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With
almost 60 percent of its business is coming from a single customer – in
this case Apple, Inc., it’s not quite kosher to call Cirrus Logic an
independent fabless chip company any more.
Semiconductor News
Fiscal
third quarter sales at chip maker Infineon were slightly ahead of
previous guidance but the company confirmed its outlook that the fiscal
fourth quarter would be flat.
The
worldwide analog semiconductor market is on track this year to grow 5.1
percent, increasing at a slower clip than the overall semiconductor
industry, according to a market report from Semico Research Corp.
Toshiba
announced it would start mass production of white light-emitting diodes
in the 200-mm wafer fab at subsidiary Kaga Toshiba Electronics in October.
Business News
Intellectual
property licensor MIPS Technologies said an Indian firm is now shipping
in India a media tablet featuring a MIPS-based processor and running
the latest version of the Android operating system for about $125.
Samsung
has regained the lead in the smartphone market in 2Q12, six month after
losing out to Apple, according to market research firm IHS-iSuppli.
With
money still slipping through its fingers, yet another quarter of
sequential revenue decrease, slowing growth and declining sales
figures, it’s been another bum quarter for AMD.
It's
Gold Rush time again thanks to VMWare’s proposed $1.26 billion
acquisition of Nicira, and I have seven observations on the deal.
Mayim
Bialik, the Emmy-nominated actress who plays neurobiologist Amy Farrah
Fowler on the television show The Big Bang Theory, is going to be doing
teaching gigs at schools as part of working with Texas Instruments.
Design News
A
second entry-level exam, addressing Cortex-M cores, microcontrollers
and the Internet of Things, will be added early in 2013 to the ARM
Accredited Engineer certification scheme recently rolled out by ARM.
EDA
and IP vendor Synopsys announced the acquisition of custom IC EDA tool
vendor Ciranova. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Technology News
CIA's
In-Q-Tel makes a deal with Lime Microsystems over flexible radios.
Plessey gears up for GaN-on-silicon LED manufacture. Samsung cellphones
lead the pack.
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