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Power Management for Energy Harvesting in WSNs

Designers demand more power in their products to support increased functionality and to charge the battery from any available power source.

SEMI Reports $10.15 Billion in Q1 Billings

Worldwide semiconductor equipment billings soared 39 percentin the first quarter compared to the first quarter of 2013, according to trade association SEMI.

Wearable Shirt SOC Transmits Cardiac Signals to Remote Smartphone

University of Washington researchers have developed and integrated an electrocardiography SoC into a shirt along with electrodes, battery and antenna for constant remote monitoring of active cardiac patients.

Flexible Plastic Logic Pursues Wearables Display Market

AMOLED displays with organic thin-film transistor backplanes are ready for the wearable equipment market and looking at the next challenge – foldables – says Plastic Logic.

Qualcomm Revamps MEMS Display With Single-Pixel Color

Two years ago it appeared that the Mirasol MEMS display technology had missed its market opportunity and that Qualcomm would walk away from it. Now, a brighter Mirasol is back.

Taiwan's Metanoia Wins Huawei VDSL2 Design Slot

A relatively unknown Taiwanese fabless chip company has got a design win for FTTD equipment with Chinese telecom equipment giant Huawei.

Microchip Expands SPI Serial Flash Memory Portfolio

Three new chips targeted at battery-operated accessories, portable medical devices, remotes, headsets and hearing aids.

Self-assembly of Nanoparticles in Just a Minute

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have devised a technique whereby self-assembling nanoparticle arrays can form a highly ordered thin film over macroscopic distances in just one minute.

TSMC's Sales Dip in May

Sales at foundry TSMC – often taken as a bellwhether of the chip industry – took a pause in May but rival UMC kept on growing.

Wirelessly Recharging Implanted Devices

Researchers have developed wirelessly-recharging devices that can be embedded inside the human body.

Analog Devices Offers $2 Billion for Hittite Microwave

Analog Devices' strategic turn towards industrial, communications and military markets has been underlined by an agreement to buy Hittite Microwave Corp. in a deal worth about $2 billion.

ON Semi to Buy Aptina for $400 Million

Cash deal expected to strengthen firm's automotive, industrial offerings.

ADAS Adoption to Spur Increase in Chip Sales

Automobiles are increasingly incorporating advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to increase vehicle safety—and that's good news for the semiconductor industry.

Chip Sales Expected to Grow More Than 6% in 2014

Latest forecasts from WSTS, IHS project broad-based growth for the year.

Ericsson Claims Design Wins for Modem Chipset

Ericsson's post joint-venture engagement with the smartphone market is riding on a $17 LTE-A modem chipset called M7540. China Mobile says the modem is good to go on its network.