Little-known flash-memory features protect data and IP
Features from block locking to encrypted-password-access mechanisms can prevent unintentional disruption, malicious damage, or copying.

Sponsored Link: Hard Real-Time in a Standards-Based Platform for Manufacturing
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Closing the ESL gap
GUEST OPINION: Plenty of commentary has been written about the promise of ESL and how it remains unfulfilled. The truth is that engineers have been successfully designing with...

Accellera, Spirit Consortium merger hints at future of ESL design
The merger aims to bridge the language-based design and IP-assembly worlds and will exploit the fact that the two organizations have been working in complementary areas of...

Intel Atom supply squeezed
Intel reports better-than-expected demand for Diamondville and says it is “moving quickly” to increase output, as PC OEM Asustek Computing notes a shortage of the Atom chips.

Apple 3G iPhone build expected to drive NAND, Micron stock
Apple may build 3 million 3G iPhones by June, with at least 10 million phones built by year end, according to proprietary checks by researchers at Lehman Brothers. On that, the...

Finally, some signs of improvement for DRAM market
After a full year of harsh DRAM market conditions characterized by oversupply, bloated inventories, and weak pricing, iSuppli upgrades its rating of near-term conditions for DRAM...

Apple, Moto, Sony hit by slowdown in mobile phone shipments
The Q1 mobile phone market experienced an expected sequential downturn in shipments, with some vendors hurt more than others, according to two separate research reports....

IC market second-half 'surge' predicted
IC Insights expects an 18% "surge" in the IC market in the second half of the year and claims there is clear evidence that the much-anticipated turning point toward recovery has...

Tech industry girds for tax battle
The Obama administration hopes to raise some $210 billion over the next 10 years by changing the rules governing how foreign earnings of United States multinational...

Broadcom ups bid for Emulex to $912M, drops lawsuit
Broadcom is now offering $11 per share for fibre channel storage networking company Emulex, but says it will move on, considering other alternatives, once this offer expires on...

Percentage of semis consumed by top OEMs increased in 2008, expected to decrease in...
At 79%, the percentage of semiconductors bought by the top 100 OEMs was up in 2008 from 2007's 76%, but at $202 billion, total value of the units bought was down from 2007's $209...