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AMS PMICs Address Nvidia’s Tegra K1
Austrian analog, sensor and power chip company AMS has extended its power management IC range to address the Tegra K1 quad core processor and other ARM-based multi-core processors.
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Exclusive Video Teardown: Xiaomi Millet TV 2
The IHS Technology teardown team dives into one of the first 4K UHD Smart TVs to be released.
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Globalfoundries Licenses Amkor’s Wafer Bump Technology
The deal will give a license to the foundry to manufacture products based on its copper pillar wafer bump technology that is suited for the mobile device market.
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Synopsys, IMEC Expand Technology Agreement
Agreement expands the relationship between the two companies to provide TCAD tools to chip makers developing 5nm products.
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Corning Acquires Fiber-optic and Copper Vendor
The deal will strengthen Corning’s reach into the optical devices for communications portfolio as the company becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of the parent.
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Crossbar Edges Closer to ReRAM Debut
Startup Crossbar is presenting details of the selector device 'inherent' in its filamentary silver-based resistive RAM at the IEDM 2014 conference. The company claims the development will allow dense vertically-stacked ReRAM components but it now sees 2016 as the year its technology will become fully commercially available.
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Infineon, UMC Extend Foundry Deal to Automotive Power
UMC extends Infineon foundry relationship and automotive strategy with deal to make Infineon's smart power technology on 300mm wafers.
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Qualcomm Invests $40M in Chinese Startups
The investment, part of the $150 million Qualcomm set aside in the summer for funding, will go to technology companies in the wireless communication market.
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Fujitsu Targets Industrial Market with FRAM Chip
Memory device said to consume far less memory than other standard FRAM offerings for energy harvesting for rotary encoders, motor control and sensors.
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Murata Completes Acquisition of Peregrine Semi
The closing of the acquisition that started in August has been finalized with Peregrine’s RF products being integrated into Murata’s own RF portfolio.
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Scania Introduces Niche Smart Watch
The Swedish truck maker has introduced a smart watch that will allow drivers to communicate with their vehicle in order to determine fuel consumption, driving efficiency and average speed.
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Cool Silicon Project Enhances Prospects For Scalable FRAM
Research into the ferroelectric effect in thin films of hafnium dioxide – and including Globalfoundries as a participant – is supporting the idea that FRAM could be an embedded non-volatile memory option at the 28nm node and beyond.
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Microchip Unveils JukeBlox 4
Audio products platform can be used to create next-generation high quality listening devices such as AV receivers, wireless speakers, mini and micro systems and sound bars.
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OLED Lighting Gaining Ground on Inorganic LEDs
The price of OLEDs for general lighting has always been the one sticking point with consumers when choosing a lighting option. However, with recent improvements to OLED manufacturing, the gap is closing and the battle for general lighting is heating up.
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Semiconductor Incubator Gains Synopsys, TSMC Support
Silicon Catalyst is a mentoring and networking company formed earlier this year that plans to focus on the semiconductor startup sector. The organization is starting in Silicon Valley but intends to have a global remit.
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STMicro Touts Experimental 3D Graphics Application
Using FPGAs and in partnership with Politecnico di Milano, the ray-tracing technology is part of the European Union’s FASTER initiative for research and development of next-generation technology.
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ABB, Bosch, Cisco Plan Smart-Home IoT Joint Venture
An international trio of leading companies is forming a joint venture to create a smart-home software platform but may find itself running to catch up with Deutsche Telekom's expanding Qivicon smart home ecosystem.
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Audiovisual Ethernet Heads for the Industrial Market
The AVnu Alliance consortium has opened an industrial chapter – and is seeking members – to benefit from, support and foster the creation by IEEE802.1 of time sensitive networking extensions to the Ethernet standard.
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U.S. Manufacturers Riding Growth Into 2015
Institute of Supply Management survey finds majority of manufacturing executives optimistic about the next 12 months.
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Chip Gear Revenue Rose 15% in Q3
Fab tool sales up year-to-year but down compared with the second quarter of this year, trade group says.
