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Intel to Buy Altera for $16.7 Billion
The latest wave of semiconductor industry consolidation continues with the world’s largest chip vendor signing a deal to acquire the second largest programmable logic company.
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IDT, EPC Agree to Take GaN Power to Market
IDT's sales channel will smooth the path to market for gallium nitride by offering combinations of GaN power transistors from Efficient Power Conversion with digital and mixed-signal ICs for computing communications and wireless power.
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Bidding War Erupts Over ISSI
Cypress made another bid for the specialty memory company after a Chinese backed venture capital consortium topped Cypress’ original bid.
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Russian Fabless Startup Applies Some Imagination
A Russian fabless chip company is sampling a 32-bit dual-core processor based on the MIPS P5600 core.
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NXP Selling RF Power Business to Chinese Investment Firm
Divestiture, for a lower-than-expected $1.8 billion, seen as way for NXP to appease regulators as firm's acquisition of Freescale moves toward closure.
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Xilinx, TSMC Team for 7nm Process Technology
Xilinx will work with TSMC on its 7nm advanced process technology to deliver the next-generation of FPGAs, SoCs and 3D ICs to market.
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Avago to Acquire Broadcom for $37 Billion
Deal, latest in a wave of semiconductor industry consolidation, would create a communications chip powerhouse that would be sixth largest chip company in the world.
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Mentor Launches Power Analysis Methodology
EDA vendor says emulation software package enables power analysis of complex SoC designs at the system, RTL and gate level.
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Retailers Test Visible Light Communications
Carrefour, the largest retailer in Europe, is experimenting with visible light communications for indoor positioning.
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Researchers Develop IC Made of Wood
Biodegradable chips made from flexible material could have future role in wireless devices.
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UMC Targets Automotive IC Vendors
Foundry offers portfolio of automotive technologies at various process technology nodes.
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Fab Tool Sales Rise
North American semiconductor equipment suppliers reported higher bookings and billings in April 2015 as the industry’s book-to-bill ratio remained above parity for the fourth consecutive month, according to the SEMI trade group.
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ISSI Expects to Meet with Cypress on Bid
Integrated Silicon Solution Inc. said it would likely participate in negotiations with Cypress Semiconductor over Cypress’s recent unsolicited bid to acquire ISSI for about $658 million.
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Industrial Chip Growth to Slow in 2015
The industrial chip market was worth $40 billion in 2014 and exceeded expectations with year-on-year growth of 18%. It is set to settle back to 7% growth in 2015 and to average 6% annual growth through 2019.
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Power Management Chips Set for More Growth
Demand in automotive and industrial applications helped sales of power management semiconductors in 2014 and will do so again in 2015, according to IHS Technology.
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Freescale Rolls Out GaN Power Chip for Base Stations
Freescale believes the time is right for gallium nitride-based chips to move from being a niche market to mainstream.
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ON Semi Backs Thread Networking Protocol
Firm says move is intended to keep it at the forefront of Internet of Things development as it relates to the digital home.
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Standards Creation a Critical Component of EDA Landscape
The idea of fierce competitors sitting around a table to hammer out agreements on technology standards in electronic design automation can seem awkward at first glance, but this level of cooperation has has proven to be critical to the success of all major the players in the space.
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JSR, IMEC to Form EUV Lithography Resist Venture
A joint venture between a Japanese chemical firm and a European research institute aims to manufacture extreme ultraviolet lithography photoresist materials on behalf of multiple companies in Belgium.
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Acquisition Won’t Help OmniVision Corner the Market in China
Fear by some that acquisition by Chinese-backed consortium will give OmniVision an unfair advantage among Chinese customers unlikely to play out, according to IHS.
