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Mouser Signs Global Agreement with Broadcom
Mouser to become Broadcom’s first e-commerce distributor, offering same-day shipping on a variety of Broadcom’s mass market products.
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MStar Integrates Content Security in SoC
Taiwanese chip vendor is first to implement Irdeto’s FlexiCore Processing technology into a set-top box system-on-a-chip.
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ZigBee-Based Networks Offered to Watch Over Elderly
ZigBee chip vendor GreenPeak is offering a system that can monitor the movement of the elderly at home and to send alerts to relatives about unusual behavior.
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Cree to Invest $83 Million in Lextar Electronics for LEDs
Deal seen as verification of the success of mid-power LEDs.
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Toshiba to Expand Discrete Business
Japanese firm expanding portfolio of discrete semiconductors in response to what the Tokyo-based company sees as a changing business environment with the advent of smartphones, tablets, smart cars and renewable energy sources.
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Trimble Authorizes Digi-Key to Sell RFID Modules
Distributor to carry Trimble’s line of embedded UHF radio frequency identification modules.
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UMC Takes Stake in New Fujitsu Foundry
Taiwanese foundry becomes minority shareholder in Fujitsu’s formed 300mm foundry located in the Mie prefecture.
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Board Shipments, Orders Fall
Printed circuit board shipments decreased 2.3 percent in July compared to July 2013, while new orders for boards dropped 6.3 percent,according to Association Connecting Electronics Industries.
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CSR Rejects Microchip Takeover Bid
Publicly traded UK connectivity chip company CSR has rejected a take-over bid from US consolidator Microchip Technologies Inc.
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Europe’s Galileo Satnav Hit By Satellite Failures
Two satellites for Europe's Galileo location system were launched atop a Soyuz rocket last week – but ended up in the wrong orbits.
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MIPS DevBoard Launched to Compete With Raspberry Pi
Processor IP licensor Imagination has come up with a hobbyists' developer board to try and attract Linux and Android developers over from ARM to the MIPS architecture.
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Who is the Next Takeover Target in Power Management?
Infineon’s $3 billion acquisition of International Rectifier may be just the beginning of a new period of consolidation in the discrete market, according to IHS Technology.
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Bosch Selects ASE to Enable Wafer-thin MEMS Accelerometer Package
Firms partner to bring to market the smallest 3-axis microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) accelerometer on the market.
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Freescale Launches Wireless Charging Chips to Qi Spec
Freescale has introduced controller ICs for wireless charging in automotive and consumer applications that follow the Qi standard of the Wireless Power Consortium.
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JEDEC Releases Revolutionary LPDDR4 Standard
JEDEC has released its long-awaited LPDDR4 standard for memory interfacing having taken multiple steps to trim power consumption and extend flexibility.
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Report: Apple to Launch 12.9-inch iPad in 2015
Firm reportedly gearing up to deliver a 12.9-inch iPad with production slated to begin in the first quarter of 2015.
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Apple Announces iPhone Battery Replacement Program
After nearly two years Apple acknowledges iPhone 5 battery fault and offers free replacement to qualifying owners.
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Smartcard Market On 4.4% CAGR Through 2019, Says IHS
Smartcards for everybody over the next five years, says IHS as it forecasts the annual shipment count will exceed the number of people on the planet.
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Fairchild to Cut Jobs
Chip maker to eliminate 5-inch wafer lines and significantly reduce its 6-inch fab lines while increasing its reliance on foundries.
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Google Selects Rockchip for Modular Smartphone Processor
Google's Project Ara – developing a hardware-modular mobile device – has chosen tablet processor specialist Rockchip as its partner to develop an application processor.
