In Focus: Silicon

Fujitsu Microelectronics America (FMA) introduced a new 26-port 10Gbps Ethernet (10GbE) switch IC designed for data center and telecom equipment ...

Atheros Communications has expanded its Radio-on-Chip for Mobile (ROCm) family of GPS solutions with a hardware and software combination that ...

Pirelli Broadband Solutions is using Sigma Designs' integrated SMP8634 media processor to power their line of IPTV set-top boxes, which ...

IDT (Integrated Device Technology) announced its Route Accelerator (RA) has been selected for use with Bay Microsystems 40Gbps Chesapeake network ...

Freescale Semiconductor reported Q1 net sales of $1.41 billion, compared to $1.54 billion in the fourth quarter of 2007 and ...

Broadcom expanded its network switching portfolio with an end-to-end solution for enterprise 802.11n Wi-Fi networks. The new solution combines Broadcom's ...

Broadcom posted Q1 revenue of $1.032 billion, an increase of 0.5% compared with the $1.027 million reported for the fourth ...

Freescale Semiconductor is supplying 32-bit ColdFire embedded processors for a new line of "Lui" home client/server solutions from NEC Corporation. ...

Sigma Designs has begun sampling its new SMP8654 media processor SoC, designed for next gen IPTV set-top boxes. The new ...

TPACK introduced an upgraded version of its PBB-TE/T-MPLS/VPLS Carrier Packet Engine, which is a commercial chip solution based on an ...

PMC-Sierra announced a multi-year joint development agreement with IBM for RAID technology. The partnership combines PMC-Sierra's 6 Gbps SAS and ...

NXP -- the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips -- and STMicroelectronics agreed to combine key wireless operations to form ...

Xilinx released new radiation-tolerant Virtex-4QV FPGAs designed to perform video, audio, radar streams, and packet processing functions in space-based electronic ...