THE BIG IDEA

Changing business models and emerging technology/market segments that could impact your business

Surviving the New Semiconductor Cycle

The chip industry still has a long life ahead of it, but the days of the “chip vendor” are surely numbered.

EET ON THE QT

A lively roundup of what we've heard on the street and what it means for you

Samsung Targets 2013 Rollout for EUV Litho

TSMC Arms for Analog Domination

SpaceX Hits the Bull’s-Eye

TSMC Gets Serious in MEMS

Making Displays More Immersive

Magnetic RAM Attracts a Giant

Japan’s Odd Couple

Fuzzy Picture for GoogleTV

DOE Gives up the Green for White OLED Panels

Change is in the Bag for IC Packaging

3G/4G Startup Emerges in Beijing

LAY OF THE LAND

Surveying the landscape of both critical and non-traditional industry segments

ARM Elbows Its Way into Servers

Today’s most popular Web services are run on warehouse-sized banks of mainly X86 computers that require so much power they are sometimes parked near generator stations. The pain of deploying and managing such systems has motivated work to explore alternative ways to build servers and the processors that run them.

VC WATCH

Tracking the hottest industry startups and gauging their chances for success

Startup Takes Dynamic Data Path to Reconfigurable Logic

A small company called Akya has been working on an alternative approach for dynamically reconfigurable logic since 2005, surviving thus far on about $1.9 million in angel funding and support from a strategic customer, according CEO Colin Dente. Now it’s courting more pilot customers and U.S. venture capital to take the technology to market.

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IMEC Signs on as Startups' Go-Between for TSMC Access

On its surface, a recent deal between Belgian research organization IMEC and Danish ASIC specialist Delta Microelectronics will give chip startups in Europe, the Middle East and Africa more clout with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., easing access to the foundry giant’s manufacturing capabilities as well as allowing the startups to outsource elements of IC design.

MARKET DATA

Crunching the numbers and discerning trends on varied segments of the global electronics industry

Samsung Leads, Apple Ascends Our Ranking of Top Global OEMs

If any doubts have lingered about the tectonic shifts that are transforming the landscape in global electronics manufacturing, the EE Times Confidential rankings of the Top 2009 Global Electronics OEMs lays them to rest.