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Industrial Semiconductors Report Positive Q1 Despite Challenges
The semiconductor market for industrial electronics relished a better-than-expected first quarter as macroeconomic headwinds turned out to be less severe than initially feared...
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Microsoft’s White Space Initiative to Boost Kenya’s Broadband Subscribers Elevenfold this Year
Microsoft‘s 4Afrika initiative is aiming to increase broadband penetration in both developing and developed countries, the first of which will be in Kenya.
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SIA Reports Quarterly Semiconductor Revenue Growth Largest in Three Years
Worldwide semiconductor sales increased 6 percent to $75 billion in the second quarter of 2013 compared to the first quarter, according to the SIA.
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Gold Nanoparticles Found to Improve Photodetector Performance
Researchers at the National University of Singapore have found a way to boost the performance of MoS2 photodetectors with nanoparticles of gold.
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Motive Battery Market Projected to Reach $47B by 2017
The global market for motive batteries used to power electric vehicles (EV) and other conveyances is set to rise to $47 billion in 2017, up more than 50 percent from $31 billion in 2013, according to IHS.
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Google Glass Holds Promise for Improved Health Care
Application developers are racing to have their software ready to go when Google Glass, the wearable computer with an optical head-mounted display, finally becomes available to the general public by year-end.
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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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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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Natcore Technology Demos Flexible Solar Cell Using Wet Process
Scientists at Natcore together with researchers at Rice University have successfully fabricated the first inorganic flexible thin film solar cell by solution processes without the use of high-temperature semiconductor processing.
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Mobile PC Market Suffers Worst Q2 Performance in More Than a Decade
Battered by the nonstop onslaught of media tablets, the mobile PC market in 2013 delivered the worst second-quarter performance in 11 years, according to IHS.
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IBM finalizes SoftLayer Acquisition
IBM has completed its acquisition of SoftLayer Technologies Inc., a cloud computing infrastructure company that will join IBM’s new cloud services division.
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MIT Researchers "Conceptualize" Single-Photon Switch
Researchers at MIT, Harvard and the Vienna University of Technology have described an experimental optical switch that’s controlled by a single photon, allowing light to govern the transmission of light.
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Xilinx Tapes Out 20 nm Programmable Device
Xilinx announced it has reached three milestones on its 20 nm device tape-out schedule including the semiconductor industry's first 20nm device and the first 20 nm All Programmable device.
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Wireless Technologies to Proliferate in Cars
Wireless technologies like Bluetooth and embedded cellular will gain increasing importance for automotive infotainment and safety purposes over wired solutions, providing solid revenue...
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MIT Researchers Make Progress in Terahertz Electro-Optics
MIT researchers have proposed combining ferroelectric materials with graphene that could lead to denser computer and memory chips, and consume less power than today’s chips.
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Projected Capacitive Touch-Controller ICs, Used for Touch-Screen Devices, Set to Enjoy Buoyant Growth
The market for projected capacitive (PCAP) touch-controller ICs that make touch-screen functionality possible will experience healthy growth this year and beyond because of...
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Over the Horizon: Low-cost High-Energy Battery, Spintronics Update, Graphene Transistor
This month Electronics360 explores three innovations: an inexpensive high-energy battery: new life for gallium nitride and manganese technologies; and the first graphene-based transistor.
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Solar PV Poised For Rebound in 2013
After two years of freefalling prices and thinning profit margins, manufacturers in the solar photovoltaic (PV) market are expected to see stabilization, and even growth, in 2013
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No Static On the Air: Digital Radio to Thrive
Digital radio in cars will continue to find new listeners as shipments rise this year and beyond for systems incorporating the technology. Shipments this year of digital radio systems...
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More than Just Pedometers: Sports & Fitness Monitor Market Gaining Strength
Global shipments of sports and fitness monitors are set to total more than 250 million units during the next five years combined, with strong growth seen in China.
