Tired: haptics technology that enables smartphones to vibrate with new message alerts. Wired: more advanced haptics that recreate the sensation of pressing a physical key on a touchscreen. Inspired: high-definition haptics that imitate...
On Semiconductor announced it would take over the majority of a shared factory to help meet mounting demand for power and analog semiconductors. The company said on Monday that it would pay Fujitsu Semiconductor for another 20 percent of...
Almost every electronic device needs to keep track of time to function. Tiny electronic clocks allow the instructions vital to the operation of chips and circuit boards to get where they need to go at the correct moment. These timing devices...
Intel announced that it would add $1 billion in capital expenditures to release some pressure from its network of factories, which have been struggling to meet booming demand for chips powering personal computers and data centers. In the meantime...
The microcontroller market is growing as the number of applications that need them expands, IC Insights reports. Shipments of these devices, which enable everything from a car’s windshield wipers to a factory’s...
Over the last two years, a shortage of memory chips used in everything from smartphones to automobiles has propped up prices higher and higher. That has transformed Samsung Electronics into the largest supplier of semiconductors by revenue...
Silicon photonics has long been an almost-there technology. Holding it back is a shortage of software tools that allow silicon photonics to be designed the same way as traditional integrated circuits. Today, building silicon photonics is a slow...
Last week, Apple announced that its latest line of smartphones would contain a 6.9 billion-transistor chip based on 7-nanometer manufacturing technology, the most advanced process available. But the performance of the new processor, the A12...
Renesas Electronics announced on Tuesday it would buy Integrated Device Technology for $6.7 billion, looking to supply more comprehensive batches of automotive chips. The company said that the deal would give it radio frequency, interconnect...
