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Rambus' ReRAM Has Many Customers
CEO Ron Black has said that the resistive RAM technology that Rambus has been working on for three years is good for consumer applications but needs tweaks for industrial and automotive deployment.
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Spansion Settles Patent Dispute with Macronix
Settlement dismisses the patent infringement suits between all parties as well as the other suits that involved customers of both companies.
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Fujitsu Begins Mass Production of GaN in Foundry Fab
Japanese firm to produce power devices aimed at power conversion systems for Japan-based Transphorm.
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Google Fiber Expanding to Four New Cities
Expansion will represent the largest leap in coverage for the 1 gigabit broadband service yet as Google targets Nashville, Atlanta, Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham.
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Infineon Goes Top of Automotive Chip Market Ranking
Infineon jumped over Renesas to go top of the automotive chip market in 2014 in a sector that is showing steady growth at rates above the total chip market average.
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Lighting Up 2015
This could be pivotal for the global LED industry as Asian companies continue to grow their market share and traditional manufacturers transition to pure-play lighting companies.
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STMicroelectronics Goes Back to Black as Revenues Shrink
Full year 2014 financial results show struggling ST getting back on to its feet with a profit. The company claims it has a broad set of design wins for its FDSOI process including more than one at the 14nm node.
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Globalfoundries, Western Digital Invest in MRAM Supplier
MRAM supplier Everspin has raised a substantial series B round of funding with the help of its upstream supplier of wafers and a potential downstream customer.
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Lattice Semi Snaps Up Silicon Image
FPGA company is buying into standard product and high-speed wired and wireless capabilities at 60GHz with acquisition of Silicon Image in a $600 million deal.
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Fairchild Revenues up 2% in 2014
Fairchild Semiconductor ended the year with strong growth in several end-use markets.
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Tezzaron Agrees to License Rambus’ ReRAM IP
Tezzaron will use Rambus IP to create 3D memories for the military, aerospace and commercial segments.
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Wipro and Software AG Develop IoT Analytics Platform
Wipro and Software AG have developed a platform to help businesses respond to events in real-time
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ARM Adds Safety File to Cortex-R5 Processor
ARM has added safety documentation to the transferrable intellectual property for its Cortex-R5 processor core to help it achieve automotive and other safety-critical design wins.
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China’s Solar Module Market Booming, but Shortage Looms
With most of the Chinese Tier 1 solar module suppliers selling out product until the second quarter, China’s global market share of the PV module market, which grew to 45 percent in the fourth quarter, is expected to remain.
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SanDisk Revenues up 7% in 2014
SanDisk reported revenues of $6.63 billion in 2014, a record for the company, after shifting its product portfolio toward higher end products. However, the fourth quarter for the company disappointed falling 1 percent sequentially.
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Vishay MOSFETs Target High Performance Consumer Products
The company has introduced 11 new devices that feature low conduction and switching losses similar to Vishay’s 600 V and 650 V E series of MOSFETs.
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Scots Startup Turns Lighting into Wi-Fi Alternative
PureLiFi, a 2012 startup, has moved quickly to market with a product that allows LED lighting to be used as an alternative to a Wi-Fi router.
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Solar-Powered Aircraft Preps for Round-the-World Flight
The crew of solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse 2 is preparing to attempt the first round-the-world flight powered only by photonic energy.
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UMC Takes Cypress Embedded Flash Down to 40nm
Foundry UMC is working with long-standing partner Cypress to take SONOS embedded flash to 40nm and 28nm appears to be on the roadmap.
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AMD Revenues up 4% in 2014
On the back of strong performances in the enterprise, embedded and semi-custom business, AMD was able to overcome a poor PC performance in 2014 to rise to $5.51 billion for the year.
