Electronics Design
CES 2009: Blu-ray's continued struggles and the ramping ascendancy of online 1/9/2009
Our man in Las Vegas surveys the digital-video scene, including both physical media and online options. Whose fortunes are rising, whose are evaporating, and who's just playing the spin game?
CES 2009: The price of falling prices, and a path to Intel's potential demise 1/8/2009
Evaluating value-oriented x86 CPUs: The price of falling prices 1/8/2009
Broadcast content restrictions: A bad idea that just won’t die 1/8/2009
CES 2009: When (if ever) will home servers shine? 1/7/2009
The Price Of Falling Prices: Profuse CPU Statistics
CES 2009: HDDs' Inevitable Impermanence and Consumers' Frustrating Nonchalance
Communications/Network Design
IBM claims graphene field-effect transistors at GHz frequencies
12/19/2008
With a top-gate design and a gate length 150 nm, IBM achieved a cut-off frequency of 26 GHz for its graphene transistors.
Hardware and software approaches implement multiple radios 12/15/2008
The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2008 12/15/2008
Designing protective circuitry for DSL loops: Beware of pitfalls 12/5/2008
Tzero promises demo of 1080p60 wireless HDMI using UWB 12/3/2008
OLED Sony TV shines at CES from afar
Blu-ray might have won, but is there a prize?
Components/New Products
A bad-capacitor story ends happily
1/8/2009
Tales From The Cube: When the same capacitor ends up charred in too many systems to dismiss the failures as statistically possible, an engineer must approach the problem via old-fashioned layout inspection.
Future nonvolatile memories may have carbon footprints 1/8/2009
Flared-pin heat sinks use natural convection to cool "green" applications 1/5/2009
The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2008 12/15/2008
Know your ceramic capacitor, part two 11/27/2008
Adaptec 1405 and 1045: Unified serial HBA family support 128 SATA or SAS storage devices
Corsair Triple Pack Memory: Memory modules target Intel’s Core i7 processor
Test & Measurement
Scopes achieve 80G-sample/sec acquisition, bandwidth to 30 GHz
1/6/2009
LeCroy’s latest introduction, the 8 Zi line, includes WaveMaster digital oscilloscopes, serial-data analyzers, and disk-drive analyzers.
RF-communications software spans signal generation and analysis 1/8/2009
The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2008 12/15/2008
Mysterious data errors 12/15/2008
Measure power-supply-loop transfer 12/5/2008
Stop the presses?
Four technologies that could save Detroit
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Semiconductor Manufacturing
Solar’s bright future
12/15/2008
Will solar technology remain a hot issue even with a global economic crisis at hand? Photovoltaic experts weigh in on the technology, opportunities, and future of solar technologies.
TriQuint hazmat incident forces worker evacuation 1/7/2009
Electronic Business' most-clicked-on 2008 articles and analysis 12/30/2008
ASML cuts 1,000 jobs, lowers guidance 12/19/2008
Toshiba slashes 30% of NAND production, extends end-of-year shutdowns 12/16/2008
Capital spending: can it get worse?
Buy a house, get a free solar roof
Business Strategy
Evolving IP market spawns a raft of new approaches
1/1/2009
Whether it’s by asserting patent rights or defending against so-called trolls, entrepreneurs and investors are trying new IP business models.
Lenovo cuts 2500 jobs on PC pinch 1/8/2009
Intel says Q4 sales will be down 23%, decreases spending 1/7/2009
EC raids smart card chip makers 1/7/2009
Earnings estimates for Intel, IR, others still too high, analysts say 1/6/2009
Electronics Supply Chain
Notebook PC shipments exceeded desktops for first time in Q3, iSuppli reports
12/23/2008
Calling the notebook shipments a "watershed event in the history of the industry," the market researcher is celebrating the data as not only a major sea change in the PC world, but also as a bucking of the current economic trends that have seen electronics spending squeezed.
Earnings estimates for Intel, IR, others still too high, analysts say 1/6/2009
Electronic Business' most-clicked-on 2008 articles and analysis 12/30/2008
Demand for mid-level processors shrinking, Converge reports 12/19/2008
Excess inventory likely to triple in Q4, could delay semiconductor industry recovery, iSuppli reports 12/17/2008
IPC happy with proposed ROHS revisions, are you?
Fairchild notes distributors reduced inventories as it lowers Q4 guidance
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Blogs
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Adaptec 1405 and 1045: Unified serial HBA family support 128 SATA or SAS storage devices 01/09/2009
Corsair Triple Pack Memory: Memory modules target Intel’s Core i7 processor 01/09/2009
Nvidia Quadro NVS 450: Graphics card targets business applications 01/08/2009
NEC Display P221W: LCD monitor has 96% coverage of AdobeRGB 01/08/2009
Super Talent Technology STC8GBPCKG: 8-Gbit Pico-C USB drive comes in 18-carat gold 01/07/2009
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