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Analog Devices has unveiled a new analogue to digital converter, which consumes 328mW per channel – half the power per channel of competing data converters.

IC Insights reports that most large memory and foundry companies performed extremely well in 1H10, with most of them strong double digit growth rates.

PA then found that when used in the so-called ‘death grip’, “the iPhone 4’s performance was significantly worse than other smartphones”

Sematech and the Semiconductor Metrology Systems (SMS) division of Carl Zeiss claim to have reached a key development milestone in the development of a next generation photomask registration and overlay metrology system. The jointly developed system – called PROVE – demonstrated the measurement capability for advanced photomasks for the 32nm node and below.

The partners in a new publicly-funded European research project have announced details of a multinational/multidisciplinary program: ‘CSI: Central Nervous System Imaging.’ The three year, €14.6million European Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council (ENIAC) project aims to achieve ’substantial advances’ in state of the art medical 3d imaging platforms by focusing on the diagnosis and therapy of serious diseases of the central nervous system and brain.

The global dram industry recorded revenue of $10.7billion for Q2 2010 – a sequential growth of 15.2%, according to a report by market analyst DRAMeXchange.

STMicroelectronics has introduced what it claims to be the industry’s first embedded microprocessor that couples two ARM Cortex-A9 cores with a Third-generation double-data rate (ddr3) memory interface.

The Q2 DRAM market was worth $10.7bn, according to DRAMeXchange, a 15.2% increase from Q1’s $9.3bn.

Samsung Electronics had Q2 revenues of $32bn for a net profit of $3.6bn and an operating profit of $4.2bn.

Just how is this done, or is it a fake?