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ARM Sees Royalty Rebound In Q3 Results

Processor licensor ARM turned in another satisfactory financial report card and says things will get better in Q4 and 2015. Smartphone and microcontroller success still dominate its results.

Chip Equipment Orders Dip in September

Three-month average of new orders for semiconductor equipment from North American vendors slips below parity for first time in 12 months.

Intel, IBM Offer Alternative FinFETs At IEDM

At IEDM Intel is set to report on a 14nm FinFET process technology that has been in the commercial market for months. Meanwhile an IBM team will discuss a more complex 14nm FinFET-on-SOI process.

MIT Researchers Develop Chip with Built-in Superconducting Circuits

Circuits said to be 100 times more energy-efficient than today’s semiconductors.

Sensors in Wearables Set for Substantial Growth

Wearable electronic devices are due for an ample increase in the next five years with the sensor market expanding along with it by sevenfold.

The Rise of Smart Cities

Best practices from the Americas, Asia and Europe are emerging and bringing together public companies, government organizations, academic research centers and the electronics supply chain.

Avnet to Distribute Lenovo Products Worldwide

Distributor to offer Lenovo’s System x servers and related products in the wake of the transition of IBM’s System x server business to Lenovo.

Freescale Unveils Small Scale Tire Pressure Sensor

With many countries mandating tire inflation monitoring in new vehicles to help avoid accidents, Freescale aims to lower the BOM to adding these devices in new cars.

IBM To Pay Globalfoundries $1.5 Billion to Take Chip Business

IBM retains its semiconductor R&D but has agreed to pay Globalfoundries $1.5 billion to take East Fishkill and Essex Junction chip manufacturing sites off its hands.

Spansion Targets Industrial IoT with MCU Expansion

Chip firms expands FM4 family of products with 96 new devices featuring support for more than a dozen peripherals for multiple applications.

AMD to Cut Jobs

After weak third quarter results and bigger losses expected in the fourth quarter, AMD will reduce its workforce by 7 percent and shutter some locations.

Atmel Rolls Smart Energy SoC

The latest chip is an expansion to the fabless chip company’s SMART portfolio targeted at residential, commercial and industrial metering applications.

Phoenics to Carry Vitesse ICs

Phoenics Electronics has signed a distribution agreement with Vitesse Semiconductor and will carry the company’s line of integrated circuits used in enterprise and Internet of Things networks.

SanDisk Revenue Grows 7% in Q3

Storage company sees revenues of $1.75 billion for the quarter as enterprise SSD revenue continued to grow.

Carbon Nanotubes Make Planar Light Source

A field emission diode based on carbon nanotubes as electron sources could make for planar light sources to rival LED assemblies for lighting.

Micron-Sony ReRAM Gets Second Outing

Sony's collaboration with Micron on resistive RAM continues and a forthcoming presentation of the non-volatile 16Gbit memory at IEDM could show whether the companies are on schedule for a 2015 product launch.

TSMC Reports Record Sales

Taiwanese pure-play foundry reported $6.88 billion in revenue on the strength of its volume shipments of 20nm wafers and amounted to 9 percent of total revenues in the quarter.