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AMD and Fujitsu Form Assembly and Test Joint Venture
Fujitsu will take position of 85% of AMD’s Asian-based test facilities under the deal.
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Microsemi Offers Bid for PMC-Sierra for $2.4 Billion
Deal would be a superior offer to the one PMC-Sierra received from Skyworks Solutions.
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Why SanDisk Would be a Good Fit for Western Digital
A potential deal would give WDC a flash memory supply and opportunities in China.
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Dialog and Bosch Sensortec Introduce Smart Sensor Platform for the Internet of Things
The platform combines three sensors from Bosch and a Bluetooth SoC from Dialog.
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Chinese TV Makers Pull Back on Panel Purchasing Plans
Oversupply and falling prices have TV manufacturers being more conservative on future panel procurement.
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Dell to Buy EMC
The purchase of EMC by Dell represents the largest tech takeover on record.
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Xilinx Ships 16nm Multiprocessor MPSoc Ahead of Schedule
The device is targeted at next-generation ADAS, IoT, communications and embedded vision.
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Accelerating Adoption of In-Vehicle Technology
Connected-car technology has certainly come a long way in a few short years: Embedded Bluetooth, built-in GPS navigation, rear cameras, intelligent voice command and smartphone-like touch screens, to name a few.
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Cabot Microelectronics Acquires Chemical Mechanical Planarization Vendor
The $142 million deal will expand Cabot’s CMP pad portfolio.
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ST Licenses Latest ARM Core for Automotive Smart Driving Applications
The new core technology will be added to microcontrollers for use in powertrain, safety and gateway applications.
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AOS Forms Joint Venture with China to Build Power IC Facility
The semiconductor vendor would own a 51% stake in the Chongqing chip fab.
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Communicating with Touch
The gap between people and computing devices has begun to close. Beginning with multi-touch and then moving to gesture and voice recognition, the line separating device interfaces and the body has become blurred; enabling humans to communicate and interact more naturally with electronic devices.
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Cypress Walks Away From Atmel Acquisition Attempt
The company has submitted a bid that it claims was superior to the bid put in by Dialog Semiconductor.
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Internet of Things Applications Boost MCU Growth
Without the influence of IoT application growth, the MCU market would be stagnated by the end of the decade.
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Marvell Restructures to Focus on the Internet of Things and Automotive
The company will save money on an annualized basis under the restructuring and will cut jobs.
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Samsung Opens New San Jose Campus to Drive R&D Efforts
The facility will house various research labs dedicated to semiconductors, LEDs and displays.
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Wireless MCUs Connect the Eyes and Ears of the Internet of Things
The various electronics objects that are part of the IoT will provide a wide range of capabilities to measure and control our environment.
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ST Introduces 2 Automotive MEMS Airbag Crash Sensors
The devices work in conjunction with other ST products to form a complete airbag electronics kit.
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Dialog to Acquire Atmel for $4.6 Billion
Deal will expand Dialog’s presence in the IoT and automotive market.
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Neon Gas Skyrockets: Ukraine or China?
Neon gas, an essential buffer gas used in excimer lasers for lithography, is in short supply due to turmoil in Ukraine, where most of the world’s production in neon gas, a byproduct of steel manufacturing, is located.
