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Actions Semi Caps Tough Year
Chinese fabless chipmaker struggled with declining in revenue as a result of the highly competitive tablet market, corporate restructuring and a supply shortage from its foundry.
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Ixys Acquisition Adds ZigBee to IoT Mix
Californian power and MCU chip company has agreed terms to acquire South Korea's RadioPulse, a specialist in ZigBee RF transceivers and modules.
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MagnaChip Rolls High Voltage 0.13 EEPROM Core
Designed for use in foundries, MagnaChip’s 0.13 micron embedded EEPROM core is said to decrease the density of memory blocks by as much as 50 percent.
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Module Market Next Target for LED Vendors
Searching for a way to expand their product offerings and stave off profit margin losses, many LED suppliers are turning to the module market for future growth.
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PCB Shipments Increase
December sales decline 1 percent despite sharp increase in orders.
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Teardown: TiVo Roamio TCD848000
TiVo's latest DVR offers WiFi and MoCA connectivity and streaming to mobile devices.
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Ceva Has Vision For Neural Network Processing
Ceva has included support for convolution neural networks within its licensable MM3000 DSP core. But the company is working to define a neural network processing architecture even better suited for computer vision and other tasks.
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Display Makers Keep Focus on Larger Screens
Once concerned with how many units they need to ship each year, flat panel display vendors have changed their focus to area-demand growth and that trend will continue to move forward through 2020.
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Intel Eyes Strategic Hub in the Home with Lantiq Acquisition
With the acquisition of broadband access gateway provider Lantiq, Intel broadens its offerings in the home gateway market with which it will use to create new Intel-based devices for the home.
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Raspberry Pi Gets Processor Upgrade, Windows OS
The popular, credit card sized computer has received a quad-core processor and is getting a port of the Windows 10 operating system.
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SanDisk Targets Next-Generation of Connected Cars
With consumer demands increasing for more smartphone-like applications in vehicles, SanDisk has rolled out a NAND flash storage solution to enable future applications in automobiles.
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Sharp Decline in Mobile Display Prices Expected in 2015
Mobile phone display vendors saw the sharpest decline in prices take place in 2014 despite a record number of shipments for displays. In 2015, prices are expected to continue this trend as manufacturers feel pressure from China and other regions.
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America II Signs Franchise Deal with PanJit Semi
America II will have distribution rights in North and South America to PanJit's portfolio including MOSFETs, small signals, rectifiers, diodes and more.
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Analog Vendors Extend RF Push with Enhanced GHz-Range Mixers
Two devices, one from Analog Devices and one from Linear Technology, are pushing the boundaries for RF ranges to take advantage of a growing opportunity in the telecommunications sector.
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Chip Equipment Orders Up in December
December orders for semiconductor equipment vendors were up 12.7 percent from November order levels with a book-to-bill ratio of 0.98.
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Microsemi to use Rambus Cryptography IP in FPGAs
Microsemi to use differential power analysis intellectual property in FPGAs targeted at the government and military sectors.
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New Policies Aim to Help Indian Firms Succeed in Defense
Indian companies are moving to secure a bigger slice of the country's defense budget after India finally increased the cap on direct foreign investment, allowing more India-based companies to sell to the military.
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Arrow to Acquire German Display Company
Distributor to pay about $105 million for Modul AG, a maker and distributor of LCDs for the industrial and medical application sectors.
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Banner Year for Automotive Chips
Strong sales of vehicles as well as increase chip content in automobiles led the automotive IC market to strong growth in 2014 reaching $29 billion for the year, a 10 percent growth from the prior year.
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Chinese IoT Firm Makes Wireless-MCUs Around Xtensa
Chinese fabless chip company offers Wi-Fi-on-a-chip, including RF, built around the customizable Xtensa digital signal processor, licensed from Cadence.
