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Chip foundry United Microelectronics Corp. has been the leading beneficiary of 28-nm chip supply shortages at the leading foundry and rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., according to a Taiwan Economic News report.

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Jack Harding, CEO of design services provider eSilicon, says the company's move to Asia is beginning to pay off as it helps customers navigate two very different chip markets in Taiwan and mainland China.

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Two UK universities have opened the largest robotics laboratory in Europe as the UK government announced a £16M ($25 million) boost for research.

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Reverse engineering and analysis consultancy Chipworks Inc. has posted cross-sections of parts of the 22-nm Ivy Bridge processor that has revealed that the FinFETs, which Intel calls tri-gate transistors, are in fact trapezoidal, almost triangular, in shape.

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Specialty foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd., which trades as TowerJazz, improved its cash position as of March 31, 2012 to $158 million, up from $101 million at the fourth quarter of 2011. The cash benefit came as the company increased sales substantially versus a year before but saw them dip compared with 4Q11.

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One-year old startup Electric Imp has developed a Wi-Fi node in a memory card physical format that it hopes will become a standard way for things to be given an IP address and linked to the Internet to form a Wi-Fi mediated Internet of Things.

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Bill Dally (shown), Nvidia’s chief scientist calls for a 3-D memory champion, more U.S. spending on computer research and an Ethernet alternative for data centers.

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Investment in semiconductor industry startup and private companies jumped up in April to $194.2 million, according to the Global Semiconductor Alliance industry body.

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The Optical Internetworking Forum launched projects to define 50-56 Gbits/s serial interfaces for future Fibre Channel, Ethernet and other links.

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EDA software vendor Cadence is working "feverishly" on producing a faster version of the Spice analog electronics simulator, according to Tom Beckley, senior vice president of R&D for custom ICs and signoff in the silicon realization group there.

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Altis Semiconductor SA, the specialty foundry bought by French entrepreneur Yazid Sabeg from IBM and Infineon in 2010, has announced the release of updated process design kits for 130-nm specialty technologies.

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EDA software vendor Cadence announced a couple of extensions in its offering of intellectual property at the Cadence Live European user conference on May 15.

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The National Science Foundation's Innovation Corps is designed to create an agile technology ecosystem that can transform basic research into value-added products.

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Apple's iOS operating system is expected to reassert commanding leadership of the worldwide tablet space in 2012, following a temporary dip in market share in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli.

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The Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC) will report next month on progress to make its memristor variation, called resistive-RAMs (RRAM), the dominate memory technology in four papers at the VLSI Symposia in Honolulu.

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