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Saturday, October 17, 2009

Americas Region Continues To Lead Semiconductor Recovery

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LONDON — The Americas region achieved actual sales of $3.22 billion in August 2009, up 7.6 percent from the same month a year before, according to "actual" data from the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics organization. The Americas, which is dominated in terms of sales by the U.S., remains the only region able to demonstrate monthly sales growth year-on-year. In July actual chip sales in ...

TI To Open 300-mm Analog Fab In North Texas

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SAN FRANCISCO—Texas Instruments Inc. plans to open a 300-mm analog semiconductor fab in Richardson, Texas, the company said Tuesday (Sept. 29). TI expects to begin equipping the facility next month and ship the first chips from the fab by the end of next year, the company said. According to TI (Dallas), the Richardson facility will be the first analog chip fab to use 300-mm wafers. When the ...

Wanted: Power Engineers For Smart Grids

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Uncles Sam wants a few smart power engineers—quite a few in fact. Steven Chu, U.S. Secretary of Energy, put out a $100 million down payment last week to train a new generations of engineers to help build and run tomorrow's smart electric grid. Utilities say they need engineers who understand both information technology and electric power grids to handle next-generation ...

IMEC Chief: Innovation Only Way Out Of Recession

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LEUVEN, Belgium — "The way to get out of the downturn is to innovate," said Luc Van den hove, chief executive of IMEC (Leuven, Belgium), opening an annual press forum for the R&D center based here. Researchers discussed advances in extreme ultraviolet lithography, MEMS and components for wireless, solar and medical systems at the event. This recession has been a relatively mild one so far for ...

Ex-Freescale Toulouse Engineers To Develop Atom-based Platforms

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PARIS — At last, Intel Corp. has confirmed that it is hiring a team of 53 3G system integration engineers from Freescale's Cellular Products Group based in Toulouse, in the South of France. This is not news since France's Ministry of Industry previously issued an official statement. What's news are Intel's intentions and motivations. Intel said it aims to enhance its 3G wireless ...
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