The struggle for relevance in a technology world that is rapidly shifting resources and manufacturing to China appears to be taking a heavy toll on Japanese engineers.
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Engineers in China and India want more--more money, more societal recognition, higher positions at their employers. And they want to establish their own companies, too, ...
PARIS — Angry workers at Atmel Corp.'s fab in Rousset, France, have gone on an unlimited strike.
Started on Nov. 17, the 'unlimited strike' aims to protest against Atmel's ...
MUNICH, Germany — Being one of the last chip manufacturers to present its quarterly figures, Infineon reports a profit and a significant sales increase in the fourth quarter.
On ...
LONDON — Sematech, a consortium of semiconductor manufacturers, has announced the appointment of Daniel Armbrust to serve as its president and chief executive officer. Armbrust, ...
The globalization of engineering has made some geography-specific trends more difficult to spot. For example, asked to identify the technologies with the most promising future, ...
I tip my hat TO ENGINEERs. Despite the toll of the past year on the economy in general and tech in particular, most EEs still love their jobs, wish to stay in the field and do not ...
EE Times has compiled a list of emerging technologies that we think will be worth watching out for in 2010.
Recessions are the times of change when R&D investments get ...
Part of a GBP 100 million development scheme for the Winnersh Triangle near Reading (UK), Microchip Technology's new headquarters have been purpose-built to house its European ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The Semiconductor Research Corp. (SRC) has added a new center to its university R&D efforts.
The new center, based at the University of California at ...
LONDON — CSR plc, a fabless chip supplier for applications ranging from Bluetooth to GPS communications, is making a major hiring push according to open positions listed at its ...
MUNICH, Germany — Only two weeks after having published massive losses in its third quarter, network equipment vendor Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) has announced far-reaching ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Chip makers LSI Corp. and Silicon Laboratories Inc. Wednesday (Oct. 28) reported sharp increases in third-quarter profits and sales that beat Wall Street's ...
During a brief visit to the UK, probably on the look out for new franchises, Digi-Key’s president Mark Larson took the opportunity to answer a few questions on the future of his ...
SAN FRANCISCO—With its proposed acquisition by Oracle Corp. being delayed by regulators, Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to cut 3,000 jobs across several regions over the next 12 ...
SAN FRANCISCO—NOR flash vendor Spansion Inc. acknowledged that the company cut an undisclosed number of jobs Monday (Oct. 26).
A Spansion spokesperson said through a prepared ...
LONDON — The Americas region achieved actual sales of $3.22 billion in August 2009, up 7.6 percent from the same month a year before, according to "actual" data from the World ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Texas Instruments Inc. plans to open a 300-mm analog semiconductor fab in Richardson, Texas, the company said Tuesday (Sept. 29). TI expects to begin equipping the ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Uncles Sam wants a few smart power engineers—quite a few in fact.
Steven Chu, U.S. Secretary of Energy, put out a $100 million down payment last week to ...
LEUVEN, Belgium — "The way to get out of the downturn is to innovate," said Luc Van den hove, chief executive of IMEC (Leuven, Belgium), opening an annual press forum for the R&D ...
