Top 20by Claudia Sonea

IC Insights recently made a study of the semiconductor suppliers in the 1H07 ranking them on a scale from 1 to 20 according to the revenues. From last year Top 20 some movements have occurred, mostly below the first three (Intel, Samsung and TI). Qualcomm, the wireless giant company, has moved from the 17th in 2006 to 13th in 1H07 with 17 million dollars behind Infineon, the 12th runner up. Its revenues climbed 9 percent and Infineon's 6 percent. On the other side AMD, whose dark future is still in a thick mist, lost two positions and landed on the 15th, but still revenues increased 12 percent after 1H07, perhaps the new changes and deals will help the company to recover. IC Insights forecast that many semiconductor companies that lost their ranks might regain them, like in the case of TSMC that despite the highest increase of 17 percent dropped one spot. On the other hand some could never regain their original position, Freescale has dropped from the 9th place to the 16th in 1H07 and there is no hope for the sun to raise again due to the dependence on Motorola whose future is not yet stable because of the share loss in the handset market. Other companies advance slow but sure, Sony and NXC moved only one spot (from 10th to 9th and from 11th to 10th) The market is quite stable and there aren't any expectations for big changes to happen in the second half of 2007. IC Insights forecast a new orientation towards the DRAM and flash memory markets. Anyway , if you want to invest in a company or buy some shares than you should look carefully to the annual revenue of each semiconductor company and my advice would be to go with Intel because it is the best after all. Have a good fluctuation on shares!

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The NUS3116by Claudia Sonea

Everyone has problems concerning the power management of the electronic devices. You need something that would adjust to your sense of practicality like the NUS3116, an integrated charging and power switching circuit for small devices like the mobile phones. For most of the new cellular phones you have a main battery switch from which you can turn on and off at any time, then you have the wall charging switch that you use only when you are forced because you don't have anymore battery or you could use the USB charging switch. Well NSU3116 combines all the three mentioned previously, this way optimizing the charging performance and getting rid of the multitude of circuits. It provides board savings of more than 20 mm2 because it comes in a DFN-8 package of only 9 mm2.The price is at 0.80 dollars per unit in 3000 unit quantities, so it is quite expensive to acquire. I would like to have it but I cannot afford it. When ON Semiconductor, a global supplier of efficient power management solutions that created the new circuit, will lower the price I think I will buy one. The semiconductor suppliers always try to find solutions that will fit our needs, the truth is that most of them are too expensive for everyone to have the amount necessary to acquire all the technologies released. The NUS3116 is definitely a must and if you are real into practical things, it will offer you exactly what you need. Stay connected there is more to come.

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Faster, cheaper, betterby Claudia Sonea

Intel has done it again! in 2004 the giant company released the 1Gbps modulator that is made of silicon, and encodes data onto a beam of light at the rate of 1Gbps. In a recent blog they have announced the speed they are heading to set and the entire concept of the product. The new technology is to be set at a rate of 40GBps. The photonic circuit may represent a solution for optical communications and to computer interconnection. Silicon attracts investors because of the low cost and the ability to be produced in high volume. The blog contains the actual process of the modulator that is based on twenty-five hybrid silicon lasers on a single chip that opens the door to greater speeds than anyone has ever dreamt.Also it uses optics fiber in order to have a greater bandwidth and to carry data further than copper, this way reducing the energy used. In January this year, they have released a new silicon optical modulator using a speed of 10Gbps and they want to get to a speed of 40Gbps in the nearby future. Great news indeed. It's faster, cheaper and better. Sounds like an ad, but the truth is that Intel is doing a great job and that is why they still can be considered number one and regarded as pioneers in the entire computer market. That is my opinion. Like the brand and a promising future for them. Anyway if it's faster count me in...because speed makes my blood pumping.

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AMD's boat still floatsby Claudia Sonea

Now is to see if it will get back in the competition for the first place. AMD hasn't had a competitive high-end product since Intel launched its Core 2 Duo processors in July 2006 and on the computer market that is a long time indeed. AMD acquired ATI to better compet with Intel in mainstream markets, but that proved to be useless as it is no match to nVidia's GeForce 8800. Although Intel and nVidia dominate the CPU market, there is still hope for AMD to regain its lost grace. The company announced new changes, like an improved quad-core Phenom- all four cores will be on one die. Also the hard-core will suffer changes there will be released a new enthusiast platform, code-named FASN8, that supports two quad-core Phenoms. Something else that is about to come: AMD's 10h architecture will power new server chips (code-named Barcelona), new desktop chips (code-named Agena) that are due by the end of 2007. Things seem to become interesting, but people want to see facts and like most of you I'm a non-believer until I see something actually happens. It is still a brand that people all over have heard about, so there is still hope and opportunities. I still use an AMD and from my point of you is great, but on the other side I'm not a professional, so better stay connected and see the best that's about to come, especially because good things are predicted.

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