"根据业界消息，台积电正全速进军18英寸晶圆技术领域，主要目的除了降低制造成本，也试图借此领先诸如Globalfoundries、三星(Samsung)、联电(UMC)等竞争对手一步。"

"由于NS和TI都主要在高端器件市场上竞争，因此TI收购NS对本地的模拟器件供应商短期不会带来什么影响。但考虑到台湾和日韩系器件在质量和价格上的竞争力，这些欧美模拟器件供应商的合并抢市场的行为发生并不为奇。"

"The Global Mobile Suppliers Association reported on Tuesday (April 5) that 196 carriers in 75 countries are investing in LTE at some level. The report says 140 of those operators will deploy commercial LTE systems in 56 countries, up 118 percent from a year ago, and 56 other carriers are conducting LTE trials"

some discussion about the super-source-follower

" NXP Semiconductors BV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), the chip company separated from Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV by a private equity buy out in 2006, is in takeover talks with Intel, Qualcomm and Broadcom, according to online reports that cite Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reporting on Friday (April 8)."

"As reported, Texas Instruments Inc. signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire National Semiconductor Corp. for $6.5 billion in cash, the company said Monday (April 4). "

some good document for the simulation

At the recent International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco, most of the leading-edge logic papers dealt with the 32-nm node. IBM Corp. presented one of the few 22-nm papers.

Semiconductor executives anticipate a steep decline in profitability over the next 12 to 18 months, according to a recent global survey of semiconductor company executives conducted by KPMG LLP, a U.S. consulting firm.

是不是已经厌倦了一直以来的坏消息？

Information Network列出了一份预测清单，预期2009年仍有以下五大市场将呈现增长态势：

比起传统SPICE仿真器，Virtuoso Accelerated Parallel Simulator能够实现20.6倍的性能提升

测量多环开关电源的频率响应可说是一项艰巨的挑战，尤其是在所有稳压电路都处于次级时

1月17日在USB开发者会议上，广泛采用的USB接口引来了新的3.0官方版本，会议上一些厂商希望采用该新标准的产品能达到400Mbyte/s。

This excerpt from the book "Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" begins a look at the process of actually designing a control system and getting it working.

Much ink has been devoted to the decline of semiconductor research and development in the United States. Pessimists say Bell Labs has thrown in the towel and pioneers like TI are following the path blazed by offshore foundries like TSMC

SAN JOSE, Calif.–The mad rush to cash in on the emerging Chinese semiconductor/electronics industry is slowing down.

A report issued last week by market researcher iSuppli found there are more than 550 fabless semiconductor companies in China, but at least 100 will disappear within two years.