Last week, NEC Electronics America held an open house to showcase their newly expanded and upgraded fab in Roseville, CA. The fab has added an 8-inch line to the already existing 6-inch facility. This is all part of NEC Electronics Multifab™ strategy which was unveiled in February 2006. The Multifab strategy is designed to [...]

This week Intel announced a test chip for its Terascale Computing Research program. The objective is to eventually bring super-computing into mainstream computing.
The Teraflops Research Chip is an 80 core design. Keep in mind that this is not an MPU architecture ready for commercialization but a test vehicle. An individual core does not have the [...]

Freescale Semiconductor has announced two dual-core DSP (Digital Signal Processing) chips designed to support multiple HD (High Definition) audio standards. These two chips, the Symphony DSP56720 and DSP56721, are the first offerings in what will become a family of multi-core 24-bit audio processors, which will be suitable for audio applications in headphones, rack-mounted amplifiers, automotive [...]