Manufacturing

Luton-based contract electronics manufacturer Jaltek Systems has acquired contract electronic design firm Abra Cad of Berkshire

It’s difficult, complicated and very expensive to undertake the transition from 90nm to 65nm

The world of fancy watches has begun borrowing from the semiconductor industry, with a Swiss firm replacing a key metal wheel with one micromachined from silicon

PCB firm Exception PCB is investing at its facility in Tewkesbury, UK following a management buy-out earlier this year

Wireless baseband processor on 65nm is key to a $30 BOM for a 3G phone, says the chip firm

Three-dimensional chip technology developer Ziptronix has revealed a technique for creating high-density interconnects between two chips that it says could reduce the cost of complex SoCs

Microelectronics is a team sport according to Freescale Semiconductor, refuting claims made earlier this month by Texas Instruments that it was an individual pursuit

The US chip maker is maintaining its product design activities in Nantes, which address the aerospace, automotive and industrial markets in particular

Chip firms co­­l­laborating on the development of process tech­­nologies are being forced to do so out of a position of weakness, according to Rich Templeton

European Commission sets its policy for manufacturing in Europe, concentrating on defence, IT, communications and pharmaceuticals