EET ON THE QT

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

Wilocity Signals Next Battle at 60 GHz

Nets To PAN Out at CES

Synopsys Removes Thorn with Magma Deal

3-D Chips No ‘Niche Play’

DuPont Deal Sets Stage for AMOLED Push

FDA Guidance Strikes Deaf Ears

LAY OF THE LAND

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

Cloud Hosts Wealth Of Disruptive Opportunities

Cloud computing is turning out to be as big and attractive as it is hard to get your head around. The applications that drive it—often called workloads—are evolving and fragmenting rapidly, fueling an increasingly varied and complex set of chip and systems opportunities.

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Facebook Seeks to Drive Data Center Plumbing

Facebook, in a bid to get other data center operators to adopt the designs outlined in its Open Compute Project and thereby add more buying power to its requests, has been more forthcoming than its larger competitors.

VC WATCH

Tracking the hottest industry startups and gauging their chances for success

Startup EpiGaN Powers GaN on Silicon Wafers

A team spun out from the Inter-university Microelectronics Center research institute is offering device makers epitaxial GaN-on-Si wafers with commercially viable 150- and 200-mm diameters. Gallium nitride and alloys containing aluminum and indium are important for such applications like optoelectronics, RF and lower-frequency power.

MARKET DATA

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

Maxim-SensorDynamics Deal Eyes Shift to MEMS Combination Sensors

Maxim Integrated Products’ July acquisition of Austrian startup SensorDynamics gives the Silicon Valley company a solid technology play in the growing combination inertial sensor market niche, and likely makes Maxim a serious contender in the even bigger emerging market for integrated sensor solutions.

COMPANY TEARDOWN

We identify and dissect the up-and-comers, the established firms hitting their stride, and the companies in crisis

LE Tech's Embedded Gambit Toys with a Winning Formula

LE Tech, the Japanese manufacturer of components for popular "pachinko" arcade machines, is applying its expertise in random number generation to the embedded security world. The result is a high-resilience microcontroller that eliminates the need for system resets after a software failure.