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Samsung, Globalfoundries Form 14nm Alliance to Fight TSMC

Acting in response to customer requests two foundries have teamed up to provide a common manufacturing platform based on 14nm FinFET manufacturing processes

Bookham Founder Leads Photonics Startup

Andrew Rickman, founder of silicon photonics pioneer Bookham, has started Rockley Photonics using money from his own venture capital fund.

Intel Reveals Financial Black Hole Called Mobile

A more-detailed way of presenting Intel's financial results introduced with those for 1Q14 shows that the mobile communications is losing nearly a billion dollars per quarter.

Over the Horizon: Perovskite’s Dual Capabilities and Longer-lived Solar Cells

Every month, Electronics360 Contributing Editor Abe Michelen surveys academic and technical journals to uncover promising research that will impact the development of “over the horizon” commercial products that could well impact our lives in the future.

Researchers Develop Practical, Wearable Thermoelectric Generator

A team of researchers has announced the development of a glass fabric-based TE generator.

Exclusive Video Teardown: Samsung Galaxy S5

IHS takes a deep dive inside the latest "super" smartphone from Samsung

Industrial Chip Market to Grow 11% in 2014

Thanks to recovery in economies around the world, growth in the market for industrial chips is set to strengthen in 2014 after solid 2013 growth.

SEMI Forecasts Modest Growth in Semiconductor Photomask Market

Taiwan to continue as largest regional photomask market through 2015.

TSMC Gets Ready to Enjoy Apple Booster

The sale of application processors and other circuits to Apple could increase TSMC's foundry revenue by as much as 20 percent, according to reports of financial analysts.

Qualcomm, Quantenna Roll Out Multi-User MIMO

MU-MIMO is a technology, layered over multiple input, multiple out antennas, that allows a single source to transmit to multiple receivers over Wi-Fi and Qualcomm has tipped a lead while Quantenna plans to be in the market in 2015.

Synopsys Gets OK for 16nm FinFET Design at TSMC

After a period of collaboration between TSMC and Synopsys the EDA design flow has been certified as OK for TSMC’s 16nm FinFET manufacturing process.

Texas Instruments Forms IoT Cloud Club

The Internet of Things requires broadly applicable cloud-based services, reckons Texas Instruments and it has formed an "ecosystem" club to push third-party offerings

Skolkovo Produces Dosimeter/Radiometer on Silicon

Researchers at Russian Innovation Center Skolkovo, have integrated a dosimeter-radiometer and a silicon detector into a single device to detect ionizing radiation.

Digi-Key to Carry SiTime’s Oscillators, Clock Generators

Distributor Digi-Key has signed a global distribution agreement with analog semiconductor supplier SiTime, the companies announced.

Kyocera Merges Two Operations in North America

Kyocera has consolidated two of its North American operations into a single business group.

Obducat Launches Nano-Imprint Litho System

Swedish vendor of nano-imprint lithography tools upgrades Sindre system to hit 60 wafer per hour throughput.

TSMC, UMC Beat 1Q14 Guidance

Sales at two leading foundry stayed strong in March and capped first quarter that beat previous guidance.

Indian Startup Tips Wearable Processor Family

Well-connected Indian fabless chip company has raised $17 million in series B funding to help it push its Dhanush family of wearable SoCs into the market before the end of 2014.