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450mm Wafer Consortium Appoints TSMC Exec as Leader

An award-winning TSMC executive has been appointed to manage the wafer consortium responsible for an industry transition to production on 450mm diameter wafers.

Cisco Backs Smart-Grid Modem Startup

Fabless chip startup EnVerv already has a soft-modem IC on the market and some traction with customers, which eased the closing of its Series C round of venture capital.

Wolfson Adds Zoomable Audio to Hub ICs

Wolfson Microelectronics likes the sound of AudioFrame technology from Los Angeles based Audyssey.

Altera to Accelerate IBM POWER-Based Data Centers

The OpenPOWER Foundation, which aims to proliferate IBM's POWER processor architecture within data centers, is gaining supporters, the latest being Altera.

Chaotic Startup Offers Secure Hardware Option

The chaos inherent within some non-linear mathematics will have a part to play in digital cryptography according to a startup that has been nurturing its technology for nearly a decade.

Diamond Wire Transmits Data Via Spin Electronics

In a possible breakthrough for quantum computing, university researchers used spin electronics to transmit signals down a diamond wire.

Many Core Processor Serves as HEVC 4K Encoder

French fabless chip company demonstrates 256-core processor applied to HEVC encode of 4K-resolution video stream.

Sapphire Selects Symmetry as Distribution Partner

Partnership said to address embedded markets such as electronic gaming, embedded digital signage, video surveillance, and retail POS and kiosks.

Synopsys Tool Claims Big Throughput Boost

Successor to IC Compiler has already been used in several chip design tape outs.

Hunter Acquires Spectral Response in EMS Deal

EMS supplier doubles footprint, triples SMT capacity.

Experts Sound Alarm On Rare Earth Element Sourcing

China's Near-monopoly on Rare Earth Elements Worries Experts

Flextronics Lab IX Partners with Mantis Vision; Sparton Acquires Aubrey Group

Deal supports Mantis’ goal of bringing high-end 3D technologies to mobile devices.

Exclusive Video Teardown: Oppo N1

Andrew Rassweiler, senior director of IHS benchmarking cost services, gives a guided tour of the innards of the N1 phablet from Oppo electronics.

Engineer Arrested as Hynix Sued Over NAND Secrets

SanDisk and Toshiba have both filed civil suits against rival NAND flash memory manufacturer SK Hynix alleging theft of trade secrets.

NHK To Give 8K Broadcast Demo at NAB Show

A demo of 8K signal compression into single UHF TV channel is due to take place at the NAB show in Las Vegas in April 2014.

Japan Display Set to IPO

Japan Display, a joint venture between Hitachi, Sony, and Toshiba and government investor INCJ will stage an IPO at a share price of 900 yen next week .