As the real estate available for the antenna shrinks with each handset generation, antennas are wrapped around camera and keyboard circuitry and re-p read more

EDA and IP vendor Synopsys Inc. introduced a new modeling technology said to reduce digital cell library file size by up to 75 percent while improvin read more

Conventional wisdom has it that as long as data is stored as a charge, CMOS will likely remain king-of-the-hill for electronic chips. Now, an ultra-l read more

A research team led by Jaephil Cho at Hanyang University has developed a 3-dimensional, porous silicon structure that can replace graphite as an anod read more

Hewlett-Packard is announcing today a convertible notebook PC with multi-touch technology for consumers. The new laptop builds on the touch-screens t read more

The announcement that the FCC will allow white-space devices has a lot of people feeling like this is a beginning of a wireless revolution. read more

Novafora Inc., a startup developer of video processors, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Transmeta Corp. for $255.6 million in cash read more

Intel said that it fourth quarter revenue will fall short of expectations. The company’s new sales estimate is 15% below its previous guidance. Earli read more

AMD’s 2008 Financial Analyst Day, held yesterday, saw a much more upbeat AMD than last year. The first 45 nm CPU is out of the gate, there is a fanta read more

EDA is not well. While the largest company, Cadence, has its own problems, many of them self-inflicted, the entire ecosystem of EDA is sick. read more

Freescale today announced the MSC8156, a wireless base station DSP boasting 6 GHz of performance. The chip is the successor to the quad-core MSC8144 read more

How the LHC stops a proton beam that can melt a half ton of copper. read more

Freescale Semiconductor said it would trim about 10 percent of its workforce after charges dragged the company to a $3.37 billion loss in the third q read more

I hope the new car makes it really big. But I guess the economics are not really there. read more

Looks like SanDisk has figured out a way to avoid Samsung’s hostile takeover offer. Toshiba and SanDisk said today that Toshiba will pay $1 billion t read more

An insider's account of moving from Microchip's 16- to 32-bit PIC MCUs. read more

Intel rolled out its second solid state disk (SSD) drive. The “enterprise-class” (=expensive) X-25 Extreme drive has less capacity than the previousl read more

Wireless HDMI is impractical for single and multiple 1080p uncompressed video signals, but encoding and decoding traditionally creates A/V sync probl read more

Advanced Micro Devices said Tuesday that it would split into two companies — one focused on designing microprocessors and the other on the costly bus read more