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Cisco Buys Networking Memory Startup
For the second time Sundar Iyer has formed a startup company and sold it to Cisco. This time it is Memoir Systems with its "algorithmic" approach to memory utilization.
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EDA Sales Show Modest Growth
Sales of Electronic Design Automation software posted a modest year-over-year increase in the second quarter, according to a trade group.
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France's Cortus Offers Minimal RISC For IoT
Processor specialist releases the APS23 – the first in a family of new processors that delivers increased code density to meet power, size requirements of IoT devices.
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MaxLinear to Acquire Physpeed
Chip vendor says deal will expand its total addressable market into infrastructure for data center and metro and long-haul telecommunications operators.
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Samsung To Build $15 Billion Wafer Fab
Samsung is looking to consolidate its position as number two in the semiconductor industry with a $14.6 billion wafer fab to be built in South Korea.
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Arrow to Distribute Lenovo’s System X
Deal will keep the distribution giant an authorized vendor for all System X and associated devices after the transition of the server business from IBM.
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Chip Sales Rise Again
Worldwide semiconductor sales in August were up 9 percent from July and 1 percent from August 2013.
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For HP, Innovation Remains Key Post-Split
The decision to separate into two entities produces opportunities to succeed but it can’t just be business as usual for the computer giant in order to survive.
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Freescale Plunges into IoT with Gateway Reference Design
Using the company's QorIQ communications processor, the gateway will help enable new IoT services for building/home management, smart cities, networked industrial services and other performance-heavy applications.
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Maxim Preps Asynchronous MCU Core
Mixed-signal chip vendor Maxim turns to clockless logic as way to reduce power consumption in microcontrollers – but uses its own 16bit MaxQ RISC rather than an ARM core.
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Bel Signs Licensing Deal with Cosel
Multi-year agreement will allow for use of DPT patents in an array of board mounted power supply products.
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Wearable Display Revenue to Hit Stratospheric Levels
Revenue for display panels will reach $22.7 billion by 2013, up from just $300 million in 2014 as future innovation in flexible displays opens new opportunities for growth.
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Applied Micro Rolls 64-bit Embedded ARM-based CPUs
Chip vendor claims first 64-bit embedded ARM-based microprocessors targeted at wired and wireless networking, networked storage, office automation and industrial controls.
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Atmel Bridges MCU-MPU Divide With ARM-based Chips
Atmel is striving to be classed as a leading exponent of ARM architecture chips for embedded applications and the Internet of Things. It has announced chip families based on the Cortex-A5 and the Cortex-M7 cores.
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TSMC, ARM Forecast 10nm Tape-Outs in 2015
TSMC and ARM are looking to pick up the pace and get IP cores and design libraries for 64-bit system-chips built on a 10nm FinFET manufacturing process to customers in time for tape-outs in late 2015.
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TTI Adds FCT Connectors; Newark to Carry RECOM Products
Specialist distributor TTI has added FCT Electronics Group as a new connector supplier.
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U.S. Manufacturing Caps Strong Q3
U.S. manufacturing growth slowed slightly in September, but the trend remained positive for the 16th consecutive month, according to a closely watched indicator.
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AMD Demos Network Function Virtualization on ARM SoC
A 64-bit ARM-based R-series system-chip from AMD is being used for network function virtualization and demoed at ARM Techcon.
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ARM Offers Free OS for Internet of Things
ARM is offering a free OS as part of a leaf-node-to cloud development platform that it hopes will break the log-jam of fragmentation and piece-meal engineering of the Internet of Things.
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Devices That Use Very Little Energy: Nanotechnology At Its Best
A team of researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington has developed a method to cool electrons to extremely low temperature without external power.
