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Semiconductor Materials Vendor ATMI Seeks Buyer
Provider of specialty materials used in chip manufacturing confirms hiring of Barclays Capital as its financial advisor to help the company explore strategic alternatives.
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Smart Meters: Smart Move for IC Vendors?
Replacing electric meters with more sophisticated units is a huge opportunity, but also a long process.
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Apple Still on Top of Tablet Heap
Despite a decrease in shipments and market share, Apple Inc.'s iPad retained its position as the top selling tablet in the third quarter, according to IHS.
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Russian Chip Firm Opens MRAM Fab
Crocus Nano Electronics expected to turn out 500 wafers per week by end of 2014.
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Optical Pulse Can Change Metal to Semiconductor
MIT researchers have demonstrated that they can control the band structure of a material with an intense optical pulse, a find that could enable the creation of materials that could be "tuned" in real time.
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Qualcomm’s Entry into Set-Top-Box Chip Market Poses Big Challenge to Incumbents
Qualcomm, a titanic force in semiconductors for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, is muscling its way into the chip market for set-top boxes (STB), hoping not only to expand its...
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Apple's Margins Fall on Higher Costs, Lower ASPs
Despite shipping a record number of iPhones in its fourth fiscal quarter, Apple Inc.'s gross profit margins continued to slide as it grappled with higher costs and lower average selling prices.
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Common Blue Dye Probed as Material for Quantum Computing Technologies
Researchers at the London Center for Nanotechnology and the University of British Columbia believe a simple blue dye molecule has potential as a medium for quantum technologies.
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Good and Bad News for Mobile PCs in Q3
The worldwide mobile PC business delivered mixed results in the third quarter as shipments attained the largest sequential growth in eight straight quarters but continued to decline in...
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If Google Glass Is a Hit, Can Contacts Be Far Behind?
Even before Google Glass becomes available by year-end, several groups of researchers are already working on active contact lens devices they say will eventually combine functionality with comfort and style.
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On-Shoring, Counterfeit Parts in Spotlight at ECIA Conference
Electronic Components Industry Association's annual confab will examine trend of manufacturing moving from China back to Mexico and the U.S.
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Semiconductor Equipment Orders Slipped in September
The semiconductor equipment book-to-bill ratio declined compared in September compared with August, the trade group SEMI said.
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Startup Uses Alternative Structure to Boost Lithium Ion Battery Performance
A Colorado-based startup is attempting to build a lithium ion battery with an anode made from a copper foam structure which is said to be safer, cheaper, faster-charging and more environmentally friendly than conventional batteries now on the market.
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Aluminum Studs Improve Efficiency of Solar Panels
Collaborative research at four global labs has yielded prototype solar panel designs that could operate up to 22 percent more efficiently by covering their surface with aluminum studs that bend and trap light inside the absorbing layer.
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Insights into Lithium Ion Battery Operation Show Irreversible Cracks in Electrodes
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology are analyzing battery materials operation in real time using 3-D movies to gain insight into how to develop better lithium ion batteries.
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China Medical Electronics Set for Bustling Growth
China’s medical electronics market is set for strong double-digit-rate expansion by the end of 2013 and in the next few years ahead, propelled by demand for equipment in a country...
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Corning to Buy Samsung's Stake in LCD Glass JV
Corning will take over full ownership of a joint venture with Samsung Display that manufactures LCD glass in Korea.
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IBM Takes Broad ARM License at 32-bit
IBM is bowing, gradually, to the rising tide of processor licensor ARM.
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Cypress to Make Quantum Processors
Minnesota fab operates as quantum computing component foundry for British Columbian pioneer D-Wave Systems Inc.
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Did Apple Launch New iPad Mini Too Early?
Launching both the iPad Air and second-generation iPad mini in the fourth quarter may have been a mistake for Apple, which had success with a two-pronged launch strategy in 2012.
