EECA - European Electronic Component Manufacturers Association aisbl 

UNDER THE ROOF OF EECA, there are 4 autonomous industry associations with members coming from the manufacturing and related industries as well as from national associations, and Pro Electron, the European ... organisation for the registration of type numbers for active electronic components.   [More...] [Less...]

InformIT: Basic Concepts for Semiconductor Power Delivery > 1.1 Introduction 

As devices scale and more transistors are integrated into a single integrated circuit, the power and current levels are expected to increase with a corresponding decrease in the voltage. This chapter describes ... the basics of power delivery and the components of a power delivery network. Power delivery is a major challenge in present-day systems. This challenge is expected to increase in the next decade as systems become smaller and new materials are introduced into packages and boards. As devices scale and more transistors are integrated into a single integrated circuit, the power and current levels are expected to increase with a corresponding decrease in the voltage. With gigabit signals being propagated through the package and board, the ability to supply clean power to the transistor circuits becomes very critical. In addition, electromagnetic interference levels have to be kept low in the system to manage coupling and crosstalk. In this chapter, the basics of power delivery are des   [More...] [Less...]

Scottish Microelectronics Centre 

Semiconductor OneSource: Semiconductor Materials 

Welcome! This site attempts to provide information on semiconductors originating from the Semiconductor Series in the Periodic Table. Use the search box or select an element from the period table below.

Semiconductor-related sales in February - San Jose Mercury News 

• Chip sales fell for third straight month. Worldwide sales of semiconductors fell in February by 4.9 percent from the month before to $20.4 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association, ... but were up 1.5 percent from Feb. 2007. • DRAM pricing distorts sales growth. Continued price drops in attrition in DRAM memory products masked underlying strength in global chip sales in February, according to SIA President George Scalise. • Electronics sales strength overseas. "Despite a slowing U.S. economy, markets outside the U.S. continued to show robust growth in demand for electronic products that drive semiconductor sales," Scalise said. The Asia-Pacific region, which includes China, has overtaken the United States as the largest market for PCs. Unit sales in the rest of the world equaled sales in the United States in 2007 and are poised to surpass the U.S. market in PC unit sales this year. • Intel lifts guidance for rest of year. The world's biggest maker of chips reported ea   [More...] [Less...]

Toshiba readies Cell-based graphics engine | Reg Hardware 

Toshiba will next week formally announce a processor based on the Cell chip that sits inside each Sony PlayStation 3 games console. The new CPU will be pitched not only at consumer electronics kit but ... set head-to-head with today's PC and Mac graphics chips. To be fair to Nvidia, AMD and co., Toshiba's October announcement only covers a prototype of the bizarrely named SpursEngine processor - no, it's not going to be fabbed in Tottenham - as the company has yet to finalise the products specifications. What it'll be showing off on 2 October at Japan's CEATEC exhibition is a version of SpursEngine that contains four of the Synergistic Processing Element (SPE) cores that, along with a PowerPC-based general-purpose processing core, make up the PS3's CPU. Toshiba's SpursEngine: own goal or champion GPU? Alongside those four SPEs sit dedicated H.264 and MPEG 3 decode and encode circuitry, along with 256KB of on-chip data storage. The prototype processor will be clocked at 1.5GHz, Toshiba s   [More...] [Less...]

SEMI - Press 

Semiconductor Materials Post Record Revenues for Fourth Straight Year SAN JOSE, Calif. – March 31, 2008 – The global semiconductor materials market grew 14 percent in 2007 and is forecasted to grow over ... 11 percent in 2008 according to the latest materials forecast from SEMI. While the semiconductor industry grew three percent in 2007 to reach the $256 billion published by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), the global semiconductor materials market grew 14 percent in 2007 to reach a record $42 billion. Growth was seen in both the wafer fabrication materials and packaging sectors with increases of 17 percent or $25 billion and nine percent or $17 billion respectively. Japan continues to dominate worldwide semiconductor materials consumption at 22 percent share due to its large wafer fab and packaging base. Taiwan has held onto the number two spot in terms of consumption of semiconductor materials for the past four years driven by strong growth in wafer foundries and packaging   [More...] [Less...]

IBM Research| Watson Research Center 

Virtual worlds come to life at IBM IBM first started experimenting with virtual worlds almost a year ago. Now, the company is working on an initiative to collaborate with clients and partners on both conducting ... business inside virtual worlds to solve problems in a new way. The Genographic Project From determining where an individual's ancestors can first be found to mapping migration patterns of humankind, IBM and the National Geographic Society expect that there will be many discoveries (both big and small) that will take place during their five-year research partnership: the Genographic Project. Deep Computing Frances Allen, IBM fellow, has become the first woman who will receive the prestigious Turing Award for her achievements in optimizing computer programs and high performance computing systems. see all   [More...] [Less...]

Growth of vertically aligned Si wire arrays over large areas „>1 cm2 with Au and Cu catalysts [pdf]