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MWC: Those Sexy Parts Called Sensors
With wearables, machine-to-machine connectivity, mHealth, and connected homes, buildings and cities catching a fever pace, sensors have won "sexiness appeal" at Mobile World Congress this year.
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PEI-Genesis Inks Deal with Brazilian Manufacturer
Philadelphia-based connectors and power-supplies distributor enters Brazilian aerospace market.
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Jabil Moves Beyond Electronics
With hardware OEMs' sales stalling, EMS firms like Jabil Circuit are looking to non-traditional markets in search of growth.
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MWC: Smart Living in Smart Cities
Smart everything--that's the direction the world is moving in, and what folks walking around the Mobile World Congress this week in Barcelona want everyone to believe.
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Vicor Extends Custom Power Business to Europe
Company aims to provide "one-stop destination” for customers requiring high levels of power system development agility.
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Cable Players with DOCSIS 3.0 Square Off Against Telcos and Broadband Fiber
The cable industry achieved record revenue last year in the sales of broad fiber connection of telcos promises...band equipment, and the forthcoming version of its primary tool against the
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Imagination Launches 'Raptor' Image Processing Cores
Imagination launches first image signal processing cores with a view to reducing power consumption for such coming features as gesture and facial recognition.
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Spreadtrum Offers $25 Firefox Smartphone Design
At Mobile World Congress Chinese fabless chip company Spreadtrum announced the launch of the SC6821 and its presence in a 2G design for a $25 smartphone.
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'Pure Tone' Laser Tops Long-Haul Comms Bandwidth of Current War Horse Laser
Researchers have developed a high-coherence laser that stores light in a layer of virtually absorption-free silicon.
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Self-Powered Cell Phone Uses Vibrations from its Case
Development could augur a new generation of self-charged personal electronics.
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Intel, Samsung, Applied Fund Photoresist Startup
Leading players in semiconductor manufacturing see merit in a startups photocondensed, smooth photoresist materials.
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Power Player Dialog Aims at 20% CAGR
Europe's Dialog Semiconductor is aiming to outpace the overall semiconductor market growth for the next three or for years.
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Thick-shell Quantum Dots Raise Image Brightness
Quantum dots with thick shells and nano-scale cores is being licensed by a startup from the developers at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The dots could improve LED and emissive display brightness and efficiency.
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Broadcom Pushes On in Wireless, Sells Ethernet Line
Broadcom has developed a millimeter wave IC for back- and front-haul communications in radio access networks. At the same time the company is selling off its NetXtreme II Ethernet controller IC line to QLogic Corp.
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Distributor Inventory Key to Managing Supply Chain Risk
Increasingly, distributors are helping OEMs and EMS providers deal with risks ranging from counterfeit parts to natural disasters.
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Synopsys to Buy Software Quality and Security Firm Coverity
Deal, worth $375 million, would enable No. 1 EDA firm to address new markets.
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CEO's Report Outlines How to Double European Chip Manufacturing Share
Chip company CEOs agreed with the formidable Neelie Kroes that Europe needs to try and double its share of global manufacturing.
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Exclusive Video Teardown: Microsoft Surface Pro 2
Andrew Rassweiler of IHS takes a peak inside the Microsoft Surface Pro 2.
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Renesas Applies MONOS flash to 28-nm MCUs
Renesas claims to be the first chip company to have developed a 28-nm manufacturing process supporting non-volatile memory for microcontrollers.
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ARM Respins Cortex-A15 for Mid-Tier Smartphones
ARM has produced an IP suite – from Cortex-A17 to display processors – aimed at 2015 mid-tier smartphones and other consumer applications. MediaTek is a lead partner with an Octa-core deployment.
