U.S. electronics makers look to expand
SMTC Corp. of San Jose is looking to double the size of its workforce and it annual revenue as it expands its design, prototyping and manufacturing services operations.
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SMTC Corp. of San Jose is looking to double the size of its workforce and it annual revenue as it expands its design, prototyping and manufacturing services operations.
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Steve Blank has been nurturing startups for years. Now the government has turned to him for help in fostering the next generation of technology innovation.
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Lithium-ion battery technology for hybrid vehicles, backup power for cellular nets and other emerging applications was a key focus of the annual renewable energy festival in central Wisconsin.
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National Science Foundation’s Errol Arkilic lays out the goals of the agency’s new Innovation Corps designed to move promising technologies from universities labs to emerging tech markets.
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Solar manufacturing startup Twin Creek Technologies claims it has found a way to produce extremely thin yet flexible solar cells. By reducing material costs and adding value in the manufacturing process, solar cell production could again become a pro...
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Steve Sanghi, Microchip Technologies: Are tech jobs returning to the U.S.?
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John Walsh and Mike Duren of Sypris Techologies in Orlando, Fla., talk about responding to the huge security threat being levelled against the smart grid.
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John Zysman, co-author of the influential 1987 book, “Manufacturing Matters: The Myth of Post-Industrial Economy,” discusses the relationship of production to the burgeoning services sector and how technologies like “cloud computing” can be used to e...
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Forrest Huff, Regional Sales Manager of Interconnect Systems Inc., answers the question "are jobs coming back to the United States?" Dylan McGrath of EE Times asked the question at DesignCon 2012.
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Lee W. Ritchey, President of Speeding Edge, answers the question "are jobs coming back to the United States?" Dylan McGrath of EE Times asked the question at DesignCon 2012.
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Thomas Smith, Regional Manager of Positronic Industries Inc., answers the question "are jobs coming back to the United States?" Dylan McGrath of EE Times asked the question at DesignCon 2012.
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Steve Smith, Product Manager, L-Com Global Connectivity answers the question "are jobs coming back to the United States?" Dylan McGrath of EE Times asked the question at DesignCon 2012.
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Dale Hanzekla, Director of North America Sales, Intercept Technology Inc. answers the question "are jobs coming back to the United States?" Dylan McGrath of EE Times asked the question at DesignCon 2012.
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Andrew Haines, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Arasan Chip Systems Inc. answers the question "are jobs coming back to the United States?" Dylan McGrath of EE Times asked the question at DesignCon 2012.
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Video Interview discussing the need for isolation in solar inverters.
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Samsung Foundry VP Ana Hunter announces her company has just qualified 28nm low power process and introduced a new flavor of 28nm that's both low power and higher performance.
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20nm development will be just as challenging as the 28nm node, but double-patterning helps keep Moore's Law moving, says Suk Lee, marketing director at TSMC
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Cadence blogger and longtime electronics-industry journalist Richard Goering talks about the EDA industry's climb up the abstraction ladder and how he's survived 27 Design Automation Conferences
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Mentor Graphics CEO Wally Rhines on the EDA industry's outlook and why he wasn't surprised the Japan quake impact was minimal.
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IBM Fellow John Cohn describes IBM's Smarter Planet initiative (instrumented, interconnected and intelligence) and how he landed on a remarkably cool reality TV show.
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We surprise Magma CEO Rajeev Madhavan with a photo of an old station wagon and he uses it as a metaphor to describe the march of EDA technology.
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EDA industry analyst Gary Smith says electronic system-level design has arrived as an accepted mainstream methodology
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, keynoting at ESC Silicon Valley 2011, talks about his work with the company Fusion-IO
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Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak, keynoting ESC Silicon Valley 2011, talks about how schools tamp down creativity and need reform.
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Altera's Nirmal Kari describes his company’s first implementation of a MIPS-based soft processor for its FPGAs.
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Cadence CMO John Bruggeman describes the details of the company's just-announced System Development suite that integrates platforms for concurrent HW/SW design and verification.
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Trucking companies buy $200,000 vehicles for their drivers while embedded companies spend a pittance on productivity tools. Green Hills CEO Dan O’Dowd asks why.
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Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs talks about the rise of CDMA after receiving the EE Times ACE Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Molex's Ryan Price talks about design challenges and new connector technology trends at DesignCon 2011
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Grant Martin, Tensilica’s chief scientist, talks about baseband DSP technology trends, the designer of the future and how close he came to a Russian terrorist attack.
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GateRocket CEO Dave Orrechio talks about his company's SoftPatch software, which won a DesignCon 2011 Design Vision award for innovation.
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EE Life Editorial Director Brian Fuller interviews Tektronix President Amir Aghdaei at DesignCon 2011
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MIPS CEO Sandeep Vij describes his own, recently-upgraded connected home.
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Hot off what was a record-setting year for his company, TriQuint, followed by string of high-visibilty Executive of the Year awards for himself, Ralph Quinsey sat down with EETimes' TechOnline to discuss how TriQuint amp'd its mojo. He elaborates on ...
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Luc Van den Hove, chief executive of Imec, shares his thoughts on CMSO scaling, open innovation and China
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Internet pioneer Larry Roberts shared his thoughts on a way the end growing traffic jams on the Web in a keynote at the Netbook Summit May 2010
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After a keynote at Connectivity Week, Vint Cerf took questions from the audince on the role of utilities and the dangers of complexity.
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Internet pioneer Vint Cerf shares his thoughts on best practices for designing the smart electric grid in a keynote at Connectivity Week in Silicon Valley May 2010.
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ST’s Pasquale Pistorio discusses the five keys to successful technology management in an interview after receiving the EE Times ACE “Lifetime Achievement” Award.
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CEO Sandeep Vij sits down with Junko Yoshida, editor-in-chief of EE Times, to discuss new partnerships and the near future for MIPs.
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Inder Singh, chairman of LynuxWorks, Inc., talks about the rising importance of virtualization software and the state of Silicon Valley.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour thundered off the launch pad on a 13-day mission to deliver and install the last major component of the International Space Station.
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Tim Bajarin, principal of Creative Strategies, gives some of his thoughts after seeing the launch of the Apple iPad at an invite-only launch in San Francsico
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Cooper,an engineering student at Oregon Insitute of Technology who was attending Photonics West next door to the Apple iPad launch, shares why he prefers his $250 netbook to a $500+ iPad
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Pocket Radar CEO Steve Goody talks about his handheld device at CES Unveiled
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Former vice president Al Gore shared some stats and opinions about the significance of the move to a smart electric grid with a crowd of about 400 in San Mateo, Calif.
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Norman Augustine, chairman of a panel of the future of U.S. manned spaceflight, addresses NASA funding issues during a recent aerospace industry gathering.
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IMEC has developed a CMOS bed of nails that can link to individual neurons, explains Kris Verstreken, director of IMEC's bio-nano department.
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"The Future of Television" was featured in a talk by Intel's chief technology officer (CTO) Justin Rattner at the Intel Developers Forum (Sept. 22-24, 2009, San Francisco), where the company described its vision of technology personalizing television...
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Donn Lee, a network engineer for Facebook, talks about the data center challenges for the burgeoning Web 2.0 site which he says needed 100 Gbit Ethernet switches two years ago.
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Scott Kipp, a standards manager at Brocade, presents on the need to move to 25 Gbit/second channels to enable tomorrow's Terabit ASICs for network switches.
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Brian Becker, a Carnegie Mellon PhD student, describes a video-based control system that automates a form of retinal surgery known as laser coagulation
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Andrew Kahng, chair of the 2009 Design Automation Conference, talks about the event, its attendance, and looks forward to DAC 2010.
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EE Times West Coast Online Editor Dylan McGrath interviewed graduate research assistant Eric Quist of the University of Southern California VLSI/CAD Group, who gave a poster paper in the new User Track at the Design Automation Conference.
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Walden Rhines, chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics Corp., discusses opportunities for EDA in emerging clean energy applications at the 46th Design Automation Conference.
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Michael Zhao (left) chief executive of Array Networks talks about his experience as the first company to list on a Taiwan stock exchange. Ten other tech companies are preparing to follow Array's footsteps, said Daung-Yen Lu, chairman of the Taiwan OT...
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Kevin Beck, president of Sumika Electronic Materials Inc., talks with EE Times about the company and about what he is seeing as a "pretty strong recovery" in the market.
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Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean walked on the moon, then came home to paint it.
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Chris Beitel, general manager for the Thin Film Products/Solar Business Group at Applied Materials Inc., describes the solar market right now and that Applied’s solar turnkey technology, SunFab, is ramping up in mass production at 5 or so companies.
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Cisco is poised to build a template for the "C.E. company Version 2.0" in the 21st Century network age. It may be high time for CE giants, such as Sony, to make a decision -- whether to work with, or against, the network giant.
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Lothar Maier, chief executive of Linear Technology Inc., described the analog chip maker as a "predictable" and "boring" company. An interview reveals otherwise.
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Startups are getting funding to work on a wide variety of on clean tech ideas, despite a tightening of purse strings in the VC sector, said Bill Joy, a venture capitalist at Kliener Perkins and a founder of Sun Microsystems who gave a keynote talk at...
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A celebration of CEVA's 10 years on the NASDAQ and an interview with their CEO, Gideon Wertheizer.
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CEO Paul Otellini discusses plans for Atom-based SoCs, and Mark Bohr says Intel's 22 nm process will leapfrog competitor's 28 nm plans.
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Next week, gallium arsenide chip maker TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. (Hillsboro, Oregon) will be reaffirmed as having the world's largest commercial GaAs foundry by industry analysts at Strategy Analytics, Inc. (Newton, Mass.). TriQuint recently gave E...
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A video interview with Ken Mattingly, best known for his critical role in the ill-fated flight of Apollo 13. He was removed from the prime crew as command module pilot after being exposed to the German measles, which he never contracted. Mattingly wo...
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Prith Banerjee, director of HP Labs, shares his views on the impact of the recession and technologies that could drive the recovery.
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Embedded processors and connectivity devices are bright spots in a semiconductor market that will see double digit dips in computer chips in the 2009 recession, said Mario Morales, vice president of global semiconductor research at International Data...
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Bill Carter was Xilinx employee number eight and was their first IC designer. In this video, Bill describes how he went about designing the world's first FPGA. It's difficult to imagine the complexity of Bill's task. All he knew was that there was go...
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Berkeley computer science professor Randy Katz gives a 40-minute talk on the future of energy efficient computer design and the outlook for a smart grid.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) masters student Amit Zoran in its Media Lab has found a way to combine the vintage resonance of different types of wooden sound boards with modern guitar electronics. The result is an electric guitar with i...
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James Carey, co-founder of SiOnyx, talks about "black silicon," a material he developed that boasts more than 100 times the sensitivity of silicon, detects energy from the ultraviolet to the short-wave infrared bands, operates at a low voltage bias a...
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Hundreds of millions of WiFi-enabled devices are being manufactured each year, but to get these devices communicating with each other usually requires a wireless access point to act as an intermediary. Intel Corp. (Hillsboro, Ore.) wants to obviate t...
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Moshe Gavrielov, president and CEO of programmable logic supplier Xilinx Inc., kicked off a recent press briefing here by making the case that market and technology forces have finally aligned to create a tipping point whereby field programmable gate...
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Business guru Clayton Christensen shares his thoughts on innovating in the recession and how health care will follow the model of the computer industry, creating waves of disruption with increasingly de-centralized systems and services.
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In a keynote at Photonics West, Ray Beausoleil, an HP Labs researcher, lays out the rational and the challenges designing optical interconnects for tomorrow's multicore processors.
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Green energy will continue to grow despite the sagging world economy, according one of the oldest manufacturers of photovoltaic cells, SolarWorld AG. Fourth quarter results of worldwide sales are not in yet, but the company grew by over 51 percent in...
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Cypress chief executive T.J. Rodgers shares three ideas for addressing the energy crisis including two new efforts percolating inside Cypress and his view of the road to cost-effective solar energy.
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S. Pete Worden, the director of NASA's Ames Research Center, calls for the private sector to get involved in what he calls "the most exciting time in space since Apollo."
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NASA system architect Robert Ciotti describes the challenges creating Pleiades, the world's third largest supercomputer which represents a shift to Xeon processors and expanded use of Infiniband beyond clustering.
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Alf-Egil Bogen, inventor of the AVR -- one of the world's most successful MCU cores with over a billion sold -- discusses its genesis and his vision of where MCUs are headed. He also discusses what keeps him awake at night and how many MCUs he has in...
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Jun-Hyung Souk, executive vice president of Samsung's display R&D center, shares the company's views on solar and next-generation LCD technologies and markets.
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Hyun-Suk Kim, vice president of R&D for Samsung's television products, talks about the company's ideas and work on next-generation digital TVs.
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Intel's Patrick Gelsinger speaks on the significance of the shift to multicore processors at the official opening of Berkeley's parallel computing lab.
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Steve Sprigg, senior VP of engineering at Qualcomm takes about the release of software development kids for the company's Brew Mobile Platform.
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Veteran venture capitalist Vinod Khosla shares his relatively optimistic views on the current economic climate and its impact on startups.
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EE Times editor-at-large Rick Merritt pays a visit to UWB startup Artimi (Mountain View, Calif.), rumored to be one of the next in line to fold--but no one was home.
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Stereo 3-D pioneer Lenny Lipton, the chief technology officer of RealD Cinema, discusses the technical and market challenges facing 3DTV in an interview at the Mann Chinese Theater in Hollywood. The good news is the cinema is seeing significant succe...
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Rich Nass interviews Dr. Cooper, the inventor of the cell phone, after his key note address at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston.
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EE Times caught up with T.J. Rodgers, founder, president and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor, to get his take on how the semiconductor industry will be impacted by the financial crisis and how the current downturn compares with others in the industry's ...
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Kevin Meyer, vice president of industry marketing and platform alliances at Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing, shares his reactions to the news about AMD's fab spinoff and an update on 32nm process development.
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Mark Pinto, chief technology officer at Applied Materials, talks about the company's move into equipment for producing solar panels, its technology challenges and the outlook for solar.
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Example performance by virtual musician iMe and its programmer, Marcelo Gimenes. By learning the melodic, harmonic and rhythmic features of any musical style, iMe is being billed as the world's first intelligent musical instrument capable of playing ...
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Java virtual machine specialist Lars Bak demonstrates V8, the Javascript engine for Google's new Chrome browser at Google headquarters on Sept 2, 2008. Bak was lead developer for Sun Microsystems Hotspot VM for Java.
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Interview with Russell Thal from the Cradle ofAviation Museum.
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Jeffrey Katzenberg, co-founder of Dreamworks, talks about the move to stereo 3D in movie theaters and eventually in TVs, speaking at the Intel Developer Forum Wednesday, August 20.
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Intel Chief Technology Officer, Justin Rattner, will predict the future of technolgy at this week's Intel Developers Forum (IDF, August 19 – 21, 2008, San Francisco). Rattner will begin with a video from futurist Ray Kurzweil who will predict an expo...
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Freescale discusses many topics in the interview, including: - key markets for growth - why it spun off its MRAM business - what's meant by the Net Effect - its new multicore processor - what are the company's strengths - what automotive means to Fre...
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