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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.
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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
