Hector Ruiz's legacy at Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will be defined both by the company's loss of market value as well as the Intel Corp. anti-monopoly fight, which the chip industry veteran is staying on to champion as executive chairman.

The shakeout in the automatic test equipment (ATE) business is over.

A court in Arnhem, the Netherlands, has denied a request from NXP Semiconductors to stop the publication of a scientific study into the security of the company's Mifare Classic contactless smart card chip technology.

Algotronix Ltd. (Edinburgh, Scotland), has added 'thermal signaling' to DesignTag, an active digital circuit element that can be designed-in to ICs and FPGAs and detected through-package by an external scanner.

Jedec, the standards group best known for its work on DRAM interfaces, has formed a new group to set standards for solid-state disks that use NAND flash chips, chartered to develop standards for solid state drives used for embedded or

ASML, Canon and Nikon updated their litho roadmaps. And IMEC and JSR rolled out a new freezing technique in double-patterning lithography.

Postmortem debugging in desktop operating systems (OSes) such as Windows and Linux has been around for some time.

Design services provider eInfochips Ltd. has launched two design IP cores designed to reduce networking interfaces and video surveillance chip development time and cost.

This week's top technology stories include improved white LEDs, fire-fighting unmanned vehicles from NASA and solar-powered cars racing from Texas to Canada.

The high-concentration solar systems company will need hundreds of thousands of III-V solar cells to fulfil its ambitious plans for delivering photovoltaic power.

The PA maker comes close to doubling profits and predicts continued increases on the strength of its relationships with the top five cellphone manufacturers.