Vitesse to Deploy Mfg Vision Solution.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-15 May 2008-Vitesse to Deploy Mfg Vision Solution(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Mfg Vision, a provider of yield-management and data-analysis solutions to the semiconductor industry, announced that its enterprise yield-management (EYM) system, FloorVision, was selected by Vitesse Semiconductor to manage its manufacturing yield data from multiple...

Solar series: part 3: the future of solar energy production.
Q: Where is solar energy beaded? Are there any exciting advancements happening now that will change going solar in the future? A: With recent energy economics, solar applications for homes and businesses have become a real alternative. Solar panels are popping up on homes across the landscape,...

Mobile Handset Companies Form Standards Group.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-30 April 2008-Mobile Handset Companies Form Standards Group(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com ARM, Ericsson, Hynix Semiconductor, LG Electronics, Silicon Image, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, and STMicroelectronics announced the formation of a working group committed to creating an open standard for next-generation memory interface technology targeting mobile...

Dell Offers New XPS 730 H2C for Gaming.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-1 May 2008-Dell Offers New XPS 730 H2C for Gaming(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Dell has launched of the XPS 730 H2C edition, an advanced gaming platform. Dell stated that with support for optional quad-core processors, quad GPU graphics solutions and up to four...

Actions Semiconductor Products to be Featured in Disney's Media Player.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-23 April 2008-Actions Semiconductor Products to be Featured in Disney's Media Player(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Actions Semiconductor, a Chinese fabless semiconductor company that provides mixed-signal system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for portable consumer electronics, announced that the Company's Series 13 products will be featured in The Walt...

Perfecting the PC: computers are getting better, but consumer habits matter, too.
Your personal computing habits may need a green makeover. Today's power-hungry computers are eating an ever-bigger share of the energy pie chart. With new, more energy-efficient technologies and green initiatives like the federal Energy Star program and the Green Electronics Council's Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT), consumers can...

EMCORE Systems Tapped for Alternative Energy Projects in South Korea.
ENERGY RESOURCE-17 December 2007-EMCORE Systems Tapped for Alternative Energy Projects in South Korea(C)2007 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com EMCORE Corporation, a provider of compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the broadband, fiber optic, satellite, and terrestrial solar power markets, has received a purchase order to supply 5.7 Megawatts (MW)...

Tesseras Camera Technology Moves to Finals of EDN Innovation Awards.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-18 February 2008-Tesseras Camera Technology Moves to Finals of EDN Innovation Awards(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Tessera Technologies, a provider of miniaturization technologies for the electronics industry, announced that its OptiML Wafer-Level Camera (WLC) technology has been named a finalist for Best Product in the Sensor...

Bright chip-light-emitting diode.
Seoul Semiconductor Inc, South Korea, has launched a chip-light-emitting diode (chip-LED) at 0.17 mm, which is said to be the world's thinnest LED. The company says that the chip-LED is capable of producing more than twice the brightness of existing chip-LEDs, and Seoul Semiconductor has applied for a patent...

National Semiconductor Wins EDN Award.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-20 April 2008-National Semiconductor Wins EDN Award(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com EDN Magazine selected National Semiconductor's multi-rate 3 Gbps serial digital interface (SDI) SerDes chipset from hundreds of entries as mixed-signal application-specific standard product (ASSP) innovation of the year in its 18th Annual Innovation Awards. ...