On Monday, SST announced an innovative new way to approach the memory requirements for a wide range of products. The All-in-OneMemory is a multi-chip package (MCP) consisting of three chips: NAND, RAM (DRAM or PSRAM), and a controller. The advantage this brings is the processor only needs a single RAM bus to interface with code [...]

Over the past few weeks the big semiconductor manufacturing buzz has been the rumors revolving around Intel’s next 300mm fab. On March 26th, Intel finally made it official. They will be locating their next greenfield fab in Dalian, China, a city in the Northeastern region of the country. Not only is this their first fab [...]

At the upcoming Embedded Systems Conference (April 2-4, 2007) Atmel will reveal details on the second generation of the 32-bit version of the AVR family, AVR32 UC3.
The AVR architecture was introduced by Atmel several years ago in the 8-bit MCU market. In recent years it has offered a 32-bit MCU version to aid its customers [...]

The high end of the MPU and MCU markets seem to always get so much more attention. Yet the 8-bit MCUs still account for huge volume. In 2006, 8-bit MCUs had $4.6 B in sales with shipments growing 5.3% to 4.2 billion units. It is a very competitive market driven by pricing. The 8-bit MCU [...]

On Monday, February 26, Discera, Inc., a San Jose, CA company announced the availability of its MOS1 MEMS-based oscillator series, which is being sampled now with volume production expected this summer. These oscillators have a MEMS resonator and an ASIC embedded within a conventional QFN package or ceramic package. They can be used as a [...]

At the International Solid State Circuits Conference being held in San Francisco this week, IBM Corp. is announcing an on-chip memory technology that it claims has the fastest access times ever recorded for embedded DRAM. IBM expects this technology to be a major step forward in solving the multi-core processor memory bottleneck.
IBM said its solution [...]