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News from Semicon Europa 2014
The first day of Semicon Europa 2014 saw the Silicon Innovation Forum host more than 25 start-up companies.
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Blue LED Inventors Win Nobel Prize
The blue light emitting diode has allowed white light that can be produced more energy efficiently and using less resources than previous light sources. And so the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics goes to Professors, Akasaki, Amano and Nakamura.
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Cisco Buys Networking Memory Startup
For the second time Sundar Iyer has formed a startup company and sold it to Cisco. This time it is Memoir Systems with its "algorithmic" approach to memory utilization.
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EDA Sales Show Modest Growth
Sales of Electronic Design Automation software posted a modest year-over-year increase in the second quarter, according to a trade group.
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France's Cortus Offers Minimal RISC For IoT
Processor specialist releases the APS23 – the first in a family of new processors that delivers increased code density to meet power, size requirements of IoT devices.
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MaxLinear to Acquire Physpeed
Chip vendor says deal will expand its total addressable market into infrastructure for data center and metro and long-haul telecommunications operators.
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Samsung To Build $15 Billion Wafer Fab
Samsung is looking to consolidate its position as number two in the semiconductor industry with a $14.6 billion wafer fab to be built in South Korea.
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Arrow to Distribute Lenovo’s System X
Deal will keep the distribution giant an authorized vendor for all System X and associated devices after the transition of the server business from IBM.
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Chip Sales Rise Again
Worldwide semiconductor sales in August were up 9 percent from July and 1 percent from August 2013.
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For HP, Innovation Remains Key Post-Split
The decision to separate into two entities produces opportunities to succeed but it can’t just be business as usual for the computer giant in order to survive.
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Freescale Plunges into IoT with Gateway Reference Design
Using the company's QorIQ communications processor, the gateway will help enable new IoT services for building/home management, smart cities, networked industrial services and other performance-heavy applications.
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Maxim Preps Asynchronous MCU Core
Mixed-signal chip vendor Maxim turns to clockless logic as way to reduce power consumption in microcontrollers – but uses its own 16bit MaxQ RISC rather than an ARM core.
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Bel Signs Licensing Deal with Cosel
Multi-year agreement will allow for use of DPT patents in an array of board mounted power supply products.
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Wearable Display Revenue to Hit Stratospheric Levels
Revenue for display panels will reach $22.7 billion by 2013, up from just $300 million in 2014 as future innovation in flexible displays opens new opportunities for growth.
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Applied Micro Rolls 64-bit Embedded ARM-based CPUs
Chip vendor claims first 64-bit embedded ARM-based microprocessors targeted at wired and wireless networking, networked storage, office automation and industrial controls.
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Atmel Bridges MCU-MPU Divide With ARM-based Chips
Atmel is striving to be classed as a leading exponent of ARM architecture chips for embedded applications and the Internet of Things. It has announced chip families based on the Cortex-A5 and the Cortex-M7 cores.
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TSMC, ARM Forecast 10nm Tape-Outs in 2015
TSMC and ARM are looking to pick up the pace and get IP cores and design libraries for 64-bit system-chips built on a 10nm FinFET manufacturing process to customers in time for tape-outs in late 2015.
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TTI Adds FCT Connectors; Newark to Carry RECOM Products
Specialist distributor TTI has added FCT Electronics Group as a new connector supplier.
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U.S. Manufacturing Caps Strong Q3
U.S. manufacturing growth slowed slightly in September, but the trend remained positive for the 16th consecutive month, according to a closely watched indicator.
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AMD Demos Network Function Virtualization on ARM SoC
A 64-bit ARM-based R-series system-chip from AMD is being used for network function virtualization and demoed at ARM Techcon.
