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Tablet Display Prices Fall as Supply Swells
The boom in media tablet demand is causing display providers to flock to the market with more products, inflating the supply base and causing prices to decline ...
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EMS Providers Show No Signs of Relinquishing Dominance in the Router Manufacturing Business
Offering unique capabilities and efficiencies difficult to replicate elsewhere, electronics manufacturing services (EMS) providers ...
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Mitsubishi Electric to Expand Development Operation in India
Mitsubishi Electric reported it will develop programmable logic controllers and human machine interfaces at its factory automation (FA) facility in Pune, India.
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Wireless Spending on Small Cells and Heterogeneous Architectures Needed to Ease Mobile Data Traffic
Capital expenditures on wireless infrastructure equipment will continue to increase this year as mobile operators increasingly transition to 4G ...
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Larger-Sized Smartphones and Affordably Priced Handsets Highlight Mobile World Congress Show
Smartphones featuring larger displays, as well as lower-priced models targeted at the world’s emerging markets, were showcased at this year’s Mobile World Congress ...
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Qualcomm, Samsung Lead Cellphone Chip Market in 2012
Qualcomm and Samsung dominated growth in the cellphone core IC market last year capturing over 50 percent of the total market.
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Intersil to Cut Workforce and Sharpen it’s Focus
Analog and mixed-signal chip maker Intersil will lay off 18 percent of its workforce in a restructuring effort to strengthening financial performance and improving cash flow and sharpen the company’s focus.
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AVX to Customers: Minerals Theft Won’t Affect Supplies
The alleged theft of 44 tons of the conflict mineral tantalite in Tanzania has prompted passive and interconnect component maker AVX to reassure customers its supplies weren’t being disrupted.
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NXP and Delphi Ink Strategic Pact
Tier 1 automotive electronics supplier Delphi has expanded its long-term sourcing agreement with NXP Semiconductors for the manufacture of automotive ICs.
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China Mobile Jumps Ahead of Domestic Rivals to Develop 4G on Home Ground
An ongoing effort by China Mobile to develop local 4G wireless infrastructure ahead of its two other rivals is likely to pay off down the road ...
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LG Expands OLED Capacity
The race to develop cost-effective organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays entered a new phase this week with LG Display’s announcement that it would invest $657 million to expand its OLED plant in Paju, South Korea.
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MEMS Motion Sensor Market Continues Hot Growth Streak
The formidable success story of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) motion sensors in handsets continued last year following ...
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NOR Prospects Still Down This Year, But Key Growth Areas Hold Hope
The NOR segment of the flash memory industry will continue to suffer declines as revenue is projected to fall for a second consecutive year in 2013 ...
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Small- and Medium-Sized Display Market Slowed in December
Shipments of small- and medium display panels used in devices like smartphones and tablets dipped slightly in the final month of 2012 ...
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Top Notebook ODMs Off to a Wobbly Start of 2013 as Shipments Falter
The world’s top notebook PC original design manufacturers (ODM) will endure a bleak first quarter and generally slow first half in 2013 ...
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Ultrabook and Ultrathin Share of Mobile PC Market to Grow Nearly Threefold This Year
Ultrabooks and other ultrathin PCs will triple their penetration of the notebook market this year as their once-stratospheric pricing comes down to earth ...
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Vendors Rise and Fall in the Mobile Handset IC Market
Qualcomm and Samsung capitalized on rapidly shifting market conditions to claim the top two spots of the mobile handset core ...
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Conflict Minerals Rule Challenged in Court
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s rule for dealing with conflict minerals is facing its first legal challenge in the courts, as the National Association of Manufacturers filed a brief in January with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. District.
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Amazon Adds to Content Coffers
Even as chip giant Intel Corp. prepares to enter the Internet-TV market, Amazon.com announced it is expanding its digital library.
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Intel to Launch Web TV Service
There’s another “I” TV in the works; this time the “I” stands for Intel Corp. The Santa Clara, CA-based chip giant, which has been mulling such a move for a while, will launch the service later this year.
