MagnaChip Unveils 0.18um, 0.35um Advanced Bipolar CMOS-DMOS Process
MagnaChip Semiconductor Ltd., a leading Asia-based designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products for high volume consumer applications, announced the availability of its industry leading 0.18um aBCD and 0.35um aBCD (Advanced Bipolar CMOS-DMOS) process technologies for foundry customers.
Phonak, NXP Team on Ultra Low Power Radio Chip
NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, announced a single chip ultra low power radio for use in hearing systems developed in collaboration with Phonak. The new ultra low power radio is currently being integrated into Phonak’s portfolio of CORE-based hearing systems and wireless accessories.
Verigy Announces V6000 Automated Test Equipment for Flash, DRAM
Verigy (NASDAQ:VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, announced the V6000 for testing both flash and DRAM memory on the same automated test equipment (ATE) platform, at breakthrough cost-of-test. The V6000 is versatile and scalable across the entire semiconductor memory test process, including engineering, wafer sort and final test. After competitive benchmark evaluations, Numonyx, a leading manufacturer of a full range of memory technologies, has confirmed its selection of the V6000 for high-volume wafer sort of its NAND devices and known good die (KGD). The selection was based on the platform’s parallelism, performance and low cost-of-test.
Avalue Develops ACP-GM45 Gaming Board
Avalue’s new gaming board ACP-GM45 is powered by Intel® dual-core GM45 technology, supports dual views and offers security components and unique I/O interfaces that gaming systems request, such as CC Talk and JAMMA. ACP-GM45 is a high-leveled Mini-ITX form factor gaming mainboard that features strong expandability and delivers exceptional graphics and 3-D processing functions to provide gaming system integrators a multifunctional gaming platform. Moreover, Avalue’s strength of integration of hardware and software provides safe, rapid, and simplified total solution.
Opera Software Releases Opera Mini 4.2
Opera Software released the final version of its much-anticipated Opera Mini 4.2 for mobile phones. Since the launch of the beta version of Opera Mini 4.2, speed trials have shown that this version gives more than 30% speed improvements for users in the US, due to the addition of a new Opera Mini server park in the United States.
Type 2 COM Express Becoming Standard for COM Express Modules
According to a study recently published by VDC Research Group, Type 2 COM Express has become the flavor of choice for COM Express modules. This research on the Computer-On-Modules (COMs) market, part of VDC’s annual Merchant Computer Boards Research service, found that 82% of all COM Express modules were Type 2 in 2007. The COM Express specification allows for five “types,” differing in connectors and pin-outs.
Avago Announces ACPL-796J Optically Isolated Sigma-Delta Modulator
Avago Technologies, a leading supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, announced one of the industry’s first optically isolated sigma-delta modulator using an external clock to provide direct measurement of motor phase currents in power inverters. Based on an advanced low power CMOS process, the ACPL-796J uses an external clock that allows synchronized data conversion between the current sensor and controller to help motor control designers eliminate complex design processes in data and clock reading. Moreover, the ACPL-796J is designed with digital inputs and outputs that are compatible with systems powered by 5- or 3-volt supplies and works under a wide industrial temperature range.
IDC Expects Slower Growth for Worldwide Services Market
A new study from IDC forecasts that worldwide services spending will grow 5.2% year over year in 2009, down 1.5 percentage points from the previous forecast. IDC estimates that the remaining years in the forecast period, through 2012, will also grow slower than predicted earlier. “Services spending will not contract as it did in the previous economic downturn, however the effects of the current economic crisis will reduce spending growth in the services market across the entire forecast period,” stated Gard Little, research manager, Worldwide Services and Emerging Services Opportunities research.
Kontron Rolls Out Micro Client II for HMI Applications
Kontron announces its second generation of the successful Micro Client industrial HMI: the new Kontron Micro Client II. By focussing on intended use as an industrial thin client including touch functionality for operating and monitoring, the new Kontron Micro Client II provides all the latest features required for thin client oriented HMI applications in a cost-optimized design that includes a modular IP65 protected front panel with touch screen.
Two Operating Systems Runs in Parallel on conga-QA Computer Module
congatec AG has announced the successful testing of its recently launched conga-QA computer module with the new Hypervisor Software 2.0 from Real-Time Systems (RTS). The Qseven embedded PC module, conga-QA, now allows any two operating systems to be run in parallel – independently from one another and with real-time capability – even where space is at a premium.
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