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Chip Equipment Orders Increased in June

Three-month average of orders for semiconductor equipment in June increased 4.3 percent compared to May and 10 percent compared to June 2013, according to SEMI.

Strong Licensing Drives ARM's Q2 Results

A royalty slowdown in first half of the year is over, according to ARM’s CEO as he reports signing up licensees for next-generation cores Artemis and Maia.

TI's Sales Up 8 Percent in Q2

Strong analog and embedded processing semiconductor sales boost chip firm's top and bottom lines.

Toshiba Claims Billion-Dollar Damages From SK Hynix

Toshiba is seeking more than $1 billion in damages from rival NAND flash memory producer SK Hynix over an alleged theft of technology secrets in 2008.

Bosch, Huawei, Xilinx Back ‘Event-Driven’ Processor Firm

Global trio with wide-ranging application interests like the look of real-time, event-driven processor company XMOS and help close $26 million funding round.

Nanoporosity Improves Rice's Silicon Oxide ReRAM

The use of porous silicon oxide for ReRAM device reduces forming voltage, improves storage density and manufacturability, claims a research group at Rice University.

Set-Top Boxes on Course for High Growth in Next Two Years

Market achieved highest annual revenue total in history with $20.3 billion in 2013.

Asia Starts to Push in Touch Controller IC Market

Fabless chip companies from Korea, Taiwan and China are starting an assault on the traditional western hemisphere based leaders in the capacitive touch controller IC market, according to IHS.

Avnet to Carry Deutsch Military Connectors

Expanded distribution agreement allows Avnet to offer customers connectors in sizes ranging from standard density to near double density D38999 styles a greater range of connector options.

Cadence Expands EDA Software Suite for FPGA Prototyping

Expansion of System Development Suite adds Protium, the company’s proprietary rapid prototyping platform, for field programmable gate array software improvement.

Nitero Launches 60GHz Wi-Fi Chip for Mobiles

Nitero is leveraging Samsung's 28nm RF CMOS process to produce a more power efficient 60GHz streaming Wi-Fi transceiver.

Exclusive Video Teardown: Garmin HUD

Electronics 360 contributor Rick DeMeis takes the Garmin HUD for a test drive and IHS's Andrew Rassweiler tears it down.

Imagination Cuts GPU Down For Wearables

Small area, low-power GPU core targets wearables, IoT and other embedded applications.

Intel Reduces Stake in Imagination

Intel has sold 25 million shares in Imagination and reduced its holding in the graphics core licensor below 6 percent.

MediaTek Rolls 64-bit LTE Smartphone SoC

MT6795 said to be the first 64-bit LTE Octa-core SoC with a speed of up to 2.2 GHz and the first to support 2K display support.

TSMC to Fall Behind Rivals in FinFET Market Share

TSMC, currently enjoying record revenues and profits, will lead market share in 20nm foundry supply but will likely fall behind the Samsung, Globalfoundries alliance in FinFET market share in 2015, according to TSMC chairman Morris Chang.

Vishay to Acquire Taiwanese IC Design House

Deal to acquire optoelectronics specialist Capella Microsystems worth $205 million.

Google Launches Smart Home IoT Protocol

Google's Nest has teamed up with Samsung, Freescale, ARM and others to define Thread, a 6LoWPAN-based mesh protocol for controlling domestic fittings and appliances.