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Giving the World a Listen
Hearing aids are a growing market. A promise of worldwide growth, untapped market potential and innovative research will keep manufacturers of this unassuming, under-the-radar device h
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FDSOI Gains Design Wins Amid Fab Partner Mystery
ST has 15 design wins for its FDSOI manufacturing process but volume manufacturing at a second-source foundry has been pushed back to 2015.
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Industrial Electronics Turns Around in 2013 with Double-Digit Growth
The global market for industrial electronics semiconductors ended 2013 on an upbeat note, with overall revenue up convincingly from the previous year and reversing the disappointing decline of 2012...
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ST Reduces Losses But Outlook Remains Weak
STMicroelectronics is forecasting a decline in its first quarter 2014 sales, partly due to falling away of legacy sales at its now discontinued joint venture ST-Ericsson.
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Feature Film Focuses on Chip Worker's Death
The Korean feature film "Another Promise" portrays a father's struggle to prove his daughter death from leukemia was the result of working conditions at a Samsung semiconductor factory south of Seoul.
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Jobs Cuts Pile Up as Chip Firms Adjust
Even as the global economy improves chip companies are finding it necessary to lay off workers. For Intel, Renesas and Texas Instruments the idea of "retain, retrain and redeploy" seems to be on the back burner.
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SMIC Starts Supplying 28nm CMOS
China's leading domestic foundry has just about joined the 28nm club having run wafers at the end of 2013. The move helps SMIC get closer to rivals such as Globalfoundries and UMC but will also see it need to get more competitive.
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Rival Chipset Makers Likely to Enter LTE Modem Space Now Controlled by Qualcomm
With the latest smartphones all vying to support the 4G wireless technology known as Long Term Evolution (LTE), smartphone chipset suppliers will be fighting to become part...
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Top Trends for Global Photovoltaic Market in 2014 Predicted
After two years of a punishing downturn, the global solar industry is on the rebound. Worldwide PV installations are set to rise by double digits in 2014, solar manufacturing capital spending is recovering...
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UHD Panels in Digital Signage to Soar 600 Percent This Year
The ultra-high-definition (UHD) panels now being adopted by televisions are also primed to make significant headway this year in the digital signage market for advertising and...
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IMEC Bringing Thermocompression Bonding to 3D ICs
Research institute is working with local assembly equipment supplier BE Semiconductor Industries (Besi) to bring thermocompression bonding to 3D IC production. That is the same Besi that announced just before the end of 2013 that somebody had stolen money
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Intel Sells Cloud TV Platform to Verizon
Intel is selling off the assets of its Intel Media business division, including the OnCue cloud TV platform to Verizon Communications. Verizon will use its TV-over-fiber, 4G LTE networks and service business model to take the technology forward.
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TSMC Tweaks 16nm FinFET to Match Intel
TSMC maintains capex at about $10 billion and looks to spend on 16nm FinFET production, including a FinFET enhancement. TSMC appears to be taking Intel seriously as foundry competition as the enhancement is reckoned to put TSMC's 16nm process at par with t
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China’s TV Brands Ordered 6 Percent Fewer LCD TV Panels in 2013
The holiday-driven surge in orders for liquid-crystal display (LCD) panels from Chinese television brands was not sufficient to offset weakness during the rest of the second half of 2013...
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Chip Packaging Materials Market to Post Modest Growth
Declining prices will result in slow growth for semiconductor packaging materials, according to the fab tool vendor trade association SEMI.
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Dialog Gets Behind Qualcomm's Quick Charge
Europe's Dialog Semiconductor has announced a pair of chips that support Qualcomm's proprietary Quick Charge technology; results of its acquisition of iWatt Inc. in July 2013.
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Digital Radiography Makes Major Inroads as A/D Converters Advance
Just as conventional cameras using film have been demolished by digital photography, the film-based X-ray is going the way of corded phones and dial tones.
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IBM Closes Aspera Acquisition
Patented "fasp" to be integrated with IBM's recently acquired SoftLayer cloud infrastructure.
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Component Makers Unprepared for Conflict Mineral Mandate
Four months before new U.S. rules go into effect regarding conflict mineral reporting, many electronics component manufacturers remain unprepared.
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Researchers Develop High-Transparency Transistor for Displays, Sensors
A team of researchers from Stanford University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has developed a high-carrier-mobility, high-performance and high-transparency transistor that can be used as a building block for flat-panel displays and sensor arrays.
