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Semiconductor Equipment Sales Decreased 14 percent in 2013
Sales of semiconductor processing equipment by North American vendors sales dropped 36 percent year over year, according to SEMI.
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World's Thinnest LED Is Three Atoms Thick
Tungsten diselenide LEDs could be used as part of energy-efficient on-chip data transmission, according to University of Washington researchers.
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Bosch Claims Top Spot in MEMS Sales
Bosch became the first vendor to sell more than $1 billion worth of MEMS sensors and actuators in a year as the company broke a virtual dead heat with STMicroelectronics to assume the No. 1 position among MEMS vendors.
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Digi International Expands Distribution Agreement with Arrow
Expanded agreement to result in machine-to-machine solutions being available outside North America for the first time.
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PCB Shipments, Orders Decline
Seasonal slowdown attributed in part to severe weather throughout much of the U.S.
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Foundry Market's Strong Sales Continue
Foundry manufacturers TSMC and UMC have enjoyed a strong start to 2014 with year-to-February sales up more than 10 percent on the same period in 2013.
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Plugging in to the Home Automation Market
Recent moves by major players suggest the home automation market is poised to take off. How will all be connected?
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Rochester to Sell NXP EOL Parts; RS Components Stocks New Capacitors
Distributor to act as authorized source for NXP's mature and discontinued products.
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Envelope Tracking Pioneer on Brink of LTE Success
Nujira is preparing to close a funding round to help it capitalize on the need for envelope-tracking technology within 4G LTE handsets.
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Samsung Foundry Adds RF to 28-nm CMOS
Samsung is trying to get ahead of the Internet of Things and wearables wave by adding RF capabilities to its 28-nm manufacturing processes for foundry customers.
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Apple, You Can Infotain Our Cars
The ubiquity of the iPhone is making the adoption of Apple's CarPlay as an enabler of BYOD in automobile infotainment an easy choice for the world's carmakers.
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MWC: Riding the High-Speed Train Called the Internet of Things
Call it the Internet of Things, the Internet of Everything, or the Internet of People, as it was dubbed last week at the Mobile World Congress. By any name, it leads you to the same place: A hyper-connected world.
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Quantum Dots Grown on Silicon Equal Performance Grown on Native Substrates
Development could lead to production of low-cost photonics for information transmission.
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Semiconductor Equipment Spending Expected to Grow 20-30%
Semiconductor suppliers will increase fab equipment spending 20 to 30 percent in 2014, according to a new report by trade association SEMI.
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Antenna, RF Combo Offer Centimeter Global Positioning
Combination of antenna design and precise RF front-end gets global positioning by satellite down to centimeter accuracy, says IMEC.
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Battery-less Gesture Tech Uses TV Signals for Power and Commands
Technology could allow sensors to be attached to household electronics, enabling interaction with everyday objects using gestures.
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Manufacturing Grows Slightly Despite Weather Woes
The U.S. manufacturing sector expanded in February for the ninth consecutive month, according to the latest Institute for Supply Management Report on Business.
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Marvell Includes LTE in 64-bit Apps Processor
Marvell has a quad-core 64-bit application processor with built-in LTE and Vivante graphics but it comes just at the same time that Qualcomm has Snapdragon eight- and quad core apps processors with 4K graphics support.
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MWC: Faster Data Speeds Fuel the Connected Car
The dawn of 4G LTE networks has given the world's oldest mobile device, the car, a boon up and down the automotive supply chain.
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Report: Toshiba Eyes Imprint Litho for 15-nm Flash
Toshiba is preparing to work with Canon on imprint lithography for its 15nm generation of NAND flash according to a Japanese report.
