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Intel to Take Back Israeli Fab Leased to Micron
Fab to continue building NOR flash for Micron for now; Intel won't comment on long term plans.
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Samsung Unit Forms Partnership with Wireless Power Provider
Deal with New Zealand-based PowerbyProxi centered around consumer electronics and home appliance wireless power IP and technology.
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Avnet Buys Majority Stake in European Distributor MSC
Deal billed as first step in a two-part transaction by which Avnet will ultimately acquire the remainder of the German-headquartered company.
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Analog Chip Vendors Target Growing Market in Electrocardiograms
By packing the critical analog circuitry onto one (or more) ICs, analog vendors are enabling ECG monitor vendors to focus on the overall product package, user interface, connectivity and waveform-analysis algorithms.
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Russian VC Funds Pinpoint U.S. Investments
Three Russian quasi-government innovation funds staged a week-long event to showcase U.S.-Russian business opportunities in nanotechnology, clean-tech, biotech, pharmaceuticals, life sciences and IT.
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ARM Servers Aim Higher Despite Currrent Miniscule Market
Servers equipped with ARM processors will gradually emerge in the marketplace from a near-nonexistent base, in the process furnishing stepped-up competition to reigning kingpin Intel in...
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Congress Votes to Secure Helium Supply
The electronics industry is close to avoiding a helium supply crisis after Congress last week approved bipartisan legislation to secure the procurement of this key element that is needed to manufacture semiconductors and other electronic products.
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Ford SYNC (2nd generation) Teardown
Ford Sync (2nd generation) is essentially complete communications link for the late model Ford, Lincoln and Mercury product lines.
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Materials Breakthrough Could Lead to Self-Deploying Medical Devices
Researchers from MIT and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore developed a way to bend ceramics, which could create important tools for biomedical applications.
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Chinese Fabless Chip Vendor RDA Gets Buyout Offer
Government-held investment company offers 12 percent premium over RDA's stock price.
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Researchers Build Working Computer with Carbon Nanotube Transistors
Stanford University engineers built a basic computer with 178 carbon nanotube transistors.
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Broadcom Offers 5G Combo Chip for Cars
Chipmaker Broadcom has launched a new line of wireless chips for automotive infotainment applications featuring its 5G Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity.
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Flexible OLED Market to Vault to $100 Million Next Year
Following Samsung’s introduction of the first flexible organic light-emitting diode (OLED) products this year, demand for these elastic displays is expected to grow by more than a...
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Exclusive Video Teardown: Apple iPhone 5s and 5c
Teardown results of Apple’s new iPhone 5s and 5c conducted by the IHS Teardown Analysis and Cost Benchmarking Services team along with IHS analyst commentary.
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Semi Equipment Makers Applied Materials, TEL to Merge
Semiconductor equipment makers Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron announced plans to merge, creating a company valued at $29 billion.
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LCD Panels Fall Again in July—Portent of Ill Times to Come?
The market for large-sized liquid-crystal displays (LCD) contracted in July, an ominous indicator not only because it shank for the second straight month in a row but also...
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Agilent to Split into Two Companies
Breakup will result in two publicly traded companies—one focused on life sciences and related areas and another focused on electronic measurement products.
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Freescale, Oracle Team on Secure Platform for IoT
Firms offer "one box" platform based on Java, Freescale processors to standardize, consolidate delivery services for the so-called Internet of Things.
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Rambus, Freescale to Collaborate on Non-Volatile Memory
Firms to jointly develop embedded resistive RAM technology. Deal also extends Freescale's license to Rambus IP.
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Mobile DRAM Posts Improved Revenue in Q2 from Dismal First Quarter
The market for mobile dynamic random access memory (DRAM) grew in the second quarter in light of anticipated demand for the upcoming hot selling season, but mobile...
