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ST Targets Camera Modules with New Piezo MEMS Actuator
New thin-film piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems actuator designed for use in camera modules and other consumer applications.
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Vishay Unveils Low Voltage MOSFET Family
New products said to deliver low conduction and switching losses at a lower voltage than previous higher voltage components.
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Board Maker TTM to Acquire Viasystems
Billion-dollar deal willl create one of the world's leading printed circuit board manufacturers.
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Exclusive Video Teardown: Apple iPhone 6
Despite a price tag that is $100 higher, the iPhone 6 Plus costs only about $16 more to make than the standard iPhone 6, according to a teardown analysis by IHS Technology.
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Microchip Rolls MCU for Touch-Sensing
New member of PIC12/16 family targeted at applications in the consumer electronics, automotive and industrial markets.
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Solar Microinverters, Power Optimizers Set For Substantial Growth
Global revenues for photovoltaic microinverters and power optimizers are set for substantial growth in the next five years expanding by more than three-fold, according to a new report from IHS Technology.
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Water-based Nuclear Battery Generates Electricity
University of Missouri researchers have successfully harnessed a nuclear battery betavoltaics to develop a reliable energy source in automobiles as well as for space flight.
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Apple Claims 10 Million iPhone 6 Sales in 3 Days
CEO says firm could have sold more units if they had been available.
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Cadence CTO Rowen Forecasts Processor Design Split
Mammals, insects, data, energy and diversity were the topics of a high-level discussion about the future of system-on-chip processor architectures and design provided recently by Cadence Fellow Chris Rowen.
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TriQuint, RF Micro Merger Renamed Qorvo
Merged entity will reemerge under a new banner meant to convey that its customers are at the center of what the company will do.
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Ericsson Shuts Down Modem Group
Ericsson has said it will close its LTE modem development group a year after it was taken back from the failed joint-venture ST-Ericsson.
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Microsemi Ships 22nm FinFET ASICs
Microsemi, a signup for Intel's 22nm FinFET foundry offering, has said the initiative has started producing ASIC revenue while it starts to think about what to do with 14nm FinFET.
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Why UMC is Boosting Automotive Chip Business
Foundry pushing to increase automotive semiconductor participation in order to take advantage of a changing marketplace shifting to one of the largest growing chip markets.
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New Spin-charge Converter for Spintronics
An international team of researchers has developed a spin-charge converter made of GaAs, with efficiency comparable to one made of platinum.
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Estimote Leverages Nordic to develop Bluetooth Beacon Stickers
A New York startup with roots in Poland has made use of a Bluetooth transceiver IC from Nordic Semiconductor to develop Beacon Stickers and has signed up Cisco as a partner.
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Micron Targets Tablets, Ultrabooks with New SSD
Memory chip maker's new solid state drive targets compute platforms needing a low power device but with the high performance of NAND flash.
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Mouser, Eurotech Ink Distribution Deal
Catalog distributor Mouser Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with Eurotech, a manufacturer of embedded products and systems.
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AMD Aims to Speed up Cloud Computing Market
Processor vendors teams with Canonical to provide an OpenStack private cloud computing platform based on the SeaMicro SM15000 server.
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Avnet Signs TrueUC Solutions
Avnet Embedded has signed a distribution agreement with TrueUC Solutions and will carry the company’s TrueUConnect, TrueContact and TrueCapture communications software.
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Switching NAND Helps Micron Raise SSD Specs
Micron is using something called dynamic write allocation, which programs NAND flash memory ICs in different ways, to raise the specs of its solid-state drives and deliver a blow to the magnetic drives.
