• Semiconductor Innovation in an Investment Constrained Economy

    Updated: 2011-06-30 20:02:58
    The current innovation climate in the semiconductor industry is alive and well but entrepreneurs have to adjust to the realities of the current economic situation and investment trends. The world's governmental economic development agencies have always looked at Silicon Valley with envy and paid big money to try to find the key which would unlock the secrets

  • Geo Semiconductor

    Updated: 2011-06-30 20:02:58
    Geo Semiconductor was officially formed in May 2009 as a fabless chip company through the acquisition of major IC business lines and key pieces of the IP portfolio of Silicon Optix, including the Realta and the Geo ICs, patents, inventory, software, development systems, customers and brands.

  • Semiconductor Stock Price Rally: What Next?

    Updated: 2011-06-30 20:02:58
    Recently, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) raised its third-quarter guidance. The company anticipates revenues to be about $9 billion, versus its previous forecast of $8.5 billion. Gross margins are expected to be about 53%, with more upside than downside likely to the projection.

  • Analog Devices AD8420 Instrumentation Amplifier

    Updated: 2011-06-30 17:53:50
    Analog Devices announced their AD8420 micropower, wide-supply-range instrumentation amplifier. The ADI AD8420 amp features a high CMRR (common-mode rejection ratio) of 100 dB, 75 uA of power consumption, wide 2.7 V to 36 V single and +/-18 V dual-power supply range. The AD8420 instrumentation amplifier (8-lead MSOP) is available now for $0.89 (price each per [...]

  • Survey: Medical Device Industry Underestimates Social Media

    Updated: 2011-06-29 10:18:39
    According to a current survey conducted by German Medical Technology Association BVMed, medical device companies are still underestimating the importance of social media. The survey states that 70% of the companies are not active or very restrained in their use of social media. Over two-thirds of the companies have no defined social media strategy and [...]

  • Sensirion Introduces Bubble Detector for Biomedical Devices

    Updated: 2011-06-29 00:22:17
    Sensirion AG has launched a new microflow switch for ultralow liquid flow rates and bubble detection. The LG01 sensor is designed for integration into biomedical devices and makes fluidic systems more reliable by enabling the detection of liquid flow within the range of a few millilitres per minute and less. It has a response time [...]

  • Resonetics Opens New Facility in Response to Growing Medical Business

    Updated: 2011-06-28 16:53:31
    Resonetics LLC is relocating to a larger facility in Nashua, NH. Because of the significant growth of its medical division, the new facility is 50% larger than the previous location. As further expansion plans call for a doubling again by 2012, the firm has reserved surrounding space to accommodate this future growth. According to Cliff Gabay, [...]

  • Industry's Fastest Silicon Transistor Now In Volume Production

    Updated: 2011-06-28 00:40:21
    Mannerisms Ruminations on the semiconductor industry from David Manners Industry's Fastest Silicon Transistor Now In Volume Production By David Manners on June 28, 2011 1:40 AM No Comments No TrackBacks INDUSTRY'S FASTEST SILICON TRANSISTOR Ft 300 Mc s Typical 2S131 SILICON NPN EPITAXIAL MESA TRANSISTOR NOW IN QUANTITY PRODUCTION VCE sat at 100mA 1V max 50 years ago , Electronics Weekly's edition of May 24 th 1961 carried this . ad The ad : continued THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT SINCE TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INTRODUCED THE FIRST COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE SILICON TRANSISTOR The ad continued : The epitaxial process consists of the carefully controlled growth by vapour deposition of an extremely thin layer of high resistivity single crystal semiconductor material upon a wafer of low resistivity .

  • Thermocompression Bonding for Microbump Flip-Chip Soldering

    Updated: 2011-06-26 22:22:00
    Indium Corporation Semiconductor Power Semiconductor Assembly Visit Our Website Products Services About Contact Us Main INDIUM CORPORATION Blog From One Engineer to Another Thermocompression Bonding for Microbump Flip-Chip Sunday , June 26, 2011 by Andy Mackie Andy Mackie For reasons that I will discuss in a post later this year , a common factor that is emerging in the area of copper-pillar microbump 2.5D and 3D joining , is the adoption of thermocompression TC bonding for flip-chip flux microbump soldering . TC bonding is now being predominantly adopted instead of reflow . Some of you may have the same response as I got at iMAPS 2011 from one well-known expert in packaging technology . He looked askance at me when I mentioned TC bonding for flip-chip and retorted : That's for bonding

  • Memories Are Made of This: A Chip, Electrode Array and Algorithm

    Updated: 2011-06-24 18:01:38
    A neural implant that can restore lost brain function and improve short-term memory in rats may one day help people suffering from memory loss caused by stroke, dementia or other brain damage. The device consists of a tiny chip, a set of 32 electrodes and a very sophisticated algorithm that deciphers and replicates the neural [...]

  • Analog Devices AD8429 Instrumentation Amplifier

    Updated: 2011-06-23 17:20:00
    Analog Devices announced their new AD8429 instrumentation amplifier. The ADI AD8429 is an ultra-low noise, low-power low-distortion in amp. The high-bandwidth AD8429 features 5 MHz (G=1) bandwidth, a 22-V/µs slew rate, -130-dB distortion, 1-nV/√Hz input noise, 45-nV/√Hz output noise, and extended industrial temperature range of -40°C to 125°C. The AD8429 instrumentation amplifier is available now [...]

  • Top Ten Suppliers Of IC Manufacturing Equipment 2010

    Updated: 2011-06-22 00:43:26
    Mannerisms Ruminations on the semiconductor industry from David Manners Top Ten Suppliers Of IC Manufacturing Equipment 2010 By David Manners on June 22, 2011 1:43 AM No Comments No TrackBacks Thanks to VLSI Research for this one the top ten suppliers of IC manufacturing equipment last . year Applied 5.9 ASML 5.0 Tokyo Electron 4.1 LAM Research 2.4 KLA-Tencor 1.8 Dainippon 1.4 Novellus 1.1 Varian 0.77 Nikon 0.75 Hitachi Hi-Tec 0.57 Tweet Categories Ten Best No TrackBacks TrackBack URL : http : www.electronicsweekly.com cgi-bin mt mt-tb.cgi 197062 Leave a comment Name Email Address URL Remember personal info Comments You may use HTML tags for style Subscribe to comments by e-mail Get the eNewsletter Sign up for the weekly Mannerisms eNewsletter Get the blog highlights straight to your email

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