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Exclusive Video Teardown: Google Chromecast
Andrew Rassweiler, senior director of cost benchmarking services at IHS, gives a breakdown of IHS's teardown of Google's $35 streaming digital media player.
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Kickstarted Processor Startup Raises Venture Capital
Adapteva, a startup that has developed a series of parallel processing chips on a shoe-string budgets, has raised $3.6 million and interest from communications company Ericsson.
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Qualcomm, Toshiba Team on UFS Serial Flash
Toshiba, pioneer of the serial interface protocol for NAND flash memory known as UFS, has recruited Qualcomm as a supporter and announced that Snapdragon 805 will support UFS and is coming soon.
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Semiconductor Capacity Growth Rate Slows
Semiconductor suppliers will increase chip capacity in 2014 and 2015, but at slower growth rates than in previous years, according to a new report by fab tool vendor trade association Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International.
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BT Trials Neul Network for IoT
White-space communications pioneer Neul Ltd. has come up with a network-in-a-box approach to the Internet of Things that combines basestation, module and service aspects. BT is trying it out.
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China Set-Top Box Market to Slow Down in Years Ahead
The set-top box (STB) market in China is headed for decline as the market matures with ever-larger swathes of the population already in possession of the device, even though China will...
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Economic Recovery Sets Stage for Semiconductor Growth
Stronger gross domestic product (GDP) growth and rising demand for mobile electronics equipment will drive the electronics industry in 2014, according to attendees at SEMI's annual Industry Strategy Symposium.
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Google to Pay $3.2 Billion for Thermostat Startup
In what must be one of the biggest startup acquisitions of all time Google has agreed to pay $3.2 billion for three-year-old startup Nest Labs Inc.; a company that makes an Internet-connecting thermostat.
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Intel Puts Arizona Fab on Hold
An Intel wafer fab in Chandler, which President Obama held up as a shining example U.S. domestic manufacturing, has been put on hold with no date for when it will start production.
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Metamaterials Superlens Focuses Magnetic Fields to Boost Wireless Power
Duke University researchers have demonstrated the feasibility of wireless power transfer using low-frequency magnetic fields over distances much larger than the size of the transmitter and receiver currently used in portable electronics.
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Printed Circuit Board Orders Drop
North American printed circuit board shipments increased 4 percent in November 2013 from November 2012, but new orders fell 6.7 percent, according to Association Connecting Electronics Industries.
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Sun's Energy Can Be Harnessed for Nighttime Use
Researchers have built a chemical system that converts the sun's energy not into electricity but hydrogen fuel, storing it for later use after the sun goes down.
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Argentina Set to Save Brazilian Wafer Fab
An Argentinian billionaire has agreed to buy out struggling Brazilian counterpart’s stake in South American wafer fab SIX Semiconductores, according to a Wall Street Journal report
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Exar Buys Stretch for Camera Platform
High performance analog company buys digital platform supplier for its expertise in surveillance market.
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Fujitsu Backs SuVolta to Pursue DRAM, IoT
Fujitsu, still in the semiconductor game, and has invested in low-power IC technology startup to help it pursue the integration of its technology with CMOS for DRAM, Internet of Things and mobile applications.
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China Medical Electronics to Take In More Than $5 Billion by Year-End
China’s medical electronics market is set to finish 2013 with strong double-digit growth, helped by a budding consumer segment increasingly important in alleviating ailments such as...
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Korean Startup Targets Wireless Charging
A South Korean 2012 startup has designed a wireless power receiver using a BCD process offered by foundry Tower Semiconductor. The company is in discussions with top mobile companies, Tower said.
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Tegra Mobile Processor Offers 192-Core Graphics, No LTE
Nvidia is pushing into the mobile processor market with the Tegra K1 but trying to play its trump card – graphics – leaving customers to make their own communications arrangements.
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TSMC Posts Strong December Sales
Sales at TSMC were up in December, bouncing back from November's weaker sales. That, together with other sales figures, indicate short-lived inventory correction.
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Novel Anode Quadruples Lithium-Sulfur Battery Charging Rates
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a "hybrid" anode made of graphite and lithium that could quadruple the lifespan of lithium-sulfur batteries from 100 to 400 cycle charging rate.
