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Fast Charging is Key to Accelerating Electric Vehicle Growth
With the demise of electric vehicle (EV) battery-swap station innovator Better Place, fast-charging technologies are expected to drive the growth of the worldwide EV recharging market...
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Over the Horizon: Nanotech Transistors and Thermoelectric Materials
Electronics360 Contributing Editor Abe Michelen surveys academic and technical journals to uncover promising research that will impact the development of “over the horizon” commercial products that will impact our lives in the near future.
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Rice Researchers Develop Novel Memory, Grow Graphene One Atom at a Time
Rice researchers have built a 1-kbit rewritable silicon oxide device with diodes that eliminate data-corrupting crosstalk. Separately, the researchers have synthesized graphene nanoribbons on metal from the bottom up — atom by atom.
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REC Forms Separate Entities for Solar and Silicon Products
Norway’s Renewable Energy Corporation ASA will divide the company into two entities, launching the Silicon and Solar divisions as independently listed companies.
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Semiconductor equipment book-to-bill ratio rises to 1.10
New orders for semiconductor equipped increased just 0.7 percent last month but the book-to-bill ratio increased to 1.10 from 1.08.
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Chip Spending Returns to Growth as Apple and Samsung Battle for Lead
After a flat year in 2012, global purchasing of semiconductors by the world’s top electronic brands is set to return to growth in 2013, as Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics contend to claim the title of biggest spender.
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Global Cellphone Gray Market Continues to Decline
The gray market for cellphones will contract for the second consecutive year in 2013, with worldwide shipments dropping by 12 percent. Shipments reached their peak in 2011 with...
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Win or Lose: China CE Market Proffers Split Results
The consumer electronics market in China presented a mixed picture in the first quarter as vigorously growing segments were countered by increasingly frail markets. Among the...
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WLAN and Bluetooth to Increase Dominance in Industrial Sector
More than half of all wireless-enabled industrial automation equipment shipped in 2012 used Bluetooth or 802.11a/b/g/n WLAN technology, with the two entrenched standards set to increase their domination of the market in the coming years.
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DRAM Market in Q1 Sustains Gains Made Late Last Year
The market for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) continued its implausible rally in the first quarter, buoyed by rising commodity prices and a slight undersupply that would...
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US Television Market Down in Q1 due to Weak Plasma Sector
The U.S. television market contracted by nearly 10 percent in the first quarter compared to the same time a year ago as shipments plunged in the moribund plasma sector and...
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Crocus Raises $45M to Fund Magnetic Semiconductor Technology
Crocus Technology, a developer of magnetically enhanced semiconductor technologies has raised $45 million to fund manufacturing of new semiconductors.
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Micron Samples 16nm NAND Flash Chips
Micron Technology is sampling next-generation, 16-nanometer process technology, resulting in the industry's smallest 128Gb multi-level cell NAND flash memory chips.
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Multitude of Choices to Spur Rapid Growth in Smartphone Market
With a flood of new models hitting the market, the global smartphone market is projected to more than double to 1.5 billion units by 2017, up from just over 700 million in 2012.
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Zecotek and Hamamatsu Ink Imaging Technology Deal
Zecotek Photonics Inc. has signed a joint collaboration partnership agreement with Hamamatsu Photonics to commercialize existing imaging technologies.
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Evolving Ultrabooks to Help Counter PC Struggles in Driving Growth of Solid-State Drives
Despite the generally weak state of the PC industry, ultrathins will still form the main market for solid-state drives (SSD), in a business that retains significant long-term upside. Shipments...
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Auto MEMS Sensors to Keep Expanding toward Banner Growth in 2014
Sales of automotive microelectromechanical system (MEMS) sensors are expected to reach a high-water mark in two years as car-safety mandates come to full maturity and achieve...
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Schneider Launches First Salvo in Possible Invensys Bidding War
A $5 billion offer to acquire Invensys by Schneider Electric may lead to a bidding war among the top-tier of industrial automation companies.
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TowerJazz extends foundry agreements with IR and Nujira
TowerJazz has extended its foundry relationships with International Rectifier for a variety of product families and with Nujira that includes production of the NCT-L1300 Coolteq.L envelope tracking power modulator ICs.
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Foundry 2.0: The Driver of Innovation in the Mobile Era
In his SEMICON keynote, GlobalFoundries CEO set out a new model to address the technology challenges the industry faces that he dubbed “Foundry 2.0.”
