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Thursday 21 October 2010
Li-Ion/Poly batteries drive high growth of battery management ICs from headsets to electric vehicles, says Petrov Group
The requirement for power-efficient and high performance solutions in Li-Ion/Poly battery-powered devices and equipment continues to open profitable growth opportunities for existing...
Tuesday 24 August 2010
Thirty billion power conversion ICs enable power management applications, says Petrov Group
The analog power conversion IC segment dominates the power management market; it accounts for about 30 billion units and US$11 billion revenues with a forecast average growth rate...
Thursday 12 August 2010
HP to start selling printer-bundled tablet in September, says Digitimes Research
Hewlett-Packard (HP) is expected to start selling a printer-bundled tablet PC in September, according to Digitimes Research senior analyst Luke Lin citing upstream component makers...
Tuesday 10 August 2010
Power management ICs in portable devices represent nearly 40% of total analog IC revenues, says Petrov Group
The annual unit growth rate for portable devices is estimated at more than 12%, from about two billion in 2008 to over 3.4 billion devices in 2013. These devices have an increasing...
Thursday 24 June 2010
Freescale announces new 32-bit MCUs, fabricated by Globalfoundries
Freescale Semiconductor has announced new microcontroller (MCU) products - the Kinetis family of 32-bit devices - based on the ARM Cortex-M4 processor. The new MCUs are manufactured...
Friday 4 June 2010
Linaro formed to push Linux on ARM
ARM and five system-on-chip (SoC) vendors - Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments (TI) - have jointly announced the formation of Linaro, a not-for-profit...
Thursday 6 May 2010
Infineon leads 2009 automotive chip ranking, says Semicast
Infineon Technologies was the largest supplier of semiconductors to the automotive sector in 2009, according to Semicast Research. Freescale Semiconductor, for many years the leading...
Tuesday 12 January 2010
Freescale ICs featured in Acer new DisplayPlus monitor
Acer has designed a new product – DisplayPlus D241H – that leverages processing, power management and analog technologies from Freescale Semiconductor. The product was...
Wednesday 2 September 2009
MEMS IDMs pressured by low-priced China electronic sensors
China's white-box handset makers have turned to use electronic sensors made by local companies instead of first-tier IDMs' MEMS sensors for their new products due to cost concern...
Tuesday 1 September 2009
ARC announces distribution license agreement for MQX real time operating system with Freescale Semiconductor
SAN JOSE, CA., and ST. ALBANS, England, August 31st, 2009 - ARC International (LSE: ARK), a leading provider of consumer intellectual property (IP) to OEM and semiconductor companies...
Friday 28 August 2009
Freescale increases outsourcing to TSMC, says paper
Freescale Semiconductor recently announced a new 45nm DSP series and has expanded outsourcing to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for the second half of 2009, according...
Wednesday 19 August 2009
G-sensor pricing to drop by 10-20%
Quotes of 3-axis accelerometers (g-sensors) are expected to drop by US$0.1-0.2 later in the third quarter of 2009, down from about US$1 at present, since the capacity expansion of...
Thursday 6 August 2009
Wafer Works reportedly taps MEMS substrate market
Taiwan-based solar wafer maker Wafer Works has recently begun supplying MEMS substrates in small volumes to IDM customers, such as STMicroelectronics, Freescale and Analog Devices...
Friday 5 June 2009
Computex 2009: Freescale eyes future netbook concepts and form factors
As the smartbook category takes shape, Freescale indicated it is teaming with industrial design program to demonstrate possible next-generation form factor. The company pointed out...
Wednesday 3 June 2009
Computex promises to deliver on the mobile front
While Intel appears to be stepping away from the netbook market for the moment, ARM-based competitors are stepping in.