Thanks to its huge sales and high memory usage, Apple’s iPhone is expected to generate insatiable demand for NAND-type flash memory in 2010, helping to strain supplies for the year, according to iSuppli.“An average of 35.2Gbytes of NAND will be used in each iPhone sold in 2010, iSuppli estimates,” said Michael Yang, senior analyst for memory and storage at iSuppli. “Furthermore, iPhone shipments
STMicroelectronics Boosts Realism and Accuracy in Gaming, Robotics and Navigation by Combining Multiple Sensors with Microcontrollers STMicroelectronics, which owns the trademark for the IPAD, has now launched the iNEMO, a family of multi-sensor Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) devices combined with micocontrollers.The integration of a variety of motion, magnetic, pressure and temperature
WiLink7.0 integrates WLAN, GPS, Bluetooth and FM on true single-chip
Texas Instruments has developed the first truwe single chip to integrate WLAN 802.11n, GPS, FM transmit/receive and Bluetooth technologies. The 65nm WiLink 7.0 solution reduces costs by 30 percent, reduces size by 50 percent and delivers superior coexistence performance as compared to today’s existing solutions. Built on
Micron Technology has bought struggling NOR flash memory joint venture Numonyx for $1.27bn in Micron shares. The transaction really strengthens Micron’s position as one of the world’s leading memory companies, with a broad portfolio of DRAM, NAND and NOR memory products and strong expertise in developing and supporting memory system solutions. Micron would also gain increased manufacturing scale
Altera Cyclone III added to NanoBoard 3000 range of FPGA-based development boards Altium has expanded its range of low cost, rapid prototyping boards with a new NanoBoard 3000 hosting the Altera Cyclone III FPGA. The new board provides electronics designers with the same hardware, software and ready-to-use, royalty-free IP of the NanoBoard 3000, but with the power of Altera’s low-cost,
DEVA hardware platform enables developers to quickly design and test differentiated Bluetooth products
Cambridge Consultants has launched a comprehensive development platform for the rapid development of highly differentiated Bluetooth products and mobile accessories. The DEVA platform allows electronics and software engineers to rapidly prototype and test accessory products that deliver new