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    Semiconductor Circuit News

• ISSCC 2010 - Intel, Renesas, Toshiba show mobile media chips, Inductive coupling packs flash drive, Chip links hit 20 Gbits/s, power lows
• Four Billion Cell Users : Computing Power Anytime, Anyplace
• Google Nexus One Carries $174.15 Materials Cost, iSuppli Teardown Reveals
• IEDM 2009 -Will IBM Shift to Gate-Last; Intel 32 nm PMOS; Silicon CMOS for 22 nm; Logic Processes
• How much of a lead does Intel have at 32nm and for High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) Technologies?
• Semiconductor Industry Trends in Light of 2008 Economic Upheaval
• Semiconductor IC Ranking Q3 2009 (fast growth at Samsung, Toshiba, Hynix, Micron)
• Intel Developer Forum 2009: Performance, Reliability, and Future Direction of Solid State Drive (SSD)
• Flash Memory Summit 2009: Fusion-io, STEC, Denali and Other Presentations
• Semiconductor Inventory and its Impact on Electronic Supply Chains- iSupply
• Semiconductor IC Ranking Q2 2009(Climbing TSMC, Hynix, MediaTek Droping AMD, Freescale, Fujitsu)
• Intel’s New SSD X25 Reviews and Benchmarks
• Apple iPhone 3GS Teardown (Reverse Engineering) of Chip Components and Software Capabilities
• SSD Market Share and Sales with Breakdown by Density
• Palm Pre Teardown
• Q&A: Analogic CEO
• Semiconductor Companies Q1 2009 Market Shares
• DRAM and NAND Q1 2009 Market Shares
• Is Mobile Computing the Next Big Market?
• SandForce Brings MLC to Solid State Drives (SSD)
• Long Term Trends in the NOR and NAND Markets
• Fusion-io Super Fast NAND Flash Storage Using PCIe for Enterprise Market
• Faster Cheaper Solid-State Hard Drive
• ISSCC 2009
• ISSCC 2009 Preview
• 15 Technology Challenges for 22-nm Node
• DRAM Ranking for Second and Third Quarters
• China's Semiconductor Industry
• Semiconductor Industry Rankings for First Three Quarters of 2008
• SanDisk's ExtremeFFS - New Flash Management System for Improving SSD Performance and Reliability
• iPhone/ GPhone Repeating Mac/ PC Market Patterns?
• Samsung Buying Sandisk? (Update)
• Samsung Buying Sandisk?
• Status of Semiconductor's Intellectual-Property (IP)

• Fab Cost is Increasing The Number of Joint Ventures and Joint Developments

• Learning Curve Leads to Shakeout in SSD Market

• NAND for mobile handsets: cost, density and performance advantages

• 2008 Semiconductor Industry Rankings - IC Insights

• Intel Developments- Mobile Phone and TV Processor

• Netbook (or Low Cost) PC Market

• Intel's SSD Drives

• Samsung Electronics and Sun Microsystems Increased 5x Endurance of Solid State Drives (SSD) with 8 Gbit Single-Level-Cell (SLC)

• Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface (NVMHCI)

• Demand for NAND Flash Memory for Handsets Doubles its Share of Market, Making up the Biggest Share of NAND Market

• Update - Apple’s iPhone 3G Semiconductor Parts

• Solid-State-Based Lighting Could Cut the Energy Used by Lighting in Half, Says the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

• Leave Laptop at Home and Travel with USB Key Drive Instead

• VLSI 2008 Symposium Highlights

• VLSI 2008 Circuits Program

• Trends in the Wi-Fi industry - Michael Hurlson of Broadcom

• Trends in storage, the economy and network - LSI CEO Abhi Talwalkar

• Seagate Technology, the World's Largest Maker of Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) Sues STEC, a Small Solid-State Drives (SSD) Maker

• Faster SSD Appearing in the Market (estimate 200MB/sec)

• iPod Touch Components likely to be in Future of the iPod line - iSuppli Tear Down

• Evolution of Components in Smart Phones

• Taiwan IC Designers Venture into New LED Applications

• Flash Memory and SSD Reliability - Comments by Intel and Samsung

• MTRON 32GB SSD vs. Seagate and Samsung 's SSD

• 2008 Semiconductor Industry Growth and 2007 Rankings and Revenues - iSuppli

• ISSCC 2008 Highlights

• Intel, Micron New ONFi 2.0 Interface Boost the Data Transfer Rate of NAND Flash-Memory 5x

• Reverse Engineering of iPhone Video

• Comparing iPhone, Blackberry, Sony Ericsson, and Motorola

• Counterfeit Part's Impacts on the Semiconductor Industry

• Memory Chip Architecture Development - Harnessing Multiple Cores for Parallel Execution

• IC Semiconductor's 2008 Growth Forecasts for PCs, Memories, and Phones from Industry Strategy Symposium (ISS)

• Chip Makers Must Shift from Fabs to Systems - Infineon CEO

• Samsung, Toshiba Share OneNAND and LBA-NAND Flash Specs to Improve Supply Availability

• Intel and STMicroelectronics Shipping Functional Prototype of Phase-Change Memory (PCM)

• Rambus Demonstrates Terabyte Memories Using Fast Channels

• IEDM Technical Program - 2007

• A Very Low-Power Analog-to-Digital (A/D) Converter Technology

• LED Developments for Alternating Current (AC) LEDs in LCD Backlights and for Lighting Traffic Lights,  and Emergency Exit Signs.

• Toshiba's Logical Block Addressing (LBA) Interface for NAND Flash Reportedly has Received Support from Samsung Against ONFI

• iPhone Semiconductor Components

• Comments About the Push to Reduce the Specifications for ESD in Digital ICs

• NVMHCI Standard for NAND Flash Module Controllers in Notebooks, Desktops, and Servers

• PC's Crashes Due to Single-bit DRAM Errors and Can be Solved Using ECC- According to Microsoft

• DDR3 New Product Validation, Shipments by Qimonda, Micron, Samsung, and Elpida

• Key Developments in Intel's Quad-core, Penryn, Silverthorne & Mobile Processors

• Leading Chip Makers Push to Reduce the Specifications for ESD in Digital ICs

• Mosaid Claims New Flash Interface Offers 10x Boost

• Hynix Received Validation on its DDR3 Memory Components and Modules from Intel

• Qimonda and Micron Technology Delivered Samples of Next-Generation DDR3 DRAM Ahead of Samsung Electronics

•  PCM and FRAM Products Introduction

• Hynix Introduces 512Mb Mobile DDR with ECC Support

• U.S. Consumer  Electronic Spending Slowed in 2006 to Half the Growth Rate in 2005

• ISSCC News  - Substantially Faster DRAM using SOI for Embedded Applications

• Renesas and Matsushita Develop Circuits to Stabilize SRAM Operation in Embedded Control Applications on 45nm Technology

• SanDisk Introduces 32GB SSD 1.8-inch Solid State Drive (SSD) as a Drop-in Replacement for the Standard Mechanical Hard Disk Drive

• Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI) Group Introduced a Chip-level Interface Standard for NAND Flash Memory

• Automotive Electronics Future Trends for Micro, Memory, Logic ICs; Analog, Mixed Signal and Discrete Devices

Introduction to Electronic Circuits

• Review of  Semiconductor Circuit , Device, and Process Topics

• Tutorials in Electronic Circuits (Memory, Microprocessor, Analog, and Communication)

• Electronic Circuits for Beginners and Intermediates

• IC Circuit - Digital, Analog, Etc

• Electronic Component, Circuit, and Block Diagram Tutorials

• Semiconductor Devices (Diodes, Junction, Capacitor)

• Berkeley's Chipwise VLSI Circuit Simulation, Design Rule Check, etc

• Flash Memory Interface - ONFI Standard and ECC Support

• CCD vs. CMOS - Capturing images digitally strengths and weaknesses

• Design -International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductor (ITRS) 2006

• Modeling and Simulation - International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductor (ITRS) 2006

• Test -International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductor (ITRS) 2006

• Yield -International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductor(ITRS) 2006

• Interview with DR Yield's founder

• Light-emitting Diode (LED)

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• ALLDATASHEET - Datasheet search site, Datasheet search site for Electronic Components and Semiconductors and other semiconductors.

• Electronic Component Datasheets and Data Books

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