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Micron Exec Calls for Collaboration
The future looks bright for the semiconductor industry and its ecosystem, but not unless chip companies can adapt to a changing industry and partner more closely with their equipment suppliers, according to Micron's president.
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Atmel Acquires Connectivity Chipmaker in IoT Play
Cash deal, worth $140 million, expected to complete Atmel's wireless portfolio.
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InvenSense To Buy Movea for Sensor Fusion Software
Inertial motion sensor firm InvenSense has agreed to buy two providers of algorithms and software for motion and data fusion - Movea and Trusted Positioning.
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SEMI Predicts Two Years of Fab Tool Spending Growth
Semiconductor capital equipment spending is projected to increase by double digit percentages in both 2014 and 2015, according to the fab tool vendor trade group SEMI.
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SIA: Semiconductor Sales Increased Nearly 9% in May
Worldwide semiconductor sales in May grew 8.8 percent compared to May 2012 as revenue reached $26.86 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry (SIA)
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ST's OxRAM Targets FDSOI Microcontroller
STMicroelectonics has reported progress made hafnium-oxide resistive RAM for use as embedded non-volatile memory. The technology is moving towards a low power microcontroller implemented in FDSOI.
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Visteon’s Automotive Electronics Deal Finalized
Visteon has completed the acquisition of the automotive electronics business of Johnson Controls in a $265 million cash transaction.
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Applied Materials Unveils 3-D CMP, CVD Tools
Tools rolled out on the eve of Semicon West to address precision, materials and defect issues in high performance 3-D devices.
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Audience Goes Beyond Sound with Sensor Platform Buy
Audio and vocal processor company reckons purchase of sensor fusion firmware company will help it target mobile and wearable devices with multisensory processing.
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Celestica Opens Microelectronics Facility for Startups and Other OEMs
EMS vendor opens microelectronics lab to help startups and other electronics companies develop their ideas for miniaturizing electronics products.
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Intel to Build SoCs for Panasonic
Japanese firm becomes sixth publicly disclosed foundry customer for the world's biggest chipmaker.
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Startup Claims Quantum FinFET is World Beater
FinScale Inc. says qFinFET is a next-generation 3D transistor that can outperform conventional FinFET and SOI device technologies.
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China's Actions Semi Takes 64-bit ARM License
Actions Semiconductor, one of a group of successful Chinese fabless chip companies designing SoCs for consumer electronics, is ready to step up to 64-bit mobile processing using IP from ARM.
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Cortex-M0 Gets Nearer to Near Threshold
The ground work is being laid for A Cortex-M0 processor core that uses near-threshold voltages to support low-power processing in Internet of Things applications, according to Mike Muller the company's CTO.
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EZchip to Buy Tilera for $130 Million
EZchip Semiconductor Ltd. signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tilera Corp. for $130 million in cash adding a multi-core product portfolio to the company as well as expanding its addressable markets.
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New Organic Battery Good for 5k Cycles
Researchers at USC have developed a battery that is water-based, long-lasting, and can be built from inexpensive components.
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Qualcomm, SMIC Partner for 28nm Snapdragon Production
Deal will enable SMIC to accelerate its 28nm process maturity and capacity as well as allow the Chinese-based foundry the ability to offer local products based on the latest Snapdragon processors on the 28nm node, oth PolysiON and high-k dielectrics metal gate (HKMG).
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ARM, Linaro Offer 64-bit Android Development Support.
The forthcoming L edition of the Android operating system is going to support 64-bit operations and so ARM and Linaro are offering hardware and software support for developers.
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Managing Complexity With Hardware Emulation
A multi-tool approach to multi-core SoC design and verification is critical to success.
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CEO interview: Adesto's Derhacobian Looks to Move CBRAM to Asia
Sometimes taking a step sideways can help a company go forward, says Adesto CEO Narbeh Derhacobian who is now in talks to move CBRAM memory technology into an Asian foundry.
