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Infineon to Spend $400 million on Austrian R&D Site
German chip giant plans to add MEMS and sensor to process development and pilot production mix at Villach, Austria, along with an emphasis on automation and energy efficient production.
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Sager to Purchase Specialty Distributor PowerGate
PowerGate specializes in AC/DC power supplies and DC/DC converters, selling them to customers in the IT, medical and industrial equipment markets.
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Intel's Many-Core Processor Gets In-Package Memory
Collaboration between Intel and Micron on the use of stacked memories and packaging is bearing fruit in the form of the next-generation Xeon Phi processor known as Knights Landing.
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Knowles Again Tops List of MEMs Microphone Suppliers
Supplier to Samsung and Apple grew MEMS microphone revenue by 59 percent last year, expanding its lead over competitors.
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Teraflop Computer Board Consumes 50 watts
Massively parallel processor company Kalray is offering 1024 processor cores on a PCIe board and has a new CEO and funds for further development.
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Microchip Expands 8-bit MCU Line, Offers First BTLE Module
Microchip Technology Inc. today (June 24) rolled out an expansion of its 8-bit mid-range core microcontroller (MCU) family as well as its first Bluetooth energy module
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TTI to Acquire Connector Specialist Astrex Electronics
Distributor TTI, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, announced it will acquire Astrex Electronics.
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XMOS Offers Audio Reference Platform
XMOS is offering support for the use of its xCore microcontrollers in streaming audio applications in the form of a reference board and software.
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Microsoft, Bing Bet on Progammable Logic for Servers
An old idea of using FPGAs for customizable hardware and application–specific processors is finding favor with Microsoft in the software-defined data center.
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Adesto Ships 1 Million CBRAM Memories
A startup that has worked since 2006 on a resistive nonvolatile memory technology got its conductive bridging RAM product to market in 2013 and has now shipped a million units.
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Semiconductor Equipment Shipments Increased in May
The three-month average of semiconductor equipment shipments in May increased 15.1% over May 2013.
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HiSilicon Launches Octacore Smartphone Chip with LTE
HiSilicon's Kirin 920 SoC shows Chinese application processors are on a par with those of Qualcomm, Samsung and MediaTek.
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Intel to Package FPGA with Xeon Processor
Xeon processors are set to come with an FPGA in the package to help with dynamic programming of functionality. Achronix is couid be the FPGA vendor with the design win.
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SanDisk Grabs Fusion-io in Billion-Dollar Storage Deal
Fusion-io, a nine year-old solid-state storage acceleration company, is set to be acquired by SanDisk for around $1.1 billion.
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Nanotube Memory Shows Universal Potential
Results for a 140nm nonvolatile memory based on a carbon nanotube layer have been reported at the VLSI Technology and Circuits Symposia.
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Research Team Demos Foldable Displays
The foldable tablet computer, smartphone and e-book could be just around the corner to judge from research presented by a team drawn from SEL in Japan and Nokia.
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Exclusive VideoTeardown: Blood Glucose Monitors
To get a look at the insides of glucose monitors, the IHS teardown team has selected the Bayer Breeze 2 and the OneTouch UltraMini.
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Altair Semi Raises $25 Million to Expand Single-Mode LTE Market Penetration
Fabless chip vendor to use funds to expand its operations, sales and customer support capacity in the single mode LTE market.
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ADI Moves BlackFin DSP to 40nm, Lower Power
An enhanced core at the heart of a Blackfin DSP built on 40nm silicon promises to provide better power efficiency and open up additional industrial and automotive audio and video applications.
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Flextronics to Build Avionics Units for Chinese Aircraft
Aviage Systems has selected electronics manufacturing services provider to manufacture its integrated modular avionics cabinet units for commercial aircraft programs in China.
