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Integrated-Motor Market to Expand by More Than 40 Percent in Five Years
Integrated-motor suppliers offering the compact motor type with built-in electronics can look forward to a 40 percent increase in total market revenue by 2017.
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Safety Benefits Fuel Interest in Driverless Cars
The auto industry is making progress toward the ultimate goal of autonomous cars, where drivers are redundant. These vehicles may start to appear on the road in about a decade.
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EDA Leader Synopsys Posts Solid Quarterly Growth
Synopsys reported third quarter FY 2013 revenue of $482.9 million, an increase of 8.8 percent from the same quarter a year ago.
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GainSpan Samples Wi-Fi/ZigBee Combo Chips for Internet of Things Market
GainSpan is sampling its new GS2000 chips and modules, claimed to be the industry’s first single chip solution that is bringing together two IEEE low-power standard wireless technologies.
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Li-ion Battery Growth is Boon for Chip Makers, "Authentication" ICs
The surging Li-ion battery market offers a growth opportunity for a subset of chip companies that provide battery charge management components that includes protection against counterfeit batteries.
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Eco-Efficient Auto Debuts in the EU
This month, an EU consortium of companies, backed with EU funding, debuted a novel prototype electric vehicle powered entirely by solar panels.
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Environment and Health Sensors in Smartphones Set for Mighty Growth
First came microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors that automatically adjusted the orientation of a cellphone’s display no matter how it was held. Then arrived optical...
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Chip equipment orders slipped 4.6 percent in July
Book-to-Bill ratio declines to parity of 1.00 raising concerns at SEMI that this may signal a market shift.
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EMS Provider Nistec Takes Ownership Stake in PCB Maker Eltek
Nistec Ltd., an Israeli provider of electronic manufacturing and design services is taking a majority stake in Eltek Ltd., an Israeli manufacturer of advanced flex-rigid printed circuit boards, in a deal valued at $4.2 million.
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MIT Researchers Prototype Electronic Malaria Detector
Researchers at MIT have found a way to detect early-stage malarial infection of blood cells by measuring changes in the infected cells' electrical properties.
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Egyptian Crisis Could Inflate Prices for Countless Products, Hindering US Economic Recovery
The escalating unrest in Egypt could potentially impact the cost of countless everyday consumer products that are made from crude oil—potentially impeding the U.S. economic recovery.
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Western European Advertising Recovery Postponed
The Western European advertising business is unlikely to return to profitability this year, with adverse economic conditions continuing to impact four of the largest markets...
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MIT Researchers Develop a Rechargeable Flow Battery Without a Costly Membrane
MIT researchers have engineered a rechargeable flow battery that doesn’t rely on expensive membranes to generate and store electricity.
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Chinese Cinema Continues Fast Growth in 2013
Cinema box-office revenue in China has been growing significantly during the past 10 years at an average increase of 35.5 percent each year. This year will be no different with...
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Despite Challenges, Industrial Semiconductor Market Has Positive Q1
Worldwide industrial electronics chip revenue in the first quarter reached $7.71 billion, up 1 percent from $7.63 billion in the final quarter of 2012.
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Maxim buys Volterra to expand power management offerings
Maxim is buying power management chip maker Volterra Semiconductor in a deal valued at $605 million.
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Flat-Panel-Display TV Market Fails to Grow in June
The global market for flat-panel-display televisions (FPD TV) was down in June as demand slipped in virtually every territory around the world. It was the second time in 2013 since...
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Teardown: The Chrysler UConnect Touch Infotainment Platform
Chrysler’s UConnect Touch system uses a modular approach linking an 8.4-inch resistive touch display with a head unit using Chrysler’s new PowerNet Electrical Architecture.
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Low-Cost Chinese Suppliers Threaten Shakeup in Pneumatic Components Market
The global market for pneumatic valves and actuators, worth nearly $8 billion in 2012, is undergoing a competitive shakeup as low-cost Chinese suppliers continue to expand into the U.S. and Europe.
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Researchers build a simpler resistive memory
A UC Riverside team of researchers has developed a next-generation memory device that is smaller, operates at a higher speed and offers more storage capacity than flash memory.
