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Altera Launches Next-Gen FPGAs
Altera has been shipping Max 10 line of FPGAs to customers via an early access program and has now announced general availability. Arria 10 mid-range devices are due to follow soon.
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Intel Says Mitsubishi Deal Saved $9 Million
Partnership set to establish next-generation factory automation equipment along with a pilot program to demonstrate the benefits of IoT in a factory setting.
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Microchip Adds to Automotive IC Portfolio
Firm rolls two new 3-phase brushless DC motor gate drivers designed to provide a complete motor control and drive package for vehicles and industrial applications.
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SanDisk Unveils First X3 SSD
X300 solid-state drive features error-correction to increase reliability and SanDisk’s SSD Dashboard, which gives visibility into the drive’s performance, security and available firmware updates.
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Sensor-Enabled Sports Gear Boosts Performance
Vendors are packing sensors into sports gear to give athletes feedback and data to crunch in the name of improving performance.
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ARM, Cadence Expand IoT, Wearables Agreement
Deal for the Internet of Things and wearable devices expanded to include TSMC's new ultra-low power technology platform.
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Cree Rolls all-SiC Power Module
Firm claims industry’s first all silicon carbide 1.7kV power module targeted at replacing silicon-based insulated-gate bipolar transistor modules in industrial applications.
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IntelliEPI Buys Soitec’s GaAs Business
Intelligent Epitaxy Technology has acquired the gallium arsenide epitaxy business from Soitec in an effort to broaden its GaAs penetration into other applications.
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TSMC Tips Low-Voltage Processes Aimed at Wearables, IoT
In a step towards 'near-threshold' operation TSMC has characterized its manufacturing at 55, 40 and 28nm at lowered voltages to produce processes aimed at chips for wearables and IoT.
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Delphi Adopts NXP Vehicle Communications
Cars that chatter with each other and with road-side infrastructure such as traffic lights, could be on the roads within two years thanks to Delphi, NXP and Cohda Wireless.
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Intel Buys Into Mobile With Spreadtrum Spend
Intel is prepared to bet $1.5 billion in a bid to get into China's application processor market by way of a stake in a couple of state-owned Chinese fabless chip companies that could use a hand.
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ON Semi Partners to Deliver GaN-based Power Chips
ON Semiconductor has partnered with Transphorm to co-develop and co-market gallium nitride (GaN)-based power components targeted at the industrial, computing, telecom and networking markets.
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ST Continues Allegiance to ARM’s Cortex Core with New MCU Family
New line of microcontrollers that will leverage ARMs latest Cortext-M7 core.
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China's HiSilicon First on TSMC FinFET Process
A greater China team of Huawei's HiSilicon and TSMC have tipped the first public disclosure of a processor on TSMC's 16nm FinFET manufacturing process; a 32-core networking chip.
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Infineon, Qimonda Reach Partial Settlement
Settlement requires Infineon to pay 135 million euros and acquire all patents from Quimonda for additional 125 million euros.
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Philips Ready to Exit Lighting, Focus on Healthcare
Philips' CEO Frans van Houten says he knows it is a big step but the time is right to focus the company on health and consumer lifestyle products and services.
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Smartphones Seen as Most Disruptive Trend in Automotive Infotainment
With smartphone use in motor vehicles reaching ubiquity, a wealth of challenges and opportunities exist for automakers and semiconductor suppliers making this trend the most disruptive development in infotainment.
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ARM Doubles MCU Performance with Cortex-M7
A higher performance Cortex-M class core from ARM will allow microcontrollers to do more local processing in applications ranging from the smart home to industry to automotive.
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Dialog Semi Expands Power Adapter Portfolio
Greater power efficiency said to allow for a higher power density needed in powerful, small form-factor mobile devices without exceeding thermal limits.
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Huawei Buys Neul for IoT Thrust
Chinese telecom and networking equipment giant Huawei has bought startup Neul Ltd., a pioneer of IoT communications for $25 million as the latest part of major investment in 5G and IoT engineering in UK.
