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In the news release, National Remembers Legendary Analog Expert Bob Pease, issued 21-Jun-2011 by National Semiconductor over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the second paragraph, second sentence, should read "There Pease worked on affordable mass-produced op amps using discrete solid-state components" rather than "There Pease designed K2-W, the first affordable mass-produced op amp using discrete solid-state components" as originally issued inadvertently. Also: we are...

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., June 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) Research scientists announced that they have achieved a milestone in creating a building block for the future of wireless devices. In a paper published yesterday in the magazine Science, IBM researchers announced the first integrated circuit fabricated from wafer-size graphene, and demonstrated a broadband frequency mixer operating at frequencies up to 10 gigahertz (10 billion cycles/second). (Logo:...

BEAVERTON, Ore., June 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Tektronix Component Solutions announced today the investment in five new Teradyne J750EX semiconductor test systems to allow screening of a wider variety of complex ASICs, increase test capacity and enable faster development of new test programs. Reducing development time will improve time-to-test for customers and reduce development cost. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101025/SF86755LOGO) The addition of the popular Teradyne...

New method marks advance in efforts to develop a replacement for silicon in high-performance electronicsUniversity of Houston researchers have developed a method for creating single-crystal arrays of the material graphene, an advance that opens the possibility of a replacement for silicon in high-performance computers and electronics. The work by UH researchers and their collaborators is featured on the cover of the June issue of Nature Materials.Graphene is a one-atom-thick layer of carbon...

ALLENTOWN, Pa., May 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Akrion Systems LLC ("Akrion Systems"), a supplier of advanced surface preparation processes and equipment for microelectronics and solar device manufacturers, announced today that the company has placed a Velocity single wafer tool at a leading edge memory products manufacturer in Asia for the purpose of demonstrating its pre-lithography cleaning capabilities. Velocity is Akrion Systems' most advanced single-wafer platform and more than sixty...

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc. (Nasdaq: ISSI) today announced that Scott Howarth, President and CEO, will speak at the 12th Annual B. Riley & Co. Investor Conference at 10:00 a.m. PDT on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 in Santa Monica, California. The conference is being held at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel. Interested parties may access a live webcast of the presentation by visiting the ISSI website at www.issi.com. In addition, John...

WASHINGTON, May 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing and design, today announced that worldwide sales of semiconductors were $25.3 billion for the month of March 2011, a 2.5 percent increase from the prior month when sales were $24.7 billion, and an increase of 8.6 percent from March 2010 when sales were $23.2 billion. Sales in the first quarter of 2011 reached $75.8 billion, an increase of 8.6...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. and BROMONT, Quebec, April 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Akrion Systems LLC ("Akrion Systems") and the MiQro Innovation Collaborative Centre (C2MI) announced today that C2MI will purchase three GAMA automated wet process systems for the development and manufacture of advanced devices at C2MI's state-of-the-art MEMS facility in Bromont Technoparc, Quebec, Canada. The GAMA systems will be used for all of the wet processing requirements of the Centre. The systems will include Akrion...

With the first observation of thermoelectric effects at graphene contacts, University of Illinois researchers found that graphene transistors have a nanoscale cooling effect that reduces their temperature.Led by mechanical science and engineering professor William King and electrical and computer engineering professor Eric Pop, the team will publish its findings in the April 3 advance online edition of the journal Nature Nanotechnology.The speed and size of computer chips are limited by how...

The goal: Room-temperature spintronic computersUniversity of Utah researchers built "spintronic" transistors and used them to align the magnetic "spins" of electrons for a record period of time in silicon chips at room temperature. The study is a step toward computers, phones and other spintronic devices that are faster and use less energy than their electronic counterparts."Electronic devices mostly use the charge of the electrons - a negative charge that is...