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Manufacturing, Competitiveness and Technological Leadership in the Semiconductor Industry | 2008-10-06 | Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) |
| Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), the world's second largest producer of microprocessors, has announced its intent to build a new $4 billion-plus leading edge semiconductor foundry manufacturing facility in Saratoga County, New York as part of a joint venture with the Advanced Technologies Investment Corporation (ATIC) of Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. When completed in 2012, the proposed manufacturing facility, currently known as Fab 4X, will be the most technologically advanced in the world and the largest leading edge semiconductor foundry facility in the United States. | |||
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BERTL iTchat: Samsung UK's Ambitious Plans for B2B Domination | 2008-09-30 | Quocirca |
| As a major player in the semiconductor, flat panel TV and mobile phone markets, Samsung has become one of the fastest growing global brands over the past five years. But now Samsung is turning its attention to its new growth engine - the printer business - to expand its share of the lucrative corporate market. Samsung has a bold mission - to become a top tier player in the global laser printer market by 2012, narrowing the gap between it and the market leader HP. One of Samsung's advantages in developing its printer products is its ability to source many of its own hardware components, including processors, LCD panels, and memory chips, along with design and software.
Tags: Mobile and Wireless, Enterprise Planning |
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Scaling Supply Chain Operations for Growth and Profitability | 2008-09-01 | |
| Fabless start-ups are constantly juggling competing internal resource demands with a need to conserve cash before revenue starts to flow. As a result, many fail to invest adequately to meet operational and production goals that require flawless supply chain execution to speed time-to-market and maximize both profitability and revenue. This paper examines how fabless semiconductor organizations typically evolve in terms of staffing, process and systems, and makes recommendations for improved evolution at specific stages of company growth.
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Oracle and HCL Help SolFocus Prepare for Growth in Solar Market | 2008-04-23 | HCL |
| When executives at SolFocus, Inc. began planning an upgrade of core technology processes and services they knew just who to call: HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL). As one of Oracle's most aggressive and innovative Certified Advantage Partners, HCL implemented Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 to deliver the features and flexibility SolFocus needed to thrive in the still-evolving renewable energy market.
Tags: Components, Business Functions |
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Evaluation Process for Semiconductor Fabrication Materials That Are Better for the Environment | 2008-02-21 | Intel |
| The successful future of the semiconductor industry is dependent upon the development of an array of new and novel materials to make semiconductor devices. In parallel, there is a growing sentiment in public policy and regulatory forums for a highly conservative precautionary approach to approving the introduction of new chemicals into commerce. Intel's business model of Copy Exactly! requires new material development very early in the technology development cycle. Therefore, Intel's approach to chemical development, and selection of materials, must incorporate consideration of the environmental impact of its policies and materials extremely early. | |||
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How OLED Works | 2008-01-01 | OLED TV's and OLED Displays |
| The Organic Light-Emiting Diodes (OLEDs) have very huge benefit: they consume less power and offer brighter displays than the traditional LCD (Liquid Crystal Displays) or LEDs (Light-Emiting Diodes). This paper describes how the technology of OLED works and what kinds of displays might be possible. A light-emiting organic diode is the semiconductor solid-state device. It is generally 100 to 500 nm thick. There are the designs with 2 or with 3 layers of the organic compounds. The much common is a tow layer version, and therefore the focus of this paper is on this version.
Tags: Components |
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Quantum?Dot?Based Photonic Devices | 2007-10-01 | Fujitsu |
| Adopting nanometer-sized semiconductor particles, called quantum dots, in the active regions of photonic devices provides the characteristics specific to 3-dimensional quantum effects. This will greatly improve the performance of photonic devices in many respects. This paper is developing quantum-dot lasers and quantum-dot optical amplifiers through joint research conducted with the University of Tokyo. This paper introduces the development of technology for these devices, along with some recent results. For quantum-dot lasers, one has realized temperature-insensitive direct modulation at a modulation rate of 10 Gb/s in the 1.3-?m wavelength range. The paper has also fabricated high-performance, quantum-dot optical amplifiers with a wide bandwidth of over 100 nm, high gain of 20 dB, and high optical output power of over +20 dBm. | |||
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Carbon Nanotube Bumps for Thermal and Electric Conduction in Transistor | 2007-10-01 | Fujitsu |
| The continuous miniaturization of semiconductor chips has rapidly improved the performance of semiconductor products. However, thermal issues that affect semi- conductor chips are becoming more serious. For example, heat transfer has become a very serious problem in the CPUs of personal computers; high-frequency High-Power Amplifiers (HPAs) of mobile communication systems; and power control units of hybrid-car motors. To solve this problem, Fujitsu has been developing semi-conductor heat sinks that exploit the high thermal conductivity of Carbon NanoTubes (CNTs). This paper describes the CNT bumps that have been recently developed for transferring heat and electrically connecting the source, gate, and drain of the high-power, flip-chip amplifiers of mobile communication base stations.
Tags: Mobile and Wireless |
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Avoiding Costly Product Recalls With Proactive SPC | 2007-09-13 | |
| This year alone, consumer confidence has been shaken over product quality, reliability and safety concerns within the food processing, electronics, automotive, toy, clothing and personal care industries. The next "Shoe" is just waiting to fall. Conservatively speaking, if one's business is effected, expect to spend more than a million dollars responding to a recall. While analysts and consultants urge companies to have an actionable crisis management plan in place, Zontec contends that it is possible to prevent a recall situation well before a product ever approaches crisis mode. Betting on recall and/or contamination insurance isn't enough. Because as soon as a product's reputation becomes publicly suspect, the rebuilding of brand equity and lost market share becomes an absolute financial, legal, public relations and logistics nightmare. | |||
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Bringing USB to the Network | 2007-09-09 | MosChip Semiconductors |
| USB technology has changed the PC peripheral industry ever since the introduction of USB 1.1 in September 1998 and then later USB 2.0 in April 2000. USB interface was initially intended to retire serial and parallel ports by creating a universal interface for serial / parallel devices, it has quickly gained acceptance as the standard interface for a wide variety of devices including keyboards, mice, game pads, scanners and printers. High-speed USB2.0, with its 480 Mbps speeds, proliferated mass storage devices with ever increasing capacities and gave capabilities to connect a standard IDE/SATA hard drive to the PC. USB also spread outside the PC to PDA's, and portable devices.
Tags: Management, Components |
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