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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.
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Exar Buys Stretch for Camera Platform
High performance analog company buys digital platform supplier for its expertise in surveillance market.
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Fujitsu Backs SuVolta to Pursue DRAM, IoT
Fujitsu, still in the semiconductor game, and has invested in low-power IC technology startup to help it pursue the integration of its technology with CMOS for DRAM, Internet of Things and mobile applications.
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Korean Startup Targets Wireless Charging
A South Korean 2012 startup has designed a wireless power receiver using a BCD process offered by foundry Tower Semiconductor. The company is in discussions with top mobile companies, Tower said.
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Tegra Mobile Processor Offers 192-Core Graphics, No LTE
Nvidia is pushing into the mobile processor market with the Tegra K1 but trying to play its trump card – graphics – leaving customers to make their own communications arrangements.
