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Chip Sales Expected to Grow More Than 6% in 2014
Latest forecasts from WSTS, IHS project broad-based growth for the year.
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Ericsson Claims Design Wins for Modem Chipset
Ericsson's post joint-venture engagement with the smartphone market is riding on a $17 LTE-A modem chipset called M7540. China Mobile says the modem is good to go on its network.
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Google, Apple Go Head-to-Head On Car Infotainment
There's a battle going on: Google and Apple hope to wrest the user experience from auto makers.
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Microchip Launches USB Power Delivery Controllers
New family of devices capable of delivering 100W of power from a single standard USB port while also being used for data.
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Piezoelectric Effect Used to Control Strain in FinFETs
Use of a piezoelectric layer over FinFETs would allow the production of transistors with tunable properties, according to Dutch research team.
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AMD Launches 'Kaveri' Mobile APUs
Chips offer as many as 12 cores, bring HSA to mobile for the first time.
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Buyers Vary Strategy to Mitigate Counterfeit Risk
The last thing an OEM wants is to have a product fail in the field because of a counterfeit part.
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MediaTek Gears Up for Wearables, IoT
MediaTek, best known as supplier of application processors for low-end and China market smartphones, is preparing to use that position to drive success in the wearables and Internet of Things markets.
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Researchers Claim World's First 2-D Field Effect Transistor
Lawrence Berkeley National Labs scientists say the FET suffers no performance drop-off under high voltages, unlike conventional FETs made from silicon.
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Cavium Goes 48-core With ARM Server SoC
Networking chip company Cavium has leapt ahead with a 64-bit ARM server SoC that includes 48 ARMv8-compatible cores.
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Researchers Transform Infrared Light Into Graphene Plasmons
Researchers at CIC nanoGUNE, in collaboration with ICFO and Graphenea have shown that a nanoscale metal rod on graphene can capture IR light and transform it into graphene plasmons.
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Samsung Pushes Vertical NAND to 32 Layers
3D-NAND pioneer Samsung has pushed the memory technology to 32-layers although the company has not yet revealed the storage capacity of its second-generation vertically-stacked memory.
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Synopsys Augments IP Portfolio With New Initiative
No. 2 IP vendor augments portfolio with prototyping kits, software development kits and customized IP subsystems.
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U.S. Manufacturing Growth Builds Momentum
The U.S. manufacturing sector in May expanded for the 12th consecutive month, according to the Institute of Supply Management.
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ARM to Open Cortex-M CPU Design Center in Taiwan
ARM's first Asian design center for processor cores will focus on the Internet of Things and embedded device markets. ARM has also announced it is acquiring Irish EDA company Duolog.
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Broadcom to Exit Cellular Baseband Chip Business
CEO Scott McGregor continues pruning Broadcom as he seeks out better margins and more profits for shareholders.
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MediaTek Rolls Quad Core Tablet SoC
Device features full hardware support for the new H.265 video playback standard that and will be integrated into Alcatel’s Pixi 7 and 8 tablet.
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Teardown: Siemens SIMATIC S7-200CN (CPU 226) PLC
The S7-200CN is the “mainframe” for Siemens’s line of micro-programmable logic controllers (Micro PLCs) for controlling a variety of automation applications.
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PCB Book-To-Bill Remains Positive
North American printed circuit board shipments in April increased 1.6 percent compared to April 2013, but declined 12 percent from March 2014, according to Association Connecting Electronics Industries.
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Researchers Extend 3-D Imaging Range for Consumer Apps
New technology said to remotely sense objects across distances as long as 30 feet, 10 times farther than what can be done with comparable current low-power laser systems.
