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AMD Launches 'Seattle' 64-bit ARM Server Processor
Taking aim at Intel's turf AMD will be sampling its quad- and octa-cored 28nm, 64-bit ARM-based 'Seattle' processor this quarter. The company has exhibited a development platform for it at the Open Compute Summit in San Jose, Calif.
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Giving the World a Listen
Hearing aids are a growing market. A promise of worldwide growth, untapped market potential and innovative research will keep manufacturers of this unassuming, under-the-radar device h
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Industrial Electronics Turns Around in 2013 with Double-Digit Growth
The global market for industrial electronics semiconductors ended 2013 on an upbeat note, with overall revenue up convincingly from the previous year and reversing the disappointing decline of 2012...
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ST Reduces Losses But Outlook Remains Weak
STMicroelectronics is forecasting a decline in its first quarter 2014 sales, partly due to falling away of legacy sales at its now discontinued joint venture ST-Ericsson.
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Feature Film Focuses on Chip Worker's Death
The Korean feature film "Another Promise" portrays a father's struggle to prove his daughter death from leukemia was the result of working conditions at a Samsung semiconductor factory south of Seoul.
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Jobs Cuts Pile Up as Chip Firms Adjust
Even as the global economy improves chip companies are finding it necessary to lay off workers. For Intel, Renesas and Texas Instruments the idea of "retain, retrain and redeploy" seems to be on the back burner.
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UHD Panels in Digital Signage to Soar 600 Percent This Year
The ultra-high-definition (UHD) panels now being adopted by televisions are also primed to make significant headway this year in the digital signage market for advertising and...
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Intel Sells Cloud TV Platform to Verizon
Intel is selling off the assets of its Intel Media business division, including the OnCue cloud TV platform to Verizon Communications. Verizon will use its TV-over-fiber, 4G LTE networks and service business model to take the technology forward.
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Chip Packaging Materials Market to Post Modest Growth
Declining prices will result in slow growth for semiconductor packaging materials, according to the fab tool vendor trade association SEMI.
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Dialog Gets Behind Qualcomm's Quick Charge
Europe's Dialog Semiconductor has announced a pair of chips that support Qualcomm's proprietary Quick Charge technology; results of its acquisition of iWatt Inc. in July 2013.
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IBM Closes Aspera Acquisition
Patented "fasp" to be integrated with IBM's recently acquired SoftLayer cloud infrastructure.
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Researchers Develop High-Transparency Transistor for Displays, Sensors
A team of researchers from Stanford University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has developed a high-carrier-mobility, high-performance and high-transparency transistor that can be used as a building block for flat-panel displays and sensor arrays.
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Kickstarted Processor Startup Raises Venture Capital
Adapteva, a startup that has developed a series of parallel processing chips on a shoe-string budgets, has raised $3.6 million and interest from communications company Ericsson.
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Qualcomm, Toshiba Team on UFS Serial Flash
Toshiba, pioneer of the serial interface protocol for NAND flash memory known as UFS, has recruited Qualcomm as a supporter and announced that Snapdragon 805 will support UFS and is coming soon.
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BT Trials Neul Network for IoT
White-space communications pioneer Neul Ltd. has come up with a network-in-a-box approach to the Internet of Things that combines basestation, module and service aspects. BT is trying it out.
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Economic Recovery Sets Stage for Semiconductor Growth
Stronger gross domestic product (GDP) growth and rising demand for mobile electronics equipment will drive the electronics industry in 2014, according to attendees at SEMI's annual Industry Strategy Symposium.
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Google to Pay $3.2 Billion for Thermostat Startup
In what must be one of the biggest startup acquisitions of all time Google has agreed to pay $3.2 billion for three-year-old startup Nest Labs Inc.; a company that makes an Internet-connecting thermostat.
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Metamaterials Superlens Focuses Magnetic Fields to Boost Wireless Power
Duke University researchers have demonstrated the feasibility of wireless power transfer using low-frequency magnetic fields over distances much larger than the size of the transmitter and receiver currently used in portable electronics.
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Printed Circuit Board Orders Drop
North American printed circuit board shipments increased 4 percent in November 2013 from November 2012, but new orders fell 6.7 percent, according to Association Connecting Electronics Industries.
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Sun's Energy Can Be Harnessed for Nighttime Use
Researchers have built a chemical system that converts the sun's energy not into electricity but hydrogen fuel, storing it for later use after the sun goes down.
