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Chip Sales Grew 9.1% in November
Global semiconductor sales reached $29.7 billion in November of last year up 9.1 percent from the previous year but down compared to October of 2014 0.1 percent.
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Explosive Growth Set for Quantum Dot LCD TVs
Quantum dot technology is likely to be a game changer for LCD TVs while curved screens are predicted to be a fad that will go into decline after 2017, according to DisplaySearch.
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Quantum Dot Production Capacity Raised to Meet 4K LCD Demand
Materials developer is putting in automated continuous-flow manufacturing capacity for an annual supply of 2 metric tons of quantum dots for use in liquid crystal displays.
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SiBEAM Aims to Replace all Connectors in Wireless Devices
Snap technology designed to replace USB, HDMI or DisplayPort connectors in mobile devices while providing a more rugged design to help prevent damage from water or drops.
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Intel Invests $25 Million in Smart Glasses Vendor
Vuzix develops wearables for next generation optics and displays but also have the capability to fit into fashion-based wearable glasses in which Intel will take a 30 percent ownership stake in.
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Intel Unveils 5th Gen Core MPU Family, 14nm Tablet Processor
Broadwell microarchitecture core processors will be added into next generation PCs including desktops, notebooks, Ultrabooks, All-in-Ones and mini PCs.
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LCD TV Market Back To Sustainable Growth
Global LCD TV unit shipments are now expected to have grown more than 7 percent in 2014, as average screen size increased by 1.5-inches, according to IHS subsidiary DisplaySearch.
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Nvidia Launches Mobile Processor Aimed at Automotive
Nvidia's latest mobile processor, an octacore 64-bit device, can perform "deep learning" and computer vision. But is the chip powerful enough to help Nvidia out of the games ghetto and into the real world of autonomous driving systems?
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Silicon Image Re-launches Subsidiary
The SiBEAM subsidiary will focus on future generations of millimeter-wave technologies, products and solutions for wireless communications.
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Teardown: ASUS Transformer Book T200TA
The IHS Technology teardown team gets inside the tablet-to-PC "transforming" ASUS T200TA
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French Telecom Firm Follows ARM Server Route
Online.net, a subsidiary of a French communications company, plans to launch a cloud service for developers that will run on dedicated ARM-based servers.
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Vishay Completes Purchase of Opto Chip Firm
Vishay has completed the acquisition of Tawian's Capella Microsystems.
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Euroserver Project Targets 'Green' Datacenters, x86
EU-backed initiative looks at conquering the ability to scale in micro-servers in future generations by offering a lower cost, lower power and smaller footprint to meet the demands of various workloads.
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RF Micro, TriQuint Merger Closing Soon
After the New Year, the two companies will be known as Qorvo and will begin trading on the Nasdaq under “QRVO”.
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Chip Market to Grow 9.4% in 2014
Worldwide semiconductor revenue is set to reach $353.2 billion in 2014 with 22 out of 28 sub-segments expanding leading to the highest level of growth since 2010.
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Lighting Set to Drive LED Demand
The replacement of compact fluorescent and incandescent lighting with LED-based luminaires is set to drive an annual doubling of LED unit demand over the next few years, according to DisplaySearch.
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Micron Extends Magnetic RAM Collaboration in Singapore
Micron is backing STT-MRAM as a potential non-volatile memory by signing up for three more years of collaboration with the Data Storage Institute in Singapore.
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Calxeda Rides Again Courtesy of Taiwan
The intellectual property from an ARM-based server processor startup that collapsed one year ago has been picked up and is set to come to market in 2015, courtesy of a Taiwan cloud service and hardware company called AtGames.
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Chip Equipment, PCB Markets See Increased Book-to-Bill Ratios
Orders for PCBs increased in November, up 12.4 percent from last year, but they dropped as compared to October. Equipment orders increased 10.4 percent in November up from October.
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Toshiba, SK Hynix Settle NAND Flash Theft Dispute
Toshiba and SK Hynix have reached an out-of-court settlement over an allegation of theft of NAND flash memory technology secrets that dates back to 2008.
