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Rochester to Sell NXP EOL Parts; RS Components Stocks New Capacitors
Distributor to act as authorized source for NXP's mature and discontinued products.
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Envelope Tracking Pioneer on Brink of LTE Success
Nujira is preparing to close a funding round to help it capitalize on the need for envelope-tracking technology within 4G LTE handsets.
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Samsung Foundry Adds RF to 28-nm CMOS
Samsung is trying to get ahead of the Internet of Things and wearables wave by adding RF capabilities to its 28-nm manufacturing processes for foundry customers.
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Apple, You Can Infotain Our Cars
The ubiquity of the iPhone is making the adoption of Apple's CarPlay as an enabler of BYOD in automobile infotainment an easy choice for the world's carmakers.
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MWC: Riding the High-Speed Train Called the Internet of Things
Call it the Internet of Things, the Internet of Everything, or the Internet of People, as it was dubbed last week at the Mobile World Congress. By any name, it leads you to the same place: A hyper-connected world.
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Quantum Dots Grown on Silicon Equal Performance Grown on Native Substrates
Development could lead to production of low-cost photonics for information transmission.
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Semiconductor Equipment Spending Expected to Grow 20-30%
Semiconductor suppliers will increase fab equipment spending 20 to 30 percent in 2014, according to a new report by trade association SEMI.
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Antenna, RF Combo Offer Centimeter Global Positioning
Combination of antenna design and precise RF front-end gets global positioning by satellite down to centimeter accuracy, says IMEC.
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Battery-less Gesture Tech Uses TV Signals for Power and Commands
Technology could allow sensors to be attached to household electronics, enabling interaction with everyday objects using gestures.
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Manufacturing Grows Slightly Despite Weather Woes
The U.S. manufacturing sector expanded in February for the ninth consecutive month, according to the latest Institute for Supply Management Report on Business.
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Marvell Includes LTE in 64-bit Apps Processor
Marvell has a quad-core 64-bit application processor with built-in LTE and Vivante graphics but it comes just at the same time that Qualcomm has Snapdragon eight- and quad core apps processors with 4K graphics support.
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MWC: Faster Data Speeds Fuel the Connected Car
The dawn of 4G LTE networks has given the world's oldest mobile device, the car, a boon up and down the automotive supply chain.
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Report: Toshiba Eyes Imprint Litho for 15-nm Flash
Toshiba is preparing to work with Canon on imprint lithography for its 15nm generation of NAND flash according to a Japanese report.
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Teardown: LG G Flex
IHS takes a look under the hood of the new LG G Flex curved smartphone.
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Dialog Backs Both Qualcomm, MediaTek in Rapid Charging
Dialog is not playing favorites and has come out with support for MediaTek's proprietary Pump Express form of rapid charging, just weeks out after offering support for Qualcomm's Quick Charge 2.0.
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Startup Describes Proprietary Non-Volatile Memory Technology
California-based non-volatile memory startup with Australian roots and a new CEO has described its technology and similarities to a resistive RAM in development at Symetrix Corp. in Colorado.
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VxWorks RTOS Gets Revamped for IoT
Wind River has upgraded its VxWorks real-time operating system to version 7 offering fine-grained scalability and "big-little" support in pursuit of Internet of Things design wins.
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STT-MRAM Will Hit Volume in 2014, Says Everspin
Everspin has said that after being first to sample STT-MRAM in 2012 it expects to hit volume production in the second half of 2014. Typical applications are front-end buffers for solid-state drives.
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Freescale to Foundries: Help Us With Threshold-Voltage MCUs
Freescale MCU boss says near-threshold voltage microcontrollers are coming but it may take time. Foundries could help by characterizing IP libraries over wider voltage ranges.
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Imagination Volunteers 'Warrior' Cores for MCU Duty
Imagination has announced two CPU cores based on its Series-5 "Warrior" architecture aimed at microcontroller design wins and that bring support for hardware virtualization.
