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GigOptix Renews Interest in Acquiring GSI Technology

Second offer for specialty memory vendor valued at about $154 million.

Automakers Lean on Silicon Valley

Electronics innovation has become an important driver in the automotive sector, where consumers’ demands for device interaction, energy efficiency and safety are accelerating rapidly.

ARM Offers Optimized IoT Subsystem

Designed to target TSMC's 55ULP process, subsystem includes flash cache memory support, driver software and a free operating system.

SIA Sees 3.4% Chip Growth in 2015

Trade group endorses forecast by World Semiconductor Trade Statistics organization that projects modest growth over next three years.

Google Preps Operating System for IoT

What the Android OS and ecosystem did for the smartphone and tablet, Google wants Brillo and Weave to do for the Internet of Things.

Teardown: Samsung Galaxy Note Edge

The IHS teardown team puts the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge smartphone under the knife.

Firms Collaborate to Bring IoT Platform to Chinese Chip Vendors

Firms teaming up to provide a development platform for semiconductor companies looking to compete in China’s emerging smart device and cloud infrastructure markets.

Intel Looks to Move Beyond PCs with Altera Buy

With products that will work well together in the data center, telecommunications and Internet of Things space, the acquisition of Altera would give Intel a further means to distance itself from the PC space.

Carbon Nanotube Memory Enters Design Phase

Nantero, a company that has been developing carbon nanotube based nonvolatile memory for more than a decade, claims it has signed up multiple licensees that are actively working with the novel technology.

Smartwatch Displays to Reach Record Shipments in 2015

Smartwatch panel unit shipments are expected to reach 34 million this year with the majority of panels shipped being AMOLED, the type used in the Apple Watch.

Flat Panel Equipment Spending to Soar in 2015

Growth in flat panel display equipment spending is forecast to grow for the third consecutive year on the backs of new LCD and AMOLED panel factories coming online.

Intel to Buy Altera for $16.7 Billion

The latest wave of semiconductor industry consolidation continues with the world’s largest chip vendor signing a deal to acquire the second largest programmable logic company.

IDT, EPC Agree to Take GaN Power to Market

IDT's sales channel will smooth the path to market for gallium nitride by offering combinations of GaN power transistors from Efficient Power Conversion with digital and mixed-signal ICs for computing communications and wireless power.

Bidding War Erupts Over ISSI

Cypress made another bid for the specialty memory company after a Chinese backed venture capital consortium topped Cypress’ original bid.

Digi-Key President Mark Larson Stepping Down

Executive VP of Operations Dave Doherty to take the helm July 1 after 39 years.

Russian Fabless Startup Applies Some Imagination

A Russian fabless chip company is sampling a 32-bit dual-core processor based on the MIPS P5600 core.

NXP Selling RF Power Business to Chinese Investment Firm

Divestiture, for a lower-than-expected $1.8 billion, seen as way for NXP to appease regulators as firm's acquisition of Freescale moves toward closure.

Xilinx, TSMC Team for 7nm Process Technology

Xilinx will work with TSMC on its 7nm advanced process technology to deliver the next-generation of FPGAs, SoCs and 3D ICs to market.

Avago to Acquire Broadcom for $37 Billion

Deal, latest in a wave of semiconductor industry consolidation, would create a communications chip powerhouse that would be sixth largest chip company in the world.