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Visteon’s Automotive Electronics Deal Finalized
Visteon has completed the acquisition of the automotive electronics business of Johnson Controls in a $265 million cash transaction.
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Audience Goes Beyond Sound with Sensor Platform Buy
Audio and vocal processor company reckons purchase of sensor fusion firmware company will help it target mobile and wearable devices with multisensory processing.
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China's Actions Semi Takes 64-bit ARM License
Actions Semiconductor, one of a group of successful Chinese fabless chip companies designing SoCs for consumer electronics, is ready to step up to 64-bit mobile processing using IP from ARM.
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ARM, Linaro Offer 64-bit Android Development Support.
The forthcoming L edition of the Android operating system is going to support 64-bit operations and so ARM and Linaro are offering hardware and software support for developers.
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ITC to Investigate MediaTek at Freescale's Request
Freescale has opened a two-front legal attack on MediaTek. Several prominent consumer electronics companies have been cited as co-respondents.
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Xiaomi – China’s Smartphone Trailblazer
Relative newcomer Xiaomi has taken the Chinese smartphone industry by storm.
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Intel's Many-Core Processor Gets In-Package Memory
Collaboration between Intel and Micron on the use of stacked memories and packaging is bearing fruit in the form of the next-generation Xeon Phi processor known as Knights Landing.
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Teraflop Computer Board Consumes 50 watts
Massively parallel processor company Kalray is offering 1024 processor cores on a PCIe board and has a new CEO and funds for further development.
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XMOS Offers Audio Reference Platform
XMOS is offering support for the use of its xCore microcontrollers in streaming audio applications in the form of a reference board and software.
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Microsoft, Bing Bet on Progammable Logic for Servers
An old idea of using FPGAs for customizable hardware and application–specific processors is finding favor with Microsoft in the software-defined data center.
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HiSilicon Launches Octacore Smartphone Chip with LTE
HiSilicon's Kirin 920 SoC shows Chinese application processors are on a par with those of Qualcomm, Samsung and MediaTek.
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Intel to Package FPGA with Xeon Processor
Xeon processors are set to come with an FPGA in the package to help with dynamic programming of functionality. Achronix is couid be the FPGA vendor with the design win.
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SanDisk Grabs Fusion-io in Billion-Dollar Storage Deal
Fusion-io, a nine year-old solid-state storage acceleration company, is set to be acquired by SanDisk for around $1.1 billion.
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ADI Moves BlackFin DSP to 40nm, Lower Power
An enhanced core at the heart of a Blackfin DSP built on 40nm silicon promises to provide better power efficiency and open up additional industrial and automotive audio and video applications.
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Flextronics to Build Avionics Units for Chinese Aircraft
Aviage Systems has selected electronics manufacturing services provider to manufacture its integrated modular avionics cabinet units for commercial aircraft programs in China.
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Intel Appeal of $1.4 Billion Fine Rejected
Intel has avoided paying a billion euro fine for anticompetitive behavior for five years but a court in Luxembourg has ruled that the European Commission was right to impose the fine.
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Wearable Shirt SOC Transmits Cardiac Signals to Remote Smartphone
University of Washington researchers have developed and integrated an electrocardiography SoC into a shirt along with electrodes, battery and antenna for constant remote monitoring of active cardiac patients.
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Taiwan's Metanoia Wins Huawei VDSL2 Design Slot
A relatively unknown Taiwanese fabless chip company has got a design win for FTTD equipment with Chinese telecom equipment giant Huawei.
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Wirelessly Recharging Implanted Devices
Researchers have developed wirelessly-recharging devices that can be embedded inside the human body.
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Analog Devices Offers $2 Billion for Hittite Microwave
Analog Devices' strategic turn towards industrial, communications and military markets has been underlined by an agreement to buy Hittite Microwave Corp. in a deal worth about $2 billion.
